GDPritch

YES. Following the 1st period tonight, watching the 2nd and 3rd periods, it became so obvious to this non-hockey great mind and never played hockey that St Cloud is light years ahead of us speed-wise and offensive-skill wise. I'm not sure our 1st line is as good as their 3rd line. It's painful, how the eff did it get to this in just 2 seasons? Seriously. This has gotta change, no excuse for this proud program who lands top recruits.

f___ puck luck TH, we are inferior to half the teams in college hockey (i.e. average)

Isn't that a car?

In retrospect/hindsight is 20-20, 1st period was perfect.

Let freakin' go boys!!! If Canisius can sweep UND then by all means UND can freakin' sweeps St Clown! Are you all in for positive attitude? Good!!!

and when they outshoot teams by more than 10!!!

To be honest, I quit using it about 2 years ago due to my slice. It just wasn't worth it.

Hmm, Mondray (sp?) perhaps?

Yup, that's how we managed to make it "respectable" (losing by "just" 30 pts). Otherwise, the result would have been a 50 - 60 point loss (I am not kidding).

Seriously, in this day and age of the 3 point fg and defenders can't hand check players w/o being whistled for a foul, how can we only get 16 pts in a half with div 1 basketball players and be shooting 18% midway thru the 3rd qtr? It just boggles my mind. Are we recruiting that bad or are the players simply not improving after they arrive (prime example, senior Bailey Strand).

Now back to back to back losses. And tonight's 30 point loss (gulp) vs S Dak was not that close. We were down by 42 and the deficit growing but we had like a 12 point run in 4th qtr vs their subs. Shoot 24%, 1 of 15 on 3 pt fg attempts, and 23 turnovers. This is getting embarrassing, not even semi-competitive.

Yup, hole 8 is as tough a par 3 that there is (was?) around this neck of the woods and hole 9 was arguably the toughest par 4 in the Forks area (for this duffer anyhow).

Guessing you meant AFC East, Mafia Man?

I tip my hat to the Pats for their sustained success in this day and age, remarkable really, but it sure helps when you play in a piss-poor division and play those teams 6 times every season in grabbing home field advantage as they're nearly unbeatable at Gillette Stadium (realizing they played at Arrowhead yesterday).

Fine to say the KC defense can't stop anybody (admittedly they ain't da Bears) but at same time the Pats only gave up 6 less points than KC allowed so they didn't exactly stifle the Chief's offense.

Ahh, yah I suppose the Gophers and whomever else (?) might fit into that equation.

Certainly a possibility when one considers our 3-4-1 record (pulling out 2 ot wins & the other by 1 goal) vs PW powers Bemidji, Canisius, CC and Omaha. Optimistic view over next 8 games I see us going 3 - 5 at best (assuming we have puck luck & no more running up against hot goalie damn near every night out). We do have a winning record though vs nationally ranked teams though so can only hope that trend continues (I'll sure take being proved wrong).

And we have a few forwards who, and I'm barely exaggerating, have each have about as many points on the season as goalie Ed Belfour did back in '87. Yoy.

"Hot goalie", "no puck luck", blah blah blah

Following this past wknd's UND sports debacle and the football season and hockey season (to date) I was thinking the same thing regarding Chaves and his decision to come here. Another tough football season next year and he's really going to be earning his money.

brianvf--Agree, liked the play of Keane and Adams. Yup, Jones has been a nice player and likely will be the "biggest loss" but that probably to some degree negatively reflects on the level of this team (no offense to Jones) these past few seasons. Gardner, another nice player but that's more likely in reference to the level of play by this team the last few seasons, will be a hit in terms of faceoff percentage but if that's all I'm addressing then I'm stretching a bit. My only beef is the reference to next year's "stellar recruiting class", which it well may be, but it seems we have such at UND almost every season but lately it hasn't come to fruition (especially offensively). Nope, not too early to talk 2019/20 after tonight's loss.

Uhhhhh, huh?

Yikes, that's like 23.5% or so. Not sure what his stat was vs NDSU.

I hate to pick on Avants but that looked like an easy/sure put back but looked like he missed the shot way left (assuming he did not get hacked going up otherwise it would have been called I assume?).

Ditto, me either. If so, yes, is a traitor or a faker. As a UND grad/supporter/loyalist there's no way I could switch over to the bad side, seriously.