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Huh? I think his post was talking about this season, not that hard to figure out.

You're being kind. How the hell does Shaw keep his job? Seriously?

Huh? I'm not a great hockey by any means but what's this loss got to do with Thome? At best, with UND going scoreless, it's a scoreless draw at the end of the 3rd period.

I was at the game tonight, end the Sioux shoot at twice, you stated it perfectly. And then especially in the 3rd period when we had any good chances we didn't even put them on effin goal (hence the SOG narrowed significantly by games end).

Looks like another effin "hot opponent goalie" again. My God, Bowling Green, Ferris State and Omaha put goals on this team but we have 8 NHL picks and can't sniff a goal. Yoy.

Great point, agree. To even contend for the conf title this season UND most likely needs to sweep W Mich, CC, Omaha & Miami when they play them at home (not sure they play all four of them this season at home?). Denver, Min-Duluth & St Clown would be tough to sweep even at home but UND probably needs to do that against at least one of those three at the Ralph I would think cus they more than likely ain't going to sweep any of those three on the road (split at best and that's no given). Finishing in 4th place in the NCHC will likely be a dogfight this season for UND. Odd, for many seasons/year after year we were always contending for conf titles or top two or three but that certainly hasn't been the case these past few season. Hmm...

Yup. We have too many draft picks at forward who can't finish/scored in good numbers at pre-UND level but can't at the college level.

But it's not just the band, oftentimes it's the piped in music.

I'm a big fan of UND and I ain't against bashing them at all but one can play your game all day and you can spin it any way you want but the Sioux kicked Montana, plain and simple.

No matter what happens next week, it better be Rudy's last week. I'm a UND diehard football fan/supporter but I was close to leaving yesterday's game by mid 3rd quarter, the offensive play calling (I get it, there's injuries, but that don't excuse all of it) was rotten.

Ditto. I was literally floored Mia didn't pull goalie on pp for 6-4 advantage. Very strange.

Uneasy feeling now gone!

As well as UND has played, I'm starting to get an uneasy feeling about this game.

Wow, the guys a jerk. He's hooked on tripping others, man.

Unless the Wild get home ice thru the playoffs (which of course they can't), this team can't win a Stanley Cup. While very good at home, they are merely average or so on the road. ON the road they play with less confidence, skill, and energy.

I get ya.

What a shame, much too young. Any clue as to the cause or not determined/not released at this time? RIP

Well, of course not...but they didn't. And had they snuck into the tourney it's not a given by any means they would have won two straight, which rarely happened following Christmas (heck, I don't think we beat any avg/mediocre teams two straight).

Huh? She had to be like 2nd on the team (per game, was out several with injury) I would think for minutes played so not sure that's true.

$70 total both days/2 seats?

Sure, they played St Cloud and Denver tough but they also had a had a nasty habit of normally playing to the level of the team they played, whether it be Union, Bemidji, Miami, CC, etc. I suppose you could translate that to UND being an average hockey team this season.

Luapsided and NoiceinsideMhyHead, your both said it very well.

Class/cool, certainly not--agree. But on another matter, "MI smoked UND"??? They were very fortunate they beat the Sioux but "smoked", WTH were you smoking at the game??? I was at that semi-final game, UND was a VERY, VERY GOOD team that season and should of won their 8th natty (for you St Clown fans that's a national title in case you don't know) that season. The Soiux dominated Mich in the semi-final, out-shooting them like 40-20 and hitting 2 pipes but it was just one of those games (quite common in hockey) where you shake your head and say WTF when it's over.

Yah, and like the first time in 15 years we don't make the NCAA tourney. You gotta make the tourney in order to win a natty.

I'm an East Sider so no axe to grind on this topic but a GF bud of mine (his kids went to Red River) mentioned yesterday UND lately seems to go after just Central guys but not RR players and the RR players have gone elsewhere and are having some success. Any merit to this statement or just rivalry pettiness?