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You know who's feeling it right now is the beavers. Everyone wants to be first or second overall so you get one of the "crappy" autobid teams, but I won't be surprised if Bemidji gives someone a hard time in that first game.

I'm as hopeful as the next guy, but taking off the green glasses, you'd have to think anyone out there is hoping their team ends up in UND's regional. It seems like the easiest path to the frozen four. UND could certainly win those two games, but they hardly seem like a juggernaut.

Goaltending has not been the problem. In fact, goaltending is the biggest reason I think the team could go on a run, as he has the ability to steal a game when they need it.

So Blake and Gaber together on the PK.

I'll bet und had more scoring chances than Omaha when the score was 0-3. You can watch the game or the scoreboard. I'm talking about the game.

Again, not popular, but UND has played fine tonight. Had the better of the chances, but it's hockey and it has not been kind, as it wasn't for WMU last Friday. I was more concerned with last night. But UND is clearly not in the same ballpark as the beanpot schools right now, or MN or MI or a few others.

It seems like UND needs someone like 9 or 26 to make a play.

Are faceoffs like 30-0?

I'm guessing this won't be a popular take here, but that was actually a solid period by UND. Omaha didn't have much for scoring chances, but a couple bounces ended up in the net. I'm still optimistic.

Asking too much of Ludwig at the moment. Only down one, don't need to be so loose all of a sudden.

Now this will be a test. They went down against CC and completely fell apart. We'll see how this goes.

To me, the NCHC has fewer weak teams, but is easier to win because there are fewer top teams as well. You're basically competing with Denver, SC and UMD for the title every year. In the WCHA you had to also gain more points than WI and especially MN.

Discussion is ok. I'm a fan of both guys, but regarding league titles, I'd say Hak coached in a tougher league (WCHA with MN and WI) for most of his years.

Hey I was too. At the end of the first it was 3-0 (after Murray Baron of all people scored) and I'm not sure MSU had three shots. The concourse during the first intermission was spectacularly eerie, as the home faithful waited in line for their lukewarm weiners in stunned silence.

Duncan was obviously not the best player on his line, considering the other two guys are NHL or Olympic legends, and he seemed to have no problem acknowledging that. Without looking at boxscores to fact check this, I believe he did not miss a beat when the future legends were out of the lineup, and just went right on scoring. I think that helped his Hobey case. It may seem easy to put the puck in the net when you have a little room, but surprisingly few guys can do it. And he often didn't have much room from his office. Great player.

Oh my goodness, you've hit upon one of my main Hak observations. He built teams to win playoff series. That physical defense would have been hard to handle for more than a game.

That's a conclusion we can draw!

Thankfully Berry has Ness, Albrecht and Benoit on the PP. And Berg in case a hatty shows up.

Probably can't draw any conclusions about UND based on this game. They look great, yes, but time and space wise it's been like a Bisons game.

Umm, they've been cheap as hell for most of the last 15 years.

Considering that he stepped into the NHL six months later and was easily Ottawa's best defenseman his whole rookie year, I'd say he would have made a difference in his 30 minutes per night down the stretch for UND.

I'm not ready to say this team doesn't belong with those others. I'd say it's behind on team defense, but has an unusually high level of offensive creativity, with more guys than usual who can pick corners.

To be fair, I try to keep it in perspective, and it still sort of ruined my weekend, until later Sunday. I try not to blame anyone, but I was still grumpy.

Reminded me of a trip to Maine early in a Hak season when they just got annihilated both nights. The upside then was there was still most of a season to get better. This time around, I guess the next month will tell us whether this was an aberration or a sign of things to come. Very strange set of games. If UND rights the ship, I wonder if these two might meet again in SD.

Respectfully disagree. You take a shot at getting back in the game. Who cares if the final is 5-2 or 6-2? Blais would have done it and people would have loved him for it.