siouxnatty#8

It looks like conditioning is an issue being all our problems come in the 2nd half of games. I don't think the team will forget how to play hockey if they spend a week without pucks.

And 90% of our talent isn’t working hard. These boys need to have practices with no pucks and just skate. Our conditioning is killing us in the 3rd. When I was a kid our coach would skate us until there was too much snow to skate and then they’d resurface and we’d skate more crunches. Kids were puking but we didn’t wear out in the 3rd.

This is why we play the games because in reality our D corps pretty much gets walked by almost everyone

Our D corps was supposed to be according to some as good as our 2016 D corps. Big reason we were rated high in preseason poll.

Our D corps was supposed to be according to some as good as our 2016 D corps. Big reason we were rated high in preseason poll.

The value of that trade mark probably isn’t real high after this skid. She would have had heavy amatorization I would imagine.

It’s gonna take a miracle for us to make the tournament.

Turmoil at top usually manifests itself in a coaching change. Or something like that.

I realize that but wtf has happened to this program. Instead of progressing year by. Year we depress every year now since hack left.

Ya but it’s the manner of the way we’re losing. We have arguably the best D corps in college hockey but wtf happens in every game in the 3rd. Maybe we should bring in a tender at holiday break time.

I thought we had turned the corner but we turned and went the wrong way down a one way. We may be worse than last year.

Add the Brien logo to UND merchandise and sales would pick up.

I'm bullish on us this weekend.

We score more gpg 3.67 and SC 3.29 but SC only gives up 1.71 gpg and we give up 3 gpg. Basse has a gaa of 1.29 while Helsten and DeRidder have a gaa of 2.73 and 2.95 respectively. Basse save % .948 and both our goalie save % .869 and .891. SC has been stingy on defense and we've been porous. We've gotta score early and play good defense which we can do.

I know our talent level should be able to beat both St Cloud and Western.

Our timing for this 4 game road stretch might be pretty good as St Cloud and Western might be due for clunkers. We’ve had enough clunkers for a whole season so we should be good in that dept.

can’t be as bad as the area around the U of Minn campus. We stayed at a hotel by campus and the desk clerk sat behind bullet proof glass.

I deleted my comments. won't happen again

Another thing is we’ve had our freshmen playing a lot of heavy minutes especially since we’ve gotten our top line of Gaber Mac and Blake. We’ve also got Strinden and James logging a good amount of ice time. These freshmen may not have been accustomed to going back in coverage when the D activates and goes up into the rush., goes down low in O zone, rushes the net from their DSpot etc. I think now after some games our freshmen are more comfortable in their roles when you have very active D men. I think our D play will get better now as everyone seems to be more on the same page now.

When our D is going good they rotate a lot in the offensive zone and go down low to chase pucks or they will find seams and rush the puck to the net like Kleven did on the James goal. I think we have been out of synch as far as this part of the Ds game has went in the first half of this season. I think sometimes the D has changed their minds and have been caught in no man’s land more so this first half when they should have set their mind and not doubted themselves and either stayed back or went down low or joined the rush and not went half way and changed their mind.

Senden line will have to shut down Cruikshank and his line. So important to have Senden line back together to fill that shutdown role.

If St Cloud chooses to try skate with the GMB line I think they’ll have serious afterthoughts.

I think Sendens line has to step it up in their shutdown role if we’re to go 3-1. I think it’s safe to say the GMB line should provide some more firepower and give the other team matchup problems with them. I think 3-1 is realistic at this point.

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