Sioux-per Villain

the only thing that appears to be too fast for our players is the game.

Not to mention that every team we played against this year (with the exception of Mankato), had better goaltending than us. We have three problems. Either our talent is not working to their potential, the talent wasn't there to begin with (right now it's certainly no better than anyone elses), or our coaching is poor in that they can't motivate our players to perform.

In the post game interview with Hackstool, TH asked him "what's going on?" and DH replied, "I don't know". Then he said they need to get some breaks. So we have a team with a ton of talent (which I'm not convinced of), we can't win games at home against unranked teams, our coach doesn't know why, and his strategy is to hope for some breaks......hmmm I for one would not want to rely on a vision like that in sports, in a profession, or in life.

You forgot a selection for: "None of the above"

I think hack is more of a combination of the two, he's more unlikely to win a championship with both favored and underrated teams.

my fingers and legs are crossed!

Why not?

at this point in the season: #1 Minnesota #2 St Cloud #3 CC #4 Denver #5 Wisconsin #6 AA #7 UND #8 Mich Tech (could move up this weekend) #9 Mankato #10 UMD

I predict we will be calling for Hakstol's head come Monday.

If the Sioux play like they did last Friday, Wisconsin's scoring woes will be reversed. With a porous defense and swiss-cheese like goaltending, we cannot afford to take stupid penalties or Wisconsin will be tied with UND in the WCHA standings come Sunday morning.

yes

Mn is the clear choice for #1 until somebody comes along that can beat them. By the end of 2006, they'll have only one loss (which was of course, their first game of the season) and 15+ wins. Their next test will come in January when I'm hoping their slide begins.

Brad Miller needs to hit the weights...period. He looks to have great skill with the puck but unless he becomes considerably stronger on his skates, he'll continue to be ineffective against top teams in the WCHA.

Oshie and Toews are just as good if not better than they were last year (even with the injuries). The problem right now is that the rest of the team is not helping them out. We now all can clearly see how valuable Zajac, Stafford and Sparky were to this team. If we get production from the players we expect it from down the stretch, we'll be OK.

Hook or by crook, love em or hate em, the rodents will still win the WCHA this year.

Why? We're suppose to have all this high-powered talent for Gods Sake! AA has played 5 series so far this year. They gave up (goals) a series low of the year against the #3 team in the nation (4 goals). (tied with WI who has no offense) M.Tech scored 14 against them. Don't you think we should have scored more than 4 goals against a team like AA or should they be ranked in the top 10? I can see us losing a game to AA 2-1, but if that were to happen, we should have had 45 shots on goal not 30. We're seeing how important guys like Travis Zajac and Drew Stafford were to this team's offensive depth. Right now we do not have any scoring depth on our lines. That has to improve significantly for guys like Oshie and Toews to avoid the sophomore slump. I know we can turn it around but it hurts losing games we should win. That greatly reduces our chances of winning a WCHA title.

Aren't these types of threads reserved for places like E-Harmony.com? We're here to bash our team, not make connections at the deepest emotional levels. PS...bring the KY

Judys!

I was being fecitious

I'm not defending any of our goaltenders. Quick frankly, they all kinda suck right now. My point is simply that we can't blame either of these losses on goaltending. I highly doubt that we should be banking on beating a team like AA by a margin of 2-1.

I'd say after this weekend, Marto's chances of making a roster spot improved considerably.

We didn't get swept by AA because of our goaltending. We lost because our defense sucks and we can't score....period! With the supposed fire power on this team, we should be averaging 4 goals per game or more. That stat should have been influenced heavily by playing a team like AA. The scores should have been reversed. I'd say we can criticize pretty much everybody else (Hack and the rest of the coaching staff, our first round draft choices, the team captain, equipment manager, etc.) but not a D1 teen-ager in net.

Don't know that PL is either

Nope, Quinnipiac was swept here on 10/6 and 10/7

I don't want to rip his head off but I'm certainly not impressed with how he's developed since his freshman year. I believe we all had higher expectations for him as he entered his Jr. Sr. years. IMO the guys that compliment his skills (speed and physical play) are other grinders.