Lets go over THIS years recruits only

[Oxbow6]

  On 4/22/2013 at 12:56 AM, NDHockey said:

Considering there are only 59 college teams, 17th is hardly great either.

Add in the fact most nights all 6 Dman on the ice were NHL draft picks.

[Oxbow6]

  On 4/22/2013 at 5:29 PM, scpa0305 said:

Not great but not terrible either....being ranked in the top 17 (of 59 teams) is still in the top half. Not too shabby considering their WCHA schedule. But I, for one, do think their forwards should have played a little better in their own zone for most of the year.

Agree, but how many times did an opponent's forward walk it in to the dots or below before any pressure/contact was made by our Dman. Never have seen that in watching UND hockey in all my years.

[siouxweet]

  On 4/22/2013 at 4:34 PM, siouxforce19 said:

Just stop. The Gophers defense ranked where it was because they had the puck most of the game. If you always have the puck you're not going to give up a lot.

There. I said it.

and UND didn't have the puck as much as they have in the past which led to our d numbers being off from what we are used to

[tnt]

On the positive side, they did put up quite a few points as a unit. Don't know if we'll have an abundance of defensive defensemen next year, so may have to do the same and then some in the future.

[iluvdebbies]

Defense(team defense) is a lot easier, when you put the puck in the net at the other end!

[scpa0305]

  On 4/22/2013 at 5:39 PM, Oxbow6 said:

Agree, but how many times did an opponent's forward walk it in to the dots or below before any pressure/contact was made by our Dman. Never have seen that in watching UND hockey in all my years.

Very true...many of our defensemen are more passive than aggressive. They are both fine however you also need both.

[Fetch]

Id like to see really good high scoring D corp for a change

[yzerman19]

You need a shut down pairing- we didn't have that. You also need a PP QB with a cannon- we didn't have that either...

Imagine this dream college d-corps from last year:

Trouba and Jensen

Schmidt and DeKeyser

Johns and Mac

[as15]

  On 4/23/2013 at 12:10 AM, yzerman19 said:

You need a shut down pairing- we didn't have that. You also need a PP QB with a cannon- we didn't have that either...

Imagine this dream college d-corps from last year:

Trouba and Jensen

Schmidt and DeKeyser

Johns and Mac

I would refuse to go on the ice if I was up against Johns and Mac, thats a recipe for a concussion.

[Wilbur]

  On 4/23/2013 at 12:10 AM, yzerman19 said:

You need a shut down pairing- we didn't have that. You also need a PP QB with a cannon- we didn't have that either...

Imagine this dream college d-corps from last year:

Trouba and Jensen

Schmidt and DeKeyser

Johns and Mac

Might be impossible to get the puck to the net with Trouba and Jensen together.

[Irish]

  On 4/22/2013 at 5:39 PM, Oxbow6 said:

Agree, but how many times did an opponent's forward walk it in to the dots or below before any pressure/contact was made by our Dman. Never have seen that in watching UND hockey in all my years.

Agree 100% - I couldn't believe how soft we played at times. We didn't have a real puck-moving defensive corps either - unless you count Gleeson who sometimes just skated around until he lost the puck. I'm not sure if this is a change in philosophy or just due to the personnel we had, but having watched old time Sioux Hockey for 40+ years, I was disappointed in this style of play.

[yzerman19]

Love that Tambellini scored the championship winner in 2OT- #can't coach clutch