NORTH DAKOTA vs. Union - SATURDAY Gameday

[fightingsioux4life]

With the exception of WBB, this has been one putrid weekend for UND athletics. 

[Snake]

1 minute ago, bcblues said:

After every home series?

The way they start games it's every first intermission. 

[cberkas]

Maybe UND should take Thanksgiving weekend off.

[fightingsioux4life]

Just now, cberkas said:

Maybe UND should take Thanksgiving weekend off.

That is what I was thinking. Have Thanksgiving be one of our "bye weeks" every year.

[cberkas]

Fire Shaw.........from running the powerplay.

[Wilbur]

2 minutes ago, fightingsioux4life said:

That is what I was thinking. Have Thanksgiving be one of our "bye weeks" every year.

Cancel the Subway holiday classic??????? 

[UNDBIZ]

Loss and a tie against an inferior team the weekend after thanksgiving. It's Michigan St all over again. 

[siouxforce19]

5 minutes ago, cberkas said:

I'm expecting the annual players only meeting.

You mean someone will show some leadership by calling a meeting?

[cberkas]

They go from looking like the top team in the country to a team that shouldn't be in the to 20.

Better figure it out before the next two weekends.

[fightingsioux4life]

6 minutes ago, UNDBIZ said:

Loss and a tie against an inferior team the weekend after thanksgiving. It's Michigan St all over again. 

As bad as this weekend was, Union is in no way as bad as Michigan State was last year.

[MafiaMan]

[cberkas]

1 minute ago, MafiaMan said:

This is also going on at GPL too.

[MafiaMan]

2 minutes ago, cberkas said:

This is also going on at GPL too.

0-3 in their last 3 against Notre Dame.  

[OETKB]

I thought they played with better intensity tonight.  But for 30 seconds there in the 3rd, I thought we were watching last years' team.  Play well for a while, then cough up the puck with sloppy play twice to gift the other team 2 in a row.

In all fairness, UND is missing too many guys right now.  When everyone is healthy, we should see a better team.  Having said that, this was a frustrating weekend at best.

[SiouxScore]

Just not a good weekend of hockey. Gotta put it behind quick and get back to playing Sioux hockey and hopefully getting a little more healthy while we are at it.

[tnt]

23 minutes ago, cberkas said:

They go from looking like the top team in the country to a team that shouldn't be in the to 20.

Better figure it out before the next two weekends.

So, now are we a bad team, based on the results of one weekend? Maybe Union is a little better than you thought they were too.  

[cberkas]

1 minute ago, tnt said:

So, now are we a bad team, based on the results of one weekend? Maybe Union is a little better than you thought they were too.  

St. Cloud and Western Michigan are better then Union.

Didn't say UND was a bad team, they just made a bunch of simple mistakes Friday that they can't make against St. Cloud or Western Michigan.

[Wilbur]

If they aren't ready to go next Friday Western will put them through the boards.

Credit to Simonson for playing great tonight.  He was our best player, and his line was our best line.  Union had an answer for every line but that one for some reason. 

[cberkas]

21 minutes ago, MafiaMan said:

0-3 in their last 3 against Notre Dame.  

They seem to be an angry mob just because Lucia is still the head coach.

[OETKB]

If UND coughs up the puck as untimely as they did this weekend, they will have a hard time winning any of the next four games.

[MafiaMan]

1 minute ago, cberkas said:

They seem to be an angry mob just because Lucia is still the head coach.

They should be angry.

[scpa0305]

36 minutes ago, OETKB said:

I thought they played with better intensity tonight.  But for 30 seconds there in the 3rd, I thought we were watching last years' team.  Play well for a while, then cough up the puck with sloppy play twice to gift the other team 2 in a row.

In all fairness, UND is missing too many guys right now.  When everyone is healthy, we should see a better team.  Having said that, this was a frustrating weekend at best.

Weird I thought we looked better last night...much better.

[OETKB]

4 minutes ago, scpa0305 said:

Weird I thought we looked better last night...much better.

Perhaps in the 2nd period, but certainly not  for the full game.  UND looked decent tonight.  Had a lot of sustained O-zone time in all periods.  But, Union transitioned well, and executed when they had chances.  UND has to stop gifting the puck with blind cross-ice passes or passes that are too hard for the D to handle.

[bcblues]

I agree.  We came out skating faster and more aggressively.  We sustained possession in the Union zone for a lot of time (and times).  We just need to be able to finish.

Our PP still sucks, and needs to be far better.

Thome played pretty well tonight, making some great saves. 

Yes, we need work to play with the top dogs.Hopefully Brad can do just that.  This team has promise.

[burd]

I don't know:  maybe mens hockey isn't such a good idea.   Times are changing and everything.