SiouxFan25 Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 3 hours ago, The Sicatoka said: Good to see ya swami. About your Point 3: I've long said I'm tired of seeing hockey become soccer. Games should be decided on talent, not a bad bounce off the glass. (A mighty sweep-check ability is not a talent.) Bad bounces will happen, but in today's 5 total goals per game world (compared to the 9 total goals per game world of the 20-30 years ago) that bad luck goal is 20% of the game (1/5) and not 11% (1/9) as it was in the past. Again, I want to see talent, not bad bounces, win games. The focus on a nominal talent (a mean sweep-check) has negated offensive talent and thereby exacerbated the luck (bad bounce) part of the game's influence. Couldn't agree more with this. There's a big problem with luck beating talent and I personally think the increasing size of goalies and their pads are to blame. They've made it so that the difference between having a good goalie and a bad goalie has been greatly diminished. This has also led to the majority of shots being stopped and a far greater percentage of goals being the result of puck luck, like you said. Everything I've read said the answer isn't smaller goalie pads however, it's actually larger nets since the physical size of goaltenders is far bigger now as well. It sounds kinda crazy, but I've thought they should try it for awhile now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinnesotaSiouxFan Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 22 hours ago, SiouxFan100 said: Have we peaked? Will we ever (will any other college team) dominate anymore? I mean dominate every year - year after year? Are we in a new normal? New normal....diluted talent pool being spread out over many new programs. Other options now, besides Nodak, MN, Wisconsin, and Boston. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
90siouxfan Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 38 minutes ago, runaroundsioux said: No Seniors? I can't believe I just read that. Matt Frattin,Evan Trupp, Brad Malone, Chay Genoway, Danny Kristo, Corbin Knight, Carter Rowney, Steph Pattyn and many more may disagree. I swear I get stupider every time I come here. I agree 1000%. I don't recall but is there a first rounder that has stayed 4 years? Finley maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MafiaMan Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 7 hours ago, gfhockey said: At least haks teams got better as year went on You’re kidding me, right? After all the years of complaining about him... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jodcon Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 23 minutes ago, MafiaMan said: You’re kidding me, right? After all the years of complaining about him... Maybe his true feelings were lost in interpretation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yzerman19 Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 10 hours ago, geaux_sioux said: Not surprising. The team just wasn’t very entertaining most of the time. I can’t remember ever being less interested in a UND hockey team. totally agree. I don't doubt the boys gave it there all, but the product was not entertaining. Like I said in a different post. The Jacques Lemaire era of the Wild made it so I can never be a fan...as much as I love Parise and as much of a regional loyalty I feel. I cheer for the Jets over the Wild. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackheart Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 2 hours ago, jodcon said: Maybe his true feelings were lost in interpretation? Or his horrible typing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel_Sioux Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 On 3/17/2019 at 10:22 AM, fightingsioux4life said: Yeah, this is no different than high school sports ("all about teaching life lessons" and "all about the relationships"). (sarcasm) This mentality has infected all of our programs. And as long as it is in place, we will win nothing of significance ever again. #hadenoughyet? I don't think that's accurate. Nor was I saying that I was happy about this season's results in any sport frankly. Nor was i super happy about any of the contract extensions coaches have recently received. But let's be realistic here. The school is not in a position to buy out a coach 3 years after he won a natty. The school is broke and I've lost count of how many sports and academic programs were cut by Schafer and Kennedy. The best we can do is hope Berry turns things around next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJHovey Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 Good to hear from Puck Swami again. Always a true gentleman and a fan of the game, with usually quite accurate observations about the state of things. The quality of USCHO dropped immensely the day he felt he had to stop posting there. With respect to his current post, I agree with pretty much everything he wrote, with one addition. When the postscript to this year's UND team is written, we'll realize that the team fell short for one reason, and one reason only. It performed very poorly on special teams. If you plug in the special teams numbers of say a team like UMD, we would have had an additional 14 goals scored on the power play and given up 9 fewer goals on the penalty kill. A 23 goal differential over the course of 37 games, most of which seemed like one goal affairs, would have been huge. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siouxperfan7 Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 It will be interesting to see the attendance this weekend at the X. Looking at the map for full weekend ticket packages sold, looks like it should be a decent crowd. That is if everyone who bought tickets shows up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarnWinterSportsEngelstad Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 We wanted the X and now we are not there. Hopefully there is a good turnout. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goon Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 22 minutes ago, BarnWinterSportsEngelstad said: We wanted the X and now we are not there. Hopefully there is a good turnout. I predict we will see pictures of lots of empty seats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightingsioux4life Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 10 hours ago, Rebel_Sioux said: I don't think that's accurate. Nor was I saying that I was happy about this season's results in any sport frankly. Nor was i super happy about any of the contract extensions coaches have recently received. But let's be realistic here. The school is not in a position to buy out a coach 3 years after he won a natty. The school is broke and I've lost count of how many sports and academic programs were cut by Schafer and Kennedy. The best we can do is hope Berry turns things around next year. I don't think Berry should lose his job right now. I think he should get two more years to turn this around. If he can't, then he needs to go. We cannot accept becoming a mid-major in hockey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MafiaMan Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 1 hour ago, BarnWinterSportsEngelstad said: We wanted the X and now we are not there. Hopefully there is a good turnout. That doesn't change the fact that the move back to the X was needed and long overdue. "We" aren't the only fans who would prefer that hockey be played there as opposed to Target Center. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarnWinterSportsEngelstad Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 14 minutes ago, MafiaMan said: That doesn't change the fact that the move back to the X was needed and long overdue. "We" aren't the only fans who would prefer that hockey be played there as opposed to Target Center. Never said that, hopefully there is a good turnout. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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