siouxweet Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Too bad there isn't a draft order for recruiting. We could root for a tankathon then. Hard to see more than 4 wins the rest of the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIOUXELEVENS Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 If we go 4-8 the rest of the way the Ralph is going to be pretty empty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattim Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 1 hour ago, siouxweet said: Too bad there isn't a draft order for recruiting. We could root for a tankathon then. Hard to see more than 4 wins the rest of the way. I predict we go 7-5 or 8-4 from here on out. We’ll split with the Clowns and Western at home (our home), we’ll sweep CC and Omaha and we’ll either split or sweep with Omaha on the road. The reason I say this is because I think the coaches have finally come to the conclusion that Helsten is our goalie for the future. He is the only logical choice. If they were both equal (I don’t think they are but if they were) why play a guy who won’t be around next year when we have a guy who will be? Driscoll has been ripped very hard by us fans (and some opponents), he is a good goalie but not an elite goalie like most of the other teams in the NCHC have. The Beavers made his stats good before we got him because of the defensive style of game they play. We do not know if Helsten will be elite, we will only know if we give him every opportunity to improve and gain experience in this league. Hopefully he’ll be the winning difference a couple times this year but it will be game experience for next year if he isn’t. The losses to Cornel were embarrassing. The losses to Western, were not. They were two very well played games against an exceptional team playing at their barn, a very hostile place for visiting teams. I’ll also predict that Western is a frozen four team in April! We’re not as good of a team as we hopeD we would be, but we’re also not as bad as some of us make us appear to be either. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FightingSU Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 5 minutes ago, mattim said: I predict we go 7-5 or 8-4 from here on out. We’ll split with the Clowns and Western at home (our home), we’ll sweep CC and Omaha and we’ll either split or sweep with Omaha on the road. The reason I say this is because I think the coaches have finally come to the conclusion that Helsten is our goalie for the future. He is the only logical choice. If they were both equal (I don’t think they are but if they were) why play a guy who won’t be around next year when we have a guy who will be? Driscoll has been ripped very hard by us fans (and some opponents), he is a good goalie but not an elite goalie like most of the other teams in the NCHC have. The Beavers made his stats good before we got him because of the defensive style of game they play. We do not know if Helsten will be elite, we will only know if we give him every opportunity to improve and gain experience in this league. Hopefully he’ll be the winning difference a couple times this year but it will be game experience for next year if he isn’t. The losses to Cornel were embarrassing. The losses to Western, were not. They were two very well played games against an exceptional team playing at their barn, a very hostile place for visiting teams. I’ll also predict that Western is a frozen four team in April! We’re not as good of a team as we hopeD we would be, but we’re also not as bad as some of us make us appear to be either. I don't know about that, Omaha beat UMD this weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianvf Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 1 hour ago, mattim said: I predict we go 7-5 or 8-4 from here on out. We’ll split with the Clowns and Western at home (our home), we’ll sweep CC and Omaha and we’ll either split or sweep with Omaha on the road. The reason I say this is because I think the coaches have finally come to the conclusion that Helsten is our goalie for the future. I'd be very surprised if we take 3 of 4 from Omaha. I'd love to see it, though. We'll see if Hellsten is in net on Friday night. Something tells me that the coaches will go back to Driscoll again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweethockey Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 1 hour ago, brianvf said: I'd be very surprised if we take 3 of 4 from Omaha. I'd love to see it, though. We'll see if Hellsten is in net on Friday night. Something tells me that the coaches will go back to Driscoll again. I wish they would give the keys to the net to Hellsten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcblues Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 I, too think that Hellsten should be our netminder going forward. At least until he proves otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fader Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 I think a lot of this season's woes are directly related to bringing in 14 new faces. Which is a normal year would most likely be working itself about at this time in the season. This season is nowhere close to normal due to the extra year of eligibility due to COVID. Western & Cloud are almost 'super-veteran' teams. They have 8-11 players (Grads & Srs) that are well into their 4th and 5th yrs of playing TOGETHER and it shows. We have 1 Grad & 7 Seniors (5 of which are transfers playing together for the first year). This disparity in experience will tend to make a young team look a lot worse than it probably is. Imagine a UND team with 5 grads, 7 seniors, & 9 juniors... could very well add up to "9". Unfortunately, with Hain hurt and Sanderson off to the Olympics, I think we will be lucky to go .500 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusinessSiouxt Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 On 1/24/2022 at 2:35 PM, FightingSU said: I don't know about that, Omaha beat UMD this weekend. Omaha is a very up and down team, when they’re on their very impressive, When they’re not it’s just like old times. I watched a lot of their games, my wife is from Omaha (went to UNO) and that’s her team. You’re right the game against UMD and Saturday night was very much one-sided. But Friday night, it was a !@#$ show. If you look at the comments from Taylor Ward they were very insightful. It’s just one game he said, the question is what are they do with it. The problem is they become very much the one trick pony, until they develop multiple strategies it’s easy to counter their style of play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sicatoka Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 Can we get our goals scored per game in 2022 higher than our team GPA? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Langster019 Posted January 26, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 26, 2022 36 minutes ago, UNDBIZ said: Don't get me wrong, we all want wins and are big fans, but even if they team was worse off than they are, these are the tidbits I thoroughly enjoy seeing. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Berger Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Will UND be able to catch Denver and hoist the program's fifth Penrose Cup? Is home ice for the playoffs a more reasonable goal? Is home ice for the playoffs a lock at this point? All of those questions and more answered in my latest article... Down The Home Stretch: Who Will Win the 2022 Penrose Cup? Discuss. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackheart Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 Looks like Sanderson should have stayed in Grand Forks...now he's just sitting in LA waiting to clear Covid protocol. https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/jake-sanderson-enters-covid-protocol-ahead-of-the-olympic-games EDIT: Apologies; I see this already being covered in the Olympics thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIOUXELEVENS Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 Lots of firsts this year, will this be the first year ND doesn’t make the NCHC tourney? This team might go 4-4 the next 8 and push them right to the edge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R_Schneider_4 Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 8 minutes ago, SIOUXELEVENS said: Lots of firsts this year, will this be the first year ND doesn’t make the NCHC tourney? This team might go 4-4 the next 8 and push them right to the edge. They didn’t make the Frozen Faceoff in 2019. Lost to Denver in 1st round. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIOUXELEVENS Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 2 hours ago, R_Schneider_4 said: They didn’t make the Frozen Faceoff in 2019. Lost to Denver in 1st round. My bad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jk Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 It feels like five of the eight conference spots are just about set. 1. Denver 2. WMU 6. Omaha 7. CC 8. Miami That leaves UND, UMD and SC fighting for 3,4,5. Somehow UND needs to fight through the injuries and get to 3. The 4/5 death match in the first round could be loser-season-over. If the shutdown guys are out for long, two wins this weekend seems difficult, and any wins at Duluth seem unlikely. Then you'd have to hope reinforcements arrive from IR and China and they can win some games in the last two weeks. Then the PWR has to be good enough to make it at large, because beating WMU and DU back to back in St Paul seems unlikely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianvf Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 28 minutes ago, jk said: That leaves UND, UMD and SC fighting for 3,4,5. Somehow UND needs to fight through the injuries and get to 3. The 4/5 death match in the first round could be loser-season-over. UMD seems to still be in good shape for PWR, at #7, so they'll probably make the NCAA tourney regardless of if they make it to the NCHC Tourney or not. SCSU fell a bit down to #10 in PWR, so they'll need to start winning some games...they have a rough remaining schedule with 4x against UMD and 2x against WMU, but that also gives them a chance to move up. I agree that DU looks to have that #1 spot wrapped up but I could see UND finishing anywhere from 2-4. WMU has two big series coming up against SCSU and DU before the big series against UND (where hopefully we have Sanderson back and some boys back from injury). We just need to take care of business against CC this weekend, despite our injury issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tnt Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 5 hours ago, jk said: It feels like five of the eight conference spots are just about set. 1. Denver 2. WMU 6. Omaha 7. CC 8. Miami That leaves UND, UMD and SC fighting for 3,4,5. Somehow UND needs to fight through the injuries and get to 3. The 4/5 death match in the first round could be loser-season-over. If the shutdown guys are out for long, two wins this weekend seems difficult, and any wins at Duluth seem unlikely. Then you'd have to hope reinforcements arrive from IR and China and they can win some games in the last two weeks. Then the PWR has to be good enough to make it at large, because beating WMU and DU back to back in St Paul seems unlikely. Why would you have WMU as set at #2 when they aren’t even there now, and still have to play Denver at St. Cloud and here? We should have Sanderson back when we play Western, and they aren’t as dominant on the road. And if St. Cloud can’t return the favor to WMU, they may be fighting it out with Omaha for sixth. I definitely would rather play Omaha than St. Cloud though. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianvf Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 5 hours ago, tnt said: Why would you have WMU as set at #2 when they aren’t even there now, and still have to play Denver at St. Cloud and here? We should have Sanderson back when we play Western, and they aren’t as dominant on the road. And if St. Cloud can’t return the favor to WMU, they may be fighting it out with Omaha for sixth. I definitely would rather play Omaha than St. Cloud though. If UND is lucky enough to host a first round series this year, you know that series is going to 3 games...and you know that 3rd game is going to OT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sicatoka Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 This weekend we could be short: Budy (until he's not a scratch, he's not available) Hain Senden Jamernik Sanderson Ferner ... and anything we don't know about ... Let's see, 27 man roster, but 23 skaters, down potentially 6, leaves 17. That's not a full (12F/6D) card. Awesome. Can Casey Johnson skate 4th line RW? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iluvdebbies Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 16 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said: This weekend we could be short: Budy (until he's not a scratch, he's not available) Hain Senden Jamernik Sanderson Ferner ... and anything we don't know about ... Let's see, 27 man roster, but 23 skaters, down potentially 6, leaves 17. That's not a full (12F/6D) card. Awesome. Can Casey Johnson skate 4th line RW? Found the 12th forward. 18-21-17 29-8-16 17-11-28 5-20-13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snooty89 Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 30 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said: This weekend we could be short: Budy (until he's not a scratch, he's not available) Hain Senden Jamernik Sanderson Ferner ... and anything we don't know about ... Let's see, 27 man roster, but 23 skaters, down potentially 6, leaves 17. That's not a full (12F/6D) card. Awesome. Can Casey Johnson skate 4th line RW? At least we won't pull a Michigan and duck some opponents if we can't field a full team. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sicatoka Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 22 minutes ago, iluvdebbies said: Found the 12th forward. 18-21-17 29-8-16 17-11-28 5-20-13 Double-shifting 17? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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