Satellite Game Curse

[OETKB]

Another Satellite Party Saturday bites the dust. I'm having a hard time remembering when the last Sioux victory was on Satellite Party day. It had to have been 4 years ago.

Sioux were pathetic tonight. Couldn't pass the puck to save their lives. Defense sure didn't look as good as they are billed to be. A total team flop.

[OETKB]

I'm up late, so here is some honest analysis of Saturday's game:

Murray, Massen, and Porter were trying to save the team all by themselves. The rest of the forwards were invisible most of the time.

Schneider is back to being a major force. Greene has regressed to a point I'd not been willing to fathom. He and Jones were not good tonight. Jones got smoked for one of the goals. Greene whiffed the puck and missed assignments for more than one gaol. Youch.

The most entertaining part of the game was when Rory McMahon fought. That is a bad, bad statement in what should be a huge game for the Sioux. Maybe some of the kids don't get it, but putting on the Sioux jersey involves decades of tradition. Tonight's showing was one of the worst in decades.

[redwing77]

I wonder if the defensive breakdowns were really because they were afraid of going down a man. Anderson loves calling penalties, especially against the big, tough UND defenders. They didn't check because they were afraid to take the penalty. It's probably what Hak talked about all morning long. We were overcautious, tentative, and we deviated from our game plan. No game plan, no possible way of building up a flow. A lot like if we had another penalty filled night like Friday.

It looks like we need the physical game more than I thought. We don't have the finesse players we used to so we need to produce somehow. I fear the open letter is not going to be to UND's favor for that simple reason.