GDT Friday - Minnesota vs NoDak at The Ralph - 2 storied programs that helped put college hockey on the map.

[sioux rube]

Just now, siouxnatty#8 said:

What difference if you lose by 1 or 10

Just a bit early to pull him with the way the game was going

[crb1]

1 minute ago, siouxnatty#8 said:

What difference if you lose by 1 or 10

Momentum is shot.  

[SiouxFan100]

Too early to pull the goalie if it doesn’t work

[brianvf]

1 minute ago, siouxweet said:

No chance in hell this team gets a 1 seed.  Will be lucky to get a 3 when  it is all said snd done.

I agree that they probably won't get a #1 seed.
But their play to this point had them at a #1 seed until tonight's result.
So who knows how this will end up, it's a long season.  They just need to play more consistently.

Sanderson still sick a bit?  Didn't notice him nearly as much as his last few games before his sickness.

[gfhockey]

4 minutes ago, SiouxFanatic said:

That just confirms what everyone here already knew: you are a fair weather b****. You never post here to say good things but always around when things aren’t going UND’s way.

There have been plenty of games and if you can’t remember, goes to show how much of a fan you really are. 

Whatever bud 

check basketball threads

 

fotball threads

 

youbhinestly like that performance go 

[bcblues]

Everybody thought Berry was a fool for challenging during the major penalty. Turned out he wasn't. Maybe he was just "feelin' lucky tonight".

[cberkas]

20 minutes ago, gfhockey said:

I’ve never ever remember a beating like this at home

10/05/2001

10/20/2001

12/01/2001

[sioux rube]

Weatherby was a bigger loss than most people think 

[brianvf]

Just now, cberkas said:

10/05/2001

10/20/2021

12/01/2001

I was at all of those games.  The 12/1/01 game was the moment when I realized for sure that it was a "rebuilding" year.
Getting blown out 6-0 by Mankato to have them complete the sweep when they outscored UND 12-4 during the series.
Ouch.

[siouxnatty#8]

1 minute ago, bcblues said:

Everybody thought Berry was a fool for challenging during the major penalty. Turned out he wasn't. Maybe he was just "feelin' lucky tonight".

Dean Blais would have pulled Driscoll with 6 minutes left and that’s a fact.

[bcblues]

We all should know that it is not who you lost, it is who you have. And be able to make the most with it. Top programs no longer have "building years".

[brianvf]

3 minutes ago, gfhockey said:

Whatever bud 

check basketball threads

 

fotball threads

Not sure what the fotball or basketball threads have to do with you only posting on UND hockey threads when they're losing, but ok.   

[gfhockey]

1 minute ago, siouxnatty#8 said:

Dean Blais would have pulled Driscoll with 6 minutes left and that’s a fact.

He’d also have 2/4 more banners ho

[gfhockey]

If we truly are the Alabama or Florida of football what they do to their coach after a mediocre year

[sioux rube]

1 minute ago, gfhockey said:

If we truly are the Alabama or Florida of football what they do to their coach after a mediocre year

Go sleep it off 

[cowboys5xsbs]

3 minutes ago, gfhockey said:

If we truly are the Alabama or Florida of football what they do to their coach after a mediocre year

Bama rarely ever fires its coaches

[gfhockey]

5 minutes ago, cowboys5xsbs said:

Bama rarely ever fires it coaches

Because they reload and have every available resource

[siouxnatty#8]

9 minutes ago, gfhockey said:

He’d also have 2/4 more banners ho

Yes and he would have walked in water too. Why are you always bashing the coach. Go wash your Gopher jersey for tomorrow.

[siouxnatty#8]

29 minutes ago, brianvf said:

This team is like Jekyll and Hyde.
One game they look like title contenders and the next they can't get anything going.
Our record against the B10 will not do us any favors in the PWR, unfortunately.

i.e 14 freshmen has something to do with that I think but is no excuse.

[siouxnatty#8]

32 minutes ago, sioux rube said:

This will kill them as far as pairwise goes 

Not the end of the world but disappointing. We knew this 6 game stretch was gonna be tough start with Duluth. .500 after this weekend and our pairwise will be ok

[AJS]

5 minutes ago, siouxnatty#8 said:

i.e 14 freshmen has something to do with that I think but is no excuse.

9 Fr and two of those are goalies who have 0 combined minutes. 

[siouxnatty#8]

1 minute ago, siouxnatty#8 said:

Not the end of the world but disappointing. We knew this 6 game stretch was gonna be tough start with Duluth. .500 after this weekend and our pairwise will be ok

These losses to ranked teams hurt less than to an unranked.

[siouxnatty#8]

2 minutes ago, AJS said:

9 Fr and two of those are goalies who have 0 combined minutes. 

Driscoll did not play badly

[siouxnatty#8]

Just now, siouxnatty#8 said:

Driscoll did not play badly

Tough to win when you can’t score goals

[rochsioux]

I don’t have much confidence in Driscoll so far but to be fair the defense has struggled.
There is little to no chance of winning a natty when a goalie has a sub .900 save percentage.   Need to start showing improvement fairly soon.  I think what bothers me the most is that he flops around quite a bit and seem out of position a lot.  Again, with an improvement on defense maybe this goes away. 
As Duluth has shown, you do not need to be a top team during the regular season you just need to make the tourney.  Once in the tourney you do need sound defense and a shutdown goalie.  If you have that you can string together four wins even if you aren’t the best team.  
Goals against average and save percentage will tell the tale of this season.  Keep the goals allowed to two or less and I like our chances.  Continue giving up over 2.5 goals per game and we have little hope for #9.