UND vs. Notre Dame - Albany Regional - NCAA regional semis

[cberkas]

3 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

trade em for jan brady state in a second

So, trade them for Omaha? That might be a good trade 

[SIOUXFAN97]

Just now, cberkas said:

So, trade them for Omaha? That might be a good trade 

i see what you did here....

[bcblues]

1 minute ago, MafiaMan said:

I usually hope both teams just have fun, but that’s me…

I always hope for a good, entertaining, skilled hockey game. 

 

 

But I always hope we win too.

[N of GF]

4 minutes ago, nodakgirl93 said:

And those losses have been in ot.

And all of those losses featured a would-be-game-winning goal overturned.

[cowboys5xsbs]

Funny Denver is struggling with Lowell and the only NCHC team that has done !@#$ so far is the one that doesn't care about the regular season 

[Cratter]

29 minutes ago, SKondrashkin said:

With the talent on those Blake-led late 90s teams, 1 title was a disapointment.    

Wow those were some high standards back then.

Guy was only here for three years and was expected to win it all at least two, if not all three years!

[N of GF]

3 minutes ago, fightingsioux4life said:

But @N of GF says we need to be quiet about it. 

Nope, I didn't. 

[brianvf]

Just now, SiouxBoys said:

Any reason you asked me who I cheer for? Or are we at the part of the night where unless you think a certain way, then you're not a "real fan"?

With many of your posts, you rip on UND fans or the fan base as a whole. 
And you seem to love seeing UND getting called for 5min majors. 

No worries then. 

[bcblues]

It has been all DU from what I have seen. Maybe Lowell is just a defensive team looking for the killer stretch pass.

[scpa0305]

4 minutes ago, cowboys5xsbs said:

Funny Denver is struggling with Lowell and the only NCHC team that has done !@#$ so far is the one that doesn't care about the regular season 

Denver is at least fun to watch. I would be blown away if they lose. They’re PP is super fun to watch. Lowell better stay out of the box in the third 

[SIOUXFAN97]

4 minutes ago, Cratter said:

Wow those were some high standards back then.

Guy was only here for three years and was expected to win it all at least two, if not all three years!

luckily blais had that world class weight room in the old rea to lure jason back from ferris.....

[Godsmack]

1 hour ago, SiouxFan100 said:

We overachieved 

it would have been MUCH worse losing in regulation with .0000001 seconds left

I agree. I told my wife that-as disappointing as it was to lose in OT, it would’ve stung much worse had it ended in regulation. That said, it still hurts and stings to see their season come to an end. 

[bcblues]

1 minute ago, Godsmack said:

I agree. I told my wife that-as disappointing as it was to lose in OT, it would’ve stung much worse had it ended in regulation. That said, it still hurts and stings to see their season come to an end. 

Especially when we were on the PP

[SIOUXFAN97]

18 minutes ago, Godsmack said:

I agree. I told my wife that-as disappointing as it was to lose in OT, it would’ve stung much worse had it ended in regulation. That said, it still hurts and stings to see their season come to an end. 

what the heck does it matter if we lost with .01 left or wet the bed in the first 90 seconds of ot?

[yzerman19]

Well, another season by the wayside.  I would kill for us to bring some serious skill in upfront…I’d like to be excited to watch them on weekends…I barely did this year… which says something.

[tnt]

18 minutes ago, Godsmack said:

I agree. I told my wife that-as disappointing as it was to lose in OT, it would’ve stung much worse had it ended in regulation. That said, it still hurts and stings to see their season come to an end. 

Just the opposite for me.  The second year in a row where they felt the pain of losing then were given a second chance to make sure they wouldn’t feel that again. We say how lucky Duluth is to win in overtime time and again, and we can’t even do it with second chances.  Losing in overtime doesn’t seem like much consolation when your rival has lost only once in about ten or so NCAA playoff games. Duluth has got a swagger to them, and we don’t right now.  Seems to follow their coaches personality.  With the upperclassmen losses in our league, next year needs to have a better outcome.

[rochsioux]

22 minutes ago, rochsioux said:

2016: 34-6-4 National Champs

2017: 21-16-3  Lost to BU first round

2018: 17-13-10 Missed the tourney 

2019: 18-17-2  Missed the tourney

2020: 26-5-4  Covid

2021:  22-6-1  Lost to UMD in regional title

2022:  24-14-1  Lost to ND first round

Since the NC$$ title six years ago UND has won one tournament game beating the mighty AIC last year. Let that sink in a bit, ONE win in six years. Don’t know about anyone else but I expect a little more.  Conference titles are nice but lose a little significance for me when we can’t even get out of a regional. 

In 12 years under Hakstol UND won zero NC$$ championships.  They made the NC$$ tourney all 12 years and the Frozen Four eight times and only lost the opening regional game twice (went 18-4 in regionals, 1-7 in Frozen Fours).  If you had to chose, would you rather have Berry’s tournament record or Haks ? Berry is 3-3 in regionals, 2-0 in frozen fours with one frozen four appearance in six years (Covid year a non counter) and made the tourney in 4 of 6 years.

For me I think I would take Hakstol’s.  The seasons were more fun when they would get to the frozen four so often.  Not making the tourney or losing the first game is a real downer.  Granted, losing in the frozen four was no fun either but it was a lot of fun winning the regionals so often…the season lasted a lot longer.  Under Berry there was only one fun post season, and some years no post season. Not sure one title makes up enough for all the other quick exits. 

[N of GF]

After listening to those two chowdah' heads in the studio, I may just switch to cheering for "whichever team is furthest west in current game." But that ultimately leads to Duluth and Denver. Ugh.... baseball starts soon!

[fightingsioux4life]

5 minutes ago, rochsioux said:

In 12 years under Hakstol UND won zero NC$$ championships.  They made the NC$$ tourney all 12 years and the Frozen Four eight times and only lost the opening regional game twice (went 18-4 in regionals, 1-7 in Frozen Fours).  If you had to chose, would you rather have Berry’s tournament record or Haks ? Berry is 3-3 in regionals, 2-0 in frozen fours with one frozen four appearance in six years (Covid year a non counter) and made the tourney in 4 of 6 years.

For me I think I would take Hakstol’s.  The seasons were more fun when they would get to the frozen four so often.  Not making the tourney or losing the first game is a real downer.  Granted, losing in the frozen four was no fun either but it was a lot of fun winning the regionals so often…the season lasted a lot longer.  Under Berry there was only one fun post season, and some years no post season. Not sure one title makes up enough for all the other quick exits. 

False choice.

[cowboys5xsbs]

10 minutes ago, rochsioux said:

In 12 years under Hakstol UND won zero NC$$ championships.  They made the NC$$ tourney all 12 years and the Frozen Four eight times and only lost the opening regional game twice (went 18-4 in regionals, 1-7 in Frozen Fours).  If you had to chose, would you rather have Berry’s tournament record or Haks ? Berry is 3-3 in regionals, 2-0 in frozen fours with one frozen four appearance in six years (Covid year a non counter) and made the tourney in 4 of 6 years.

For me I think I would take Hakstol’s.  The seasons were more fun when they would get to the frozen four so often.  Not making the tourney or losing the first game is a real downer.  Granted, losing in the frozen four was no fun either but it was a lot of fun winning the regionals so often…the season lasted a lot longer.  Under Berry there was only one fun post season, and some years no post season. Not sure one title makes up enough for all the other quick exits. 

Say what you will about those Hak teams but he knew how to get the most out of his teams.  We were undermanned a few times and still made Frozen Fours.  Have yet to see Berry come close to anything like that.  

[N of GF]

2 minutes ago, cowboys5xsbs said:

Say what you will about those Hak teams but he knew how to get the most out of his teams.  We were undermanned a few times and still made Frozen Fours.  Have yet to see Berry come close to anything like that.  

It would be easy to argue that Berry came close to that this season.

[Big A HG]

I think Berry is quite fortunate that he nabbed that title so early in his tenure.  Take away that year, and UND is on quite a horrid looking path compared to the accomplishments of his predecessors.  With the standards UND should have for its program, and considering the funding, facilities, and history that our team entails, we should not look so repeatedly lackluster at tourney time.  

[UNDMOORHEAD]

15 minutes ago, rochsioux said:

In 12 years under Hakstol UND won zero NC$$ championships.  They made the NC$$ tourney all 12 years and the Frozen Four eight times and only lost the opening regional game twice (went 18-4 in regionals, 1-7 in Frozen Fours).  If you had to chose, would you rather have Berry’s tournament record or Haks ? Berry is 3-3 in regionals, 2-0 in frozen fours with one frozen four appearance in six years (Covid year a non counter) and made the tourney in 4 of 6 years.

For me I think I would take Hakstol’s.  The seasons were more fun when they would get to the frozen four so often.  Not making the tourney or losing the first game is a real downer.  Granted, losing in the frozen four was no fun either but it was a lot of fun winning the regionals so often…the season lasted a lot longer.  Under Berry there was only one fun post season, and some years no post season. Not sure one title makes up enough for all the other quick exits. 

I feel as though there is a bit of a recency bias to this question. When Hak was running the show people would've rather won a natty once every five years and missed the tourney the other four, instead of always getting there and never winning.

[tnt]

1 minute ago, UNDMOORHEAD said:

I feel as though there is a bit of a recency bias to this question. When Hak was running the show people would've rather won a natty once every five years and missed the tourney the other four, instead of always getting there and never winning.

That seemed to be the line of thinking back then.

[crb1]

5 minutes ago, Big A HG said:

I think Berry is quite fortunate that he nabbed that title so early in his tenure.  Take away that year, and UND is on quite a horrid looking path compared to the accomplishments of his predecessors.  With the standards UND should have for its program, and considering the funding, facilities, and history that our team entails, we should not look so repeatedly lackluster at tourney time.  

I do agree with this. IMO Berry has underperformed, and I do feel there is a real issue with recruiting.  Rizzo, Morrow and I am sure there are a couple more I am missing but that is worrisome. Berry got a contract extension but he should seriously look inward in his recruiting philosophy as I feel something is not working.