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49 minutes ago, MafiaMan said:

I also heard that the hot tub temp this season has been lukewarm at best - that’s a sure fire way to scare away recruits.  

If nobody does something about the subzero temperatures and crappy weather in Grand Forks we are bound to White banners.....

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This team absolutely over performed.  To see where they ended up to where they were in middle of January is an absolute achievement.   They were a few horses away from being able to really make a run.  It ended up being a great season in which a banner gets hung.   

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So we are down to this we over preformed so all is good , we are supposed to be a national power in hockey and can’t win a first round game , 17,18,19,21,22 with no frozen four and who knows if we would have made it in 20. I think Berry is a good coach but may need to change some things moving on.

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I don't get this crap about this team over performed.  Sure they had a lot of turnover, but they brought in plenty of transfers, so its not like the were all freshmen.  They were a 1st place team to start the new year so it not like they just came on in the 2nd half.  They had 2 bad weekends in January, and they sh!t the bed in the playoffs.  

This program should never be in a position the be rebuilding, they should reload every year.  Having to rebuild is a black mark on Berry.

I would like to think they would have made a run in 2020, but after the last 2 years i'm more and more convinced they would have been 1 and done or maybe won a game.

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15 minutes ago, Langster019 said:

It’s mind boggling people think a team full of new teammates should just gel and be instantly good bc they’re not freshmen. 

I can see 1st half struggles, but come playoff time they have been together long enough.  Plenty of time to gel.

 

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20 minutes ago, Langster019 said:

It’s mind boggling people think a team full of new teammates should just gel and be instantly good bc they’re not freshmen. 

Didn't UND pick up two of the top goal scorers in the nation from last season??

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1 hour ago, siouxweet said:

This team absolutely over performed.  To see where they ended up to where they were in middle of January is an absolute achievement.   They were a few horses away from being able to really make a run.  It ended up being a great season in which a banner gets hung.   

Perhaps a Jasper Weatherby, thus a better power play away!

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Sometimes I think the staff thinks they can win on the "culture" alone.  When it gets down to games like these, you need some difference makers to make that extra play, or just have the talent to bury one when most wouldn't.  Duluth doesn't really have the difference makers either, but they are so disciplined that they all stick to their roles and they don't make the mistakes like the first goal we gave up last night.  Let's face it, Berry isn't a disciplinarian, we could tell that with the whole Rhett Gardner situation when he didn't sit him until the whole fanbase was wondering what was going on.  Thankfully, with a bump in the existing class, and the talent coming in next year, we should be able to make waves again next year with the regional in Fargo.  Could be quite a bit of pressure in that regional, because of all the past circumstances.  Really need to recruit with the premise that you are going to lose more skilled guys, so recruit more to replace them, because inevitably all of them won't pan out.  Just really hope we don't have to listen to Duluth, Denver, Minnesota or Michigan celebrate a Natty, as that would definitely add insult to injury. 

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1 minute ago, tnt said:

Sometimes I think the staff thinks they can win on the "culture" alone.  When it gets down to games like these, you need some difference makers to make that extra play, or just have the talent to bury one when most wouldn't.  Duluth doesn't really have the difference makers either, but they are so disciplined that they all stick to their roles and they don't make the mistakes like the first goal we gave up last night.  Let's face it, Berry isn't a disciplinarian, we could tell that with the whole Rhett Gardner situation when he didn't sit him until the whole fanbase was wondering what was going on.  Thankfully, with a bump in the existing class, and the talent coming in next year, we should be able to make waves again next year with the regional in Fargo.  Could be quite a bit of pressure in that regional, because of all the past circumstances.  Really need to recruit with the premise that you are going to lose more skilled guys, so recruit more to replace them, because inevitably all of them won't pan out. 

Agreed. We’ve missed on fairly significant recruits the past 2-3 years. Kids we would normally get. However, we’ll be another year older next year and we’re bringing in two fairly skilled F’s. We should be better next year but I still have some question marks on our overall recruiting philosophy.

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9 minutes ago, tnt said:

Sometimes I think the staff thinks they can win on the "culture" alone.  When it gets down to games like these, you need some difference makers to make that extra play, or just have the talent to bury one when most wouldn't.  Duluth doesn't really have the difference makers either, but they are so disciplined that they all stick to their roles and they don't make the mistakes like the first goal we gave up last night.  Let's face it, Berry isn't a disciplinarian, we could tell that with the whole Rhett Gardner situation when he didn't sit him until the whole fanbase was wondering what was going on.  Thankfully, with a bump in the existing class, and the talent coming in next year, we should be able to make waves again next year with the regional in Fargo.  Could be quite a bit of pressure in that regional, because of all the past circumstances.  Really need to recruit with the premise that you are going to lose more skilled guys, so recruit more to replace them, because inevitably all of them won't pan out. 

This part right here makes me question the Morrow decision even more so. I get there were apparently "red flags" but wouldn't you think with a coach and team that preaches "culture" that you could bring in a kid with huge talent and groom him into the culture rather than be scared away from him? All this being said, I haven't heard one thing bad about him with UMASS and the World Junior team which again makes me question the decision. 

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2 minutes ago, I Ranger said:

This part right here makes me question the Morrow decision even more so. I get there were apparently "red flags" but wouldn't you think with a coach and team that preaches "culture" that you could bring in a kid with huge talent and groom him into the culture rather than be scared away from him? All this being said, I haven't heard one thing bad about him with UMASS and the World Junior team which again makes me question the decision. 

Especially when you were willing to take a huge chance on Mitchell Miller.  To me, that makes no sense at all, and the fact that Brent Johnson was injured at the end of last year, and really couldn't get back to a full training regimen until much later makes that decision even more of a head scratcher. 

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47 minutes ago, tnt said:

Sometimes I think the staff thinks they can win on the "culture" alone.  When it gets down to games like these, you need some difference makers to make that extra play, or just have the talent to bury one when most wouldn't.  Duluth doesn't really have the difference makers either, but they are so disciplined that they all stick to their roles and they don't make the mistakes like the first goal we gave up last night.  Let's face it, Berry isn't a disciplinarian, we could tell that with the whole Rhett Gardner situation when he didn't sit him until the whole fanbase was wondering what was going on.  Thankfully, with a bump in the existing class, and the talent coming in next year, we should be able to make waves again next year with the regional in Fargo.  Could be quite a bit of pressure in that regional, because of all the past circumstances.  Really need to recruit with the premise that you are going to lose more skilled guys, so recruit more to replace them, because inevitably all of them won't pan out.  Just really hope we don't have to listen to Duluth, Denver, Minnesota or Michigan celebrate a Natty, as that would definitely add insult to injury. 

Well said. 

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