DU @ UNDon't get swept Saturday thread.

[sioux rube]

12 minutes ago, tnt said:

Just curious if you remember many of Hakstol’s teams before Christmas?

Berry has one win in the national tourney since the 16’ championship year. Not good 

[Username Taken]

That was tough to watch. No skill, no fight. Just laid over. Looking to build some much needed chemistry and confidence over the next couple of weekends. Train wreck start to the season. 

[Irish]

1 hour ago, Oldguy said:

I hate to say it, but this is the most disappointing UND team I have seen in a long, long time.  Can't even clear their own zone, let alone maintain any sort of possession.  Giveaways, dominated on shots, no fight (bad body language).  This team may end up one of the worst in decades.

It's sad that when both teams were at full strength it often looked like Denver was on a power play.

[Irish]

24 minutes ago, neoflex said:

But it's been a poor performance vs Minnesota, DU, and AZ.  At what point does the bad performances become their identity?

Don't forget Quinnipiac 

[Sweethockey]

1 hour ago, siouxnatty#8 said:

Last year the Senden Hain Jammer line shut down Savois line so Bubs breaks up that line. Why does bibs try to be so cute with his lines. Put a freshman line together because we do have some talented freshmen. Bubs needs to quit being cute and get back to our meat and potatoes a good Senden shutdown line 

Senden hasn’t played like he used to since the Saturday night game against the Gophers. Something is really out of whack with these guys right now.

[rochsioux]

The problem is not necessarily a win/loss thing. It is the way the team is playing. They look slow and lack quickness. The passing has been nothing short of awful and we seem to panic with the puck in our end. The defense has been a huge disappointment so far. We have been completely outplayed by Minnesota, Denver and Quinnipiac. It’s one thing to lose a game due to a bad break or just having a bad night. It’s another thing to be completely outplayed in almost every game when you face the better teams. Can they turn this around? Maybe playing teams a notch lower than Denver, Minnesota, and Quinnipiac will help them build some confidence and develop better chemistry. I hope so, but it needs to happen pretty soon or we’ll need to win the conference playoffs to make the NC$$ tourney. 

[BusinessSiouxt]

10 minutes ago, Irish said:

Don't forget Quinnipiac 

And don’t forget they tied LIU the week before they came to the Ralph! 

[Fader]

1 hour ago, sioux rube said:

This from UND Facebook page. Always duckies and bunnies for those over there 

Win or lose... fan forever! Go Sioux! They played their hearts out tonight! Thank you boys you're doing awesome!

Evidently, suggesting a 'bag skate' instead of a 'closed door team meeting' on said FB page is "BAG SKATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is one moronic statement"   Who knew?

[Green Banner]

2 hours ago, Esoteric said:

Less axe throwing and more teamwork.  They are second guessing their passes, they are second guessing their decisions as to when to challenge, they are second guessing their skill to be unpredictable.  To much formula and to little trust in their skill.

Sidorski stated that it was nice to hangout with the guys off the ice because once they leave the rink not many guys hangout. That seems odd to me, all you ever hear from former players is how much they were togather off the ice. 

[tnt]

16 minutes ago, Green Banner said:

Sidorski stated that it was nice to hangout with the guys off the ice because once they leave the rink not many guys hangout. That seems odd to me, all you ever hear from former players is how much they were togather off the ice. 

Well our team captain is married, so not sure he would be spending his spare time with the guys.

[Frozen4sioux]

1 hour ago, sioux rube said:

This from UND Facebook page. Always duckies and bunnies for those over there 

Win or lose... fan forever! Go Sioux! They played their hearts out tonight! Thank you boys you're doing awesome!

I say this with all due love and respect... but.....

The people who comment on there are 9.9 times out of 10... the dumbest sacks of stupidity I have ever heard of being even remotely associated with hockey.....

Just vapid voids of lifeforms. Mostly all just trying to kiss the ass of the players moms who are there all the time so they can pretend they're "connected" to the program.

 

That and sell each other handmade pieces of garbage arts and crafts....

 

 

 

[neoflex]

1 hour ago, tnt said:

Just curious if you remember many of Hakstol’s teams before Christmas?

This is no hakstol team

[siouxnatty#8]

54 minutes ago, Sweethockey said:

Senden hasn’t played like he used to since the Saturday night game against the Gophers. Something is really out of whack with these guys right now.

Every game Berry puts all the forwards names in a hat and draws the line combinations for that game. I imagine Senden is getting frustrated. Last year his line completely shut down DUs top line all weekend and this year he’s playing with 2 completely different players. Some lines work and senden hain jammer works so does ness albrecht portz. 

[siouxnatty#8]

14 minutes ago, siouxnatty#8 said:

Every game Berry puts all the forwards names in a hat and draws the line combinations for that game. I imagine Senden is getting frustrated. Last year his line completely shut down DUs top line all weekend and this year he’s playing with 2 completely different players. Some lines work and senden hain jammer works so does ness albrecht portz. 

Having a shutdown line like Sendens helps to give your better offensive players more favorable matchups 

[90siouxfan]

Can Eades guest coach for a week or so?  Or at least come in and punch a few fellas in the mouth?

[Prison_Mike]

14 hours ago, siouxnatty#8 said:

Every game Berry puts all the forwards names in a hat and draws the line combinations for that game. I imagine Senden is getting frustrated. Last year his line completely shut down DUs top line all weekend and this year he’s playing with 2 completely different players. Some lines work and senden hain jammer works so does ness albrecht portz. 

Berry drawing up line combos…

[Oxbow6]

Moore has lots of similarities in his game to Tychonick

[SIOUXELEVENS]

Never seen a d man whiff on the puck as much as he does. 

[MafiaMan]

8 hours ago, 90siouxfan said:

Can Eades guest coach for a week or so?  Or at least come in and punch a few fellas in the mouth?

He’s probably still busy pounding down beers and partying with 20 year old college co-eds down in Vegas…

[Snake]

19 minutes ago, MafiaMan said:

He’s probably still busy pounding down beers and partying with 20 year old college co-eds down in Vegas…

At least he’d relate to today’s player! 

[sioux rube]

Currently 27th in the pairwise. Boys got some work to do 

[SIOUXELEVENS]

If we don’t sweep Miami and Bemidji we are toast in the pairwise. 

[Irish]

Denver won an championship last year and promptly reloaded.  The difference between the two teams on Saturday was stunning.  We saw things from this team I never would have guessed would come from our program - A lack of development across the board, what appears to be poor conditioning, horrible puck skills especially passing, an underperforming freshman class, and undisciplined play.  Add in horrible line combos and a really poor defense and here we are.  This cannot continue.  

[SIOUXELEVENS]

I agree but does Berry change anything or just keep status quo?

[KetoChronos]

I grew up in TRF and graduated high school in EGF. Senior year my best friend’s dad was a Colonel at the air base, so we had access to unused season tickets. My love for college hockey was given birth watching Sioux games at the old Barn/Quonset in 1968 and 1969. I remember thinking that the Quonset was pretty fancy, as my only point of reference was the old arena in TRF. 
I now live in Boulder Colorado and my wife and I have season tickets to University of Denver games. A few years ago I still pulled for the Sioux, but now I’m all in on the Pioneers. 
It’s a different hockey culture here in Denver. There’s rarely talk of the Penrose Cup. Measuring a team’s success on winning the conference on paper only goes so far. UND might have won multiple Penrose Cups, but Denver and Minnesota Duluth have won four of the past five NCAA championships. Every Denver fan knows that the goal every year is the national championship. No one mourns if we don’t win it all, but that’s the ever-present target. 
North Dakota has a great team, but I don’t think they deal with adversity very well. This season they’re looking for quick-and-easy, not showing up consistently when required to do the hard work forechecking and in the corners. Against Denver this series, especially on Saturday night, UND committed multiple turnovers because they seemed to be looking for the fast break. Lazy passes amount to wishful thinking at this level of play. 
I don’t know that much about Brad Berry. It just seems to me that North Dakota expects the competition to roll over and play dead. It’s not a matter of talent. You’ve got talent in spades. Something is amiss with the commitment to grind it out, in what is essentially a grind it out sport.