Oxbow6 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 36 minutes ago, stoneySIOUX said: Sanderson?!? No way. Kid was a bum! Got hurt and couldn't even tough it out for a playoff game Toughing it out? Corbin Knight IIRC played the last 3 weeks of a season with a broken foot. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoneySIOUX Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 2 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said: Toughing it out? Corbin Knight IIRC played the last 3 weeks of a season with a broken foot. Just to clarify, I was kidding. Are you suggesting Sandy should have played in that game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petey23 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 7 hours ago, Scratch said: Disappointing as it is we don’t have the horses this year to make a run. Especially with our forwards committed to not playing D for one second. We do not have one single tough defenseman. Frankly, not even one good one. Not one single guy on this team plays like Genoway, or Stecher, or Pattyn, or Spirko, or Parise, or Sanderson. Who’s the heart? No one. Unless I’m blind there is not one single try hard on this team. We need try hards. We do not have, and will not have in the future, ever again, the way recruiting is going, gopher talent that beats try-hard talent. Think about what our D looks like next year. We need talent that simply is not here or coming here (or ever coming here) and that’s assuming the whole back end doesn’t transfer out again. Johannes is our toughest player-what the hell is going on here? Where are the Blood and Finley and tough SOBs that are apparently not recruited, but maybe they don’t exist? I know the NCHC didn’t let Kleven play, but does that mean we can’t ever hit again? (No offense Stoney, and I love ya, your optimism here is something needed and that I love-I mean it) but Brad: 1) has recruited exactly 0 first round forwards in NINE fucking years—imagine that happening with Hak who brought in 1-3 most in years (and when he didn’t, D were at least studs); 2) has brought in exactly one gamebreaker, Jake Sanderson, in nine years, who despite being one of the best college hockey players of all time, had the misfortune of being injured at inopportune times;); and 3) does not have studs, and will almost certainly not ever have studs, to compete with the other blue bloods the way things are going, because he is simply unable to recruit with the top schools like hak was. And more importantly, he is not, and has not, ever gotten the best out of his players. Losing in close playoff games is not some sign of competence like most people here seem to have accepted. UND should not be a second rate school as far as recruiting goes and it is exactly what we are under Brad. If it is NIL-which it is not as far as I am aware-Dinkyown hasn’t really caught onto yet either. We need a coach who can rally the donors to get on board with NIL mongo stud recruits. We do not have the horses to fix this next year, or the year after that. We are getting murdered in recruiting by BC, BU, MN, Michigan, Michigan State, Denver, and frankly second-rate east coast schools. This is indisputable-15 years ago our alma mater was THE spot to go, it is not anymore, and I wish we had a coach who could sell it like hak. Schloss spews his “look how 0 first round players won the last couple years championships” without ever mentioning the talent in 2016. Or that Rand Pecknold is a great x and o coach-which Brad unfortunately is not. I know I am not alone in feeling this way. Brad Berry is a great person and anyway who has ever met him knows that. But that is not enough. Winning the conference of 8 does not matter to most of us. In Bismarck the alumns have had enough of schloss’ obsequiousness to take it seriously. Winning one tournament game in 9 years is simply pathetic and Brad should have been fired after he demonstrated his ability by bringing in 18-19 classes highlighted by Joel Janitunniun and Ludwig Hoff 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kab Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 57 minutes ago, Sodbuster said: Oshie, Hrkac, and Sanderson...... Was thinking current players since we are so bad at who is out there in OT i don’t know if the players have been different in each of the losses but whoever is out there isn’t working Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Banner Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 2 hours ago, Oxbow6 said: To donors in exchange for a Finley Sharon Raiders can koozie?? I can get you a case of those koozies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scpa0305 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 Boys need to figure it out starting tonight. If they would have played like crap that one thing. But the way they lost last night was tough. Tendy was very avg and the team D was brutal. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoneySIOUX Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 4 minutes ago, scpa0305 said: Boys need to figure it out starting tonight. If they would have played like crap that one thing. But the way they lost last night was tough. Tendy was very avg and the team D was brutal. Spot on. It was so weird. We'd go through stretches just dominating that game and UNO didn't touch the puck for 4 minutes, then they'd come down the ice, we'd have a breakdown, and boom, back of the net. Offense looked very good last night. So many little silly mistakes on D. Luddy needs to get back to early-season form. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweethockey Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 36 minutes ago, Kab said: Was thinking current players since we are so bad at who is out there in OT i don’t know if the players have been different in each of the losses but whoever is out there isn’t working Here’s a wild idea. 3X3- no Gaber, no Blake. Start with that premise and go from there. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuhakiYeahYeah Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 9 minutes ago, Sweethockey said: Here’s a wild idea. 3X3- no Gaber, no Blake. Start with that premise and go from there. James and the 5th should've been out there with how they were playing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farce poobah Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 50 minutes ago, petey23 said: Tip of the combat helmet for the Kelly's Heroes reference. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxbow6 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 52 minutes ago, Green Banner said: I can get you a case of those koozies. The Yosemite Sam Raider? That's old school. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxbow6 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 1 hour ago, stoneySIOUX said: Just to clarify, I was kidding. Are you suggesting Sandy should have played in that game? Just saying everybody's "tough" is different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tnt Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 So we haven’t lost a game in regulation in two months and have only lost in a format that everyone agrees is a gimmick, and the sky is falling? Oh, and if all the players we were told shouldn’t see the ice in overtime didn’t play, we would have nobody left except Komzak or Benoit and Schmaltz and Albrecht. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightingsioux4life Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 If we want to celebrate title #9 on the ice in St. Paùl on April 13th, we better figure out how to not give up this many goals this often. We better tighten up in our own end once the playoffs start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sioux>Bison Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 10 minutes ago, fightingsioux4life said: If we want to celebrate title #9 on the ice in St. Paùl on April 13th, we better figure out how to not give up this many goals this often. We better tighten up in our own end once the playoffs start. We are just losing games in overtime….. nothing to worry about in the playoffs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightingsioux4life Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 2 minutes ago, Sioux>Bison said: We are just losing games in overtime….. nothing to worry about in the playoffs Giving up 4 goals in regulation is my concern. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Barn Guy at Home Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 After watching the past few games, I think that UND could get back on track with a few changes to the way they play. Not to be critical of the coaching staff, but I have to say that the conservative style of penalty killing is not a good choice for this team. They are quick enough to be pressuring the puck and causing turnovers and mistakes. Just watching the way Alaska and Omaha pressured UND's powerplay stands out as significant difference from UND. Another glaring deficiency has been the lack of proper positioning on the backcheck (if there has been any at all). Get between the man and our net and the puck, and don't just watch the guy, cover him, lift his stick, annoy him. Early this season I thought this team showed a lot of potential to be a top contender, and if they get together on the way they play when they don't have the puck, they still can be a top team. As was mentioned by another poster, earlier, the breakout seems to often be in "panic" mode, just flipping the puck out. This is another area that needs work from all UND players on the ice. I try not to get too down on this team. They have disappointed us fans lately, but I have to believe that Brad and his staff will "right the ship." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianvf Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 3 hours ago, Kab said: Which 3 players should be on the ice together in OT? I’d go James, Strinden, and Pyke. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianvf Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 What are the odds that UNO’s horrible PP found it’s way against UND? Pretty good I guess 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scpa0305 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 1 hour ago, brianvf said: What are the odds that UNO’s horrible PP found it’s way against UND? Pretty good I guess We were clearly the better teams. But giving up the PP’s. Taking terrible ozone penalties…not back checking. This team is missing the old “attention to details” element. It’s almost as if some players are chasing pts a bit hard and forgetting that the goal is to win the game. That’s what I took away from last nights game. For as good as Blake is, he can play a bit too selfish a good amount of the time. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Patrick Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 3 hours ago, farce poobah said: Tip of the combat helmet for the Kelly's Heroes reference. Such a fun movie. Whenever it came on TV on a weekend, I would get sucked in. What a cast! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jk Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 Maybe Pyke and Livanavage plus a forward for a 3-on-3 shift. You know, the whole skating backward thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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