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5 minutes ago, Blackheart said:

Aggressive forecheck by UNO forcing Sioux into some questionable decisions and/or giveaways in our zone did not help.

Played us like Western Michigan a few weeks ago. The difference is Omaha has guys who can bury the puck. I expect we'll see the same style from anybody we match up with next weekend.

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3 minutes ago, farce poobah said:

Omaha with one loss in regulation in their last 16 NCNC games - they are for real.  Whatever the opposite of bottom feeder is ...

Most troubling for me is that we don't show signs of making the changes needed to solve UNO style.  Can't tell if that's on the players or on the coaches, but I'm in the book of hoping we get sent East.  Eastern hockey is much more possession based, cautious on attacking, and we've won a lot of those games this year.  

+1 to all this

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11 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:

I'm ok with going anywhere as the #2 and Michigan St as the #1. The bigger issue is who's the #3???

I think we’ll end up in Missouri with Michigan State. The 3 seed would probably be a big ten team, Michigan or Wisconsin. Denver and Minnesota go to Sioux Falls.

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12 minutes ago, brianvf said:

That was literally your word from the previous quote.  Participate.  ;)

Regarding replacing Berry, I would hope the AD would start to look elsewhere if this lack of postseason success streak continues.
That said, I highly doubt that would happen anytime soon.  Especially after he just led the team to the Penrose.
I'm not sure how long of a playoff streak it would take before a change would happen.
I am sure that for many posters on here, a change will be demanded long before it actually happens.

 

Yeah, I did say participate, so my apologies on how I worded it.  What my brain was trying to say and how I wrote it were kind of different.  I guess what I was implying was the way you "phrased" it...like I participated in a manner that agreed with the subject matter.  I don't take any of these conversations personal and actually have an honest, fun time participating back with people such as yourself when the replies are thoughtful like yours.

The Penroses are fine and all...would rather win one than not...but they just don't excite the fan base.  During the Hak era, you knew you could count on buying a ticket to the Final Five, a regional, or Frozen Four and know UND would show up.  The excitement was always buzzing in March and April, even in Hak's worst years...though we all know the Frozen Fours were all heartbreak sadly.  Now, fewer and fewer have any excitement to go to these events in fear of yet another lackluster postseason performance....to the detriment of not only the UND Hockey program, but the NCHC and NCAA in a small trickle-down effect.  The Ralph has had some pretty blah attendance at times too.

No doubt it sucks that somehow we never got over the hurdle and won that 8th title under Hak's leadership, but I think it's just one of those weird statistics that will mar him for no other reason than it was just dumb [bad] luck.  But, there was impressive talent that Hak would bring in.  The style of play we had was fun to watch.  His teams had character and you could define the traits of our team.  Now, it's a hodgepodge of mediocre transfer portal kids, some okay talent that I wouldn't consider blue chip in all but a few cases, and the hockey world doesn't look at us with the same respect it used to.

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1 minute ago, Big A HG said:

 

Yeah, I did say participate, so my apologies on how I worded it.  What my brain was trying to say and how I wrote it were kind of different.  I guess what I was implying was the way you "phrased" it...like I participated in a manner that agreed with the subject matter.  I don't take any of these conversations personal and actually have an honest, fun time participating back with people such as yourself when the replies are thoughtful like yours.

The Penroses are fine and all...would rather win one than not...but they just don't excite the fan base.  During the Hak era, you knew you could count on buying a ticket to the Final Five, a regional, or Frozen Four and get UND's best.  The excitement was always buzzing in March and April, even in Hak's worst years.  Now, fewer and fewer have any excitement to go to these events in fear of yet another lackluster postseason performance....to the detriment of not only the UND Hockey program, but the NCHC and NCAA in a small trickle-down effect.  The Ralph has had some pretty blah attendance at times too.

No doubt it sucks that somehow we never got over the hurdle and won that 8th title under Hak's leadership, but I think it's just one of those weird statistics that will mar him for no other reason than it was just dumb [bad] luck.  But, there was impressive talent that Hak would bring in.  The style of play we had was fun to watch.  His teams had character and you could define the traits of our team.  Now, it's a hodgepodge of mediocre transfer portal kids, some okay talent that I wouldn't consider blue chip in all but a few cases, and the hockey world doesn't look at us with the same respect it used to.

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Just now, gfhockey said:
2 minutes ago, Big A HG said:

 

Yeah, I did say participate, so my apologies on how I worded it.  What my brain was trying to say and how I wrote it were kind of different.  I guess what I was implying was the way you "phrased" it...like I participated in a manner that agreed with the subject matter.  I don't take any of these conversations personal and actually have an honest, fun time participating back with people such as yourself when the replies are thoughtful like yours.

The Penroses are fine and all...would rather win one than not...but they just don't excite the fan base.  During the Hak era, you knew you could count on buying a ticket to the Final Five, a regional, or Frozen Four and get UND's best.  The excitement was always buzzing in March and April, even in Hak's worst years.  Now, fewer and fewer have any excitement to go to these events in fear of yet another lackluster postseason performance....to the detriment of not only the UND Hockey program, but the NCHC and NCAA in a small trickle-down effect.  The Ralph has had some pretty blah attendance at times too.

No doubt it sucks that somehow we never got over the hurdle and won that 8th title under Hak's leadership, but I think it's just one of those weird statistics that will mar him for no other reason than it was just dumb [bad] luck.  But, there was impressive talent that Hak would bring in.  The style of play we had was fun to watch.  His teams had character and you could define the traits of our team.  Now, it's a hodgepodge of mediocre transfer portal kids, some okay talent that I wouldn't consider blue chip in all but a few cases, and the hockey world doesn't look at us with the same respect it used to.

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Well said brother if you make it across town to augies I’ll buy a one

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2 hours ago, Frozen4sioux said:

Focus, urgency, confidence, a seething hatred of losing...

all seem to be missing.

what are we missing..............high end talent and speed.

watch the Michigan MSU game tomorrow night.

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30 minutes ago, Big A HG said:

 

I like how you referenced I "participated".  I did participate twice in that thread before it was locked.  And in neither post did I ever reference Firing Hak.  In one I defended the fact that it's still a long season and the other was some thoughtful data about our string of championships against the law of averages.  Over the umpteen years I've been on here I can't say with 100% certainty that I didn't mention the good ol' #FireHak once in a fit of Frozen Four rage, but I don't recall ever doing it and have never believed firing Hak was ever the right choice like I truly believe that replacing Berry is.

This board eats their own…

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1 minute ago, AlphaMikeFoxtrot said:

Watched the first 10 min before I had somewhere to be and thought we'd dominate. D'oh. Was Hobie a liability?

It was a team effort, probably wanted at least one or two back for sure. Tough to put it on him when everyone was subpar including the coaches. 

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1 hour ago, Wilbur said:

I wonder what is going on with Ludvig.  Don't think he would have been the difference today, but everything seems off there.  

Yeah, I totally agree with you on this.  There's more to this story than just an illness IMHO.

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3 minutes ago, AlphaMikeFoxtrot said:

Watched the first 10 min before I had somewhere to be and thought we'd dominate. D'oh. Was Hobie a liability?

One softy…team D was the glaring issue from my angle. Also, a ton of passengers tonight.

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Just now, leadgieking said:

Chance to secure a #1 seed and they piss down their pants.

Had multiple chances in the last few weeks to take care of this, too. Failed every time. 

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1 hour ago, gfhockey said:

I don’t have the radio on because I’m at the game or was at the game now I’m walking to my Uber to go to Augies, but I can only imagine about how he talks about the culture and how it stood up against the other teams culture and how we played hard rough, and a few bounces didn’t go away

Hey, are you buying me a drink at Augies tonight?  I can't afford VIP though.;)

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3 minutes ago, scpa0305 said:

One softy…team D was the glaring issue from my angle. Also, a ton of passengers tonight.

Yup.  Livanavage scores a big pp goal, then loses his guy for the dagger.

Team defense at times this year has been abysmal.  Not going to make a run without a cleanup in that area.  But is it too late? 

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1 minute ago, scpa0305 said:

One softy…team D was the glaring issue from my angle. Also, a ton of passengers tonight.

How can this be when basically a home regional is on the line?  It baffles me, how we can take one of Omaha’s best players in Berg, yet he was MIA against his old team.  Is Gabinet getting his players to play harder, because they sure have lost a lot of talent the last few years.

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I always like to think our recruiting class is outstanding; however, are we being out recruited? Granted we had to replace an entire defensive crew, but how does someone like Omaha, and I don't mean disrespect, out talent us. 

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1 minute ago, neoflex said:

I always like to think our recruiting class is outstanding; however, are we being out recruited? Granted we had to replace an entire defensive crew, but how does someone like Omaha, and I don't mean disrespect, out talent us. 

How did we used to out talent Minnesota?  We didn’t!  We just worked harder and were relentless.  Omaha was relentless!

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10 minutes ago, tnt said:

How can this be when basically a home regional is on the line?  It baffles me, how we can take one of Omaha’s best players in Berg, yet he was MIA against his old team.  Is Gabinet getting his players to play harder, because they sure have lost a lot of talent the last few years.

The gaber, berg line was terrible tonight. Bubs was playing the 4th line equally with them at ES.

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I think it was going to go this way with either team we faced this weekend.  Both UNO and CC playa similar game.  We would have been better off against DU or Clown. Time to rip the band aid off, just send us east and roll the dice.  

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