brianvf Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 4 hours ago, Irish said: In my opinion we had talent equal to Denver last year - in addition to peaking too early and losing intensity once again I think that the Goalie stability of Denver for the last few years has been the difference. While we need a portal goalie almost every year Denver has recruited talent and developed them. No question in my mind that a hot goalie was the difference for Denver - especially in the tourney where they faced several teams with a lot of firepower. The final game was the cap in their season and the goalie was lights out. The crazy thing was how crappy Davis was for a good chunk of the early season. He was definitely the weak link on that team for most of the season. But, he certainly pulled it out when it mattered most for his team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.357 Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 1 hour ago, brianvf said: The crazy thing was how crappy Davis was for a good chunk of the early season. He was definitely the weak link on that team for most of the season. But, he certainly pulled it out when it mattered most for his team. He basically went from being average, at best, the entire season to making Patrick Roy look like an amateur during the playoffs. I can't remember a college goalie who was that lights-out over the course of 4 games. So in-the-zone he was. The moral of the story being, you can have a team chalked full of NHL-caliber players like BC had, but if you have a goalie who sold his soul for 30 pieces of silver, it doesn't really matter. If you put last December's version of Davis in net in April, DU doesn't win it all. Something clicked for him mentally at the right time where he had a razor-sharp focus & everything seemed to slow down for him, just in time for the playoffs. That coupled with his team playing solid hockey & hitting their stride when it mattered most earned them #10. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Baker Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 Davis only played 5 games the first half of the season and was 3-1-1. He did not play at all in November or December. Perhaps his back up, Halyk, wasn’t the greatest during that stretch Davis was out though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siouxforce19 Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 15 hours ago, Benny Baker said: Davis only played 5 games the first half of the season and was 3-1-1. He did not play at all in November or December. Perhaps his back up, Halyk, wasn’t the greatest during that stretch Davis was out though? Davis wasn’t good to start the season but Denver was scoring a lot so it didn’t really affect their win/loss record. Denver’s team save percentage was sub .900 for quite a while. Backup wasn’t good either. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoneySIOUX Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 22 hours ago, fightingsioux4life said: Some people on here have convinced themselves that winning the last game of the season in April simply doesn't matter. 21 hours ago, burd said: Interesting. Who said it doesn’t matter? No one has ever said this on here. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackheart Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 Don't mean to break up the DU lovefest here...tickets vs the Purple Cows of Mankato went on sale today and our group will be attending Saturday, October 19. Hope to see a lot of green there! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Baker Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 12 hours ago, siouxforce19 said: Davis wasn’t good to start the season but Denver was scoring a lot so it didn’t really affect their win/loss record. Denver’s team save percentage was sub .900 for quite a while. Backup wasn’t good either. Hey man, whatever floats your boat. I was more confused by the earlier comments that Davis was “crappy” “for a good chunk of the early season” and, particularly, .357’s comment about “last December’s version of Davis” when Davis only played 5 of Denver’s first 17 games (losing just 1) and never played in December, at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHE Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 10 hours ago, Blackheart said: Don't mean to break up the DU lovefest here...tickets vs the Purple Cows of Mankato went on sale today and our group will be attending Saturday, October 19. Hope to see a lot of green there! Blackheart...thanks for the heads up. Got tickets for Saturday night. Go Sioux! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cberkas Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 32 minutes ago, Benny Baker said: Hey man, whatever floats your boat. I was more confused by the earlier comments that Davis was “crappy” “for a good chunk of the early season” and, particularly, .357’s comment about “last December’s version of Davis” when Davis only played 5 of Denver’s first 17 games (losing just 1) and never played in December, at all. Because Davis got hurt that season Denver had to bring in their backup for this year in last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Baker Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 25 minutes ago, cberkas said: Because Davis got hurt that season Denver had to bring in their backup for this year in last year. Right. I think that was the point someone was trying to make earlier; folks are confusing Davis with Halyk. On 9/15/2024 at 5:29 PM, Benny Baker said: Davis only played 5 games the first half of the season and was 3-1-1. He did not play at all in November or December. Perhaps his back up, Halyk, wasn’t the greatest during that stretch Davis was out though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cberkas Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 10 minutes ago, Benny Baker said: Right. I think that was the point someone was trying to make earlier; folks are confusing Davis with Halyk. Halyk wasn't that bad, just became the starter too early. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.357 Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 2 hours ago, Benny Baker said: Hey man, whatever floats your boat. I was more confused by the earlier comments that Davis was “crappy” “for a good chunk of the early season” and, particularly, .357’s comment about “last December’s version of Davis” when Davis only played 5 of Denver’s first 17 games (losing just 1) and never played in December, at all. Uff da, I stand corrected on saying December, but the gist of my post was that Davis was on a completely different level during the playoffs, compared to the reg. season where even though he was very good, he was still beatable & hadn't sold his soul at that point. Per the denverpioneers website, Davis was ... "Recognized as both the NCAA Frozen Four and Northeast Regional Most Outstanding Player after finishing the four-game national tournament with a 0.63 goals-against average, .979 save percentage." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Baker Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 1 hour ago, cberkas said: Halyk wasn't that bad, just became the starter too early. Sure. I won’t disagree, and if Halyk “wasn’t that bad”, then we necessarily agree that Davis wasn’t that “crappy” either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Baker Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 12 minutes ago, .357 said: Uff da, I stand corrected on saying December, but the gist of my post was that Davis was on a completely different level during the playoffs, compared to the reg. season where even though he was very good, he was still beatable & hadn't sold his soul at that point. Per the denverpioneers website, Davis was ... "Recognized as both the NCAA Frozen Four and Northeast Regional Most Outstanding Player after finishing the four-game national tournament with a 0.63 goals-against average, .979 save percentage." Yup, I agree he was a very good goalie last year but on a completely different level during the playoffs. That’s how you win championships. 5 losses in 31 starts isn’t that bad for a starting goalie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 10 hours ago, Benny Baker said: Yup, I agree he was a very good goalie last year but on a completely different level during the playoffs. That’s how you win championships. 5 losses in 31 starts isn’t that bad for a starting goalie. My point is that Denver is developing good goalies who have peaked at the right time - we are continually in the portal for a one year fix. With Karl (who is a great goalie coach) on staff I have no idea why this is continually happening. A young prospect should be able to be sold on having a solid team in front of him, a great goalie coach, our facilities, and our great tradition. I hate it that other teams - especially Denver - are having tourney success and here we are. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siouxforce19 Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 14 minutes ago, Irish said: My point is that Denver is developing good goalies who have peaked at the right time - we are continually in the portal for an one year fix. With Karl (who is a great goalie coach) on staff I have no idea why this is continually happening. A young prospect should be able to be sold on having a solid team in front of him, a great goalie coach, our facilities, and our great tradition. I hate it that other teams - especially Denver - are having tourney success and here we are. It’s happening because for some strange, stupid reason UND only has one goalie recruit committed at one time. Hobie Hedquist was the only goalie recruit for years and we kept deferring him, hence the transfer goalies. And now we have Caleb Heil, who unless has an absolutely monster year I don’t see them bringing him in next year. He’s still pretty young. So the cycle repeats. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cberkas Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 I don’t see the trend breaking anytime soon because they like to go to the portal. Heil is still a year out and I don’t see why Johnson would come back next season. They need to get 2 or 3 goalies in the pipeline, but they will get one and find a portal goalie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scpa0305 Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 Goalies are so hard to recruit because the game changes so much from HS, to juniors, to college. You get the best 16 year old and they end up getting shelled in juniors. It’s tough to figure out. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianvf Posted September 19 Share Posted September 19 Schloss had his NCHC Preview on his podcast. Lengthy overview of the league. Brief synopsis: ASU - great forward group, not sure who will take the reigns for goalie, experienced group, not much offense from the blueline CC - excellent goalie, great top 6 forwards, unproven d-corps after their top 4 left or graduated from last year DU - lot of losses up front, can Davis repeat his performance, not many question marks, Buium Hobey candidate + Pohlkamp addition huge Miami - had a lot of injuries last year, good depth at center, they'll be better but maybe not enough to move up UMD - not a ton of depth, great recruiting class, will be young but talented, season result will depend on how quickly the frosh develop UND - will go more in depth during next week's podcast, but did touch on the team's excellent center depth UNO - ton of turnover, unknown center depth/leadership/scoring, good portal pickups SCSU - good returning group, big losses at D, improvement at F, goalie question mark, Schloss' surprise pick at 3rd behind DU/UND WMU - ton of turnover - especially at F, offense question mark, reliant on freshmen, similar to UMD...will need frosh to develop quickly, goalie battle 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thUNDer Posted September 19 Share Posted September 19 On 9/16/2024 at 9:49 PM, PHE said: Blackheart...thanks for the heads up. Got tickets for Saturday night. Go Sioux! Dang, hotels jacked up rates due to a marathon. Fun place to attend games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post brianvf Posted September 25 Popular Post Share Posted September 25 Schloss had his podcast today that breaks down his outlook for the UND team. A long listen at an hour+, but a good analysis. Some bullet points: very very deep forward group top 9 should all be scoring threats expecting breakout years from Perron & James & Strinden team practiced 3x3 in practice last Friday and James scored 3 times in a row young but highly skilled d-corps best 1-2 goaltending duo in quite a few years unknown PP with two biggest weapons gone in Blake & Gaber brutal start to the schedule, will know a lot about this team after the 1st month Berry & Jammer want to switch focus from Penrose to peaking in late March/early April a lot of media coverage and articles will be upcoming in the next week (UND media day tomorrow) 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.357 Posted September 25 Share Posted September 25 1 hour ago, brianvf said: Berry & Jammer want to switch focus from Penrose to peaking in late March/early April That is exactly what I've been harping on for the last 6 months. Too much focus on the Penrose in years past may have caused the team to experience an energy-dump in early March, peaking too early; kudos to Berry for shifting gears. My main concern for the team this year wasn't necessarily the players, but would the coaching staff tone down their hype of winning the Penrose. The focus should be doing well week-to-week, instead of the players & staff being overly concerned the entire season about finishing first. Play hard, enjoy the moment & let the chips fall where they may. On the ice, my biggest concern is how the team will respond to heavy forechecking, & will they be able to transition out of the d-zone more effectively this year. Will be interesting to see how Mac adjusts to the faster, stronger NCHC. Would like to see a defining year for Kunz, park his large frame in front of the goalie early & often for screens & deflections. Will the coaches relegate James to a checking line again, or is this the season he has a breakout year offensively? Perhaps Croal, Schmaltz & Wilkie on a checking/energy line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tnt Posted September 25 Share Posted September 25 6 hours ago, .357 said: That is exactly what I've been harping on for the last 6 months. Too much focus on the Penrose in years past may have caused the team to experience an energy-dump in early March, peaking too early; kudos to Berry for shifting gears. My main concern for the team this year wasn't necessarily the players, but would the coaching staff tone down their hype of winning the Penrose. The focus should be doing well week-to-week, instead of the players & staff being overly concerned the entire season about finishing first. Play hard, enjoy the moment & let the chips fall where they may. On the ice, my biggest concern is how the team will respond to heavy forechecking, & will they be able to transition out of the d-zone more effectively this year. Will be interesting to see how Mac adjusts to the faster, stronger NCHC. Would like to see a defining year for Kunz, park his large frame in front of the goalie early & often for screens & deflections. Will the coaches relegate James to a checking line again, or is this the season he has a breakout year offensively? Perhaps Croal, Schmaltz & Wilkie on a checking/energy line. Depending on how the first 10 games go, they may need to be focusing on doing really well in the NCHC. On the other hand, they could really set themselves up well to be getting the young players a ton of experience in the NCHC games and not have to be ultra concerned about whether that will cost them a tournament bid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InHeavenThereIsNoBeer Posted September 25 Share Posted September 25 7 hours ago, .357 said: That is exactly what I've been harping on for the last 6 months. Too much focus on the Penrose in years past may have caused the team to experience an energy-dump in early March, peaking too early; kudos to Berry for shifting gears. My main concern for the team this year wasn't necessarily the players, but would the coaching staff tone down their hype of winning the Penrose. The focus should be doing well week-to-week, instead of the players & staff being overly concerned the entire season about finishing first. Play hard, enjoy the moment & let the chips fall where they may. On the ice, my biggest concern is how the team will respond to heavy forechecking, & will they be able to transition out of the d-zone more effectively this year. Will be interesting to see how Mac adjusts to the faster, stronger NCHC. Would like to see a defining year for Kunz, park his large frame in front of the goalie early & often for screens & deflections. Will the coaches relegate James to a checking line again, or is this the season he has a breakout year offensively? Perhaps Croal, Schmaltz & Wilkie on a checking/energy line. I'd like to hear what that actually means though, follow up questions in pressers would be great. What changes? Do you sit guys towards the end of the year to prevent injuries if an NCAA spot is locked up despite it costing you seeding and potentially better placement? Do you place more emphasis on the non-conference games? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scpa0305 Posted September 25 Share Posted September 25 7 hours ago, .357 said: That is exactly what I've been harping on for the last 6 months. Too much focus on the Penrose in years past may have caused the team to experience an energy-dump in early March, peaking too early; kudos to Berry for shifting gears. My main concern for the team this year wasn't necessarily the players, but would the coaching staff tone down their hype of winning the Penrose. The focus should be doing well week-to-week, instead of the players & staff being overly concerned the entire season about finishing first. Play hard, enjoy the moment & let the chips fall where they may. On the ice, my biggest concern is how the team will respond to heavy forechecking, & will they be able to transition out of the d-zone more effectively this year. Will be interesting to see how Mac adjusts to the faster, stronger NCHC. Would like to see a defining year for Kunz, park his large frame in front of the goalie early & often for screens & deflections. Will the coaches relegate James to a checking line again, or is this the season he has a breakout year offensively? Perhaps Croal, Schmaltz & Wilkie on a checking/energy line. I thought Wilkie was brought in for offensive production? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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