2024-25 University of North Dakota Hockey Season

[tnt]

Looks like we might be looking just to keep our heads above water until after Christmas.  Need to keep getting contributions from guys like Montgomery, whether that be at defense or forward. 

[gfhockey]

Our last win in tourney dropping to d2

 

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2024/11/12_AIC-Dropping-Program-Back.php?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1pElfU0SSlefLU4diwW_zOeKIjw02wgg-Gl2SlhnfOIq0FDMDcDfT6Qw8_aem_9-1PqghHi3CgqXwb1xBf-Q

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

With Zmolek being long term, do they bring a d-man in at the break?

[AJS]

  On 11/7/2024 at 7:32 PM, InHeavenThereIsNoBeer said:

Time to carry a 9th dman for future rosters. I feel like we run into this EVERY SINGLE SEASON

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I could be misremembering, but has this really been an issue recently? This is completely different than losing someone right before the NCAA's (i.e. Pyke last year).

I'm a broken record, but keep it at 8, always. Moving forward though, I'd look at having that 15F being able to play D if needed. 

[siouxforce19]

  On 11/13/2024 at 4:31 PM, AJS said:

I could be misremembering, but has this really been an issue recently? This is completely different than losing someone right before the NCAA's (i.e. Pyke last year).

I'm a broken record, but keep it at 8, always. Moving forward though, I'd look at having that 15F being able to play D if needed. 

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It’s been an issue, yes. It happened last year, but it was more of a short term issue than it has been this year. It also happened in the Covid Pod, and the following season after that also. Basically every season in recent memory has had this issue. However like I mentioned this is the first time the injury concerns were not minor, short term injuries. 

[AJS]

  On 11/13/2024 at 5:14 PM, siouxforce19 said:

It’s been an issue, yes. It happened last year, but it was more of a short term issue than it has been this year. It also happened in the Covid Pod, and the following season after that also. Basically every season in recent memory has had this issue. However like I mentioned this is the first time the injury concerns were not minor, short term injuries. 

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Pre-portal, I might have a different opinion. Even with all the injuries, they can fill out a line-up sheet. Everyone is contributing. What I don't want to see is two defenseman who are expecting to play, sitting up in the stands as healthy scratches (along with the 9D). I would always choose the potential for being short of players > talent sitting in the stands. IMO, it goes so much further than the player leaving via portal after the year, I think it poisons the locker room that year as well.  

[SuhakiYeahYeah]

:/

 

[.357]

  On 11/14/2024 at 10:00 PM, SuhakiYeahYeah said:

:/

 

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Berry said nothing of the sort during his presser yesterday. 

[SiouxForever]

Not that I expected the team to win a Natty, but if Berg is out long term, there goes the season. 

Team doesn’t have enough veteran punch with him out of the lineup. 

[TwamleyShuffle]

  On 11/14/2024 at 10:18 PM, SiouxForever said:

Not that I expected the team to win a Natty, but if Berg is out long term, there goes the season. 

Team doesn’t have enough veteran punch with him out of the lineup. 

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They say he will be back around Christmas time. Just enough time for a late season run. Moreover with him being out, someone is going to step up which could progress a younger players skill set. It sucks he won’t be playing but not all is lost  

[.357]

  On 11/14/2024 at 10:25 PM, TwamleyShuffle said:

They say he will be back around Christmas time. Just enough time for a late season run. Moreover with him being out, someone is going to step up which could progress a younger players skill set. It sucks he won’t be playing but not all is lost  

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Where are you hearing this?

[The Sicatoka]

Zmolek

Berg

Buy used; lasts a year?

[brianvf]

  On 11/14/2024 at 10:27 PM, .357 said:

Where are you hearing this?

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https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/cameron-berg-to-miss-this-weekends-series-against-top-ranked-denver

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Berg is listed as week-to-week.

His targeted return is somewhere around Christmas break time. UND's final series before the three-week break is Dec. 13-14 against St. Cloud State. The Fighting Hawks resume regular-season play after break against Arizona State on Jan. 10-11.

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[nodakgirl93]

Ugh. 

[brianvf]

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Komzak has returned to practice. Croal and Strathmann have skated. All three are listed as week-to-week.

Zmolek and Johnson are out indefinitely.

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[brianvf]

If ever there was a team that could really use a bye week, it's this team right now.
Unfortunately they won't get one until after the SCSU series in mid-Dec.

Berg will miss the crucial stretch of RMU/BSU/Miami where this team really needs to go 6-0...5-1 at absolute worst.

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

  On 11/14/2024 at 10:35 PM, brianvf said:

If ever there was a team that could really use a bye week, it's this team right now.
Unfortunately they won't get one until after the SCSU series in mid-Dec.

Berg will miss the crucial stretch of RMU/BSU/Miami where this team really needs to go 6-0...5-1 at absolute worst.

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Feel like this is a good stretch for him to miss tbh. I think we can go 5-1 minimum without him during this stretch. We SHOULD have plenty of firepower to get past those teams without him.  Especially with how battle tested this team is and knowing they can't take a shift off with the top line center out. This week against DU however, I'll take a split and run. 

[.357]

  On 11/14/2024 at 10:25 PM, TwamleyShuffle said:

They say he will be back around Christmas time. Just enough time for a late season run. Moreover with him being out, someone is going to step up which could progress a younger players skill set. It sucks he won’t be playing but not all is lost  

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For sure it'll progress someone else's skill set, but probably at a cost. He's a difference-maker in most games he plays. Other forwards will need to go above & beyond to compensate for his absence (especially Wilke, just 1 g, 2a in 9 games so far..need more production from him pronto). If they can somehow gut out a split with DU & manage to go 6-0 against the PWR-killer teams before break ... Glass half-full for now.

 

  On 11/14/2024 at 11:10 PM, InHeavenThereIsNoBeer said:

Especially with how battle tested this team is and knowing they can't take a shift off with the top line center out. 

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You would think, but they were missing Berg at Cornell also, & they looked rather disjointed on Friday & made quite a few fundamental mistakes in that series. We shall see if they've learned anything since then. 

[SiouxFan100]

What’s with all the injuries?

[brianvf]

  On 11/15/2024 at 12:15 AM, SiouxFan100 said:

What’s with all the injuries?

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Evidently Berry recruited a bunch of guys similar to Mr. Glass.

[Oxbow6]

Good thing I snatched up my West Regional ticket allotment earlier this week. 

[scpa0305]

  On 11/14/2024 at 10:00 PM, SuhakiYeahYeah said:

:/

 

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Well…I suppose we have an excuse now. I haven’t seen injury issues like this before…all at once, right away.

[scpa0305]

  On 11/15/2024 at 12:16 AM, brianvf said:

Evidently Berry recruited a bunch of guys similar to Mr. Glass.

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No…these are flukey. 

[scpa0305]

  On 11/14/2024 at 10:18 PM, SiouxForever said:

Not that I expected the team to win a Natty, but if Berg is out long term, there goes the season. 

Team doesn’t have enough veteran punch with him out of the lineup. 

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Not only Berg but zmolek. No team can withstand all those losses. Tough sledding from here on out.

[tnt]

Before the season, I would say that Berg and Zmolek were two of the key guys on the team, and ones we could ill afford to lose for any extended length of time.  We seem to have bad luck in losing guys like Sanderson and Pyke at the wrong time.  Like I said before, hopefully we can keep our head above water and we get those guys back at the right time to make a run.