UND @ Duluth - Saturday night game thread

[.357]

Conundrum for Berry: Say Strathmann and/or Komzak returns, he has a tough decision to make on whether to take Montgomery off D in favor of one of them. Montgomery may not have their physical attributes, but he has a lot of poise & makes smart decisions; traits you want in a d-man when you're playing the best team in the country. 

[ChadR]

Just now, .357 said:

Conundrum for Berry: Say Strathmann and/or Komzak returns, he has a tough decision to make on whether to take Montgomery off D in favor of one of them. Montgomery may not have their physical attributes, but he has a lot of poise & makes smart decisions; traits you want in a d-man when you're playing the best team in the country. 

Strathman is going to play over Montgomery every time. 

[Scorpio]

Denver will obviously be a stern test.  They are 10-0 but their opponents have a combined record of 7-28-4.  Next weekend will be their first legitimate test to see how good they really are.

[.357]

22 minutes ago, ChadR said:

Strathman is going to play over Montgomery every time. 

That's probably what the coaches think also, but Montgomery's experience & poise translate to fewer mental mistakes.

[Oldguy]

A road sweep is always a job well done.  UND took too many penalties, but otherwise looked pretty good, especially for a team with so many injuries.  However, will they come out of next weekend with a losing record?  Most likely (unless we get everyone back, which won't happen), but we shall see. 

[Godsmack]

2 hours ago, .357 said:

Conundrum for Berry: Say Strathmann and/or Komzak returns, he has a tough decision to make on whether to take Montgomery off D in favor of one of them. Montgomery may not have their physical attributes, but he has a lot of poise & makes smart decisions; traits you want in a d-man when you're playing the best team in the country. 

Good point. Montgomery is proving that you don’t need to be a big, bruising defender to be effective. Play smart, be responsible with the puck in your end, and help make plays in transition. I’m so proud of him and the success he’s having. Sadly, many kids like him would’ve already transferred by now in search of more playing time. He has paid his dues and stuck with it and is now being rewarded because of his sound play. 

[SiouxScore]

Solid weekend of hockey and 2 very much needed wins.

Don't think Duluth finishes higher than 7th this season.

[SiouxForever]

When is O Mac gonna get off the goose egg? Can’t have him go with no goals in the first half of the szn. 

Scoring has been spread out but this guy needs to get a few goals to get the monkey off his back. This is like his freshman year on repeat. 

[Blackheart]

21 minutes ago, SiouxForever said:

When is O Mac gonna get off the goose egg? Can’t have him go with no goals in the first half of the szn. 

Scoring has been spread out but this guy needs to get a few goals to get the monkey off his back. This is like his freshman year on repeat. 

Missing Jackson Blake?

[hockeytherapy13]

4 hours ago, .357 said:

Conundrum for Berry: Say Strathmann and/or Komzak returns, he has a tough decision to make on whether to take Montgomery off D in favor of one of them. Montgomery may not have their physical attributes, but he has a lot of poise & makes smart decisions; traits you want in a d-man when you're playing the best team in the country. 

Monty will for sure play over Komzak but yeah we’ll want Strathmann back in at D with Monty as extra skater maybe alternating D reps with Jubenvil 

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

7 hours ago, .357 said:

Conundrum for Berry: Say Strathmann and/or Komzak returns, he has a tough decision to make on whether to take Montgomery off D in favor of one of them. Montgomery may not have their physical attributes, but he has a lot of poise & makes smart decisions; traits you want in a d-man when you're playing the best team in the country. 

While I really like some passes Monty made to get rushes going he made some mistakes that would have ended in the back of our net multiple times if we were playing a stronger team.  It was towards the end of Saturdays game, every time he was in the d zone and had some forecheck pressure he whiffed on the pass. Monty did more than we could have hoped for but we need a 6th dman back.

[brianvf]

It was kind of crazy that amount of players that whiffed on pucks yesterday for UND.

Monty did like three times in one shift...luckily one of them ended up leading to Strinden's goal.
Wiebe did it twice on one-timer attempts from the point.
James did it a couple times, including once on a great 2x1 rush.

[burd]

12 hours ago, brianvf said:

It was kind of crazy that amount of players that whiffed on pucks yesterday for UND.

Monty did like three times in one shift...luckily one of them ended up leading to Strinden's goal.
Wiebe did it twice on one-timer attempts from the point.
James did it a couple times, including once on a great 2x1 rush.

Yeah, well, it's pretty widely known among well-informed college hockey watchers that Sandy spikes the visitors' water bottles.  He knows his job's on the line, so he does whatever is necessary, from stealing top GF Central recruits to spiking water bottles.   Some say it all started when he became close friends with gfhockey, who spikes everything, including his milk of magnesia.  

[thUNDer]

PBJ line close to a break out IMO

[The Sicatoka]

13 minutes ago, thUNDer said:

PBJ line close to a break out IMO

Oh my ... 

[hockeytherapy13]

1 hour ago, thUNDer said:

PBJ line close to a break out IMO

With a potential acronym nickname, it feels like destiny. 

[Oxbow6]

1 hour ago, thUNDer said:

PBJ line close to a break out IMO

#TheUncrustables

[brianvf]

 

[.357]

52 minutes ago, SiouxFanSince1990 said:

Lol. He’s not going to play. It’s like none of you understand the game. Did anyone on this forum even play hockey?

No, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

[.357]

10 minutes ago, brianvf said:

 

Congrats to him, only thing that concerns me about him is his small frame. On one of the many pks, Livanavage was trying to push a UMD forward away from in front of the net; the UMD guy wasn't budging & he eventually scored on TJ.

[siouxkid12]

1 hour ago, SiouxFanSince1990 said:

Lol. He’s not going to play. It’s like none of you understand the game. Did anyone on this forum even play hockey?

You don’t need to play hockey to understand the game.

[Oxbow6]

1 hour ago, SiouxFanSince1990 said:

Lol. He’s not going to play. It’s like none of you understand the game. Did anyone on this forum even play hockey?

Move along......

[brianvf]

1 hour ago, SiouxFanSince1990 said:

Lol. He’s not going to play. It’s like none of you understand the game. Did anyone on this forum even play hockey?

I think there's a solid group here that have played hockey.
A good group of us used to play in a pickup game against the GPL group each year during the Final Five in Mpls.  Those were good times.

[.357]

1 hour ago, Oxbow6 said:

Move along......

Sweet, even has the beverage holders. My dad & I used to play the precursor to that back in the '70s ... our knuckles got bruised on more than one occasion. 

 

[burd]

41 minutes ago, .357 said:

Sweet, even has the beverage holders. My dad & I used to play the precursor to that back in the '70s ... our knuckles got bruised on more than one occasion. 

 

Stiga hockey with 5 min periods using a windup kitchen timer.   Intense fun.   That pass from the winger to the center crashing the goal was the key.  D man had to play that just right or the winger would put a backhand shot on goal.