2025-26 University of North Dakota Hockey Season

[cberkas]

2 hours ago, Level B Fishbowl said:

 

Where did you get that host info from? The NCAA's own website states Union as the host, rather than the conference.

As for the rest, I know there has been a lot of back and forth about regional attendance and I'm certainly not privy to all the arguments, but you'd be hard pressed to get 15,000 at any eastern regional. Many eastern schools don't even have student bodies that touch that number, and that's before you even get to alumni bases and other potential avenues of fan attendance along with on-campus attendance decline trends.

Since Albany was mentioned, let's think about potential attendance there. The biggest pulls would be Cornell (large traveling contingent and heavy alumni base in NYC with good representation throughout upstate NY and New England) and Quinnipiac (proximity and alumni base concentrated in NYC and Connecticut) as far as teams that should be in the tournament. Beyond that, it's a crapshoot given the lack of HEA teams, and all other tournament teams being farther away, so good luck even coming close to that 15,000 number.

 

 

NCAA Tournament Future Sites : College Hockey News

ECAC is the host. ECAC (conference) has hosted 6 regionals with 3 a combined host with RPI. 2006, 2008, and 2010. ECAC hosting 2007, 2016, 2020 (Covid), 2021, and 2026. The CCHA has also hosted as a conference in 2009 and 2001. 2009 was co-hosted with Western Michigan. 

Next year in Bridgeport I expect it to be Sacred Heart and Yale since it has been co-hosted every year, they've hosted there. Even though it says just Sacred Heart

They should be able to get 5,000 per game. College Hockey Inc, NCAA, and the NHL should be advertising the regionals since Christmas. There is no excuse in the East when most of the schools are within 3 to 4 hours max from regionals. 

[cberkas]

Mankato screwing UND yet again  

UND needed Mankato to lose or Air Force to win 

Now #2

[thUNDer]

Schloss mentioned during the intermission interview that Holy Cross is the ECAC host

[cberkas]

7 minutes ago, thUNDer said:

Schloss mentioned during the intermission interview that Holy Cross is the ECAC host

Atlantic Hockey

[ND_Texan]

12 hours ago, cberkas said:

Mankato screwing UND yet again  

UND needed Mankato to lose or Air Force to win 

Now #2

We'll back to #1 after opening a can of Whoop Ass on the Duloot One Liners Saturday night.

Or sooner if Minny knocks off PSU (Michigan won't lose to Notre Dame, so don't even think about that).

[atxsioux]

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/new-broadcast-team-to-call-unds-nchc-semifinal-against-minnesota-duluth

 

A little annoying how the TV productions seem so last second slapped together for the last 3 conference playoff games. Based on the article if Ross Productions have done all the CBS Frozen Faceoff games in the past I'm assuming the production costs are being picked up anyways by the NCHC? So why in the hell didn't they just keep the games on CBSSN for the semi finals + final? Really comes off as needlessly pinching pennies. (silver lining is we get Jake Brandt doing color)

[nodakgirl93]

[gfhockey]

1 hour ago, atxsioux said:

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/new-broadcast-team-to-call-unds-nchc-semifinal-against-minnesota-duluth

 

A little annoying how the TV productions seem so last second slapped together for the last 3 conference playoff games. Based on the article if Ross Productions have done all the CBS Frozen Faceoff games in the past I'm assuming the production costs are being picked up anyways by the NCHC? So why in the hell didn't they just keep the games on CBSSN for the semi finals + final? Really comes off as needlessly pinching pennies. (silver lining is we get Jake Brandt doing color)

Agreed but I guess we don’t have to pay the CVS sports crew

[SpudsSioux]

I know this is a great problem to have, but who sits if this team is healthy?? It's going to be hard to break up that Swanson - Reschny - Kernan line after the way they clicked last weekend. They could keep those same top two (Swanson - Reschny - Kernan and James - Rickwoord - Zellers) together and move Strinden back with Croal and Ollie. That line was awesome together early and would be a mismatch nightmare for other teams. I think Young is probably locked in down the stretch here to so you likely have Littler and Klee fighting for the last center spot and Zakreski and Menghini fighting for last wing spot. That's a tough line-up to crack and an even tougher line-up to play against

[Speed_Kills]

1 hour ago, SpudsSioux said:

I know this is a great problem to have, but who sits if this team is healthy?? It's going to be hard to break up that Swanson - Reschny - Kernan line after the way they clicked last weekend. They could keep those same top two (Swanson - Reschny - Kernan and James - Rickwoord - Zellers) together and move Strinden back with Croal and Ollie. That line was awesome together early and would be a mismatch nightmare for other teams. I think Young is probably locked in down the stretch here to so you likely have Littler and Klee fighting for the last center spot and Zakreski and Menghini fighting for last wing spot. That's a tough line-up to crack and an even tougher line-up to play against

Really good problem to have and I'll agree here. Littler and Klee bring a similar style of play... Littler probably gets the nod over Klee, scores timely goals and wins battles especially in the o-zone (also a little less likely to take penalties which is a big deal come playoff time). Zakreski and Menghini bring a completely different game. Geno brings speed/north-south game, Zakreski brings more scoring touch but doesn't have Geno's speed.

[Fratt Mattin]

1 hour ago, SpudsSioux said:

I know this is a great problem to have, but who sits if this team is healthy?? It's going to be hard to break up that Swanson - Reschny - Kernan line after the way they clicked last weekend. They could keep those same top two (Swanson - Reschny - Kernan and James - Rickwoord - Zellers) together and move Strinden back with Croal and Ollie. That line was awesome together early and would be a mismatch nightmare for other teams. I think Young is probably locked in down the stretch here to so you likely have Littler and Klee fighting for the last center spot and Zakreski and Menghini fighting for last wing spot. That's a tough line-up to crack and an even tougher line-up to play against

James-Rickwood-Zellers

Swanson-Reschny-Kernan

Croal-Josephson-Strinden

Menghini-Littler-Young

    Livanavage-Emery

    Wiebe-Verhoeff

   Strathmann-Zmolek

 Ex. Laurila

That’s what I would do from here on out, although it’s razor thin between Menghini and Zakreski for me.

[JakeLove]

All I know is this team plays better with Littler in than with Littler out. 
 

He brings an intangible that just works. 

[brianvf]

2 hours ago, nodakgirl93 said:

Pretty impressive to get 4 of the 6 spots.

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The only times UND had more than one all-rookie team member in a year were 2021 (Gaber, Sanderson) and 2022 (Costantini, Hellsten).

 

[AlphaMikeFoxtrot]

Zakreski has to be in. Prior to the injury he was on PK and was out there when opponents pulled their goalie.  I've puffed his feathers a bit on here after watching him a lot during last year's surprise playoff run for the Winterhawks, but he adapted quickly to the college game and has never looked like a freshman.