Non-UND College Hockey 2025-26

[cberkas]

Just now, brianvf said:

It'll be fun watching MSU steamroll PSU next week.
After playing almost all cupcakes for the season, they won't be ready to play a team of MSU's caliber.

They almost lost to cupcakes lol

[tnt]

35 minutes ago, brianvf said:

It'll be fun watching MSU steamroll PSU next week.
After playing almost all cupcakes for the season, they won't be ready to play a team of MSU's caliber.

We’ll see if we sweep Arizona State in Arizona, and how the teams we’ve played so far fare going forward.  The rest of our non conference is pretty cupcake, so we’ll see if we can win the games we are supposed to win.

[Godsmack]

As much as we like seeing the Gophers lose, should we actually be rooting for them given we played them and for rankings purposes? 

[brianvf]

9 minutes ago, tnt said:

We’ll see if we sweep Arizona State in Arizona, and how the teams we’ve played so far fare going forward.  The rest of our non conference is pretty cupcake, so we’ll see if we can win the games we are supposed to win.

Yes for sure.  I don't imagine we'll have much trouble with Mercyhurst, even if we're missing some WJC guys.  But BSU has given us issues lately...all those darn trap teams.

[brianvf]

Northeastern with their 2nd big win in a row, beating BC 4-1.
Both of their wins against DU and BC they got outshot by a ton but still came away with the win.

BC now 2-3-1 on the season.

[sioux rube]

Remember when UNLV beat Denver last year?  Well they played University of Jamestown last night and tonight and they split. UNLV currently number 1 and Jimmie’s number 6. Pretty dang hockey to watch 

[brianvf]

UW beats UMN 5-2 and outshoots them 43-16.
Gonna be a long season for the Gophers...their Sat night win against us might end up being the highlight of their season.  

[beastandco]

4 minutes ago, brianvf said:

UW beats UMN 5-2 and outshoots them 43-16.
Gonna be a long season for the Gophers...their Sat night win against us might end up being the highlight of their season.  

Minnesota is in deep, deep trouble if the vision for their program does not change. Adapt to the CHL opening up, or die. There is no excuse for the product that is on the ice right now for them. 

[nascar99]

20 minutes ago, brianvf said:

UW beats UMN 5-2 and outshoots them 43-16.
Gonna be a long season for the Gophers...their Sat night win against us might end up being the highlight of their season.  

Such a pathetic Gophers team. Really bad that UND dropped the Saturday game to them the way they did. Woof

[atxsioux]

37 minutes ago, beastandco said:

Minnesota is in deep, deep trouble if the vision for their program does not change. Adapt to the CHL opening up, or die. There is no excuse for the product that is on the ice right now for them. 

If I’m a coach with some pressure on me like Bob, I just don’t understand the rationale for not going after a couple of players from the CHL. 

 

To give some credit to the big 10 I don’t know how the Gophers can expect to be competitive while a lot of their peers went out to get a CHL players to improve their own rosters.
 

I don’t think below .500 is out of the question for them, so he’s really going to have his ass in the jackpot if that happens

[AlphaMikeFoxtrot]

Do they have any recruits we want to try to steer away from the dumpster fire?

[nascar99]

1 minute ago, atxsioux said:

If I’m a coach with some pressure on me like Bob, I just don’t understand the rationale for not going after a couple of players from the CHL. 

 

To give some credit to the big 10 I don’t know how the Gophers can expect to be competitive while a lot of their peers went out to get a CHL players to improve their own rosters.
 

I don’t think below .500 is out of the question for them, so he’s really going to have his ass in the jackpot if that happens

Motzko "liked his recruits" and was skeptical of how good CHLers are (because he has no about major junior hockey and the talent it produces). Really bad arrogance on his part to not go and add talent right after he lost most of his top scorers at the end of last season.

[brianvf]

11 minutes ago, nascar99 said:

Motzko "liked his recruits" and was skeptical of how good CHLers are (because he has no about major junior hockey and the talent it produces). Really bad arrogance on his part to not go and add talent right after he lost most of his top scorers at the end of last season.

Especially if that news was correct that some CHL prospects reached out to him but he turned them away.
The other top B10 teams all added multiple absolute stud CHL guys and other than Mooney, there's not a ton of high-end skill on MN's current FR group.