Devils visit Hawks - ASU @ UND

[brianvf]

Big home series this weekend. 
ASU has looked a little porous defensively, so hopefully UND can take advantage. 
They still have some talented forwards with Potter, Lucius, and their ex-pro Beck who seemed to be in on all of their goals against CC. 
Keep the streak rolling, UND!

[brianvf]

NPI:
UND - 5
ASU - 44

PP:
UND - 27.3%
ASU - 21.4%

PK:
UND - 79.5%
ASU - 81.0%

[Oxbow6]

1 hour ago, brianvf said:

NPI:
UND - 5
ASU - 44

PP:
UND - 27.3%
ASU - 21.4%

PK:
UND - 79.5%
ASU - 81.0%

Coed scene:

UND - 53.8%

ASU - 91.1%

[cberkas]

Arizona State might go with a rotation in net, but I'm expecting Urban to start both nights. 

Stay out of the box! They have a few players that will try and bait the guys into penalties after the whistle. Powell and two other like to do that. Their pp tends to get them back in the game when they are down. Need to watch for the cross-ice passes on the pk, take that away to shut down their pp. Take aways the middle of the zone, can be aggressive on the pk but be smart about it. Chase the puck and it will be in the back of the net with ASU. The drop pass on their pp can be easily picked off if timed right. That is something UND was good at, causing a turnover at the other team blue line.

UND needs to go with Jan both nights, Arizona State will get Homer to over commit, get out of position, and lose his net. 

No blind passes! They will feast on them. Need to look, tell each other you have time, put pucks to where your teammate can get it, and make smart decisions with the puck.

Something I noticed against CC is that Arizona State started floating one or two forwards and the offensive blue line on breakouts.

Play the body, they don't like to hit or be hit. Hit them hard an often early to set the tone. 

They don't change their two top lines of Lucius/McGurn/Schimek and Beck/Potter/Waldron. They will change what line is listed 1st and 2nd each game. 

This is a new era; Berry was 1-2 against the club coach time for Jax to change that and get the series lead.

[cberkas]

Last year Arizona State was in this same position going to Denver. That changed their season, can't let them do that at the Ralph. 

[nodakgirl93]

I expect we will see Homer on Friday and then Spunar on Saturday. 

[cberkas]

1 minute ago, nodakgirl93 said:

I expect we will see Homer on Friday and then Spunar on Saturday. 

Listened to the ASU press conference the people asking the questions made it sound like Homer was the goalie starting both nights. Spunar is the one they should go with both nights, wouldn't be surprised it both played.  

[siouxfaninseattle]

I think that unless one of them has a huge collapse, we'll see them both playing.

[Blackheart]

Hoping the Sioux play an intense and up tempo game against these guys.  Would love to see them leave without any points.

[ND_Texan]

Homer will be in net Friday against his old mates. He should be pumped and set the tone for the weekend. 

[gfhockey]

Good weekend to sweep at home

 

when was last home sweep

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

11 hours ago, siouxfaninseattle said:

I think that unless one of them has a huge collapse, we'll see them both playing.

You mean unless one of them plays out of their mind, we'll see them both playing?

[stoneySIOUX]

18 minutes ago, gfhockey said:

Good weekend to sweep at home

 

when was last home sweep

Swept UMD last season, Feb 21-22

[brianvf]

ASU making their first trip to the Ralph:

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/arizona-state-set-to-make-first-trip-to-grand-forks

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"We're excited to go to The Ralph for the first time as a program," said Greg Powers, who has coached the Sun Devils since they were a club program. "It's obviously a tremendous venue with a tremendous program and fan base. When you go into those types of environments, you have to use it to your advantage. Right now, outside of our room, there aren't a lot of people who think we can go have success."

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Arizona State is 3-6-1 to start the season. It's not an unfamiliar position. A year ago, the Sun Devils started 4-7-1, then went to Denver and swept the defending national champion Pioneers. That launched a stretch where Arizona State went 10-1, the lone loss coming in overtime to UND.

Arizona State finished second in the NCHC behind eventual national champion Western Michigan.

"Never in a million years did I think that would be our record, but it is our record," Powers said. "We have to draw on experiences. There are a lot of good things we're doing. There are a lot of positives, but we still have yet to piece together a complete team game."

 

[The Sicatoka]

Win this shift. 

[Wilbur]

Spunar, Gibby, sweep....Wilbur's kid is killing it off the tee in Florida.  Way too many "Who's ball is that ahead further on the fairway dad?"

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

Powers has to be the most insufferable coach in college hockey with his "no one believes in us" shtick, hope we steamroll these clowns

[KEH]

Kiddos to this fan forum for correctly stating that Arizona State is our opponent this weekend not Arizona. I had to leave the Facebook group as the lack of intelligence in that group was getting to me. 😏

[Oxbow6]

2 hours ago, Wilbur said:

Spunar, Gibby, sweep....Wilbur's kid is killing it off the tee in Florida.  Way too many "Who's ball is that ahead further on the fairway dad?"

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