Devils visit Hawks - ASU @ UND

[brianvf]

Sandy couldn't even sweep Omaha.  That's even worse.   

Losing while only giving up 15 shots still stings though.

[bcblues]

It was a mistake starting Homer.

[siouxfaninseattle]

I was sure they would go undefeated the rest of the year.

[cberkas]

This was a game they should have won. 

A lot of stuff to look at and use in practice from this game/weekend

[Username Taken]

1 minute ago, siouxfaninseattle said:

I was sure they would go undefeated the rest of the year.

Obviously sarcasm but losing to bad teams especially when you triple them up in shots shouldn’t happen. 

[tnt]

We’ll see if this team is different against Bemidji, as veteran UND teams have a hard time scoring against them. May need to win 2-1, as Bemidji will be a lot tougher than a young Arizona State team.  Take the week off and get healthy, and then be prepared to slug out a couple wins to improve our NPI.

[cberkas]

How does a club coach have a better pp and pk then UND? 

[siouxfaninseattle]

2 minutes ago, Username Taken said:

Obviously sarcasm but losing to bad teams especially when you triple them up in shots shouldn’t happen. 

Yep

[brianvf]

7 minutes ago, cberkas said:

How does a club coach have a better pp and pk then UND? 

UND still has a slightly better PP even after this weekend.  26.0% for UND and 23.7% for ASU.
ASU has better PK numbers though...81.3% to 76.2%.
Need to bump up that PK % for sure, that's pretty bad.

[fightingsioux4life]

17 minutes ago, Username Taken said:

Obviously sarcasm but losing to bad teams especially when you triple them up in shots shouldn’t happen. 

At least ASU isn't as bad as LIU and Lindenwood.

[Emerald joker]

33 minutes ago, Esoteric said:

Wake up call.  Things to work on.  

Same old story for the last 8-9 years, it’s old! This is hawk hockey, there’s no Fighting Sioux to be found! 

[Emerald joker]

Every year we make an average team goalie look unbelievable. Now ASU will play Denver or UMD and both those team will put up 5-6 goals each night.

[brianvf]

5 minutes ago, Emerald joker said:

Same old story for the last 8-9 years, it’s old! This is hawk hockey, there’s no Fighting Sioux to be found! 

I certainly don't like the result from tonight, but I see a pretty noticeable difference in the team play on the ice this season when compared to the last few seasons.
Whether it be Hawk or Sioux hockey...they can be a very fun team to watch.  I'm excited to see how they continue to progress as the season chugs along.

[fightingsioux4life]

7 minutes ago, Emerald joker said:

Same old story for the last 8-9 years, it’s old! This is hawk hockey, there’s no Fighting Sioux to be found! 

A little early to write off the season. It's not even Thanksgiving yet, for Cripes sake.

[SIOUXELEVENS]

They are very young and finding their roles , doesn’t help with some injuries and having to mix lines. This is a lt different then last years teams for sure. 

[hockeytherapy13]

16 minutes ago, Emerald joker said:

Every year we make an average team goalie look unbelievable. Now ASU will play Denver or UMD and both those team will put up 5-6 goals each night.

Step away from the ledge, you’re acting like we got outshot 40-20 and lost by 5.  We had some bad defensive breakdowns that ended up in our net and the power play was rough. But 5x5 play was heavily in our favor and we dominated them most of the weekend. This isn’t one of those times where we blew a 3-goal lead in the 3rd period like 2 seasons ago. We almost tripled a team in shots and some didn’t land. This team is well coached but some nights just won’t always go our way. 

[UND69er]

Just now, hockeytherapy13 said:

Step away from the ledge, you’re acting like we got outshot 40-20 and lost by 5.  We had some bad defensive breakdowns that ended up in our net and the power play was rough. But 5x5 play was heavily in our favor and we dominated them most of the weekend. This isn’t one of those times where we blew a 3-goal lead in the 3rd period like 2 seasons ago. We almost tripled a team in shots and some didn’t land. This team is well coached but some nights just won’t always go our way. 

Good teams with astute coaches usually make things go their way. From a distance it appears the decision to start Homer was a mistake, again.

[hockeytherapy13]

Just now, UND69er said:

Good teams with astute coaches usually make things go their way. From a distance it appears the decision to start Homer was a mistake, again.

Good teams with astute coaches drop games too. I was in the building (I’ll bet a lot of us on this board were there) for the 2011 game against Shawn Hunwick (barf). Incredible team with great coaches, shots 40-20, and we know how that one ended. We are 6 weekend into the season with 10 freshman, pretty good start so far. 
 

We all knew coming into the weekend that they were going to rotate goalies like last weekend. It went very well last weekend and tonight it didn’t. 2 of those goals Homer had zero chance as he was hung out to dry.  One of them will take the reins. 
 

[tnt]

4 minutes ago, hockeytherapy13 said:

Step away from the ledge, you’re acting like we got outshot 40-20 and lost by 5.  We had some bad defensive breakdowns that ended up in our net and the power play was rough. But 5x5 play was heavily in our favor and we dominated them most of the weekend. This isn’t one of those times where we blew a 3-goal lead in the 3rd period like 2 seasons ago. We almost tripled a team in shots and some didn’t land. This team is well coached but some nights just won’t always go our way. 

It amazes me that the same people that lamented Duluth’s dominant run years ago, are worried about a regular season loss to a team we badly outplayed.  Duluth hasn’t won a league title in over 30 years, so their reputation wasn’t based on any wins or losses during the regular season.
 This team will ultimately be judged on what they do in the post season, provided they make the tournament.  The reason Berry isn’t here right now is based mostly on the lack of post season success, not regular season.

[Username Taken]

5 minutes ago, UND69er said:

Good teams with astute coaches usually make things go their way. From a distance it appears the decision to start Homer was a mistake, again.

Homer was always going to start against his former team. He also didnt have a bad game. 1 non cheesy goal on 41 shots was the problem. 

[ChrisUND1]

Club team somehow got the win. 

[AlphaMikeFoxtrot]

Clay on the mic was a treat. His voice makes the game feel more important. He did his homework and knew a lot about everybody.

[cberkas]

14 minutes ago, ChrisUND1 said:

Club team somehow got the win. 

For how many want Powers gone at ASU, he's one of the better coaches they have. He's not going anywhere until they are finishing at the bottom on the NCHC like Miami and CC are/were. 

[Dustin]

1 hour ago, bcblues said:

It was a mistake starting Homer.

If this had not been against ASU, I think they would have kept rolling with Spunar.  Now it's (hopefully) a foregone conclusion.

[brianvf]

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/und-coach-dane-jackson-pushing-for-better-details-after-loss-to-arizona-state

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But UND coach Dane Jackson didn't shrug his shoulders after a weekend split with the Sun Devils. He didn't point to the National Collegiate Hockey Conference standings, where UND still sits on top, and call it good. His aspirations for this team are higher.

"We've had a lot of good," Jackson said. "But we only play two games a week. To not be playing full games is something we have to get better at if we want to vie for a championship and a national title. You have to beat two really good teams on basically back-to-back nights. You can't have good efforts for 50 minutes."

On playing in front of Homer:

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"We let Gibby down every time so far for some reason," Strinden said. "We just haven't played well for Gibby, which stinks, because he's an unbelievable goalie and an unbelievable guy. That sucks right now in the locker room for us."

Hopeful that both Rickwood and Kernan back for the BSU series:

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UND played without top-line center Ellis Rickwood, who sustained an injury in Friday's series opener. Jackson said he's hopeful Rickwood will be back for UND's next regular-season action in two weeks against Bemidji State.

With two other forwards sidelined due to injury — Jack Kernan (day to day) and Josh Zakreski (longterm) — UND dressed every healthy forward.