Devils visit Hawks - ASU @ UND

[jk]

Had a fun time in attendance tonight.  Not even remotely the goalie's fault.  ASU has some slick offensive players and they made the most of their very few chances.  

4 and 18 were on the ice for both those second period goals.  18 is almost unbelievably gifted offensively for a person his size and age, but defensive coverage is not currently a specialty.

Not down at all about the squad, as they had a lot of jump and were clearly the better team.  Sometimes the other team (which, you know, has good players too, and they're trying too) has momentum and you have to weather those times.  That was the downfall tonight.  But this UND team is good, and they carried the play.  

[Wilbur]

Back to back nights end of second period lapses cost them.

Didn't see what the draws were but not having Rickwood hurt a bit there I imagine.  

You can't get in the habit of getting hot goalied.  First time we've seen it this year.  Lets just be above outshooting teams something terrible and losing.  

[Blackheart]

Sioux probably deserved a little better fate tonight but ASU's goalie was on his head and the couple lapses in the second period really had the boys chasing the game in the third.  Thought they probably would get the tying goal after Strinden scored early in the third but it was not to be.  Not going to blame Homer on those goals he gave up in the second; they were bang bang plays where we had some bad giveaways.  He actually made a great save down the stretch to keep ASU's lead at one goal.  Pulling your goalie once UND got the power play with 2 plus minutes left isn't a bad play; Sioux just got caught a little flat footed in the zone and their guy came up with the puck.  Hate to lose a game where Sioux dominated for long stretches but it happens.  Still feeling pretty good about our start this season.

[Sioux90]

8 hours ago, hockeytherapy13 said:

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. 
 

Not to mention the big saves he made at the end of the third period. Some of these people on here are embarrassing. Hard to win games when 90% of the shots you allow, are grade A in the slot one timers. 

[scpa0305]

Outside of the terrible D breakdowns (again by one of our most experienced D) I thought we looked great. Goalie played really well, we had sustained attack time for extremely long stretches. Unfortunately we let their goalie get into a rhythm. 

On a building note, special teams need to be better. Our PP doesn’t feel overly scary and our PK looked unenergetic. Again, the D breakdowns killed us tonight. ASU barely even touched the puck but when they did it was point blank. Overall we were the much better team. Time to move forward and build.

[scpa0305]

7 hours ago, jk said:

Had a fun time in attendance tonight.  Not even remotely the goalie's fault.  ASU has some slick offensive players and they made the most of their very few chances.  

4 and 18 were on the ice for both those second period goals.  18 is almost unbelievably gifted offensively for a person his size and age, but defensive coverage is not currently a specialty.

Not down at all about the squad, as they had a lot of jump and were clearly the better team.  Sometimes the other team (which, you know, has good players too, and they're trying too) has momentum and you have to weather those times.  That was the downfall tonight.  But this UND team is good, and they carried the play.  

Wrong guy to pick on.

[UND69er]

26 minutes ago, scpa0305 said:

Wrong guy to pick on.

Probably, and D didn't play well, but bottom line the splits at home w sub 500 teams like ASU and Minny shouldn't be acceptable. Hope it's a Hakstol like season where w talent and continuing improvement it gets us into the F4. 

[thUNDer]

Need a ladder?

[farce poobah]

12 hours ago, ChrisUND1 said:

Club team somehow got the win. 

Name me a club team with a first-round draft choice, and 5 guys total drafted.  

I'll hang up and listen.

[Wilbur]

I thought the Minot kid had a good weekend on the back end for ASU.  Put Boser in the same category as Nehring for Western.  I hope those guys were at least half a$$ed recruited by the previous head guy.  

[GDPritch]

17 hours ago, SiouxFanatic said:

Bad second period cost UND the game. Those under 5 minutes left in the period goals are really deflating.

The real deflating goal was the one by AZ St with just 6 seconds left in the 2nd period. Get out of that period down just 1 and that goal UND got fairly early in 3rd period ties it up. 

[omahasioux1]

18 hours ago, ChrisUND1 said:

Club team somehow got the win. 

what club team was that?

[brucespook]

7 hours ago, GDPritch said:

The real deflating goal was the one by AZ St with just 6 seconds left in the 2nd period. Get out of that period down just 1 and that goal UND got fairly early in 3rd period ties it up. 

That was on Jax. He should have used his timeout and matched up against ASUs top guys 

[scpa0305]

On 11/16/2025 at 7:46 AM, UND69er said:

Probably, and D didn't play well, but bottom line the splits at home w sub 500 teams like ASU and Minny shouldn't be acceptable. Hope it's a Hakstol like season where w talent and continuing improvement it gets us into the F4. 

4 has to be better defensively. But I may be in the minority but the boy’s play sure passed the eye test. We didn’t win but anyone who watched that game/weekend series sure knew who the much better team was. Keep it going and we’ll be a tough out come March.