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tUMD 2013-2014 Season Thread--beginning of another new era

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section16rowA said:
Top six forwards Camranesi-Farley-Basaraba-Herbert-Iafallo-Tonitnoto should provide some decent offense. With two of top six forwards being freshmen, it speaks volumes how much the other returning forwards are not looked to provide much offense. Defense is a little green with Smith-Welinski the only solid returning players. If Soucy and Raskob develop quickly, things should be OK. Goaltending should be decent with McNeely very solid. PP looked like crap against Tech, but only first weekend. Not sure if our PK was good or Tech's PP was junk...probably a little of each.
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I was very concerned about the defense coming into the season. But based on last weekend it may not be as bad as we think. But if we also base our PP and scoring expectations on last weekend and those both will be a struggle. I find that hard to believe given the offensive talent on this team. Their passing timing was off...you'd expect that to be better this weekend and better into the season. I cannot remember a weekend where the team looked more rusty than last one
 
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UMD21 said:
What concerns me (and doesn't this sound familiar) is the trend that all these other teams goalies have really hot nights against UMD.
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That sounds eerily like what we DU fans would say.:rolleyes:
 
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We looked rusty most of last year. Just wouldn't fight for loose pucks, or hustle to gain free ice. Good passes to open ice would find forwards with out the "head" to get the puck. By the end of the year Dan Delise was showing more give a **** than the first line.

We have talent and we can be successful. It will probably be a long year, but can be a great building season for the 2015 National Champion team. :)
 
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Best performance of the young season last night. Encouraging to see our freshmen score and our goaltending and penalty kill is doing very well. Our team GAA is near the top in the nation and so is our PK. That helps make up for our unusually weak power play. But knowing Sandelin's system and how he has his teams playing...that PP will coming along eventually.

ND will be quite the test...although I'll be watching today to see how they do against Tech.
 
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I was impressed with the win on Saturday. I am still a little concerned about the power play but I am sure it will turn around.
 
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PrideOfTheNorth said:
I was impressed with the win on Saturday. I am still a little concerned about the power play but I am sure it will turn around.
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For sure. Sandelin has the track record that puts me at ease. Plus with the players we have it is only a matter of time until we start clicking more.

Notre Dame better watch out this weekend...they won't have the reffing on their side like it was against Michigan Tech. :D
 
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DropPass said:
Does anyone have a link to a prospective schedule for next season. I know I saw a rough outline somewhere, but I can't find it now.

Also, does anyone have any ticket information for the N'star Cup? I see I can get some tickets from tUMD ticket office. https://umdbulldogs.d.umn.edu/cart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=32&products_id=461 But, I would like to pick my seats.
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I don't know a link to that schedule information. Pates would always come through with next years schedule in March or April (way ahead of most schools releasing that info). But with a new beat writer...who knows when we will find out. Maybe we could ask him, to ask others?

All we know is that UMD is playing in the Ice Breaker Tournament at Notre Dame against RPI and another team I cannot recall at this time. They visit Michigan Tech in December. If we signed a four year deal with OSU then we will play them again. I do not know of any other non-conference agreements we have or still need to fulfill (We should have one more non-conference series for next year). I hope that a series between UMaine and UMD could come to fruition however :D. We are in the North Star Cup again next year and would assume we would visit UMTC sometime in November.

As for picking your seats? Looks like you'll have to wait until sometime in November after the X ships the tickets to the four schools involved. I'm sure they are sorting through requests from each school and then other seats will become available
 
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Thanks for the info Biddco.

I thought Pates had it on R&R somewhere, but couldn't find it for the life of me. I thought he might have had a hunch on another Eastern road trip, but I easily could have imagined that.

Any thoughts on getting tickets through the ticket office vs waiting? Like would the seats be any good? I should probably just call them and see what they know.
 
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DropPass said:
Thanks for the info Biddco.

I thought Pates had it on R&R somewhere, but couldn't find it for the life of me. I thought he might have had a hunch on another Eastern road trip, but I easily could have imagined that.

Any thoughts on getting tickets through the ticket office vs waiting? Like would the seats be any good? I should probably just call them and see what they know.
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You might be thinking of the matchup with RPI for the Icebreaker.

I bought tickets through the ticket office just make sure I'm sitting with UMD fans... but I'm sure there will be plenty of seats in that section and around the rink if you wait. Most think this event will be sparsely attended and I cannot disagree. Just hope it becomes something bigger. I think it has some good potential.
 
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Any thoughts going into this weekend against ND. Haven't seen any highlights from them this year, but they have assembled some interesting box scores. The power play is putting up some good numbers, and they seem to get under the other teams skin. Tech hung with them one night and spend all of the second game in the box.

I think we have a shot of splitting this weekend, if we can hustle and stay cool.
 
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DropPass said:
Any thoughts going into this weekend against ND. Haven't seen any highlights from them this year, but they have assembled some interesting box scores. The power play is putting up some good numbers, and they seem to get under the other teams skin. Tech hung with them one night and spend all of the second game in the box.

I think we have a shot of splitting this weekend, if we can hustle and stay cool.
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Well we have the refs on "our side" so that should even out things. They are the best team that UMD has seen this year, and yet I think will be a tough team to sweep. Its hard to draw any great conclusions from what we have seen for but I like our chances for a split. They do not seem like team that is unbeatable. It's too bad we are not playing them in the playoffs because then I know we would win and they would choke :D
 
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Notre Dame is really good. Getting a win tonight will be tough...I don't have my hopes up :/
 
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Agreed. Plus, ND is going to come out ****ed, hitting and flying all over the place. tUMD will have about two shifts to level the ice or it will be a long night. Not every night your goalie gets tossed.

Not to go all Ciske here, but... Did anyone get a good look or replay of Herbert spearing Tynan. I was watching the not HD internet feed, hard to see much from that camera angle. Not that it matters, just wondering.
 
DropPass said:
Agreed. Plus, ND is going to come out ****ed, hitting and flying all over the place. tUMD will have about two shifts to level the ice or it will be a long night. Not every night your goalie gets tossed.

Not to go all Ciske here, but... Did anyone get a good look or replay of Herbert spearing Tynan. I was watching the not HD internet feed, hard to see much from that camera angle. Not that it matters, just wondering.
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According to Ciskie, it was a ligit call
 
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That was fun.

Ciskie tweeted that J Cran may miss some more time with an upper body injury. It will be interesting to see how that turns out.
 
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That was fun indeed. UMD's best game all year (easy to say I know :D ). They really impressed me...perhaps this year won't be as bad as we think.

Plus the student section was outstanding last night.

Now onto Ohio State where we can hopefully sweep them. I don't think they are that good and there are points to be had.
 
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Overall it was a good weekend in Columbus. I don't think UMD played particularly great but still was able to come up with a split. They were not ready for the push that tOSU had in Saturdays game and they were not able to come from behind.

Our next 3 series are very tough and I hope we can come up with a sweep in there. Playing UND in their first series since being swept at home (we play like *** up there anyway), then to UMTC and hosting SCSU (who are both unbeaten at this point in the season). My prediction for those weekends are 2-2-2... I just don't see anything better than split in any of those. If we can do better than I will be a very happy man.

It's great to see our freshman contributing and I hope they will continue to do so. I hope that Farley and Cameranesi will come out of their slumps at some time. I'm happy with our record so far but I hope we can get a sweep or two in before the second half is over if we want to be in position for a NCAA tournament spot.
 
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Biddco said:
Overall it was a good weekend in Columbus. I don't think UMD played particularly great but still was able to come up with a split. They were not ready for the push that tOSU had in Saturdays game and they were not able to come from behind.

Our next 3 series are very tough and I hope we can come up with a sweep in there. Playing UND in their first series since being swept at home (we play like *** up there anyway), then to UMTC and hosting SCSU (who are both unbeaten at this point in the season). My prediction for those weekends are 2-2-2... I just don't see anything better than split in any of those. If we can do better than I will be a very happy man.

It's great to see our freshman contributing and I hope they will continue to do so. I hope that Farley and Cameranesi will come out of their slumps at some time. I'm happy with our record so far but I hope we can get a sweep or two in before the second half is over if we want to be in position for a NCAA tournament spot.
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Toughest remaining November in the country?
 
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