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University of North Dakota, version 2.0

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Siouxfaninseattle said:
We did play better than last nite, but nothing to write home about. Too many penalties, lousy penalty killing at times and overall uninspired play. It was not even close to the level of play that we'll need to make it past the first round in the tourney.
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It's all relative. If the team we play in the first round of the tourney plays poorly, or we get puck luck we could easily win. Also, UNO played a large part in forcing us off our game. We didn't play well, but it's not like we were absolutely dreadful. Dell played much better tonight as well, and kept us in the game after we fell behind early in the third.

I guess I'm an optimist when I look at the team, and it's frustrating when people are waiting in line to jump off bridges after last night's loss. It happens in college hockey, and one poor weekend in January doesn't mean too much in the grand scheme of things. I always like to point out to people the '04 season when we absolutely destroyed Denver three times, and they went on to win the NCAA Tournament (they didn't even make the Final Five that year). All it takes are two things: 1) Get into NCAA Tournament and 2) Win 4 games. The "best" team usually doesn't win. We're going to make the tournament and we're good enough to win 4 games at that level.
 
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Fighting Sioux 23 said:
It's all relative. If the team we play in the first round of the tourney plays poorly, or we get puck luck we could easily win. Also, UNO played a large part in forcing us off our game. We didn't play well, but it's not like we were absolutely dreadful. Dell played much better tonight as well, and kept us in the game after we fell behind early in the third.

I guess I'm an optimist when I look at the team, and it's frustrating when people are waiting in line to jump off bridges after last night's loss. It happens in college hockey, and one poor weekend in January doesn't mean too much in the grand scheme of things. I always like to point out to people the '04 season when we absolutely destroyed Denver three times, and they went on to win the NCAA Tournament (they didn't even make the Final Five that year). All it takes are two things: 1) Get into NCAA Tournament and 2) Win 4 games. The "best" team usually doesn't win. We're going to make the tournament and we're good enough to win 4 games at that level.
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I agree - we can certainly win the whole thing, and I'm not ready to jump off a bridge. Last night was a game you shrug off and hopefully win the next one, which we did. And we won it without playing anywhere near the level we can play. It's just a little scary when you have a weekend like this one when you expect to play closer to your best hockey.
 
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Fighting Sioux 23 said:
Well, pleased with the result tonight. I didn't get to watch much of the game due to huge buffering issues with fightingsioux.com's webcast and the fact that it wasn't on DirecTV, but from what I saw and heard, we played better than last night, specifically on the pk. With DU leading 4-1 going to the third, we'll most likely be 1 point behind them going into next weekend's trip down to the Springs, and tied with Duluth. A sweep would be huge for MacNaughton purposes, along with momentum for the last 1/3 of our conference schedule. After the Robert Morris series, I was hoping for 4 wins from the UMN, UNO and CC series. The only way to accomplish that is by sweeping the Tigers. It's doable, but very difficult. Prior to last year's sweep, we hadn't swept CC in the Springs since '99.

I'll be at the game on Saturday, so I'm excited for that. Hopefully a strong performance and win on Friday (game will be on CBS College Sports) will set us up so I can watch us sweep on Saturday. It would be key for momentum. Anyway, pleased with the result tonight, and glad to see our pk unit back to its normal form. Now we just have to shore up our PP so we don't give up so many SH goals.
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The PP is frustrating. When you put forwards on the point(Frattin, Kristo) you give up the defensive aspect and I think it showed this weekend. Teams are watching film on us, they have got to get pucks to the net. The backdoor play is not gonna work anymore, as Faulkner was all over it this weekend.
 
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Happy said:
I guess the gophers took the wind out of your sails.
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Come on Happy, everyone knows if there's one thing ND has a huge surplus of, it's wind.

Besides the way your team has been playing the last few years, I don't think they even have a sail with which to steal wind?:D
 
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STS said:
Come on Happy, everyone knows if there's one thing ND has a huge surplus of, it's wind.

Besides the way your team has been playing the last few years, I don't think they even have a sail with which to steal wind?:D
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Yeah, but the reason it's windy in North Dakota is because Minnesota sucks so much.
 
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Mike Rane said:
The PP is frustrating. When you put forwards on the point(Frattin, Kristo) you give up the defensive aspect and I think it showed this weekend. Teams are watching film on us, they have got to get pucks to the net. The backdoor play is not gonna work anymore, as Faulkner was all over it this weekend.
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Yeah, our powerplay has been a little disappointing of late. I would move Frattin back to forward and maybe put Forbort back on the powerplay.

As Seattle said, it wasn't a good weekend of hockey for us, and we still managed to split. We're a very good team, and capable of much more. Hopefully we can come out this weekend and show that.
 
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SoCalSiouxFan said:
Ok Sioux fans remember to place your Hobey vote every 24 hours.

Another day means another vote for Matt or Chay.:) I just voted did you?
http://www.hobeybakeraward.com

Maple Leafs are also showing their support for Matt.
http://mapleleafs.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=549341

There are 68 Hobey candidates and Matt was getting 68% of the entire vote.
Now he is down to ONLY 60%.:)

Seems that Chay with a respectible 5% needs more votes.
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Matt still has the lead, but is down to 31%. RPI is making a strong push for their guys, their two are sitting in second with 17% each.
 
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SoCalSiouxFan said:
Ok Sioux fans remember to place your Hobey vote every 24 hours.

Another day means another vote for Matt or Chay.:) I just voted did you?
http://www.hobeybakeraward.com

Maple Leafs are also showing their support for Matt.
http://mapleleafs.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=549341

There are 68 Hobey candidates and Matt was getting 68% of the entire vote.
Now he is down to ONLY 60%.:)

Seems that Chay with a respectible 5% needs more votes.
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Don't forget to vote at home and at work as well, every day that you can...
 
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Gregoire was a machine on Sat night. On top of his regular dazziling display of skill he was throwing his body around. Hopefully he will have a strong 2nd half of the season like he has his first 2 years.

I agree with the other posters about the forward on the point on the PP. We have plenty of good defensemen to put on the point. Both Frattin and Kristo would be naturals for that off wing shooter position as a forward on the PP. Plus they are both good at chasing down the loose pucks down low.
 
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I was impressed with Trupper (yet again). He's been an absolute beast the past couple months.
The puckhandling display he put on in the Sat game was awesome to see, especially at game speed. That's something that people attempt in practice, not games.
 
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lord k said:
I agree with the other posters about the forward on the point on the PP. We have plenty of good defensemen to put on the point. Both Frattin and Kristo would be naturals for that off wing shooter position as a forward on the PP. Plus they are both good at chasing down the loose pucks down low.
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But don't forget that it was Genoway on the point last night when a UNO player pushed the puck by him and scored the game's first goal.
 
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Just a couple random thoughts....

-Special teams were horrible over the weekend... and not so great against MN. This worries me a bit.
-Dell seems to be fighting the puck and doesn't seem as steady the last couple weekends compared to earlier in the year (even though they were on the PK a lot, he didn't seem as comfortable).
-Hextall is taking some absolutely stupid penalties and making some poor decisions with the puck. The one that sticks out in my mind was against MN when he danced around with the puck and failed to get it out of the zone and MN scored the winning goal.

This team should not be getting it's ***** handed to it like it did on Friday. I know it happens, but it's happened a couple times already this year.
 
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Well Genoway is basically like a forward out there too!

I don't really know what position Genoway plays. He is one of the rare players that plays defense but is really more like a "rover". Sort of like Neidemeir(ya I don't know how to spell it) did with the ducks.

He is an unbelievable player, and with his speed he can usually get back but once in a while it will cost the team.
 
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Chay Genoway is the worst player to ever suit up for UND. Pat O'Leary and Adrian Hasbargen called and said "Chay Sucks".
 
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