Showing posts with label University of Minnesota-Duluth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label University of Minnesota-Duluth. Show all posts

Saturday, January 23, 2016

He Said What?

The University of Minnesota-Duluth was picked to finish first in the NCHC preseason poll. So far this season, they've been up and down. After 22 games the Bulldogs have an 8-9-5 (.477) record. Looking at the Bulldogs roster, they should be much better than their record.

The Bulldogs are third in the NCHC in shots on goal per game with 36.9. Here's the problem, they're only scoring 2.64 goals per game. After losing to the Denver Pioneers head coach Scott Sandelin had this to say.
“We had a chance to make it 3-0 and we didn’t score. That’s how it’s been going,” coach Sandelin said. “The only way you’re going to get out of it is if you stick with it, you keep fighting, keep doing the things we’re doing and hopefully it breaks.

“We weren’t shitty, I can tell you that. We played pretty well. We didn’t give them a whole lot, but when they had opportunities, they made the most of them.” (Matt Wellens Duluth News Tribune)
Each week, I expect the Bulldogs to break out of their scoring funk. I keep thinking that eventually, the Bulldogs are going to start filling the net with pucks.

But it hasn't happened.

Thing is, time is running out on the season. Counting their non-conference game against BSU, the dogs have 12 games to right the ship before the NCHC playoffs.

Sunday, July 24, 2011

From the yeah right department...

Western Collegiate Hockey Association logoImage via WikipediaFirst Potter was against the accepting an invitation to the NCHC even though his school was never offered an invitation.  Now Potter sounds like he is ready to listen if that invitation is extended, this is the problem with university presidents like St. Cloud State University President Earl H. Potter III they lack the leadership skills to lead...
Mick Hatten and David Unze; SC Times --- On July 13, the six-team National Collegiate Hockey Conference was introduced at a news conference in Colorado Springs, Colo. Colorado College, Denver College, University of Minnesota-Duluth, University of Nebraska-Omaha and University of North Dakota are the WCHA members headed for the NCHC, along with Miami University in Ohio out of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association.

“This has not been a surprise, but it has offered very difficult questions for us to deal with,” Potter said. “The WCHA as a league never sat down together and talked about its future. The five who left never said to the rest of us that they were thinking about it.”

St. Cloud State never asked to join the NCHC and was not invited, Potter said. He changed his tone a bit last week after previously saying St. Cloud State wouldn’t accept an invitation to the NCHC if one were extended. He’s committed to be the best partner in the WCHA that he can be, he said, but the uncertainty that permeates college hockey has him keeping his options open.

“I have to stay in a position where I’m working very hard for success with the WCHA but never get stubborn about our position and always be open to looking at our options as things change,” he said.
 Anyone troubled by this statement? “This has not been a surprise, but it has offered very difficult questions for us to deal with,” Potter said. “The WCHA as a league never sat down together and talked about its future. The five who left never said to the rest of us that they were thinking about it.” If I was a fan of the teams staying in the WCHA I would be. 
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