DU 1 - UND 0

Round one of the Hatfield’s and McCoy’s went to the Denver Pioneers. Since 2003-2004 UND has lost three 1-0 games to DU. Last time the Sioux lost 1-0 to the Pioneers (2007-2008 season) the Fighting Sioux rebounded the next night to win the game 3-1. Last night I was unimpressed with the Fighting Sioux effort to start the game, you have a goalie that hasn’t played in three weeks and the Fighting Sioux should have been all over him to start the game. The Fighting Sioux could not cycle the puck and set up a sustained attack on the Denver goalie. Instead the Fighting Sioux let him get comfortable and instead spent the first part of the game back on their heals, looking like a cellar dweller instead of a team that was ranked second in the nation.

Undisciplined effort

The Fighting Sioux came out and for the first period and a decided that they were going to take a bunch of untimely, undisciplined and knuckle headed penalties. You can not continue to give a team like DU a bunch of power plays because eventually they will figure it out.

Not time to panic yet

This is the best start of Hakstol era at 7-3-1, last year at this time the Fighting Sioux were an unimpressive 4-7-1 and went on to win the WCHA regular season title. Never-the-less, if the Fighting Sioux play like this next week against the Miami RedHawks it could be an embarrassing and painful experience. The Fighting Sioux need to regroup and at least get a tie out of tonight’s game.

Put on notice

Finally, there are a few players that are not playing to their full potential. One might say that they are passengers so far this season and need to step it up. Again I realize that it's early in the season but there is an expectation when a player puts on that uniform.

• Sophomore Jason Gregoire 5g-0a-5pts in 11 games, he needs to step it up and start putting some points on the board.
• Freshman Michael Cichy 1g-2a-3pts in 9 games, he needs to step it up as well he hasn’t had a point since the 10th of October.

[Box Score]
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1st Period (20:00)
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NDK-1 Mario Lamoureux (2-Roughing) 2:07
DEN-1 Chris Nutini (2-Roughing) 2:07
DEN-2 Jesse Martin (2-Hooking) NDK 0x1 6:08
DEN-3 Matt Donovan (2-Cross-Checking) NDK 0x2 7:14
NDK-2 Mario Lamoureux (2-Holding) DEN 0x1 12:51
DEN-4 John Ryder (2-Holding the Stick) NDK 0x3 15:42
NDK-3 Evan Trupp (2-Slashing) DEN 0x2 19:45
NDK-4 Brad Malone (2-Roughing) 20:00
DEN-5 Joe Colborne (2-Roughing) 20:00

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2nd Period (20:00)
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NDK-5 Corey Fienhage (2-Interference) DEN 0x3 5:03
NDK-6 Andrew MacWilliam (2-Holding) DEN 0x4 7:27
NDK-7 Evan Trupp (2-Hooking) DEN 1x5 9:15
DEN 1 - 0 6x5 PP GW LL Drew Shore (3) (Joe Colborne, Anthony Maiani) 10:07
DEN: 23,12,16,14,24,G1 NDK: 17,24,29,25,G31
DEN-6 John Lee (2-Holding) NDK 0x4 14:09
NDK-8 Ben Blood (2-Roughing) 19:07
NDK-9 Brett Hextall (2-Cross-Checking) DEN 1x6 19:07
DEN-7 Joe Colborne (2-Roughing) 19:07

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3rd Period (20:00)
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DEN-8 John Lee (2-Tripping) NDK 0x5 6:02
NDK-10 Chris VandeVelde (2-Hooking) DEN 1x7 6:26
DEN-9 Brandon Vossberg (2-Boarding) NDK 0x6 15:42

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End of Game
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