Sunday morning quarterbacking - shot charts game 2

Last night the University of North Dakota and the UAA Seawolves played to a 3-3 ties. Since the Ralph Engelstad Arena opened in 2001, UND has a 5-7-25 record in overtime.

They say that a tie is like kissing your sister. One could say that there has been a lot of sister kissing at the REA.

UAA Seawolves head coach Dave Shyiak was pleased with his team’s effort in last night’s game.
“I think that was probably our best 60 minutes of the year,” Shyiak said. “ It was a hard earned tied It was a great hockey game. What we learned as a hockey team tonight is how we have to play. I thought we pressured the puck well, I thought we executed our game plan, we got good goaltending and we got contributions from everyone tonight.”

Senior forward Corban Knight was again dominate this weekend in the faceoff circle going 31-14, winning 68 percent of his draws. On the other end of the ice Matt Bailey was solid for the Seawolves.

Through four periods of hockey, UND senior forward Danny Kristo had four points (0g-4a—4pts). That streak ended in the second period of Saturday’s game. Freshman Rocco Grimaldi (2g-2a—4pts) and senior Danny Kristo (0g-4a—4pts) lead UND in points. Kristo has played two fewer games due to his two game suspension.

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UND and UAA battle to a tie.

Grand Forks, ND – Last night, UND head coach Dave Hakstol had this to say about the University of Alaska Anchorage Seawolves.

“This was a team we expected to face,” Hakstol said. Highly competitive – good players – guys that battle hard together.”

That’s exactly the team that the University of North Dakota Hockey team faced tonight in the second game of their WCHA series.

The Seawolves came out at the start of the game and were a miserable team to play against as they got into the shooting lanes and forechecked UND hard. UND had a Seawolves forechecker on them all night long.

Sweeps in the WCHA are hard to get and it didn’t matter that UND had beaten UAA by a grand total of 9-1 in two previous games.

UAA proved to be a very difficult team to play against and they gave UND fits, UND also appeared to come out a bit flat to start the game. UND head coach Dave Hakstol agreed.

“I thought it took us 20 to 30 minutes to work our way in,” Hakstol said. “It wasn’t pretty – we  we did work our way in – the were tenacious I thought, throughout the 60 minutes and we gave the lead away in the third period – which put us in a pretty tough spot and we found a way to come back and salvage a point.   That’s a positive.”

The Seawolves took an early lead in the first period as a result of their hard work as sophomore  forward Scott Allen gave his team the lead as he scored his fourth goal of the season at the 04:05 mark of the first period, assisting on Allen’s goal were Seawolves Austin Sevalrud and Alex Gellert.

Ironically, that was the first goal that UND had given up in the first period this season, albeit it’s only three games into the season. It also didn’t hurt that UND came into the game as the second rated defensive unit in the country.

UND would get on the board and even the score at 1-1 with goal from Corban Knight at the 13:39 mark of the first period.

UND would get the go ahead goal at the 12:55 mark of the third period and it appeared that UND was taking control of the game.

Not so fast, UAA scored on a shorthanded goal by senior Tyler Currier at the 10:25 mark of the third period, UND freshman Jordan Schmaltz lost control of the puck at the  blue line. Currier pounced on the puck - raced in on the UND net and shot the it through the five hole of UND junior goalie Clarke Saunders for the game tying goal, that was the fourth goal of Currier’s career.

UAA would take the lead as they cashed in again at the 10:25 mark of the third period, with a goal from senior forward Jordan Kwas.  UND would answer tie the game at the 18:25 mark of the third period and after a lengthy review, Derek Forbort was given credit for the goal.

After the game Forbort wasn’t even sure that he should have been credited with the game tying goal.
“Got a rolling puck and just threw it to the net,” Forbort said.   “I think it went off Corbin Knight, I don’t even think that I scored.”

The two teams would go to over time and trade opportunities – but would settle nothing.

Midway through the overtime period, UND freshman forward Rocco Grimaldi brought everyone in the building with a great opportunity but was denied by UAA junior goalie Rob Gunderson.

After the game, Grimaldi described his glorious opportunity after the game.

“I thought I had him beat there,” Grimaldi said.  “So I just tried to turn the jets on and beat him wide, and drive it into the net, whether it’s through the goalie or whatever, probably had a little more time than I thought, I could have pulled it a little wider and maybe tried to get it up but I just tried to jam it and he was there, he [Gunderson ] played really well tonight I got to give their goalie credit.”

After the game UAA head coach Dave Shyiak was pleased with his team’s effort tonight.

“I think that was probably our best 60 minutes of the year,” Shyiak said. “ It was a hard earned tied It was a great hockey game. What we learned as a hockey team tonight is how we have to play. I thought we pressured the puck well, I thought we executed our game plan, we got good goaltending and we got contributions from everyone tonight.”

If UAA keeps playing like they did tonight, they’re going to give a lot of teams fits.

UND vs. UAA Lines (10/27/2012)

UND’s Forward lines

21 Brendan O’Donnell – 10 Corban Knight (A) – 7 Danny Kristo (A)

16 Mark MacMillan – 27 Carter Rowney (A) – 13 Connor Gaarder

9 Drake Caggiula – 19 Rocco Grimaldi – 17 Colten St. Clair

28 Steph Pattyn – 29 Bryn Chyzyk – 11 Derek Rodwell

UND Defense Parings

4 Derek Forbort – 24 Jordan Schmaltz

2 Andrew MacWilliam (C) – 5 Nick Mattson

18 Dillon Simpson–20 Joe Gleason

UND Goalies

33 Clarke Saunders

31 Zane Gothberg

Not in lineup: Michael Parks – 15 (injury), Daniel Senkbeil – 8, Coltyn Sanderson – 26, Andrew Panzarella – 22.

University of Anchorage’s Seawolves Forward Lines

29 Scott Allen – 9 Blake Tatchell – 12 Alex Gellert

23 Kory Roy – 21 Matt Bailey(A) – 17 Jordan Kwas

19 Bobby Murphy – 40 Daniel Naslund – 10 Brett Cameron

20 Hayden Trupp – 26 Tyler Currier – 18 Chris Crowell(C)

UAA Seawolves Defense Pairings

3 Derek Docken – 7 Austin Coldwell

8 Scott Warner – 22 Blake Leask

5 Austin Sevalrud – 37 Chris Williams

UAA Seawolves Goalies

33 Rob Gunderson

35 Chris Kamal

Referees: Butch Mousseaux, Craig Welker
Linesmen: Andy Carton, Nathan Freeman

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• Game Notes for UND versus UAA 10/26-10/27 (thehockeywriters.com)
• Notes from the Wednesday's UND Men's Hockey press conference (thehockeywriters.com)

Saturday Morning Links

Here are some of the stories from last night’s game between UND and UAA as well as other stories from around the college hockey world.

This is what the Alaska Anchorage beat writer Doyle Woody had to say about this team’s effort last night. I am not sure he is going to win a lot of support from the UAA faithful with that kind of reporting. [Click to view]

Here is what Timothy Boger from US College Hockey on line had to say about the game last night. Balanced offensive attack guides North Dakota over Alaska-Anchorage [click to view]

Here is my break down of the game last night. [Click to link]

UND’s Virg Foss, UND Dominates in 4-1 win over Alaska Anchorage. [undsports.com]

USA Under-18 Team goalie Thatcher Demko was a beast in the net last night against the Minnesota Gophers as he stopped 39/41 shots and led the USA to a 2-2 tie against the Minnesota Gophers.

I remember not too long ago, Minnesota fans were talking about how UND was out shot by the U-18 team, in a 6-4 UND win and now their own team ties the U-18 team. Actually, the U-18 team had a 2-0 lead over the Gophers before they fought back to tie the game. [Box Score]

Michael Russo the beat writer for the Locked out Minnesota Wild, is filling in for Roman as he’s covering the WNBA Finals. It’s a shame that Russo is covering the Gophers right now, he should be covering the NHL.

Thinking of Former College Hockey players, former SCSU forward Matt Cullen and current locked Minnesota Wild forward is less than pleased about the current state of the CBA negotiations. Also, Former Wisconsin Badger Ryan Suter is less than impressed with the NHL owners and here is what he had to say about the matter.

"It's disappointing. If you can't afford to (sign contracts) then you shouldn't do it," Suter said. "(Leipold) signed us to contracts. At the time he said everything was fine. Yeah, it's disappointing. A couple months before, everything is fine, and now they want to take money out of our contracts that we already signed." [Craig Custance; ESPN.COM]

Kudos to Puck Daddy’s Greg Wyshynski for coming to the Frozen Tundra that is Grand Forks, ND. Here is the link to a interview he did with the Monique and Locelyne Lamoureux. There is some good stuff here.

You can tell when you watch girls play, which ones grew up playing boys hockey. In practice, if someone gets knocked over, you have girls that will ask 'oh, are you OK?' The ones that played against boys don't say anything. It doesn't faze them. It's part of the game.

From the same article I really like this one and thought it was funny.

So when you win, what comes out first: the Magnums of Molson or the cigars?

Monique: [Laughs] I hate beer, so probably something else. But probably a cigar for me. I love cigars.

Jocelyne: [The Canadian players] got a lot of flack for that. We would have done the same thing. And if it was guys, they would have been laughing about it.

Brad Schlossman, UND MEN'S HOCKEY: Kristo returns in win over Alaska Anchorage

Shot Charts from UAA vs UND (10/26/2012)

s/t to Stats on Crack for the Shot Charts.

UND head coach Dave Hakstol on the UAA Seawolves…

“This was a team we expected to face,” Hakstol said. Highly competitive – good players – guys that battle hard together.”

Head coach Dave Hakstol on Steph Pattyn and his line mates

“I like their whole line, Hakstol said. I like what that line did, Bryn Chyzyk was playing his first game at center, and I thought Chyzyk, Pattyn and Rodwell did their job as well as any of our four lines.”

True to form – faceoffs – senior forward Corbin Knight was solid in the faceoff dot again last night as he went 11-6. On the other side of the ice UAA forward Matt Bailey was 13-6 in the faceoff circle.

Freshmore forward Rocco Grimaldi has a 5 game scoring streak going back to last season.

I thought that UND played a completed game, or as complete of a game that you can play at this time of the season. After watching them play to exhibition games at home the first two weeks of the season and not watching them at all last weekend, I listened to both games on the radio. I think that UND made some great strides from week one to week four.

Check out international man of mystery Matt Schill and Tim Hennessy as the break down last night’s game. We’re lucky to have Matt and Tim, they're an awesome addition to UND sports.

UND 4 UAA 1

Grand Forks, ND – The University of North Dakota fresh of their split in Alaska at the Brice Goal Rush Tourney, Fairbanks, Alaska returned to home ice to play the University of Alaska Anchorage Seawolves, a team that they had played and beat last Friday night 5-0.

What was amazing with last Friday's win was UND would beat UAA using only 15 players due to team suspensions and an injury.

Tonight, UND would field a full lineup of players and this time UND would beat UAA 4-1 in front of 11,446 fans at Ralph Englestad Arena.

UND was strong in all three zones of the ice, and played a pretty solid game for 60 minutes. After the game, UND head coach Dave Hakstol agreed.

“For this time of year I thought we played with good pace,” Hakstol said. “Do we want to improve in every area? Yeah! I thought we came out and played a pretty solid game for 60 minutes.”

UND freshman goaltender Zane Gothberg got his first start of his collegiate career and became the first Thief River Falls, Minnesota native to start in goal for UND since the late UND goalie Ralph Engelstad during the 1948-49 season.

UND outshot the Seawolves 14-2 during the first period as Seawolves sophomore goalie Chris Kamal was sharp made many difficult shots to keep his team in the game.

The second period was a wild one, as UND broke the scoreless tie at the 01:10 mark of the second period when senior forward Corbin Knight scored from behind the net. Knight banked the shot off an un-expecting Seawolves defenseman Blake Leask’s skate and the puck ended up in the Seawolves net.

The shot might not have been pretty, but it counted none-the-less.

UND would strike again quickly, three minutes and 26 seconds later at the 04:46 mark, freshman forward Drake Caggiula, would score the first goal of his career, off a nice feed from Rocco Grimaldi.

Senior forward Carter Rowney would add to the lead as he scored at the 06:58 mark off a shot from the point by defenseman Dillon Simpson, 3-0 UND.

The UAA Seawolves would temporarily stop the bleeding as they cut the lead to 3-1, with a goal by senior forward Alex Gellert at the 15:39 mark.

Junior defenseman Derek Forbort would extend the lead to 4-1 when he scored on shot from the point. That would be all of the scoring in the second period as UND outshot the Seawolves 13-12.

After serving a two game suspension – Danny Kristo responded nicely with a three assists and had a strong game in all three zones of the ice tonight.  It looked like Kristo had something to prove tonight and he agreed.

“It was definitely frustrating going up to Alaska and having to sit out of both games,” Kristo said. “But it was just something; some guys had to just sit out one game. Unfortunately I had to sit out of two [games]. But, I thought I felt like I some motivation – some stuff to prove tonight. But it’s over with and I think the team is moving on – we’re just trying to move forward…”

That was all the scoring there would be in the game as Seawolves goalie Kris Kamal was solid in net and keep UND off of the board the rest of the way. UND goalie Zane Gothberg was also solid in net as he turned away 17 of 18 Seawolves shots.

Freshman forward Drake Caggiula was all smiles after the game and had this to say about scoring the first goal of his college career.

“Great feeling,” Caggiula said. “Unexplainable basically – to get that goal on home ice – no better feeling on that.”

UND and UAA will face off in game tomorrow night at 7:07 pm.

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Redwing77's First Impressions vs. UAA

A Bit of a Sidebar

First off, I want to say hello again to Goon's World and thank Goon for his patience with my idleness with posting.  Life's been busy in Omaha including my admission to the online graduate school for educational technology through... Michigan State (MSU's Educational Technology program is tops in the nation among the schools that don't require the GDP of 90% of the world's small countries to attend).  So my posting has been a bit few and far between.  I'll try to do more as time permits.

Webcast

Tuning into the Webcast today got me a stunning visage of the entryway our color guard used for the National Anthem... with no color guard present.... during the introduction of players.  It's almost as if the production crew didn't realize they were live?  And after that no sound from the booth until just prior to the commercial break before faceoff.  I've read some complaints about picture quality, but I guess my expectations for that aren't that high.  In any case, on with my rambling...

UAA?  What the heck...

I really feel bad for Skyiak and the UAA faithful (even the twink-ish trolls that have plagued us in the past) because I'm just not sure how competitive they can be in Anchorage...or why couldn't they.  Fairbanks have seen their fair share of at least decent players come through their arena and Fairbanks can't be THAT much better than Anchorage can it?  I loved Anchorage when I was there.  Small, but nice.

I'm wondering about the recruiting practices at UAA.  They've always seemed to be "We'll take the best we can get" type mentality but I also think they are very much a risk taking school taking high risk/high reward type players like Dallas Steward, Nathan Lawson, Kevin Clark, and so on.  So what happens if Shyiak recruits one of these players that don't work out?  Well, I think we're seeing it this weekend.  The UAA defense is just dreadful.  Their offense isn't much better.  Some of it is scheme but they just aren't as talented as they need to be to even be surprisingly competitive.  In other words, if they do beat a team like UND, UMN, UMD, DU, CC, or UW it will truly be surprising.  Heck, our second tier might be a surprising win (UNO, SCSU, BSU).

UAA Goaltending

What happens when you recruit a high risk player that does pan out?  Well, I believe Chris Kamal fits that category.  Yeah, we're dominant.  We dropped 4 goals on him in the second period alone.  However, how many of those goals were his fault and not set up by the poor play.  He isn't dynamic in net, so he'll rarely steal a game but that's what it seems it's going to take for Kamal to have success in Anchorage.

I texted Goon this and he seemed skeptical but I'll stand by it:  If Kamal were to play for a team like WMU or SCSU or even BSU or UNO I think Kamal would be getting far more praise as he'd be winning games.  He's truly a good player on a not very good team.

On to UND

We came out guns blazing... and nothing to show for it until early in the second period.  We outshot UAA 14 to 2 in the first period alone and looked like it was only a matter of time.  Again, 14 shots and 14 saves.  If we were THAT dominant, then Kamal looked downright phenominal.  Nevertheless, we took over once the first goal was scored.

The best goal has to be Caggiula's goal only because of the feed by Grimaldi.  WOW.  I haven't seen that kind of ability to feed the puck since Oshie and Toews.  Yeah, I'm going there.

UND Goaltending

Inevitably there's going to be the outcry for Saunders.  Gothberg has looked shaky at times thus far even in tonight's game and Saunders really has not.  Hmmmmm  probably because Saunders is a veteran.  There are all sorts of analogies I could use, but they'd spark arguments that would be beside the point.  Saunders is older, more experienced in the college game.  I expected him to be the steadier and more solid of the two out of the gates.  Saunders hasn't changed.  Just his jersey and the players in front of him.  That's not the same from Gothberg.

So, why get all uppity on Gothberg?  Because many in UND's fanbase, in my observations, seem to rush to judge and pine for the guy who makes the best first impression and rarely are dissuaded to think otherwise.  To me, it makes sense to play both Gothberg and Saunders and see big picture.

I feel that right away, Saunders is the guy that's going to take the reins.  I expect to see Saunders on Saturday night.  I'd be stunned if Gothberg plays tomorrow (even if Gothberg pitched a shutout tonight, which he did not but still...).  However, in the long run, I feel that Gothberg will be the better of the two goaltenders.  Why?  I think Saunders is about as good as he's going to get.  He's darn good, don't get me wrong, but the peak is either right upon us or well within sight.  Gothberg is just past the base starting the initial ascent.

Expect Gothberg to play rocky at times during the game but if you watched the same game I did vs. Manitoba, you would have seen some serious flashes of brilliance.  I can't wait for Goehring to bring it out of Gothberg as he grows.  Gothberg could be someone special.

My three stars for tonights game:

3.  Chris Kamal (UAA) - He doesn't play the way he did, we drop double digits on UAA easy.
2.  Derek Forbort (UND) -  He played solid all over the place
1.  Danny Kristo (UND)  - No goals, but he had 3 assists and he was ALL over the ice doing his best TJ Oshie impersonation.

There were a ton of honorable mentions like Drake Caggiula, Rocco Grimaldi, Carter Rowney, Zane Gothberg...

But anyways, I'm sure my 3rd star will arouse enough controversy for the evening.

Good work UND!

UND vs. UAA Lines game one

UND’s Forward lines

21 Brendan O’Donnell–10 Corban Knight (A)–7 Danny Kristo (A)

16 Mark MacMillan–27 Carter Rowney (A) –13 Connor Gaarder

9 Drake Caggiula–19 Rocco Grimaldi–17 Colten St. Clair

28 Steph Pattyn–29 Bryn Chyzyk–11 Derek Rodwell

UND Defense Parings 

4 Derek Forbort – 24 Jordan Schmaltz

2 Andrew MacWilliam (C) – 5 Nick Mattson

18 Dillon Simpson–20 Joe Gleason

UND Goalies 

31 Zane Gothberg

33 Clarke Saunders

Not in lineup: Michael Parks -15  (injury), Dan Senkbeil - 8, Coltyn Sanderson - 26, Andrew Panzarella -22.

The link to the real line sheet s/t UND Men's Hockey... 

Anchorage’s Forward Lines

29 Scott Allen–21 Matt Bailey (A) –17 Jordan Kwas

23 Kory Roy–40 Daniel Naslund–10 Brett Cameron

20 Hayden Trupp–9 Blake Tatchell–12 Alex Gellert

19 Bobby Murphy–26 Tyler Currier–18 Chris Crowell (C)

Seawolves Defense Pairings 

3 Derek Docken–7 Austin Coldwell

8 Scott Warner–22 Blake Leask

13 Quinn Sproule–37 Chris Williams

Seawolves Goalies 

35 Chris Kamal

33 Rob Gunderson

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• Friday Morning game day: Seawolves versus UND (ndgoon.blogspot.com)
• Game Notes for UND versus UAA 10/26-10/27 (thehockeywriters.com)
• Notes from the Wednesday's UND Men's Hockey press conference (thehockeywriters.com)

Game day: A couple of things to get you into the mood

Tonight's chat for the UND vs UAA game is here. [click to view]

Brad Schlossman was on the Pipeline show and here is the audio right here. [click to listen]

UND's Women's hockey team's games against the Minnesota Gophers will be televised this weekend on Midconet.

This weekend's games are televised by Midco Sports Net which can be viewed on Midcontinent channels 26 (analog), 322 (digital) and 622 (HD). Saturday's game will be shown on a tape delay as it will run on Sunday from 11-1:30 p.m., leading up to Sunday's game which will be shown live.[UND Women's Hockey]

Former UND forward Michale Cichy who transferred from UND to WMU and who sat out last year after transferring to WMU, catches up with the Pipe Line Show as well. [Click to listen]

Chris Peters from the United States of hockey has his CBSSports.com College Hockey Power 10, for Week three up. [Click to view]

It looks like the former UMD goalie Brady Hjelle is the OSU starter tonight against BGSU.

#BGSU_Hockey Brady Hjelle is in goal for the Buckeyes
— Kevin Gordon (@KGordonSentinel) October 26, 2012

Updated College Hockey TV schedule

Originally posted at The Hockey Writers – Combine…

If you have been scanning twitter and the various NHL webpages on the Internet you will realized that the NHL owners and NHL Players Association are nowhere near signing a new Collective Bargaining Agreement.  It’s almost as if the NHL is bound and determined to ruin the NHL in North America for good as they march towards this bizarre form of fratricide.

The two sides look like a bunch of spoiled five year olds fighting over a toy at daycare.
According to Michael Russo of the Star Tribune, the NHL is going to announce today that the league will be cancelling the entire schedule in November.

You see where this is going? The entire season hangs in the balance and is in jeopardy if the two sides don’t get back to the negotiating table.

I love the NHL and I spend hours every winter watching the greatest game on the planet, but as this lockout continues, I have become so disgruntled with the current state of affairs in the NHL, that I have almost stopped entirely looking at my favorite NHL pages. Recently, I have stuck mostly to amateur hockey leagues like the USHL, NAHL, CHL and NCAA hockey webpages.

So now that we have discussed the depressing subject that is the NHL = No Hockey League, you can settle in tonight and watch some college hockey and here is the updated schedule of college hockey games.
You can check your local listing but FCS is on the following DirecTV channels 617, 623, 626. As of right now, Dish Network does not include Fox College Sports. Games with a (C) are also available in Canada.

Fri.	Oct. 26		Anchorage at UND	FSC/Midco	7:37pm	623
Sat.	Oct. 27		Anchorage at UND	FCS/Midco	7:07pm	626
Sun.	Oct. 28		Canisius at Minnesota	FS North	2 p.m.	668/436
Fri.	Nov. 2		BU at UND	FCS/Midco/NESN	7:37pm	TBD/686/434
Fri.	Nov. 2		Minnesota State at Minnesota	FS North	8 p.m.	668 / 436
Sat.	Nov. 3		BU at UND	FCS/Midco/NESN	7:07pm	TBD/628/434
Sat.	Nov. 3		Minnesota at Minnesota State	FS North +	8 p.m.	TBD
Fri.	Nov. 9		Boston University at Merrimack	FOX College	7:30 p.m.	TBD
Thu.	Nov. 15		Notre Dame at Michigan	CBS Sports Net.	7:30 p.m.	613 / 158 (C)
Fri.	Nov. 15		UMD at UND	FCS/Midco	7:37pm	TBD
Fri	Nov. 16		UMD at UND	FCS/Midco	7:07pm	TBD
Fri.	Nov. 16		Harvard at Cornell	NBC Sports Net.	7:30 pm	603 / 159
Fri.	Nov. 16		Wisconsin at Minnesota	FS North +	8 p.m.	TBD
Fri.	Nov. 16		Denver at Colorado College	Altitude	9:30 p.m.	681 / 410
Sat.	Nov. 17		Colorado College at Denver	ROOT Sports	9 p.m.	683 / 414
Sat.	Nov. 17		Wisconsin at Minnesota	BTN	9 p.m.	610 / 439 (C)
Fri.	Nov. 23		Minnesota at Vermont	FS North +	7 p.m.	TBD
Fri.	Nov. 23		Colgate at Merrimack	FOX College	7:30 p.m.	TBD
Sat.	Nov. 24		Minnesota at Vermont	FS North	7 p.m.	668 / 436
Fri.	Nov. 30		Boston College at Boston University	NBC Sports Net.	7:30 pm	603 / 159
Fri.	Nov. 30		Ohio State at Michigan State	BTN	8 p.m.	610 / 439 (C)
Fri.	Nov. 30		Vermont at Maine	CBS Sports Net.	8 p.m.	613 / 158 (C)
Fri.	Nov. 30		Nebraska-Omaha at Minnesota	FS North +	8 p.m.	TBD
Sat.	Dec. 1		Boston University at Boston College	NBC Sports Net.	7:30 p.m.	603 / 159
Sat.	Dec. 1		Nebraska-Omaha at Minnesota	FS North +	8 p.m.	TBD
Fri.	Dec. 1		Denver University at UND	FCS/Midco	7:37pm	TBD
Fri.	Dec. 7		Michigan State at Notre Dame	NBC Sports Net.	7:30 p.m.	603 / 159
Fri.	Dec. 7		Harvard at Merrimack	FOX College	7:30 p.m.	TBD
Fri.	Dec 8		Denver University at UND	FCS/MIDCO	7:07pm	TBD
Fri.	Dec. 7		Minnesota at Colorado College	FS North +	9:30 p.m.	TBD
Sat.	Dec. 8		Maine at Boston University	CBS Sports Net.	8 p.m.	613 / 158 (C)
Sat.	Dec. 8		Minnesota at Colorado College	FS North +	9 p.m.	TBD
Fri.	Dec. 14		Miami at Ohio State	BTN	7 p.m.	610 / 439 (C)
Fri.	Dec. 14		Western Michigan at Michigan	CBS Sports Net.	7:30 p.m.	613 / 158 (C)
Thu.	Dec. 27		Michigan State vs. Western Michigan	FS Detroit	3:30 p.m.	663 / 430
Thu.	Dec. 27		Michigan vs. Michigan Tech	FS Detroit	7:30 p.m.	663 / 430
Fri.	Dec. 28		GLI Third-Place Game	FS Detroit	3:30 p.m.	663 / 430
Fri.	Dec. 28		GLI Championship Game	FS Detroit	7:30 p.m.	663 / 430
Sat.	Dec. 29		Air Force at Minnesota	FS North +	TBD	TBD
Sat.	Dec. 29		Boston University at Denver	ROOT Sports	9 p.m.	683 / 414
Sat.	Dec. 30		Boston College at Minnesota	FS North +	TBD	TBD
Fr.	Jan. 4		Holy Cross at UND	FCS/Midco	7:37pm	TBD
Fri.	Jan. 4		Colorado College at Nebraska-Omaha	NBC Sports Net.	7:30 p.m.	603 / 159
Fri.	Jan. 4		Robert Morris at Army	CBS Sports Net.	7:30 p.m.	613 / 158 (C)
Fri.	Jan. 4		Cornell at Denver	ROOT Sports	9:30 p.m.	683 / 414
Sat.	Jan. 5		Holy Cross at UND	FCS/Midco	7:07	TBD
Sat.	Jan. 5		Merrimack at Vermont	CBS Sports Net.	7:30 p.m.	613 / 158 (C)
Tue.	Jan. 8		Bowling Green at Michigan	BTN	7:30 p.m.	610 / 439 (C)
Tue.	Jan. 8		Notre Dame at Minnesota	FS North +	8 p.m.	TBD
Fri.	Jan. 11		Colorado College at UND	FCS/Midco	7:37pm	TBD
Fri.	Jan. 11		New Hampshire at Boston College	NESN	7 p.m.	628 / 434
Fri.	Jan. 11		Union at Princeton	NBC Sports Net.	7:30 p.m.	603 / 159
Fri.	Jan. 11		Alaska Anchorage at Minnesota	BTN	9 p.m.	610 / 439 (C)
Fri.	Jan. 11		Nebraska-Omaha at Denver	NBC Sports Net.	10 p.m.	603 / 159
Sat.	Jan. 12		Army at Air Force	CBS Sports Net.	6 p.m.	613 / 158 (C)
Sat.	Jan. 12		Colorado College at UND	FCS/Midco	7:07pm	TBD
Sat.	Jan. 12		Alaska at Michigan	FS Detroit +	7:30 p.m.	664 / TBD
Sat.	Jan. 12		Alaska Anchorage at Minnesota	FS North	8 p.m.	668 / 436
Sat.	Jan. 12		Nebraska-Omaha at Denver	ROOT Sports	9 p.m.	683 / 414
Fri.	Jan. 18		Northeastern at Boston University	NESN	7 p.m.	628 / 434
Fri.	Jan. 18		Harvard at Yale	NBC Sports Net.	7:30 p.m.	603 / 159
Fri.	Jan. 18		Ferris State at Michigan State	FS Detroit	7:30 p.m.	663 / 430
Fri.	Jan. 18		North Dakota at Minnesota	FS North	8 p.m.	668 / 436
Sat.	Jan. 19		North Dakota at Minnesota	FS North	6 p.m.	668 / 436
Sat.	Jan. 19		Alaska at Notre Dame	CBS Sports Net	7 p.m.	613 / 158 (C)
Fri.	Jan. 25		Maine at Boston College	NESN	7 p.m.	628 / 434
Fri.	Jan. 25		Yale at Cornell	NBC Sports Net.	7:30 p.m.	603 / 159
Fri.	Jan. 25		Ferris State at Notre Dame	CBS Sports Net.	7:30 p.m.	613 / 158 (C)
Fri.	Jan. 25		Saint Cloud State at UND	FCS/Midco	7:07pm	TBD
Fri.	Jan. 25		Minnesota State at Minnesota	BTN	8 p.m.	610 / 439 (C)
Sat.	Jan. 26		Penn State at Michigan State	BTN	6 p.m.	610 / 439 (C)
Sat.	Jan. 26		Saint Cloud State at UND	FCS/Midco	7:07pm	TBD
Sat.	Jan. 26		Providence at Boston University	NESN	7 p.m.	628 / 434
Sat.	Jan. 26		Michigan at Western Michigan	FS Detroit	7:30 p.m.	663 / 430
Sat.	Jan. 26		Minnesota at Minnesota State	FS North	8 p.m.	668 / 436
Fri.	Feb. 1		Michigan State at Michigan	BTN	6:30 p.m.	610 / 439 (C)
Fri.	Feb. 1		UMass Lowell at Merrimack	NESN	7 p.m.	628 / 434
Fri.	Feb. 1		University of Wisconsin at UND	FCS/Midco	7:07pm	TBD
Fri.	Feb. 1		Dartmouth at Union	NBC Sports Net.	7:30 p.m.	603 / 159
Sat.	Feb. 2		Michigan vs. Michigan State (JLA)	FS Detroit	4 p.m.	663 / 430
Sat.	Feb. 2		University of Wisconsin at UND	FCS/Midco	7:07pm	TBD
Fri.	Feb. 8		North Dakota at Nebraska-Omaha	NBC Sports Net.	7:30 p.m.	603 / 159
Fri.	Feb. 8		Michigan at Notre Dame	CBS Sports Net.	7:30 p.m.	613 / 158 (C)
Fri.	Feb. 8		Minnesota at St. Cloud State	FS North +	8:30 p.m.	TBD
Fri.	Feb. 8		Colorado College at Denver	ROOT Sports	9:30 p.m.	683 / 414
Sat.	Feb. 9		Massachusetts at Merrimack	NESN	3:30 p.m.	628 / 434
Sat.	Feb. 9		Minnesota at St. Cloud State	FS North +	8 p.m.	TBD
Sun.	Feb. 10		Providence at New Hampshire	CBS Sports Net.	4 p.m.	613 / 158 (C)
Fri.	Feb. 15		Northern Michigan at Michigan State	BTN	6:30 p.m.	610 / 439 (C)
Fri.	Feb. 15		Boston University at Maine	NBC Sports Net.	7:30 p.m.	603 / 159
Fri.	Feb. 15		Notre Dame at Miami	CBS Sports Net.	7:30 p.m.	613 / 158 (C)
Fri.	Feb. 15		Minnesota at Wisconsin	FS North	8 p.m.	668 / 436
Sat.	Feb. 16		Bowling Green at Ferris State	FS Detroit	5 p.m.	663 / 430
Sat.	Feb. 16		Boston University at Maine	NESN	7 p.m.	628 / 434
Sat.	Feb. 16		Northern Michigan at Michigan State	FS Detroit	7:30 p.m.	663 / 430
Sun.	Feb. 17		Minnesota vs. Wisconsin (Soldier Field)	BTN	4:30 p.m.	610 / 439 (C)
Sun.	Feb. 17		Notre Dame vs. Miami (Soldier Field)	FS Detroit	TBD	663 / 430
Fri.	Feb. 22		New Hampshire at Vermont	NESN	7 p.m.	628 / 434
Fri.	Feb. 22		Yale at Quinnipiac	NBC Sports Net.	7:30 p.m.	603 / 159
Fri.	Feb. 22		Notre Dame at Western Michigan	CBS Sports Net.	7:30 p.m.	613 / 158 (C)
Fri.	Feb. 22		Minnesota Duluth at Minnesota	FS North +	8 p.m.	TBD
Fri.	Feb. 22		North Dakota at Denver	NBC Sports Net.	10 p.m.	603 / 159
Sat.	Feb. 23		New Hampshire at Vermont	CBS Sports Net.	4 p.m.	613 / 158 (C)
Sat.	Feb. 23		Minnesota Duluth at Minnesota	BTN	8 p.m.	610 / 439 (C)
Sat.	Feb. 23		North Dakota at Denver	ROOT Sports	9 p.m.	683 / 414
Sun.	Feb. 24		Boston College at Merrimack	CBS Sports Net.	4 p.m.	613 / 158 (C)
Fri.	Mar. 1		Wisconsin at Nebraska-Omaha	NBC Sports Net.	7:30 p.m.	603 / 159
Fri.	Mar. 1		Ferris State at Michigan	CBS Sports Net.	7:30 p.m.	613 / 158 (C)
Fri.	Mar. 1		Bemidji State at UND	FCS/Midco	7:37pm	TBD
Fri.	Mar. 1		Denver at Minnesota	BTN	8 p.m.	610 / 439 (C)
Sat.	Mar. 2		Hockey East Game TBD	NESN	4 p.m.	628 / 434
Sat.	Mar. 2		Bemidji State at UND	FCS/Midco	7:07pm
Sat.	Mar. 2		Ferris State at Michigan	FS Detroit	7:30 p.m.	663 / 430
Sat.	Mar. 2		Denver at Minnesota	FS North	8 p.m.	668 / 436
Sun.	Mar. 3		UMass Lowell at Merrimack	CBS Sports Net.	4 p.m.	613 / 158 (C)
Fri.	Mar. 8		Maine at New Hampshire	NBC Sports Net.	7:30 p.m.	603 / 159
Fri.	Mar. 8		Boston University at Northeastern	CBS Sports Net.	7:30 p.m.	613 / 158 (C)
Fri.	Mar. 8		Massachusetts at Merrimack	FOX College	7:30 p.m.	TBD
Fri.	Mar. 8		Minnesota at Bemidji State	FS North	8:30 p.m.	668 / 436
Sat.	Mar. 9		Minnesota at Bemidji State	FS North +	8 p.m.	TBD
Fri.	Mar 15		TBD vs UND	FCS/Midco	7:37pm	TBD
Fri.	Mar. 15		Hockey East Quarterfinal	NBC Sports Net.	7 p.m.	603 / 159
Fri.	Mar. 15		CCHA Second Round	FS Detroit	7 p.m.	663 / 430
Sat.	Mar. 15		TBD vs. UND	FCS/Midco	7:07pm	TBD
Sat.	Mar. 16		Hockey East Quarterfinal	NESN	4 p.m.	628 / 434
Sun.	Mar. 17		Hockey East Quarterfinal	NESN	4:30 p.m.	628 / 434
Thu.	Mar. 21		WCHA Final Five	FSN	2:00/7:07	668/ 436
Thu.	Mar. 22		WCHA Final Five	FSN	2:00/7:07	668/ 436
Fri.	Mar. 22		Hockey East Semifinal	NBC Sports Net.	4 p.m.
Fri.	Mar. 22		Hockey East Semifinal	NBC Sports Net.	7 p.m.	603 / 159
Sat.	Mar. 23		CCHA Semifinal	FS Detroit	1 p.m.	603 / 159
Sat.	Mar. 23		CCHA Semifinal	FS Detroit	4:30 p.m.	663 / 430
Sat.	Mar. 23		Hockey East Championship	NBC Sports Net.	7 p.m.	663 / 430
Sat.	Mar. 23		WCHA Final Five	FSN	7:00pm	668/ 436
Sun.	Mar. 24		CCHA Championship	FS Detroit	2 p.m.	603 / 159
Sun.	Mar. 24		NCAA Selection Show	ESPNU	9 p.m.	663 / 430
			NCAA Regional Coverage	ESPNU	TBD	208 / 141
Thu.	Apr. 11		NCAA Semifinal	TBD	4:30 p.m.	208 / 141
Thu.	Apr. 11		NCAA Semifinal	TBD	8 p.m.
Sat.	Apr. 13		NCAA Championship	TBD	7 p.m.

Friday Morning game day: Seawolves versus UND

Good morning the WCHA regular season opener is finally here for UND, after going shorthanded in both games that they played in last weekend, UND finally has a full lineup to choose from and there will be tough some decisions to be made by the coaching staff and there will be a few UND hockey players sitting out this weekend.

This will be the first time since December 9 of last season that UND will have a healthy scratch.

Carter Rowney on having a full lineup and extra players in the line up.

“I think it’s huge for our team,” Rowney said. “Because the more people push each other… its better – you know – coming every day to practice and having each person pushing one another – I think that’s only going to make our team improve.”

Brad Schlossman hits on this subject in today’s Grand Forks Herald.

In retrospect, It would also appear that UND losing Stefan Matteau to the CHL last year isn’t such a bad thing after all.

Stefan Matteau, a first-round NHL pick who backed out of his commitment to UND last January to play Canadian major juniors, was suspended this week for the second time this season. Matteau’s first suspension was for a hit to the head. The second one was for a hit from behind — one bad enough that his own team added another game onto the league’s suspension. Matteau also served a seven-game suspension in the USHL last season.[Brad Schlossman, Grand Forks Herald]

A Tradition of Excellence devised his all WCHA NHL line chart.

Game Notes for UND versus UAA 10/26-10/27; The Hockey Writers Combine

From A Tradition of Excellence – North Dakota vs. UAA: Notes & Links

Here is Doyl Woody's perspective on tonight's game; Here's a historically encouraging way of looking at UAA's WCHA series in Grand Forks

Here is a article about former UND Hockey Player Michael Cichy; Worth the Wait

Friday's @undmhockey game will be on DirectTV 623 and Saturday's will be on 626. Sunday's @undwhockey game will be on 623.
— Jayson Hajdu (@UNDSID) October 25, 2012

Extended interview with Jeff Dubay

Here is the link to the interview [click to view]

If you haven't seen it, this is worth a look. Randy Shaver interviews former KFAN radio host Jeff Dubay... Keep it up Jeff, you can beat this thing.

Former PSU Recruit Thomas Welsh makes Team Canada East Selection Camp

Cross Posted at the Hockey Writers - Combine...

I just found out via email this morning, that former PSU recruit Thomas Welsh has been selected to the final evaluation camp for Team Canada East, in hopes of playing in the 2012 World Junior A Challenge.

Welsh is a kid that I have profiled the blog on two previous instances for Inside Hockey. [Link 1] and [link 2]

Welsh had committed to play at Penn State over going to the OHL but changed his mind and decommitted from PSU and is currently considering his options, the NCAA and the OHL are both options that he is considering.

Q: I read on a blog that your son’s rights were traded from Sarnia to Mississauga. Is the CHL still an option as well?

Mike Welsh: Thomas was initially drafted by Sarnia in 2011 but was recently traded to the Steelheads this spring (2012).  There has been some discussion with the Steelheads but that is as far as it goes.  Thomas will need to explore other Div 1 schools.

The selection camp is scheduled for Oct. 28-31, will be held at the MasterCard Centre in Toronto, Canada.

Pumped to have made the final selection camp for team canada hockey east. And congrats to all other players.
— Thomas Welsh (@thomas_welsh) October 24, 2012

Thomas found out he was selected to Team Canada East selection camp roster on October, 18, the day after his father Mike died from throat cancer.

In memory of my Dad, Rest In Peace. WIll forever love you, your loving son, Thomas.smithsfh.com/book-of-memori…
— Thomas Welsh (@thomas_welsh) October 19, 2012

According to a Tradition of Excellence, UND Hockey recruits Wade Murphy Penticton-BCHL)Adam Tambellini (Vernon-BCHL) are expected to take part in the WJAC Canada West selection camp as well so there is a good chance that Thomas Welsh could cross paths with UND recruits Murphy and Tambellini in November.