MN_Gopher
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Well, its time a lot of changes. Even threads i guess. Go Gophers. 2011 NCAA Champions.
I'd worry about making it to the tourney first.Well, its time a lot of changes. Even threads i guess. Go Gophers. 2011 NCAA Champions.
No shot about arrogance...you're getting soft Dakota ______.I'd worry about making it to the tourney first.
Friendly jab.
I leave the arrogance to rodent fans.No shot about arrogance...you're getting soft Dakota ______.
Just returning the friendly jab.
I leave the arrogance to rodent fans.
The Gophers will need to see some improvements from pretty much everyone on their roster as well as some big contributions from some of the incoming freshman in order to make the NCAA tourney next year.
It will be interesting to see who on this team steps up and takes on a leadership role. If anyone...
As bad as the last few years have gone. I like the team for next year.
We have a lot of guys to choose from. Its not one extra D man and one forward or two. We could can a whole line if they perform poorly.
We do not have a go to guy. It was Schroeder last yeat, Stoa, Wheeler. it was obvious. This year it will be easy for tDon to create some urgency for playing time. Force players to work hard.
We have players will something to prove. Cepis did not come here to not win. Barriball did not red shirt to play .500 hockey. Kangas will be a senior and has yet to win an NCAA game. Fairchild wants his two year ago form back. White does not want to be a bust any more. if they step up thats another story.
Ambroz might be playing for the number 1 overal selection next year.
Buddish will be looking for a nice ro deal.
Matson. Stay healthy, thats all.
Its alot of what ifs. I would imagine at least one Vannelli will come through and the fresh will surprise. And its more of the same. new coach.
They definitely have a bunch guys that have a lot to prove. They really could use a defenseman with a big shot that can run the power play. They actually need more forwards who can shoot well.
The defensemen need to play more physical and keep traffic from Kangas. The dmen they have are too small and get out muscled too easily -- especially Ness.
They need more guys who can go to the net and get garbage goals, like Cepis. Too often in the past, guys have been looking to score the "pretty" goals.
Having depth is good, but guys need to step it up and create some more competition on the team for starting spots.
Schmidt has a rocket of a shot.
I think Ness is OK. Its when you are forced to compliment Ness with Wehrs that hurts. Helegson should play all games and will help.
Amroz is not a sniper, yet, but will play like or i hope he can play like Grant Potulny as a freshmen and just be a house in front.
I agree. we need to score lots of ugly goals. Or hope White and Hoeffel can carry the goal scoring load.
I forgot about Hoeffel...he will be key. He should be the go-to guy along with Barriball. White needs to step it up. I still can't believe he was a 1st round draft pick.
They need someone that can go to the net and get some goals. Last year nobody would go hard to the net and everyone was content with taking shots from outside.
I think Ness was with Fairchild and both are too undersized. They need to be paired with more of a stay at home d-man.
Is Schmidt playing next year? I don't like seeing Lucia bringing in these guys early from high school. They need more seasoning before they can make any impact.
White actually played pretty well towards the end of the season. I'm excited to see what he can do next year.I forgot about Hoeffel...he will be key. He should be the go-to guy along with Barriball. White needs to step it up. I still can't believe he was a 1st round draft pick.
They need someone that can go to the net and get some goals. Last year nobody would go hard to the net and everyone was content with taking shots from outside.
I think Ness was with Fairchild and both are too undersized. They need to be paired with more of a stay at home d-man.
Is Schmidt playing next year? I don't like seeing Lucia bringing in these guys early from high school. They need more seasoning before they can make any impact.
White actually played pretty well towards the end of the season. I'm excited to see what he can do next year.
Agree and hopefully that's what Barriball and maybe someone like Bjugstad or Ambroz brings next year. You don't need all size, but you need some physicality and the U missed that last season.
Ness was only with Fairchild during the PP for part of the year although I do agree with what you wrote.
Schmidt will be playing next year at the U along with Mark Alt.
Didn't that happen like two weeks ago?
Two Gophers turning down the Islanders because they don't have a properly developed arena. Good times.Sat 03 Jul 2010
ARTHUR STAPLE
Unfortunately, Islanders fans, it is the building.
Garth Snow and the Isles got on the free-agent scoreboard Friday, adding four players, including veteran defensemen Mark Eaton and Milan Jurcina . Eaton won a Stanley Cup with Pittsburgh in 2009 and Penguins general manager Ray Shero called him "a quiet leader for us."
That's the good news.
The bad news is this: Snow made a tremendous pitch to get one of the elite free-agent defensemen, but they signed elsewhere Thursday. Paul Martin got a better offer from the Islanders than the five-year, $25- million contract he signed with the Penguins; Dan Hamhuis got a better offer from the Islanders than the six-year, $27-million deal he signed with the Canucks.
Former Devils defenseman Martin talked directly with Snow and asked him point-blank about Nassau Coliseum and what the situation was with the building, with the proposed Lighthouse project, with all of it.
"Garth was honest with him," Ben Hankinson, Martin 's agent, told Newsday. "Garth said the team was there for five more years. And I could just see it in Paul 's face . . . That building is going to be a huge hurdle for Garth to overcome with free agents like Paul ..."
Two Gophers turning down the Islanders because they don't have a properly developed arena. Good times.
He is pretty much gone.Ness may follow.