Oh… it’s a Jason episode.
We’re going to talk a lot about Lemay, aren’t we? We bemoaned his loss. We’re celebrating his return. I didn’t really see much of him on the ice. So was the sweep a coincidence, or is he a ‘clubhouse guy’ – whose presence is the boost?
Pretty $5 goal from the Randl-Miller combination. Give Randl credit for threading that pass through the defender – in soccer, they call that ‘nutmeg’.
Jason is droning on about something. I think he’s saying what I’ve been thinking about this team: there is no team Omaha can’t compete against, there is no team that can’t compete against Omaha. It’s a very interesting spectrum to exist in.
I was down on Kucharski about both goals against. When Pivonka scored his squeaker, I turned to my dad and said: “last really bad goal wins.”
OK, Jason does have a point about a lack of snipers. That is something we highlighted early in the season. Who was going to be the scorer. There is no dynamic player on this roster – we’re just interchangeable parts. (Circle back to this later when we start talking about incoming talent.)
“One note piano.” Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuup.
Wonder if #PointyBull was brought out for national television audience…. Or if AD is finally listening on the boring white sweaters.
Split was never acceptable this weekend. When you take 4 of 6 points against a team on the road, the MINIMUM is 5 of 6 at home. We accomplished that with the sweep.
Precarious one-goal lead. Duluth killed the 5-on-3 – and we looked lost – and I thought Duluth was going to win. I think back to a 2006 (?) Northern Michigan game, and standing next to the late JH as Omaha killed a 5-on-3. (Maybe more on that later, if you ask.)
Slipec’s goal – there’s your bounce.
We’ve seen the movie, Jon.
Great to see Zab get some time. He’s put in the time (3.5 years), he’s earned come ice time. Don’t want to sell it short as ‘mop-up’ duty. I think Gabs might have done him right, and maybe played him Senior Night – if only for a shift.
Consummate team player.
Shocked Omaha are in the first division. Aside from Denver and Miami (OF OHIO), it feels like the standings are inverted from what we expected at the start of the season.
Jason: please see my earlier comment about ‘competing’.
Definitely need results against the Redhawks. But, I need to right myself with the hockey gods. What the acceptable amount of Kokanee and poutine to offer them?
Ray Fust is player of the week. No to Zab… though sentimental. Fust and Pivonka feel like similar players. I think we didn’t know what to expect from either. Any offense from either is a bonus: like Nogard and Sunny.
Jason does have a good idea with drawing submissions and tweeting them out. They’ve done the player trivia contest before – I think it was two truths and a lie.
No banquet space. LINDA CARTER?
No banquet space… just something else they forget when they shoe-horned everything into the arena?
Oh, you’re one of those, Jon? Dead to me. Don’t light the marshmallows on fire.
Yes, trust the process.
Jon! No video of your wife eating!
I don’t think Gabinet will get offers elsewhere. Gabs is here as long as he wants to be, and I think the connection to his alma mater will keep him teathered.
The flags… love them. Needs to be a staple of any future Omaha sweater. One of those things where we set a trend.
Sweaters! They’re hockey sweaters! Not jerseys.
Next weekend: dread.
Do not underestimate the mental advantages Miami (OF OHIO) have over us. They know they can compete with us and win. Persson plays with incredible confidence against us.
Red Savage… now go look at what Miami were before ‘Redhawks’. Then join me in a sensitivity training course.
…and I still say Gabinet needs to shake up the strategy against any team Mannino has a connection to. Part of coaching and teaching is knowing the weaknesses in your system and how to exploit them. Mannino knew them, took them to Oxford, took them to the Springs, and Brekke at St. Lawrence knows them through his connections to Bergeron.
Miami wins both nights. One in overtime. Quinn and I will be wearing paper bags over our heads, then this happens. Quinn will be the one griping about the extension given to Gabinet.
Go Mavs.
