Penalties are going to happen but there were two killers: Nick Canzanello's cross-check during a scrum that ended up being an additional penalty on an otherwise coincidental situation and Joe Schiller's roughing penalty in the third period that ended up getting coupled with a Zach Harrison tripping call for the 5x3.
Mavericks coach Troy Jutting wouldn't comment on specific penalties (presumably that was addressed in the locker room) but he did say there were a couple that he wasn't happy with. Canzanello's penalty came shortly after his team had killed off Eriah Hayes' five-minute major for checking from behind.
Justin Fontaine, Mike Connolly and Jack Connolly are simply too good to play against short-handed too often. Bulldogs coach Scott Sandelin even called a timeout before the 5x3 situation started in order to rest his stars and put them back on the ice.
Mike Louwerse and Justin Jokinen were the goal scorers for the Mavericks, who led 2-0 in the first period. Freshman goalie Kevin Murdock was solid with 30 saves. Not much he could do about any of the goals.
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That penalty by Zach Harrison that gave UMD the 5 on 3 was very stupid by him. Despite MSUM already having a penalty, there was no way in that situation the refs would let him get away with that. If I was Jutting I would have been furious with Harrison.
Seemed to me the Mavericks had more close misses than the Dogs did Saturday night.
When are you going to realize nothing is going to change with Jutting at the helm? Preseason WCHA poll is looking awefully good at 9th. He doesn't discipline the right players. Can't judge talent and has no control. Youds has his issues at "D" and now you move him to a forward? We are already thin a "D". If he leaves him at forward for the weekend with Hayes out I know he and Blue have lost it. Does anyone know of an booster that will buy out Jutting's contract? We need to clean house.
Whoa. Slow down. It's two weeks into the season. A couple of points of clarification: MSU was not picked ninth in either of the preseason polls. ... Youds was not moved to D because he has issues there. Rather, they were short a forward on Saturday and moved him up front. He actually played quite well. ... Hayes is not out this weekend. He got a game misconduct, not a a DQ.
Nick Canzenello's penalty was by far the worst penalty on the weekend. He cross checked a player three times while he was on the ground. I do agree that there needs to be some more discipline action. A senor should know better than that. Zach Harrison was going for the puck and was trying to make something happen. It was a marginal call. I hope Nick does not play this weekend, I hope that Cameron Cooper takes his place. Cooper is a smarter player.
The only problem with the D is that we should pick the best four for penalty killing. You can't have these offensive defensman penalty killing. They don't have a clue. Second on 5 on 5 they have done a good job. The few goals scored 5 on 5 were due to some soft goaltending in the first game and forwards who didn't pick up late guys coming in and didn't work hard in the neutral zone. The second game UMD scored no full strength goals. And you think our D is weak amazing. The problem is the forwards have to finish. We won't win games not scoring. I agree on the discipline issue. You would think it would be the freshman taking dumb penalties the first few games but its the vets.
I stand corrected. Move us up one one notch to "8th" in the preseason polls. That will get to us the playoffs. How many years has Jutting gotten us to NCAA playoffs anyway since going D-1? Larger than life is correct. Forwards that are late into the zone and don't help play "D" and "D" that are too offensive minded to play "D". Maybe we are weak at both Offense and defense?
I have to agree with Shane, I never saw us rated 8th or 9th in the preseason polls. The point is not that we are weak in any area just that the discipline is not there to play their positions. You can be an offensive D at the right time but not on every shift. I don't blame the coaches to the extent some apparently do. These players are in the top 1% in the country ( yes to make it to D1 you have to be in the top 1%). They know what to do and when to do it. Its just discipline. I feel they are working hard but critical mistakes(bad penalties for ex.) are killing us. The coaches don't tell them to do it but the coaches do have to hold them accountable. But I do think we are all getting way to excited this early. We need to give this team a chance and stand behind them and that includes the coaches. End of the year is the time to look back and rationaly discuss what happened. Just some thoughts.
Check the preseason coaches poll in the WCHA website. Listed under Men's releases. Dated September 29, 2009 "Conference Wide Media Selection-Denver" Looks like 8 to me. Kind of interesting.
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