Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs men's ice hockey

So, uh, we will see.

And I was just thinking, if Brad Berry is hired there, the NCHC will have Dane Jackson at North Dakota, would have Brad Berry at Arizona State, Scott Sandelin at Minnesota Duluth, and associate head coach Jason Herder at Western Michigan.

That is quite the Geno Gasparini coaching tree around the NCHC, huh?

Yeah.

And I think he's settled in and maybe a little bit more comfortable now, just from reading what he had to say to you after the game.

Well, that, that would be my, like, I, I definitely don't wanna speak for Anthony, and I don't wanna try to, or, you know, who knows exactly what, um, what his thoughts are.

But I, I, you notice he, he's, he was on those Minnesota Duluth teams.

He, he had eight goals his freshman year.

But before we do that, let's catch up on one news item that came out after we recorded last week.

And that's the first six players named To the team that will compete at the Spangler Cup, the U.S. Collegiate Selects, they named their first six, three defensemen, Tyler Dunbar, Ty Hanson, Evan Muir, excuse me, and Max Plant from Minnesota Duluth, and Hayden Stavroff from Dartmouth, the forwards, Lawton Zocker from Northeastern, the first goalie.

And for those unaware, any returning All-American gets an automatic invitation back.

Obviously, they don't necessarily have to accept it, but they do receive that automatic invite.

You know they're going to put up a lot of goals.

Michigan looked really good.

You know Minnesota Duluth won a pair of games.

And then I'm missing one other one.

They named their first six.

Three defensemen, Tyler Dunbar, Ty Hanson, Evan Murr, uh, Muir, excuse me, and Max Plant from Minnesota Duluth, and Hayden Stavro from Dartmouth, the forwards.

Lawton Zucker from Northeastern, the first goalie.

And for those unaware, any returning All-American gets an automatic invitation back.

You know, Quinnipiac, uh, looks like, you know, they're gonna put up a lot of goals.

Michigan looked really good.

Um, you know, Minnesota Duluth won a pair of games.

Um, and then I'm missing one other one.

But I saw a lot of resilience out of this team.

It, it was hearkening back to the team from two years ago in you- I, I think specifically back to game two of the NCHC quarterfinal series against Minnesota Duluth falling behind 3-0 and pulling out a 6 to 5 win.

You know, I, I saw that same level of compete.

I saw that same level of, you know, playing a full 60 minutes.

So before we go to break, let's, let's talk about this real quickly.

Colorado College was dominant, as you mentioned, Paul.

Um, so if you talk North Dakota, Western Michigan, the Denver Pioneers, um, Minnesota Duluth, Colorado College, where do we draw the line to say where the, the dividing line is between upper and lower in the, uh, NCHC? Is it six deep now? Is it five deep?

No, no, it's not yet.

You just, you know, you know, you just, they just gotta do it in, uh, in regulation, not overtime, so.

All right, and the final one that was a sweep that I have, at least, uh, in front of me, Minnesota Duluth, uh, hosts Long Island.

It was pretty scary.

Game one on Friday night.

Uh, but Minnesota Duluth pulled away with a 7-4 victory at AMSOIL Arena.

And, uh, Saturday night, a, uh, little more dominating performance, I think, for the Bulldogs.

4-0, 4-nothing, whatever you wanna say.

4-nothing, yeah.