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And Miami challenged it. More reviews.
6-10 minute delay in Omaha just to give out 10 minutes misconducts.
Makes for an awful entertainment product.
Mavs needed a win this weekend to stay in the playoff hunt and they got it.
Next week is an opportunity to show the growth they’ve made this year.
I hope the players in the locker room believe that, too.
The Mavs were clearly frustrated and disappointed with the results last week.
The messaging just highlights what makes Omaha a good program. No calling out players. Just acknowledging they need to do it together and put in the work.
That’s an environment built for success. It’s gonna come.
Strongly recommend watching every one of Aaron's clips of this Bash/ Bovino interview. This is how you do it. Keep asking the question, show video & photo evidence to do real time, as it happens fact checking.
Also: look out for the new DHS talking point: "freeze frame adjudication"
A breakdown of yesterday’s murder by ICE from a former MP in Afghanistan.
youtu.be/qjN73-gn90Q
Here's the call that set up the PP.
Such a weak call, especially if you no-call the hold that gave WMU possession.
Obviously not the result the Mavs wanted tonight. They played really good win last night, and did for long stretches tonight.
I really don't like that the difference bad goal review was the difference between OT and a loss.
Gotta keep it going!
We're trending back to the days of bad officiating.
The @thenchc.bsky.social is at their best when they let them play. You could call a weak hold, but we don't want those calls.
But it's most certainly not a cross-check.
Details matter and missing details makes one question what they saw.
My candidate for @thenchc.bsky.social "Bad Review of the Year".
Goalie interference isn't that hard.
Step 1: Did the goalie have the ability to defend the goal within the crease without interference from the attacking player?
If no, stop there. It's not goal. It's really that easy.
Not seeing what? A trip?
I'm sorry, how is this not a trip 100% of the time, @thenchc.bsky.social?
NCAA hockey can’t have campus sites for the regionals, but NCAA football will use campus sites for their national championship.
It would be cool to see if anyone has anyone played in the Spengler Cup, Olympics and World Championships in the same year.
Interesting that BC was exploring adding a player to the roster that had previously signed an ELC.
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I said it previously, but what makes this Omaha Hockey season so tough is that this program has consistently found ways to outperform expectations. They haven't this year. They aren't far off, which makes the losses harder.
On the plus side, this is a young team. They just gotta keep going.
Mavs played 40 minutes of really good hockey on Friday and 50 minutes on Saturday.
Too many one-off mistakes to get wins.
On the plus side, Loranger has been unreal the last 4 games (including exhibition).
It’s really hard to separate the noise from progress right now with Omaha.
Mavs’ last 6 games have been good. Likely should have been 3-3 or better over that stretch. Instead sitting 1-5.
The noise is the injury/team bug. D1, C2, and 1G all out of the lineup.
One last game before a reset.
This stretch is a hard place to live. The margins are thin, the variance has been brutal, and that combination can snowball if confidence slips. Luck eventually corrects itself, but only if teams stay committed to the details. If Omaha keeps its footing here, the results will come with it.
It’s also worth pausing to recognize Omaha’s identity. This program has consistently taken undervalued players and developed them into rosters capable of competing at this level. They have done it so well that it has quietly reset expectations. That does not mean the process is always perfect.
And yet, to make matters harder, they are going through a period of awful puck luck.
Based on CHN's xG, Omaha profiles as roughly a 5–5 team over the last 10 games with a 49.2% xG share. A 2–8 record occurs only about 6% of the time. That is real variance showing up all at once.
In the meantime, Omaha cannot simply outscore mistakes, especially against elite opponents. One missed detail, one failed clear, one lost coverage carries more weight when you are facing rosters with more NHL draft picks and higher-end skill.
All progress isn't linear and there have been some bumps
It's a combination of things.
Omaha has to develop players. It is not a plug and play roster. The fact that last year’s leading scorer was not even in Wisconsin’s lineup the year before highlights the quality of overall development happening here. That development takes time.
It’s easy to feel frustrated with how Omaha Hockey’s season has gone so far. They are 2–8 over their last 10, sit 38th in NPI and 31st in KRACH, and have played the nation’s toughest schedule. So what’s actually going on? 🧵
Another loss to UND but the Mavs were much better taking care of the details. Still not fully there, but way better.
If they put that focus into the details the rest of the year, they will grow and they will be alright.
This comes from a place of empathy, not critique.
Omaha Hockey is in a tough place. The margins in the NCAA are tiny, and while hockey can feel unfair, it still rewards teams that take care of the details. Until that happens consistently, the results won’t turn. When it does, they will.
Looks like they updated the penalties late last night.
UND's Laurila changed from fighting major to grabbing facemask.
Omaha's Hyland still with a major for interference.
Omaha's Tschigerl and UND's Strathmann still with fighting majors (w/ DQ).
Here’s the end of the Omaha/UND game. Head over to Instagram for my full breakdown (too long to upload here).
Officials got so much wrong here.
The league needs to step in to fix it.
They issued a bunch of fighting majors for not fighting.
