A great remedy to a dreadful football game, watch the #1 hockey team!

These guys are fun to watch skate. I also like both goalies. Winter sports should bring plently of W's this year hopefully.

Wow, what a spanking!! We're scoring at ease!!

5-0 early in the 2nd at the time of this post.

Go Gophers!!

Not even close to competitive.

Fun to watch, that's for sure.

Lucia has built a powerhouse team with amazing depth, teams will not have a shift to rest easy against

Wow its early, but these guys look to have some serious firepower.

Cautiously optimistic. A beatdown of MSU is a good sign. That sort of firepower will overcome any rookie-like tendencies that our goaltenders may have these first few weeks.



It would really help my heart if I had just one team, amongst all the underachieving teams (and one locked out one), who steamrolled its way through its entire schedule and lived up to the hype.

MrGopher said:

Cautiously optimistic. A beatdown of MSU is a good sign. That sort of firepower will overcome any rookie-like tendencies that our goaltenders may have these first few weeks.

It would really help my heart if I had just one team, amongst all the underachieving teams (and one locked out one), who steamrolled its way through its entire schedule and lived up to the hype.

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I'm with ya. I try to never get too high or too low on any team I follow. But I have to say, at this point, Lucia's guys look the part of a juggernaut in the making. The way they took apart Michigan State was quite impressive. Just have to take it a weekend at a time and see where that leads. However, if they continue to play the way they did this weekend, it's going to be a fun year.

Knowledgeable ones: How does the scoring this weekend break down by line? I'm hearing about the distribution of wealth; how does it look on paper? What an impressive debut. I'm hoping this opening act reveals a genuine hunger to finish well. I have not seen them dominate MSU like that in recent memory, over an entire two game series!

Go Gophers!

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Knowledgeable ones: How does the scoring this weekend break down by line? I'm hearing about the distribution of wealth; how does it look on paper? What an impressive debut. I'm hoping this opening act reveals a genuine hunger to finish well. I have not seen them dominate MSU like that in recent memory, over an entire two game series!

Go Gophers!

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I'm not sure about how many points each line had on the weekend, but I did some rudimentary math and saw that nine different guys scored goals and 14 different guys had at least one point on the weekend. That's scary good balance for a weekend of hockey. From a depth perspective, this is the deepest squad we've had in a long time.

Forwards:
First line (Rau-Bjugstad-Isackson): 3 goals (1 each), 5 assists (Rau/Isackson 2, Bjugstad 1)
Second line (Warning-Haula-Budish): 2 goals (both by Haula), 6 assists (Budish 4, Warning/Haula 1)
Third line (Condon-Boyd-Ambroz): 2 goals (Condon/Boyd 1), 3 assists (Ambroz 2, Condon 1)
Fourth line (Serratore-Michaelson-Parenteau Fri; Serratore-Ryan Reilly Sat.): 1 goal (Serratore), 1 assist (R. Reilly)

Defense:
Schmidt-Skjei: 1 goal (Skjei), 2 assists (1 each)
Marshall-Helgeson: 2 goals (both by Marshall)
Mike Reilly-Alt: 1 goal (Alt), 2 assists (1 each)
Holl: Had two assists Saturday playing in a hybrid 4th line forward/special teams D role

It's an impressive distribution against MSU with ten different players throughout the team scoring 12 goals. Friday night had goals from 3 of the 4 lines while all 4 scored Saturday. Not only that but the defense, which only scored 22 goals total last year, popped in 4 in 2 games.

There were only 5 players who saw ice time this weekend and didn't score a point this weekend and two of those were the goalies. As talented as the top-six is, having secondary scoring makes Minnesota that much more dangerous.