"Dave Hakstol" is the current head coach for the University of North Dakota University of North Dakota men's ice hockey/men's ice hockey team. Hakstol was a player for the Fighting Sioux from 1989 to 1992. He was born in Drayton Valley, Alberta, Canada but currently resides in Grand Forks, North Dakota/Grand Forks, ND.

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Those two guys we have in back will have a lot of stability for us. They can give a lot of confidence to the guys playing in front of them.

He won't be on the ice, but he'll make a lot of contributions.

They should be offensive leaders for us and throughout the country.

We open up with Manitoba and then do not ease into our schedule.

We got off to the start we wanted. We established our game and played physically.

(The freshmen) made a lot of plays in a lot of areas of the game, not only getting on the score sheet. Guys made plays in all three zones in the rink. That's positive.

The plain fact is that some guys really have to look deep within themselves and figure out how badly they want to play. You can't come out and play rope-a-dope for two periods. On our home ice, you don't want to leave a game to a bounce of the puck in the last 20 minutes and we did. And this is what you get, a 1-0 loss.

I don't think anybody was too happy with our performance and effort (Thursday) night. I thought as a team, we responded well to the challenge. I really liked the second efforts we saw in all different areas - not just the goals.

I think the way we played was the most important not necessarily the outcome of the game. We had a poor performance (Friday) night, taking nothing away from Minnesota, because they had a lot to do with that. But we really needed to come out with a good team effort, and that's what we did.