Two weeks ago, the Gophers men’s hockey team swept a two-game series from Notre Dame. After the successful weekend, Gophers coach Bob Motzko voiced his concerns about the team’s play against the Irish. “I was a little critical of some of our looseness,” said Motzko. “But it’s hard to get the message across when you win two games. [The team] said, ‘Coach, what are you talking about?'” Motzko saw the same issue in the Gophers series opener at Wisconsin last weekend. “There we were again,” said Motzko, “with a lead twice. It was was the same thing that was kind of distracting. We were playing pretty good, we had 80 shot attempts. But our looseness … our attention was not real strong on details and we lost in overtime. Then we had their attention.” Motzko said the Gophers heeded his message the next night in a 4-1 victory over the…
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