 After starting the season five two and one the BSU men's hockey team is on a three game slide and the schedule doesn't offer them any favors as third ranked Minnesota State comes to town. Last weekend after playing top ranked St. Cloud State close on Friday the Beavers fell apart on Saturday giving up seven goals in their loss. We played 10 games so far and Saturday was probably the only game right now that when the game was over I was disappointed. I was disappointed because a lot of the issues on Saturday were self-inflicted. I always tell our guys you control how hard you work and how smart you work well we didn't work very smart and when you don't work very smart and you're playing catch-up hockey other parts of your game also falter. It's the type of performance that a team has to learn from then completely forget. We kind of just have to kind of wash out wash that game out out of our brains and kind of just get ready this week. Minnesota State was the preseason WCHA favorites and have lived up to the hype starting the year nine and one. They play a heavy game they play a strong game they're good below the tops of the circles they can you know they can score on the rush. It's a battle of contrasting styles as the Beavers top 10 defense will be tested by the Mavericks second-ranked offense scoring four and a half goals per game. It's the same as every week we're just focusing on the things we do that make us successful and we're gonna try to keep keep doing those things. They're obviously a really skilled and high offense team so we just got to do the best we can to you know play our game and and go from there. We know if we play well we can beat anybody but we know if we obviously play sloppy like we did Saturday night you know we're not gonna win many games. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.