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I went to quite a few days of curling in 2002. The curling village was great and you could hang with the teams. We drank with Kevin Martin and his Canadian team a couple nights and I remember one of my colleagues hitting on the Swedish women. Good times.

With the NHL looking like it's coming to town and the 2034 Olympics very likely I wonder if Utah or BYU or maybe both will jump on the college hockey train

Inability to have a homegrown goalie is the one flaw I see the past few years. Bot having that puts pressure on everything else. The other thing, and it's painful to admit, but the Ralph was the end of the blue collar culture of our team and to an extent the fan base. We are now the cake eaters. 7 titles in the 42 seasons prior to its opening One in the 23 since .

distribute them, and they could be pods like mens basketball, so the two brackets at each regional wouldn't necessarily have to be the ones that play each other in the Frozen Four. So using this year as an example, if the Regional sites were say Manchester, N.H. and Des Moines Manchester 1 Th-Sat BC-Michigan Tech and UW-QU Manchester 2 Fri-Sun BU-RIT and Minnesota-Omaha Des Moines 1 Th- Sat Denver-UMass and Maine-Michigan Des Moines 2 Fr-Sun Mich. Sti-Western Michigan and North Dakota-Cornell Frozen Four would be Manchester 1 vs Des Moines 2 and Manchester 2 vs Des Moines 1. I flipped the UND and Maine to spread the top 8 by conference a little better, that's a personal preference that likely wouldn't happen.

They just need to get away from the schools bidding on regionals and have conferences do it. They can then pull from schools that aren't in the tourney for staffing, and you don't have the "host team guaranteed to play somewhere" issue. So say the Big Ten bids for Grand Rapids, the NCHC bids for Fargo, ECAC builds Albany and Hockey East bids Manchester. They could also go with the approach that womens' basketball was taken for Sweet Sixteen and Elite EIght and have 2 sites effectively host 2 regionals each. That would create more festival like atmosphere, allow neutrals to see games four days in a row and two Frozen Four tickets punched. That probably drives better attendance as you can still try to position as many teams as close to home as possible with one location in the east and one in the west, but also maintains the fairness of neutral sites.

They could do that. Long Island University merged their athletic programs, so there is a precedent

Agree. There were times when it felt like guys were just watching and Blake would try to do too much. I think part of the late swoon was that teams had figured out our power play and we didn't adjust quickly enough.

Maybe he'll go home to join up with the defending national champs.

I was kind of wondering how the student visa thing works. Assume the same holds true for hockey, so hope 1883 is hitting up UND alums in WInnipeg and elsewhere up north too and finding "work" for athletes to do in Canada. Either that or we'll probably see a lot of foreign athletes getting married in their freshman year to get a green card.

They recently had some super fun to watch matches with Jon Rahm, but Wes has also posted some great short game tutorials. They have 2 channels Bryan Brothers Golf and Bryan Brothers TV, so you might have to check them both. Grant Horvat teaches is another good channel, he's done several chipping videos on his teaching channel and I think he might have done a short game video with Colin Morikawa.

That's one indicator, I gave another. One that is an actual comparison between the two teams. I'd love to hang banner #9, but the NCAA is a small sample size. The Phillies have beaten the Braves in the playoffs the past two years, but you'd be hard pressed to find many people who would say the Phillies are killing the Braves. As much as people want to think you can time when a team gets hot, there is a degree of luck involved, be it play itself, status of injuries, any number of factors. Not having Sanderson available in 2022 or Pyke this year wasn't a bad coaching decision, just a reality of the game. You can talk about "next man up" all you want, but subtracting key players is going to hurt, just the way things are.

Yet they only went 1-3 against UND this year, with the lone win in the fluky 3x3.

Have him watch the Bryan Bros on youtube. Wedgeley is a short game maestro.

Autobid preserved for now.

I'd be OK with regulation being all that matters with regard to Pairwise. I'm not a fan of 3x3. A tie is a legitimate result and probably what should be reflected when looking at resumes for NCAAs, which is all the Pairwise exists for.

To be fair, with college sports now nothing seems impossible and every day seems like April Fool's Day.

Why would The Citadel be interested? This makes zero sense.

Get more padding for d men or let goalies stop the puck. Zmolek missing omaha series was huge and Pyke out for the regional was costly. Don't know if it's putting more focus on postseason but just staying healthy for postseason.

The new kickoff rule may create an opportunity for him.

Hope we can grab someone helpful from free agency or make a nice international pickup.

And sat for a year as a transfer as well.

I don't kbow what kind of revisionist history this is but after 2006 I viewed the NCAAs with dread, knowing a collapse was coming. Making the Frozen Foir, but then getting crushed or now showing up isn't some badge of honor. Prior to the Hak years UND took titles at a 50/50 clip in the Frozen Four. Then it was a win in first semi in 2005 followed by 7 straight losses The "laser focus" in 2011 had them so tight you could sense the loss coming even after UMDs win that afternoon should have created more momentum. At least in 2016 UND got it done, taking out a hated rival in semis and crushing the top seed in the final. I'm as disappointed in the recent losses as anyone, but one and done is fickle, and we've been on the wrong side of late. We still have a more recent title than every blue blood outside of Denver.

Just need to get a sports psychologist for neutral aite games. Thata the common thread. With NCHC moving to campus we should be OK, juat need early round NCAA games moving to campus and we'd be golden.

That play was hugely deflating, but the 4th goal after failing ti keep a puck in the zone was the back breaker.

Unbelievable