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Outside of the national championship with Hak's team in year one, what's better about the UND hockey program now than it was under Hak? Not a single thing. Everything has regressed.

Need Paul Ralston to ask the tough questions about their "choke job"!

No disagreement there. But, the regular season is there to create seeding for postseason play...whether it be conference tourney or national tourney. Winning a bunch of games in fall every year is fine, it helps us hopefully make the tournament and sometimes assists in winning a supremely overrated regular season conference title, but doesn't do anything for you in March or April. We aren't good at all based on our March results in almost a decade now.

Sadly, we're neither.

It's better to be lucky than good.

Food for thought using the Frozen Four teams this year. David Carle (DU), 34 years old - 3 Frozen Fours in 4 seasons. Brandon Naurato (Mich), 39 years old - 2 Frozen Fours in 2 seasons. Jay Pandolfo (BU), 49 years old - 2 Frozen Fours in 2 seasons. Greg Brown (BC), 56 years old - 1 Frozen Four in 2 seasons. Brad Berry (UND), 59 years old - 1 Frozen Four in 8 seasons. **2020 season omitted in statistics since tournament was cancelled The younger hires of David Carle and Brandon Naurato have both shown to be successful hires so far. Pandolfo is younger now than Berry was when he was hired. Greg is of similar age to Brad, but has shown he is able to provide elite recruiting. There's no agenda to push here, just some interesting tidbits to note. Maybe having a younger head coach wouldn't be such a bad thing. Maybe just having a fresh face can spark new life into the program. Maybe none of it matters and you just need a good coach. But, combined, the four of those coaches have 8 Frozen Four appearances in their 10 collective seasons while UND hasn't been to one in 8 years. Not only that, we've only won one NCAA tournament game since then.

And I am more curious as to who is nicer. Clearly you are not nicer than Brad Berry.

Meh, doesn't matter. The real question is who is a nicer guy?

Maybe even $2mil

Sometimes Blake tried to do too much and made mistakes. Then sometimes it worked and he was brilliant. I think you need guys like Blake to compete at the highest levels, but you need to put him with linemates who are capable of playing with someone of that elite caliber. All the famous lines in UND history....DOT, CBS, Pony Express, etc., could all feed off each other and play like-minded hockey, even if they were bringing different assets to the game. Blake seemed like he was a one-man-band because oftentimes he had to be.

My Green Bay Packers.

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How about a Bubbles? He knows a thing or two about puck.

Yes and no. Obviously I feel that there isn't much to get excited about, but if someone does find something exciting about March hockey at UND since 2017, then I'd be curious to know.