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That's basically how I feel. I miss the original Brad Millertime videos!

Masterful rope a dope coaching by Isaac. 😂 Hold Ziebarth on the sidelines until the UND fans are ready to storm the sidelines with pitchforks and axes about play calling and then put Z out there like trump card and start doing what everyone has been begging for for weeks. The first couple of runs by Z was like watching Popeye eat some spinach for the offense. Suddenly everyone had more confidence and strength.

Some amusing things in there. In an equipment room they reference Tim Hortons and point to a glorified Keurig and say 'nobody else in the country has this'. Oooh Better yet though, in reference to their hot/cool tubs the guy says they can be adjusted "from 44 Celsius to 104". 44 C is 111 F, and that's the "cold". . They're boiling people at 104! haha. In all seriousness though, that barn looks pretty cool. Neat, low ceiling with people right on top of the ice. I bet it can get pretty loud in there.

Either! We have quality players that are being under-utilized and it'd be great to see something different on more occasions and give oppose D coordinators more to think about.

Ouch. And at this point JJ has seen some of these types of comparisons and must be absolutely mind-f'd right now. I was, and am, really pulling for the guy, but woof, it's been so bad so far. Glad I turned in my Vikings fan membership card after '98 and now watch just for the amusement.

So are we to assume that UND will win 3-2 tonight since they got the 5-2 out of the way last night? And nice work highlighting the third period scoring differentials between the teams 😃

Happy to see the resiliency at the end of the third. Totally selfish play by Liver there and he should know better than that. That’s a freshman level lack of judgement and shows complete lack of awareness. That top line for Duluth is amazing and fun to watch but those minutes and expended effort doesn’t seem sustainable. Hopefully they’ll run out of gas tomorrow night and it’ll be a long season playing like that.

Yeah, was down in Fargo on Tuesday and was shocked to see prices 20-25 cents/gal cheaper down there. Such BS that it's that much more in GF.

Last night Western had their chances in the first, with quite a bit of PP time, but they couldn't convert. If they had gotten one when they had chances I wonder how different the game would have been. Sucked to see Perron get one, but that was also a fantastic shot, credit to him. Last year that would have hit the post or gone wide and rimmed out of the zone. The allowed goal at the end was perplexing, as it obviously hit a UM guy. The ref announced that since it occurred in the neutral zone the goal stood. Perhaps there's some limit to the "illegal touch" challenge, where it needs to occur in the O or D zone. If so that'd be dumb and anything like that should be reviewable if it directly involves a goal.

Happy to see that the Big Ten Network is covering tonight's WMU vs UMi game too.

Lot of people hating on him for Saturday night, but for all we know he could have been challenged by Jax to go out and play aggressive and physical in an attempt to set a tone with MN that nothing would come easy. We just don't know. Yes, it was overboard and costly be we don't know if he went rogue or was guided there. Seems like a pretty good young man otherwise, so how about we all just take a deep breath and not get too judgy after one bad game, and give Jax a little latitude to work through things. If it was Jax who encouraged him to be super aggressive one could see why he then maybe wouldn't sit him to send a message, and then one could question Jax for not reigning it back in right away, but the fact of the matter is we don't know all of the circumstances and should maybe just sit back for a while, give some benefit of the doubt and wait for the season to evolve for a bit before pulling out the pitchforks.

Haha, great story. What a great line change decision by Hak, and it got referenced around 1:55:50 of the BlackHeart game video below. Hard to imagine your move didn't play some role. Well done.

You're welcome. I was going to make a similar joke myself but purposely left it hanging out there for someone else to take advantage of. There are many other directions I could still go on the subject but I don't want to get too politically incorrect on here

The "G spot".

Indeed, what a nice piece. Well done Schloss! So many good comments in there but I really liked this one: "In the end, it was a clear delineation," Jackson said. "Guys that were character guys that loved our program, that wanted to stay, stayed." Kind of tells you a little bit about where things were last year. Clean slate this season and let's hope that they have that tight bond that's needed to all pull in the same direction! And then I chuckled at the part at the end when Jax and Dillon passed each other on the highway going in opposite directions and gave each other a fist pump out the window. Love to see the energy and passion, and hope the team can get off to a good start and build some positive momentum. Can't wait until Sat night!

Odd, when I check the NHL Network schedule on the Midco app I'm just seeing NHL games listed during those time windows. <shrug>

Malachi? Does he play physical with big checks? Who else remembers the "Malachi Crunch" from Happy Days? Poor Pinky Tuscudero, haha.

Such accurate statements. This spring, and even a few weeks ago, it was so bad relative to what one would expect and compared to where it has been in the past. Irrigation is definitely needed but they need to do something to get rid of the poa annua grass that's mixed in out there and go with a more climate favorable setup.

At least they can't dick up the schedule and refer to us as NDSU when we're both on there back to back weeks

Oh a million times yes to that. NBC may not have been perfect for the US Open, but those Fox broadcasts were next-level bad.

I was out to pick up some take-out Happy Joes on Sat evening and noticed a sign on the door that said that inside dining was stopping at 3pm due to lack of staff. Tough times for so many places and I hope the locally owned places that have been around so long can pull through. As a consumer it's tough though, as supporting these places is tougher and tougher with increasing costs elsewhere that chews into the entertainment disposable income.

They also maybe didn't suggest anything to him but rather if he asked they may have been honest and said nothing is guaranteed in terms of top 6 or PP time, and perhaps in reconsidering things, he realized it might be better to be a top dog at Tech instead of potentially getting a bit buried at UND.

He was just being silly. There was no ill intent and I'm confident it would have been taken in a light-hearted and un-insulting way.