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Is it me or did Woden seem awfully evasive (and a tad defensive) when Carle pressed him to provide specifics backing his position on the whole home site issue? Carle handed him his lunch, IMO.

Still mad at the committee that didn’t even adhere to their own criteria. In what world is Hawks unique?

Fantastic article on incoming forward Cole Reschny. Really sounds like UND has a winner here: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6302768/2025/05/01/cole-reschny-nhl-draft-2025-prospect/?source=emp_shared_article

Was told by the parents of one of our specialists is that Kostich told their son that he wants to find his guy for each position and build on them. No matter what you think of Kostich IMO our special teams are pretty good and have helped win games over his tenure.

My girls grew up with "Grandpa Ken" at the Moon. He'd always bring them an extra small bowl of frosting for their cinnamon bread sticks. The Forks is not losing restaurant...it is losing an institution. Our family has terrific memories of that place before we'd head to UND hockey.

I just listened to this and your right Carle is just wicked smart and direct. Not a fan of Denver but wow is Carle good for college hockey.

Worrying about 8, 9, 10 seeds isn't a reason to hold the rest of us hostage. Carle’s response, win more games. (I am paraphrasing). But he's right.

Nobody rejects it more than hockey, but I can’t say I’ve ever met anyone who actually likes it. It has become clear over time that the most popular choice, at least with the general public, would have been 1) having no nickname and 2) keeping the interlocking ND.

Just wanted to let everyone know I’m doing my part to help support the Grand Forks economy. In town visiting family and stopped at the Red Pepper for a grinder (with taco meat) and a soda.

Schneekloth to the NHL

More Laurila: https://www.inforum.com/sports/time-to-create-my-own-path-moorheads-sam-laurila-preps-for-nhl-draft-starting-und-hockey-career

manvel needs to raise some money and reopen their reversable course....cool spot up there

Evasive is a great way to describe it

This is awesome!

Completely agree. It was such a prominent part of the university’s branding for a long time. Pivoting to that as the school’s primary logo would’ve offered continuity and allowed fans to feel like our identity hadn’t been totally stripped away. Instead they decided to throw the baby out with the bathwater for reasons I still don’t understand

Reschny and Cootes both had a great u18 tournament about a month ago. I am not sure if they played on the same line during the tournament but I am sure they are familiar with each other. Schlossman said in an article last week that the Reschny and Verhoeff commitments could be a domino effect with other players from Western Canada in the future. I am sure Reschny is in communication with other Canadian players about potentially coming to North Dakota, especially when he is spending a ton of time around them at the combine last week.

I would be in favor of a full NODAK takeover of everything.

Carle handed Wodon his ass. It wasn't even a fair fight. I believe that for Wodon it boils down to his beloved Cornel not having to go to a home regional against a school with a loud, packed arena. If you go back to 2005 Minnesota hosted a regional and Cornel was pissed they had to at Marriuci Arena. Obviously, Cornel lost in OT.

roughriders was the so obvious choice for so many reasons....

He is a first ballot lock.

Good Evening fellow fans!!! How are you doing today? I'm doing FANTASTIC!!! I just posted a new update to share. I hope you enjoy reading it. https://ftstspotlight.blogspot.com/2025/06/summer-sports-gossip-with-shayla.html?m=1

"the brown years"

Agree! Super underrated course they had

We call that the "Tap Out" game. As the game went on when UND's forwards would dump the puck at the blue line the Gopher defensemen were basically saying "no 'mas, take it" a little ways into the 3rd period.

They can nuke 'Playing Through' commercials into the sun. I'd rather have commercials and be caught up when we return from break. Agreed, CBS is the top of the heap for production.

worst production of a us open ever? no graphics on puts (for birdie?).....no country flags before names (until it was over).... CBS>nbc horrible job all alround.

Well, without the Gofer win against Cornell there wouldn't have been a Frozen Four semi between the Sioux and Minny...and I'm always in for a 4-2 win against the Rodents.

Stecher in the lineup tonight for Klingberg.

Which is why I wanted it

Correct. I’m not saying they should have kept the name in open defiance. However, I would have preferred a compromise option of just not having a nickname at all. I understand I’m probably in the minority there, but that’s what I would have liked.

As a fan who liked the old name/logo I just appreciate the hockey program not rolling over like every other sport. I didn’t want the change to be “easier”, I actually wanted quite the opposite. But I guess I’m stubborn.

Don’t really think you can pin it on Berry. Nobody was ever going to embrace a name that generic and meaningless. On the contrary, I think it would’ve alienated a lot of fans if they had tried to force a name everyone hated down our throats.

Good for the program, bad for the pockets of students. UND will allocate a large portion of their revenue sharing budget to their hockey team. A lot of big ten programs will get outbid by UND’s hockey revenue sharing package because they are allocating 80-90% to their football programs. After the football team takes their cut, the basketball team is next. Most big ten hockey programs will not see a significant amount of money for revenue sharing because it’s capped at $20.5 million. UND will pay a fraction of that but a large portion will go to the hockey team. The hockey team being good is good for enrollment and the university’s wellbeing as a whole. In order to pay for this, administration will increase tuition.

Losing the interlocking ND was (from a fan perspective) an unexpected outcome of the re-brand and an extra kick in the nuts. The football team had a variant of that for decades.

Cootes seems like a great fit. If we were to get a forward from the dub, I would be ecstatic with him or Kindel. Schmidt’s size concerns me a bit but he is a good player. I think Rickwood is our best faceoff guy so I would be surprised if we moved him to wing. I beleive he was at 57% last year. The downside of Rickwood is that he had one great year with Clarkson and that might not translate to the NCHC. Looking back at a few line charts from last year and Littler played a ton of wing and is a right shot. The staff could view him as a wing. At this point, it might be in their best interest to target a center and juggle the lines around. Winning faceoffs with this young forward group concerns me a little bit but having more options would be ideal.

so rep wolgamot doesn't know that jan brady state will be closed in a dozen years or so? waste of money

We should be going hard after Braeden Cootes. He’s the exact type of player Dane wants. Western Canadian, physical, fast, tenacious forechecker, and can score. He’s a center, but you could bump Rickwood or someone else out to the wing or move Cootes himself since he’s a righty

He’s been following UND on Instagram for a while, he came across my radar several months ago so I checked back then. Chyzyk also follows him on instagram, which I think is also a sign.

Announcement coming today I'm told. Not player related, but others have hinted that this was going to happen.

On average Grand Forks needs about two to four new apartment complexes a year to keep up with population growth.

Same with Spirko! Dang, can’t believe Sparky is still out there.

I stand corrected. I didn't think I would recognize alot of the names. Chey and Scheel are still playing. That is cool!

The one that Epic planned to build in Fargo won't happen. Epic has much bigger problems then getting a water park built.

did und just accidently show a nice option for their helmets....gray helmet, black facemasks, black and white and logo? I think it looks sharp...

And I've said this a million times as well. The committee swayed the vote by putting "Fighting" in front of hawks. I've said it forever that whatever nickname they put "Fighting" in front of was most likely going to win.

I think we have recruited the Chicago area terribly. We got Strathmann but that’s pretty much it. We were in on Jack Hextall last summer but he picked Michigan State over UND, despite being a UND fan. So clearly there’s issues recruiting this area. Maybe with the new staff we can remedy this.