The Sicatoka

Is there any recent update on where Mitch MacMillan may land after he left SCSU?

I'm putting this US team performance on the US coaches. Yes, I'm saying Blais, Sandelin, and Ward messed this up. They stuck with Campbell in net when he was clearly not sharp from the start. He looked slow laterally from the opener. Those PPG against Denmark should've been a big red flag that Campbell wasn't the answer this time. They tried to run a diamond penalty kill instead of a traditional box. Yes, that probably led to Campbell's issues versus Denmark, but why would you run a PK that I'm pretty sure most of those players aren't all that familiar with. Beyond those two glaring issues, I just didn't see fire and passion out of this US team. And that's something the coaches needed to light.

What a lot of you are forgetting is this: A lot of folks want this issue done. Call it "moniker fatigue". They'll vote no to move on with life (in the Big Sky) ... if this ever gets to a ballot. I didn't see a lot of folks signing petitions outside REA (off REA property) over the weekend.

I was hoping for a "nyet" in that list.

The Denmark starter was horrid. I couldn't figure out how the Russian Red Stars goalie was playing for Denmark. But then I saw the three weak PP goals Campbell let in for the US. Campbell plays like that versus Canada and the US is sunk, big-time.

So the Bobcats win a 2-1 game over a team that UND beat 5-1 (when UND was short a world juniors defenseman and arguably a line that would be one of the best in college hockey in Knight-Lamoureux-Grimaldi) and folks think an NAHL team would have a shot at UND?

Actually, this is the 2012 WJC. (I used moderator powers to update the thread title.)

All I want for Christmas is a seventh year of NCAA eligibility for Case Keenum and him to have an overwhelming desire to work on an aviation degree.

I hope they don't do the trendy/flashy thing like Boise State and EWS and do the field and striping in school colors ... oh, ... wait ...

The best year of Mitch MacMillian's juniors or college career was 2009-10 with 61-32-93 and 94 PIM in 59 games. His center that year was some kid named Mark MacMillan. Not sayin', just sayin'; and you have to wonder if they see how much fun CC 8 and CC 13 are having.

Yes. He he'd have to sit out a year of competition: To be eligible January 2013 he'd have to be enrolled January 2012.

So we're complaining about the building sponsor logo on the artificial surface under the roof of the football stadium the team plays in. (Note: Most schools don't have "artificial surface" much less "roof".)

Mitch MacMillian was supposed to go to Northeastern (red and black). Instead he went to SCSU (red and black). Does this mean he's going to Omaha next (red and black)?

Don't you have five calendar years to complete four years of competition? He's a sophomore and he didn't redshirt. He's burned 1.5 years of 4 years of competition. If he were to transfer to another DI school he'd have to sit a year (five year clock at 2.5 after that) but would still have 2.5 calendar years to finish 2.5 years of competition.

FCS is a sub-division of Division I football. The holder of that sub-division championship can claim to be a Division I champion; however, there will still be many, many better college teams. That's the difference between Division I football and Division I hockey: Hold the hockey title and there's no other DI sub-division. You're it. There is no other DI team better.

I'd chalk it up to "counting abilities".

I think the Big Ten should hold their hockey tournament in United Center in Chicago. For numerous reasons (moniker policies, memories of the past), Minnesota and Wisconsin would surely enjoy all the Blackhawk logos in that arena.

There will always be kvetching about that.

I'm sure they feel special when they sparkle in maroon.

Flat (aka matte) black, ala Rutgers, I bet. http://www.nikeblog....elmet-uniforms/ OkySt did a flat grey and a black (not sure it was flat).

Would it be wrong to comment that Jewish hockey players will ... nail you to the boards?

I still see 200 miles from SHSU to Frisco, TX. That's a major advantage for one side.

{smart-alec comment here about how it normally takes the combined scores of three NDSU students to get an ACT of 30} (C'mon, he set it up, of course I had to knock it down. )

Personally, I'd call a blunder worse than a bad call. Bad calls happen (see: WCHA officals). A blunder is defined as "make a serious mistake", or "move clumsily", or "act in a confused way". <-- That's the NCAA right there. And part of me wonders if they didn't change it to "blunder" to try to be cute ... blUNDer ...

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2102772,00.html?xid=gonewsedit Finally Spirit Lake gets on the attack the right way. Pressure the NCAA nationally. I've been saying "Federal court", but this may work nearly as well. And anyone else notice that the pro- folks (both SR and SL) are willing to talk but the anti- folks have gone silent in that piece? (And I know this is in the other thread, but it's the first major news source article that's even remotely sympathetic to the pro-moniker view.)