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What if I said I have it on pretty good authority that UND's coaches aren't overly concerned about Minnesota's and SCSU's recent recruiting gains in northwestern Minnesota. How much trouble would that get me into?

When the Sen and Hab got to the penalty box they tried to "settle it" with rock-paper-scissors but neither guy made rock (fist) nor paper (slap-hand). They had to settle it in a sudden-death, shoot-out round of "Yo Momma So ... " one-liners.

When it's proposed for UND, Bison fans.

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressReleas...2008+BW20080109 Doesn't seem too bad of a crew to hang with.

Expansion north really isn't an option as I believe the Aurora Ballroom and the associated kitchen facilities limit options that direction. Going horseshoe on the south end isn't an option really without accepting some severly obstructed view seats. (You can't move the pylons that hold the roof up.) What you'd end up with at best is maybe 3500 seats in a pure "straight-on" view of the field. One more note: I asked an Alerus commission member about expansion. He told me to his knowledge it wasn't designed with this type of expansion in mind. No, if they have a donor, going back on-campus with a retractable roof and a full athletic complex is a better option for UND. If the City of Grand Forks has concerns about that, maybe UND could offer to make Alerus Center home to UND M/W BB. Curtaining options in there would allow for a "cozy court" feel even in that larger space.

It seems many Fargo Forum readers are saying the same thing. http://www.in-forum.com/talk/index.cfm?id=...article_id=2194

McFeely is just a columnist (and boy I hope he reads that ) but just the same he has to have some level of credibility with his peers and co-workers, not only at ForumComm but regionally. If Mike "Enron"-ed the real numbers someone would notice and call him on it. He'd have shot his credibility. Do you really believe he did that?

gabe: Before you award yourself the "Dick Tracy Investigator of the Week" decoder ring, please go back to the post that started this thread and then follow the link to the McFeely blog that started this conversation. He discloses where he got the information from. He discloses (and disclaimers) who owns what and which runs where. I'll even give you the first link: http://forum.siouxsports.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=302087

I've coined it this way: Some of the biggest bigots I've met are the anti-bigot bigots.

UND is no better and no worse. After the whistle, - some schools do the facewash - some get a stick up on you - some get a stick down on your ankles - some schools go for the last two-hander (cross-check) - some schools want to wrap that arm around and try to spin-toss you. Watch. They all do it. They all have their favorites.

Oy does that happen at times ...

I think we all can agree that he's not the Taylor Chorney of March 2007. Where we may not concur is the "why" behind it.

Fair enough. But I've also seen him not tie up a man in front for the goal to tie (v. UNH) that started their run. And Friday he just kept giving and giving ground and watched Lasch go around him for the first one v. SCSU. Even in the replay I couldn't figure out why Taylor wasn't stepping up on Lasch and burying him.

Never truer words typed, and especially so for the bolded part.

Aren't the real NFL junkies watching ESPN from about dawn onwards to kickoff?

Defensive defensemen (Finley, Jones) are out there not to score but to make sure no bad things happen in their end of the ice. Anything positive in Plus/Minus for a defensive defenseman is, quite obviously, a positive.

Can you use that word on this forum? ;)

The best Plus/Minus on the team so far this season belongs to ________.

What'd be bettter is not putting a "number two" into their own Tacklas in the third (like they did Saturday v. UNH and Friday v. SCSU).

I'd love to hear the training regimines of guys like James Patrick or Chris Chelios, guys who played or are playing in the NHL into their late 70s or early 80s .... OK, just 40s (Chelios is skating a top four D shift at 45!), but you get the point. It'd be interesting to see what that could do for an 18-23 year old.

Question: "25 year old Canadians at UND, Where did they go?" Answer: The nursing home?

The one CC's Chad Rau scored a shorty in. No, wait, that doesn't help narrow it down .... he got a shorty each night!

Evan Trupp seems much more confident on the ice of late in comparison to October. Andrew Kozek seems intent on being and staying a top-six forward, and that's a good thing. VandeVelde just needs to come every day with that "A"-game of his. And I know some will disagree, but when you don't notice a defensive defenseman it means he's doing his job. (You only notice defensive defensemen when they get torched.) Zach Jones has been very unnoticeable, and that, for his style of defensive play, is a great compliment. A Saturday +5 at SCSU gets Joe Finley a special note here also. Taylor Chorney isn't the Taylor Chorney of last season inside of his own blueline (see: first goal Friday night). I'm not sure what's going on with that. Brad Miller is playing the same way he did last year and earlier this season: great with time and space on the big rinks, but struggling on the smaller rinks (where there's more play along the boards) and things happen more quickly. Ryan Duncan seems tight, like he's trying to justify that award. Fuggidabowdit. Just go out and have some fun.

During Saturday's CC at UW game (sorry, with no Sioux on the tube I decided to watch that one with the radio tuned to Hennessy in the background) the CSTV announcers talked about two things that Colorado College is doing: 1. Owens has them working under the philosophy of getting a shot on net in 8 seconds or less after taking possession of the puck, no matter where on the ice they start from. At times they seem to sell out defensively to do this, but it sure put a ton of pressure onto the UW defense. 2. Owens has them all on some sort of special diet where just about everything they eat and drink is monitored. Many of the Tigers are down weight from last season. But under this regimine they all claim to be faster and feel stronger. I don't know if it's a new trend (the last being Dean Blais' "we're just in better shape than you are" off-season training), but 14-6-0 (and 13-3-0 in league) to this point sure seems to point that it's working for CC so far.

Assumably this would be in Boston at either BU's rink or where the Bruins play, yes?