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Did someone say "Crookston"? http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/sports/10300108.htm

Hak had a bad record his first year as a USHL coach: He was named head coach of that team after the start of the season and it was a bad team. What's more important to look at is what he did after that season (from HockeyDB.com): - 32-21 - 34-19 The team has a new head coach and doesn't have last year's top three scorers (with Brady Murray's injury). They've played one of the three toughest schedules to date. Yet they're in the top five of the only thing that really matters: the PWR. I'll say it again: The past two seasons the team never improved as the season went along, but the competition did. This team has had some struggles but appears to be getting better week by week. Let's see what level they improve to.

Anyone have a stamp? I need to mail the "Congratulations on being #1 in an ends-in-"r"-month!" card back to Don Lucia and company, along with a "Virg Foss Award" self-nomination form. It's called "re-gift-ing!"

The gamesite. It says 8343 permanent seats but PSU lists 10024 for the game against NW Missouri.

Patience. Wait for it.

(from the GVSU v. UND press release with a couple key updates)

Let me sum this thread up: - Potulny and Irmen are good players - Minnesota is playing well right now, in months that end in "r" (Sioux fans have seen that and know what can come of it.) - The important months don't end in "r" - Winning in ends-in-"r" months is the fast track to a Virg Foss Award Now play nice with each other.

One more time: It's not in Dale's office.

In a word, that's wrong. There was statewide coverage on the Fighting Sioux Sports Network.

Yuck! Dog water!

No, Dr. Phil was up being interviewed during Friday's first intermission. Oh, you mean the TV "Dr. Phil", not Dr. Phil Harmeson, UND's NCAA faculty athletics representative.

As a matter of fact,

Yeah, that's the next thing we need: a goalie called for diving.

Capacity is 13500. They drew that for NDSU in 2001. They drew 12400+ in 2003 for NDSU.

A reason to fill the place: 10613 8441 10584 9212 11665 8301 8072 Total: 66888 Average: 9555 If UND draws 13112 on the 8th home date that'll be an average of 10000 for the season. The last 10000+ average for the season was 2001.

It is a six-team, no-reseeding bracket. - Six plays three with the winner playing two. - Five plays four with the winner playing one. You'd expect three and four to win so you'd have four playing one and three playing two. However, five and six won and thus is the answer to your question.

I was so hoping for a R-r-r-r-r-rastislav Spi-i-i-r-r-r-r-r-r-rko!

I don't believe the word for Moreland and Sioux Falls is "quit". I heard it was "cut", and I can't find him on any roster right now.

Here's your though-provoker of the day: UMD's "Bubba" SCSU's Hedberg UNO's Behrns Is there another league where half the opponents in the league can trace their head coaches back to one school in the league?

GARY - There's only one 13500 number in 2001 and it doesn't say estimated. It's for NDSU (first year in The AL). The rest of the year looks like accurate count numbers. I'm not sure what the question is.

Someone estimated 13500, in a brand new stadium in its first season hosting the eventual National Champion, with a listed capacity of 13500? Really? The only 13500 I see in the season (2001) you linked to is for NDSU and there's no "estimated" for that one. No other number is 13500 for that year. The 2003 NDSU number isn't an estimate either (12-something). Seems like real counts to me.

Straight from the Bison media guide: Four of those numbers in 1989 and the fifth in 1988. What was going on at NDSU and in Fargo about that time? I'd guess they had a guy who really couldn't estimate crowd size doing the estimating. But wasn't that about the time the lobbying for building FargoDome was going on too? FargoDome opened in 1992.