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There's your first mistake: "Wrong Brain" -> You're trying to apply Logic Brain to things the NCHC and The X do. To correctly interpret this situation use the "How can we piss off the most North Dakota fans" Brain.

He was kinda-OK at the WJC a couple years ago: 7 GP 0.75 GAA 0.964 3 shutouts 6-1-0 record

https://www.ncaapublications.com/productdownloads/IH24.pdf Like @Dustinsays, I'm guessing going from 100' down they had to live in existing physical constraints.

Conte at BC is odd-ball 200x90. Must be a thing when your colors are bloody stool and dehydrated urine.

Put Oshie out in a shoot-out and flip a coin.

The one with the SCSU goalie ... I hope three times actually.

There's a compounding factor in "ice surface" namely playing at home (no matter the ice size). I think it's safer to say they look like a 0.500 team away from home. Even if you add two big ice road wins at UW they're 8-7-1 away from The Herb.

News about the SD schools' finances and such: https://www.mykxlg.com/news/local/sdsu-usd-rely-heavily-on-state-money-and-student-fees-to-subsidize-division-i-athletics/article_2773c650-c40e-11ed-95c8-9fc050a6e477.html

Jackson Blake was named NCHC Rookie of the Year Ethan Frisch earned NCHC Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year https://fightinghawks.com/news/2023/3/16/mens-hockey-north-dakota-claims-pair-of-honors-at-2022-23-nchc-awards-celebration.aspx Frisch was Defensive Defenseman of the Year last season.

In hoop, unless there's serious money involved, is that really an upgrade? I'd think he'd want an MVC school over UNT.

Busted brackets? I learned my lesson a couple-three-or-so decades ago: I was working on a grad project using Monte Carlo simulation so I had access to a pretty solid random number generator. I came up with a weighted process, generated at that time 63 random numbers, and followed the process for each game round by round to fill out a bracket. I then made my picks. I turned in two brackets. I came in bottom half of over 200. The random number generator came in third.

PPS - If they need to create a "Director of Accounting Services Center" job posting and position, what were they doing for accounting up to now? Didn't they have a CFO or VP Finance that would de facto be the director of accounting services?

Punch using edge of waffle: Earned.

How would the Blues feel about a chunk being taken out of their fan base. (QC would be Nordiques fans returning home.)

Flower would be Roy (both French Canadian) in the remake, "Roy-Osgood 2.0". Binny is the smaller, scrappy Osgood.

Never again shall UND accept off-hand comments about committees and consultants. Here's the fine work of another's consultants: So these consultants have taken months to figure out an already known nearly $8 million shortfall and as the solution they've "operationalized" a website and an email account, and created a new paid position when the budget is already broken. Brilliant. PS - They're in the hole already; who is paying the consulting fees.

Are you sure? Binny is feisty; I could see him ... de-Flower-ing the Minnesota net.

If you picked Virginia ... um ... yeah ... you're kinda all or nuttin'.

But they call it "Player Moves". Early signings to the pros could be up to date.

I believe Wisconsin still plays on a glacier.

The sound you just heard was brackets breaking across the land.

QC has the barn ready for them but it would throw off the 16/16 east/west they have now; someone in the eastern time zone would end up in the western conference. Maybe Kailasa wants a team ...

CHN seems a tad "behind" in updating this.

For some weak-sauce reason? Who do you think you are, an NCHC official?

That run, probably better than prime Manning (Peyton or Eli) or prime Elway.