The Sicatoka

Consortiums.

The game is played on ice, not paper ... unless you put a layer of paper under the ice in your rink.

Modern recruiting?

What "NCAA rule changes" is YHH alluding to?

So you're saying a 0.142 PP and an 0.799 PK overall* isn't good enough? Whodathunkit. *Conference it's 0.124 and 0.800. <-- Abysmal.

CapFriendly is a great place to look now and then to see recent transactions. https://www.capfriendly.com/signings/all

Who doesn't love a good junta; but, I've always considered it the South American sounding version of cadre.

Not really. The defensive and goalie recruits pipeline is well set so if someone left there's someone ready to step in (albeit maybe a year early). The forwards recruits pipeline gives me more optimism that what's rostered right now (save for Guch, Mash, Senden, Smith, and Hain).

Would you rather I have used coterie or junta? Or maybe klatch?

That's how they roll ... < groan >

You can do that? Fer-realz!?!?! I think you're pulling my leg. I think that's PhotoShopped.

If Boeser was a senior and Jost was a junior I'm sure things would look different right now. However, it's on the coaches (recruiting) to have a plan for when guys turn pro early. I feel like they thought they'd have Boeser for three and Jost for two. When that didn't happen along comes the obvious hole that is the last two seasons.

Folks won't believe me, but here are my concerns going into 2019-2020: 1. 0.894 and 0.903 Those numbers are not good enough. Not much more to say; the data speaks for itself. 2. Lack of centers, offensively dynamic or not. We have Senden and a bunch of guys shuffled to center and back to wing (Weatherby, Hoff, Bowen) and back. With Gardner and Jones we'd win draws (and then do nothing with it). I suspect we'll be losing more draws and doing more chasing. 3. Scoring. My hope is that last season was a perfect storm and we return to the mean. But I really have nothing to base that on than hope.

What's a screen pass?

I get that. Byf was frustrated and unloaded (WPG was blowing a lead at the time); Caggiula took the easy counter. I'm still of the belief that Byfuglien should take his issues to the complaint department (6'4" Murphy) and ask them to curb their dog and not just kick the chihuahua. It's not a good look to see the biggest guy going after the smallest guy.

Byfuglien is 260; Drake is 175. (<-- That's if you believe the official team rosters. )

If he wants to move up the Midco food chain he needs to get back to the main studios.

The bleeding at SCSU: Blake Lizotte

It kind of takes the student out of student-athlete.

Byfuglien didn't really impress me with what he did to Caggiula. Rattling around a guy who's 8 inches shorter and 85 pounds lighter is pretty weak. Want to send a message to the Blackhawks? Go bang on Dahlstrom or Murphy or Anisimov, but not the second smallest guy on the roster.

The phrases "Big Ten" and "morally wrong" just seem to fit together.

Jost would've been well served to stay for a sophomore year. He's bouncing up and down with the Avs.

Mentioning runs ... How many early departures did we suffer after the 2016, 2017, and 2018 seasons? Wasn't that another "probably won't ever see that again" item?

When it comes to regionals, home ice might be a bit unfair; however, I can think of a system that would work. Consortiums. A group of schools/teams gets together and lines up a rink should one of them end up a regional #1 seed. For UMD, SCSU, MSU-Mankato, and UMn they line up the X. For DU, CC, USAFA they line up where the Colorado Eagles play. For NMU, Tech, Wisconsin, they line up something in Milwaukee. A bunch of Michigan schools line up something near Detroit. Out east, the Boston schools (BU, BC, NE'n, Hahvid, etc) line up a rink. As the season progresses, as it becomes clear that no member of the consortium will be a 1 seed they release the holds on the rinks. If there's a conflict (say like this season would've posed if there was a UMD/SCSU/MSU-Man consortium) the consortium would have to sort it out amongst themselves and the venue.