The Sicatoka

Those last 21 charter air miles are budget-killers. Oh wait, it's the wrong way! Narrative killer!

Missoula to Grand Forks: 1018 miles Missoula to Fargo: 951 miles Those last 67 miles are budget-killers.

If it turned out to be the west five and east five, well, Missoula to Omaha is about 140 miles different than Missoula to Flagstaff. < shrug > West: Montana, MSU, EWU, Idaho, Denver East: UND, NDSU, USD, SDSU, Omaha

Are you < bleeping > kidding me? Once IUPUI leaves (expected to happen Wednesday) the Summit is one departure away (in baseball or soccer) from losing its MBB autobid? And in reality, yeah, IPFW is eyeballing the door (and WIU just might be, and ORU might be). Spectacular. There'd better be a plan.

There's even less chance of the xDSUs and UxDs moving down than of the MnSCUs moving up.

I just don't see the MsSCU schools going DI.

We've had teams with Toews, Parise, Oshie, Stafford, Zajac, et al, and they came up empty. We had a team with Boeser on it and came up aces; but a Boeser/Jost team came up short. What I want is a winning team. If it happens to have a bunch of draft picks on it, so be it.

I don't think he's saying anything. Note the words "consider" and "may". He's putting out one plausible scenario based on current motion. Another plausible scenario would be IUPUI moves and that's the end of the motion. YMMV. Personally, I see conference moves like ripples on a pond. The AAC dropped a rock in the middle of the pond ... The AAC picks from the MVC (Wichita State). Then the MVC picked the Horizon (Valpo). And now it seem the Horizon has picked the Summit (IUPUI). What additional bobbing that happens at the edge of the pond is yet to be seen.

The F'Hawk you say ...

Somehow keep Raanta, and then package him and your protected alternate captain and send them off for a first round pick and a D with fewer than 40 NHL games?

The Bread Man (Panarin) and Motte for Saad and a backup goalie? Here are two websites that are going to melt over the next 48 hours. TSN's Trade Tracker: http://www.tsn.ca/tradecentre/trade-tracker NHL Salary Cap Tracker: https://www.capfriendly.com/

If IUPUI to Horizon is true, you have to figure IPFW is now reconsidering why it is in the Summit.

Taking the white stripe all the way around would make the numbers on the back nearly impossible to read.

Everyone just waitagoshdarnedminute here. Valpo. Valpo? All this is about Valpo! You mean the very same Valpo that just gained admission to the much ballyhooed and sought after Missouri Valley Conference*? That Valpo? The Valpo that got a bid to the MVC over NDSU? That Valpo? *not to be confused with the MV Football C.

Meh, that weekend price is "peanut buttered" into my overall season ticket package price.

Yup, this off season WMU is pronounced "whammu!" and that's the sound of them being roster-slammed.

Crap. You're right. That's the "four goalies" season. Given Bast's and Kierstad's recent histories regarding injuries, I'm now thinking they just might go with 9 D on the roster this year.

By my count, those 8 put the roster at 27. I can't recall UND carrying 27 on the roster this century. Chartrand Wolanin Shaw Peski Johnson Poolman Bast Rieger Kierstad Simonson Olson Poganski Gornall Gersich Gardner Janatuinen Jones Yon Bowen Smith Hoff Adams Mismash Kawaguchi Johnson Anderson Thome

Relooking at VGK's cap number (https://www.capfriendly.com/teams/goldenknights) $10M of that is LTIR for two guys (Clarkson, Grabovski). You might as well admit that money is freed up already. They'll be put onto LTIR ASAP and the money comes off the cap number.

I'll believe it given CapFriendly.com already has the details of his contract with PIT listed online. https://www.capfriendly.com/players/frederik-tiffels

I put my Hossa thoughts in the 2017 NHL thread.

Doing some reading, I believe there is a real problem with Hossa. What he has was common in the 1970s NHL and as someone said, it ended Tom Reid's career. All that said, the Blackhawks lost a dependable (missed 46 games in last six seasons) top end two-way forward. This site says they are $1.6M over the cap; however, put Hossa on LTIR and they flop to being about $3.5M under the cap, but needing a dependable veteran two-way player who can be top six and kill penalties. https://www.capfriendly.com/teams/blackhawks What's this I hear that ARI cut loose Shane Doan. And I heard Doan yesterday saying he'd like one more kick at the Cup. And he and Jon Toews are good friends ... hmmm ...

Technically, right now only CHI has a higher cap number than VGK! https://www.capfriendly.com/ And hokeysmokes!!! ... Look at the collection of draft picks they've acquired so far. I really believe they're going to be shopping those for a #1/#2 center come Friday and Saturday. https://www.capfriendly.com/teams/goldenknights

A Title IX review by US OCR takes six months at least. And as far as the twins, I'm still waiting for their proposed functional budget for UND. I'll start to listen again when they roll that out.

Mentioning all this ... Anyone seen Rosy83 lately? Is that him on the right?