The Sicatoka

... in 15 seasons.

True; however, the last five, no, six, no, almost seven periods of hockey this season were against top 8 teams away from REA without Tucker and we played them even*. *There. I said it. Now what.

I believe in coincidences ... and Santa and the Easter Bunny. Surely he just picked that hour that day at random. With a recruit in. When he admits ... http://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/4242889-weve-run-through-stages-grief-womens-hockey-coach-says

If UND WIH had UConn WBB's record she'd be right. She's wrong.

To the folks upset about how this information was released: UND had to inform organizations with which they have contractual obligations (see: WWCHA, WAC swimming). The first "real news" (note the quotes) about this on Wednesday was from Todd Milewski on Twitter. Knowing his ties, someone in the WWCHA offices leaked. That's not on UND. Next, how, when you haven't announced anything yet, do you tell coaches and teams, "Uh, yeah, you're fine for now, but, uh, don't practice or recruit or have visits this week." To quote the great and wise Det. Lenny Briscoe, "I think that's what they call a clue ..." Finally, to those that said "individual meetings" should've been held. And you didn't like how it came out this way? OK, schedule 26 meetings with WIH players, and another 40 with WSD and 30 with MSD. Really. Really? The meetings alone are a tell, and after the first one goes down, with social media? In closing, the WIH coach knew. He admitted as much in the GFH story; however, he probably couldn't admit it to himself. Putting his team on the ice with a recruit coming in says as much about him as anyone or anything else. There's no go way to do something like this other than to just do it.

Not to be too much of a wet blanket, but, honestly, based on the GFH story yesterday there's work to be done in a couple other places first.

POTUS

Crapohcrapohcrapohcrap! DJT just tweeted a photo of him and the PM of Denmark! And less than 48 hours since. The Danes, they're comin' for us! Ohcrapohcrapohcraaaaap.

Professional journalism. Dead. (Where have you gone, PCM.)

Um, about the power play with Jost, Boeser, et al, uh, they really didn't shine. Ohio State clicked at 32.5% and what'd they have?

If Pogo is back, it's his "C".

I know Champions Club membership is going up. My Coaches is going to $1500. https://ndchampionsclub.com/membership-level-benefits

And remember, in those numbers, the whole $2,234,982 for "athletic facilities debt service, leases, and rental fees" for REA fell onto ONE group: MIH. Not WIH, MBB, WBB, VB, or Soccer; just MIH.

I'm saying "change of possession" because a "voluntarily give up control" scenario is a shot. Say it's a line rush and it's the ol' shoot it off the far pad as a pass to the other wing play. You voluntarily gave up possession, but that shouldn't count.

That would eliminate volleyball, softball, soccer, and probably more.

Or the roughly 100 participant slots of a football team. That's 100 participant slots for women's athletes.

It really has to hurt the RPI guys in the NY Capital District to see their Route 7 rivals Union College doing as well as they are while RPI Hockey degrades. RPI won NCAA DI titles in 1954 and 1985.

Seriously? How many didn't is the question.

Let's see ... the 2016-2017 UND in the NHL "shinny team" (must have appeared in 1 NHL game this season): Toews Oshie Stafford Parise Zajac Nelson VandeVelde Grimaldi NSchmaltz Caggiula Rowney Boeser Jost* Greene Forbort Simpson Chorney Stetcher Ladue JSchmaltz Dell McIntyre _________________________ *He's scheduled to play tonight when COL faces STL.

I like what I see with 4-5-6-24-28. That's the basis of a couple good years.

Really? Store away the ones from the one locker room until they're needed.

Honestly, I don't see a great deal of "grave dancing". What I do see is a great deal of purely emotional response to the decisions. And many people trying to point out the harsh economic realities that were the basis of the decisions.

Yes, and then more so.

gundy: Are you teaching the rare, mystical algorithmic topic of addition by subtraction?

Where I see this team going is where Duluth is today. - deep, solid group of upperclassman defenders - a group of forwards that there really isn't a superstar but they get it done* *Toninato and Iafallo were nice recruits but not top tier type guys.