The Sicatoka

Anywhere online for USA-CAN tonight?

I'd go to that game and cheer for the ice, the boards, the glass, the goal posts --- HIT 'EM !!! HIT 'EM HARDER !!!

Malls are dying because of this crazy thing called "online shopping". Jeff Bezos can explain. These days you buy new kicks from Amazon and they are drone delivered while you tweet at (and Facebook stalk) that breezy honey you want to meet up with at Starbucks or Panera. Back in the day you went to the mall to meet girls in the food court and buy sweet new Air Jordans. Oxbow and Mafia can explain.

So at least Bresciani's consistent: He's looking to be president at the second best public university in that state too. C'mon ... it's a good one-liner.

Michael Crabtree ... quarterback. http://www.espn.com/blog/oakland-raiders/post/_/id/17365/whos-the-suddenly-qb-starved-raiders-emergency-qb-paging-michael-crabtree

I wondered about Claeys when he came out in support of the players and their boycott. When the report was "leaked" and it was that bad and the team backtracked, I knew Claeys was jammed up bad. He'd basically stuck a finger into the eye of the UM administration. Seems he got a boot in the < bleep > for it.

It's the only thing they did well.

Assume $800k savings. Assume $22 million budget. That's roughly 3.6%. If the number (from the State, mandating cuts) is 10%, changing conferences is not enough.

I don't.

You covered the three areas Bubba brought up and there are obvious things in motion in each of those areas. You hit the area (LB) that he didn't bring up but that should seem to be a concern. Does Schmidt have some guys ready in the wings to step in and up?

Jost may well leave after this season; he has the raw hockey talent for that. However, he would be well served to stay and let his body develop for one more season. He's not the biggest guy out there and the wear will have an effect.

The definitive critique by Godsmack. Well done.

Schenectady hasn't been the same since General Electric moved a lot of their operations out of there.

Why? You'll pay him if he stays or goes, either way. You name an assistant as interim to finish out the season which shouldn't cost any more than is already booked.

Anyone else notice Hajdu putting out a Tweet about this yesterday? He's a former UND women's hockey assistant. RMU Hockey ‏@RMUWHockey 31 Dec 2016 FINAL: No. 9 RMU 5, Brown 3 Congratulations to head coach Paul Colontino on this major milestone! Great way to close 2016 #ColonialPride 0 replies23 retweets71 likes Reply Retweet 23 Like 71 More

If I'm reading the schedule correctly, the other games today are at (all times Central): 2:30 SWE v SVK 4:30 USA v SUI 7:00 CAN v CZE

Bribed? Nah. But are we sure his email wasn't hacked? It is Russia after all ...

So, you're saying not an exhibition game.

And here I was afraid to post a comment about "Isn't duck season still open" ...

Tell me that you lose all five starters, including three all-conference guys, and replace them with three RFr with a combined 50 snaps of college ball to go with two returning sophomores who only played parts of the last three games of the year due to injuries, I'd say you're not in a good place. Tell me you're returning eight guys who all started games, and it's an upperclassman dominated group, that set the stage for a run based offensive attack but that had some injury and consistency problems I'd say you're in a better place that the first group. Tell me about your offensive line and I'll tell you about your season, but I'm not looking for the information until late August.

Tomek is doing as well as can be expected at the WJC (given the team in front of him). And now his age is really brought into focus. I guess I really never realized how young he is before now. It's like Tomek was put into a sound professional-like system to develop for a few years. It's like he's being brought along slowly to mature (as Ed Belfour preaches). And what is this I hear that the head coach of the NHL team that drafted Tomek and UND have some sort of past relationship?

Tell me about an offensive line and I'll tell you about a team's season.

Date Team Standing Scr Pred Pwin Margin Total Tue 12.20 7:00pm ET N Dakota St @ Arkansas # 141 (8-4) # 42 (9-1) 0 0 65 78 12 % 88 % -12.5 142.5 Tue 12.20 9:00pm ET North Dakota @ Iowa # 198 (5-4) # 78 (6-5) 0 0 71 85 10 % 90 % -14.5 157.5 If I were predict a "Dakota Upset" tonight, it's NDSU.

On a couple of his throws to the left (across his body) he didn't elevate his elbow and slung it a bit. But it wasn't all the time. I suspect he's had some work on his mechanics and he reverts at times.

Did you say you grew up at the pin point on that map?