The Sicatoka

Did anyone see the spear, called a slash(?), last night on Chara? I'm no Bruins or Habs fan, but that should be a game short of what Nyquist gets --> point of stick blade intentionally targeted to "mid-section". Ow. Rule 62. (Trying to find video.)

Nyquist must pay for that willful act. And it seems he will. Good. He almost cost a human being an eye. But, by Rule 59 (NHL rule book), that was a cross check. Just because it wasn't called does not change what it was.

I'm going with Jim Dahl's math: We need to win at least 3 games and not completely lay an egg in the NCHC playoffs. (I don't believe anything below PWR13 is safe this season.) http://collegehockeyranked.com/forecast/pwrbywins/ As far as this weekend, a split is the mandatory minimum. http://collegehockeyranked.com/forecast/pwrchart/north-dakota/oneweek/

Clean that spear.

I have a problem with "love taps" like that. It came the day a "love tap" like that broke loose a bone spur from a vertebrae in my back. By definition, a "love tap" like that is checking from behind and cross-checking.

I'm not ignoring it. This is the NDSU thread. I'm talking NDSU. So, see UND threads.

Now don't misread this: Spurgeon should have received a minor for the cross-check in the back (call it cross-check or boarding). Nyquist should have received five and game and then "supplementary discipline". (What the NBC guys call for seems about right.)

You do understand the difference between a "news story" and an "editorial" or "letter to the editor", don't you? That said, nice attempt at deflection Dan. Bresciani says 20% is real and that tough choices must (finally) be made at NDSU. The whistling past the graveyard is over.

" ... gloomy."

The position that is posted is, believe it or not, a key position. It sets up schmoozing events where UND brings in what Vegas calls "whales" (not small time high rollers, but whales) and wines and dines and then asks for donations. Why do you think it talks about setting up events at the president's house and at the boxes in the arenas? Know the whale's likes are (socials, sports), put them there, let the schmoozing commence, and then ask for money. If the person in that position is doing it right they pay for themself with one donor from one event. And in this budget climate we need events and donors. Don't like it? Sorry, but that's how the world works.

Read the first couple pages in this thread:

C'mon Dagger, I expect obtuse, abstract, innocuous thread titles from Fetch, but not you.

OK, who has today's "race sheet" put together? I know I'm cheering for "To The Glue Factory" in the seventh at Belmont and "Lame So Call The Vet" in the fourth at Saratoga. Who else am I cheering for and against tonight with no UND game to watch?

Pre-Davies most of South's hockey players (like all but 3) lived south of 32nd Ave. That's now Davies territory. With Davies now up and running, the demographics in the area covered by South are not pre-disposed to hockey.

Bismarck. As jdub pointed out, State funds will be cut 20%. That means NDSU Athletics has to find a way to shave roughly $1.32 million (20% of what they'd been getting) or some other part of NDSU will be asked to shave their 20% share plus Athletics' 20%. Bismarck is sending a pot of money 20% smaller than before. How that's allocated will explain NDSU's priorities (as will it for UND).

NDSU will not drop below 16 sports unless every other option is exhausted or the rules about FBS change. UND has too many sports. Twenty-one was too many. Twenty is too many. Go down to sixteen.

You mean similar to how with Davies coming online in Fargo, Fargo South lost almost all their hockey roster to the Davies area? That's why it's South/Shanley.

The term is "aerie". Most normally associate it with eagles but the term applies to the lofty nest of any large bird of prey.

Committed to his couch?

Isn't that more of a weighted average* of five classes? *Seniors carrying the most impact, then juniors, etc.

The view from behind the play (Parise side) made we wonder (inconclusive). The view from the Coyle side, sure the stick was between the camera and puck, but why didn't the puck keep coming? The view from straight down the blue line was a no-brainer: offsides. The Wild got a gift on that one.

Yup.

It was offsides. Coyle stopped the puck with his stick and Parise hadn't cleared the zone yet. How in the world does the "eye in the sky" in Toronto miss that?

No, to Notre Dame.

Another is at Robert Morris (Paul Colontino, former assistant at UND).