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Also, since LetsgoDU is undoubtedly lurking, feel free to Tweet about Brink's dive. Worst I've seen since Osterberg pretended Simonson's light shove paralyzed him.

Objective as possible opinion: Hain's first was a 2 and the second was a 5. Control your legs more when airborne, especially as a repeat offender. The late one was dirty and clearly out of frustration. Had already turned it off so only saw replay, but didn't look as bad as the scuttlebuzz had me expecting. It's happening a lot with us lately, and that's not a good reputation to have. Glad Hain got benched after the the second one.

Was going to say this. He makes some world class plays but he also has some turnovers and whiffs that will not fly with an NHL coach. His deke is fun to watch.

Brink should be ashamed of that dive.

I like Moore's offense from the blue line, but I swear he is on the ice every time we get scored on lately. Felt the same way about Wolanin early in his career.

Do you mean capacity wise? Sure hope pro teams don't use facilities like oceanside for their practice rink. Vegas built locker rooms for UNLV at theirs. Sounds like UW will be using the Kraken facility, too bad it's not closer to campus.

They used the grant from the NHL to explore adding hockey, but their endowment is smaller than the start up costs for ASU's team. Meanwhile Vandy can sneak in hockey as a line item in their budget and no one would bat an eye, and the Preds practice facility is as close to their campus as the Ralph and Mariucci are to their respective universities.

Sorry to hear that, he was enthusiastic about the prospect of colleges adding hockey. Lindenwood is an exciting school to add for a litany of reasons. 1) using NHL practice facility that is near campus (looking at you Vanderbilt) 2) building upon a women's program (looking at you Syracuse) 3) ACHA program hosting NCAA tournaments to raise funds for the move to NCAA (looking at you Navy) 4) location near USHL footprint 5) South of mason dixon and west of Mississippi, two areas with not enough representation in college hockey Academically it is not a good school (C+ on Niche, only Cloud has a grade that bad in NCHC, and is probably the only other one that bad in D1) but it brings college hockey to a new metro.

Looking forward to DU not making the tournament.

AIC barely squeaked out wins against LIU, who lost to a club team, and Air Force, who are objectively the worst team in college hockey this season. Only one AHA team should get in, whoever wins the tournament.

The same tool who wanted Mismash thrown in front of a firing squad for hitting Chrona is trying to tiptoe around a Bulldog doing the same thing.

Lindenwood going D1 finally. Is Zombo still the coach? Shoulda been post in college hockey expansion. My bad

I'd say Pinto deserves a cover too. They are doing any school requested in the thread, lots of good ones.

There's no doubt they are benefitting from riding our coattails, and that gives them a reason to skate harder and finish checks against UND. Their ascent is good for the college game, too, showing how prime their locale is for recruiting in the USHL to the other big state schools in the area. When they sweep us in the Ralph or win a natty I'll pay them more attention.

He's serious. In their world we care about them as much as they care about us.

But of teams using the moniker Mavericks, they are #1! Sorry @bale31

The rivalry is partially manufactured by the league as an assigned travel partner. Personally, they are 4th/5th of 7 on my list in the conference now that Blais is gone, and probably 7th/8th overall with Bemidji. Just don't have the history of stinging losses/epic wins/fisticuffs/dirty hits like other rivals. They'll probably pass CC on my list if they (CC) don't turn things around with the new arena on campus.

I enjoyed this shade towards St. Cloud in Brad's story: "Obviously, we need to limit the after-the-whistle stuff and the penalties, but it will be just like we play Duluth or Mankato," Mismash said

Western recently swept Cloud, granted at Lawson. They could steal one at the Concrete castle.

Was there ever an explanation for why they announced a cross checking penalty but it didn't get served? That was odd, Starman and <not Holden> were perplexed and said they'd get an explanation but they never did.

Only caught the third, but the same guy for Omaha lost his helmet twice. Tighten that bucket, Prokop.

Kraken ownership are donating to UAA. Only 100k but might get some attention to their fundraising needs.

Damn.

He's been snakebitten after he got robbed by a pretty bad "no goal" call.