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Goon is right about comparing Kavelog to Brandt. Brandt has had three years to take the job and has not done so. If he was such a great leader there would be no question as to who the starter is. He is a senior and is battling a fresh and a soph for the job. It should not even be an argument but unfortunately it is.

Actually I would question Bo' character more than Brandt's just because of the way he strung the team along. Now he will find out that "earning" money is different than "making" money. As far as Brandt goes, here is your fact about character: http://www.uscho.com/news/2003/07/16_006834.php As far as my statement regarding winning a title, the fact that J Parise started the most important game of the year as a Freshman (obviously the last game) speaks volumes as to Brandt's ability to bring home #8 for the Sioux.

The Sioux will not win a title with Brandt as a starter. It will have to be Parise or Lammy. It is sad that a player who by all accounts is a good person and a promising player (ziggy) ends up leaving while a goalie of questionable character (brandt) gets to stay. I guess we have to keep the Roseau pipeline, or at least whats left of it, happy.

Maybe best school in the state that isn't located in Grand Forks.

The team is practically bankrupt and has gone periods of time without paying its players (2 years ago I believe). They are not throwing around million dollar contracts to marginal NHL prospects.

this is a bunch of BS. The Sens can't even pay the players they have in the NHL. There is no way that they are throwing much money at Bochenski. That is your proof that whatever offer there is, it must be a rather minimal one. I am not doom and gloom but the Sioux will be affected by the loss of Bochenski and Zpar. However, I choose to look at the glass as half full rather than half empty. At least now in the future, people can take a $100 bill from Bochenski without wondering if it is real.

What's the matter? Don't you think the line of Massen, Canady, and Marvin can pick up the slack?

If this is true, let me be the first to say that Bochenski leaving early seems alot like when Lundbohm left early. Both knew that they had just lost their playmaker. I wish Bochenski well but I do not see him anywhere near ready to make the jump. Come on Bochenski, come back for your senior year and prove that you can be a stud without Parise.

I think the Sioux will be best this year if the only line that Canady and Massen see are the concession line.

I don't think a civilian business would move into Grand Forks AFB if it closed, at least not anytime soon. The communities that survive base closures the best are bigger cities that have grown right up to or around the base. For example, Luke AFB, AZ, if that base closed, which it probably wouldn't, developers would make a mint because Pheonix is growing and land is valuable. Without the Grand Forks AFB, all you have is a barren, windblown, aklai field. Just my opinion.

You just made everyone's point without realizing it. Have you ever wondered why it is that the East is best at hockey while the West usually has the edge in Football and Basketball? Maybe the best atheletes in the West gravitate towards FB and BB while the best atheletes in the East tend to play hockey. It is not rocket science. I moved to Grand Forks from Bismarck during Junior High and the interest in hockey is not even close. In Bismarck, the big event was watching the BHS vs CHS basketball game. Here in Grand Forks, most people don't even know when there is a GFC/RRHS Basketball game going on. Different strokes for different folks.

Women's hockey would have more credibility if there was checking and they didn't have to give away the tickets to get anyone to go.

Yawn.

Central will be luucky to even make the state tourney with all of their grads and early departures.

I would rather go with the idea that the Sioux should win a title with Jpar or Lammy in net rather than they can win with Brandt. Brandt is a flopper which will lead to him having the occasional huge game but will also lead to a lot of games where you leave shaking your head. JPar is by far the steadier, more consistent goalie regardless of what stats say.

Another pull tab incident and Brandt will be behind pipes at the big house rather than between pipes on the ice.

If I am not mistaken, Adam Hauser is statistically among the best Gopher goaltenders of all time and we all know what a sieve he was. He usually choked in the big games and rarely stole a game for the Gophers (just like Brandt for the Sioux). Although I guess you could call the no call hack job in OT on the Maine player in the Forzen Four "stealing".

What about the memorable Todd Jones, Jeff Lembke, Chris Dickson trio?

If Lammy redshirts, won't he be as old as Steve DeBus when he completes his eligibility?

Probably the same place in the rotation that Ziegleman was at. I know Ranfranz was not a great goalie, but he was loyal, and did everything that UND asked of him. DB could have at least cut him early enough to give him the option of going elsewhere.

Cut Brandt and go with the other three. Seriously, someone has to go. What are the Sioux going to do, rotate Brandt and Parise at away games and Ziegleman and Lamourex at home games? Four is too many. Though I doubt that Hakstol will be as willing to cut seniors as DB was (Ranfranz)

I have to agree about the part where Sioux hockey will be subsidizing the Betty for the foreseeable future. No way is UND Div II basketball self sufficient enough to pay for that thing.

The thing is, the only people getting hurt are the old farts who go there to chat with their friends rather than pay attention to the games, and the young kids that don't know any better. To those old farts, pay attention to the game, especially pre game warmups. As far as the young kids go, parents pay attention. Enjoy the game but be ready to cover your kid at a moments's notice. My son is now 9 and i have been taking him to games since 1997. We have had season tickets just above the glass behind the goalie every single year. Have there been close calls, yes, but I have never seen anyone that was paying attention get hurt.