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Yeah, I get it. 10% odds is reality, but honestly it gets tiresome when people get on here and call a season "over" when the game isn't even half done. Part of being a fan is holding on to all hope that your team can pull it off. The negativity here gets frustrating. To some of us it looks like a "loser" mentality. I threw the word at you, but I hope no hard feelings.

Looking back on it all, I should have known better than to have hope when many here had none. I lost sight of the fact that I was watching my favorite college hockey team on CBS Sports Network. Our team don't do well there. Sorry Cratter. Edit: It's like the Vikings on Monday night or the Twins against the Yankees... I don't know why I even hope anymore... lol

Is he? I've never met him. How is this relevant?

shoulda been five on Moore. Shoulda been a faceoff violation on DU. NCHC should have better officiating. We can all hold hands and happily agree on this, right!

College hockey expansion and NIL will kill UND hockey in the long run. No doubt about it. All we can do is hope it takes decades instead of years.

Berry instantly elevated the program. Make your case. I'm low IQ. How would Karl do that?

Yeah. Hellsten looks great. Ugh.

I don't think you are good at explaining yourself. I don't understand how DU scoring a goal eliminated UND. The game isn't done. I'm not saying UND will win, but the game aint done yet.

WTF is wrong with you? Don't you know the season is over!?! I've heard we can't even make the playoffs now!

So, high IQ people know that UND has been eliminated from the national tournament? Because DU scored 4 goals?

No !@#$. Has UND been eliminated?

Everyone makes the playoffs, and this game isn't even over yet, loser.

No need to wonder. They always are. LOL.

Only if that view was artificially zoomed in so it's really grainy. Then it would be conclusive. As we know.

I have video synced with TH, so I don't want to go back and look now, but I thought I saw two blatant trips by DU in their end on our possession just before the second DU goal. They were both away from the puck to our right of the DU goal. Anyone else catch that? Could have been my imagination.

People have been saying this about him for many years now. I think at this point he's been boring for a longer stretch of time than he was funny.

It sure has some of that stink to it. Like the AF didn't actually care, but the "Threat to National Security!!!" uproar got loud enough that they had to play along just to keep China guessing. To continue to completely ignore it would signal to China that there's less going on here than they want the world (including We The People) to believe. Who the hell amongst us knows, though. All we can do is speculate. Hell, for all I know you could be a Chinese spy sent to SS.com to plant false theories that throw the GOBC off the path of discovering the truth.

Devil's Advocate here. I'm not entirely convinced either direction on the national security issue: We know when they are orbiting directly above us. We wouldn't know if they set up some surveillance equipment on nearby property. We could do counter surveillance by doing an "OSHA inspection" on the factory, but what's to stop them from removing that equipment when they know the inspection is coming? Cirrus was a wholly owned American company when it was established in GF. The building was built by Americans, and the admin staff was hired by Americans. Has there been unusually large amount of admin staff turnover since it was sold to a Chinese company? I don't know. The difference with Fufeng would be that a brand-new building is being built by China, which would make it much easier to conceal things, and the admin staff would be hired by China which would put their people in key positions that could help hide such things from inspections. edit: also, the tall factory building would have line-of-site surveillance opportunities that the existing cirrus building does not

There is new legislation being considered at the federal level that would ban companies tied to foreign governments from buying property in the U.S. I haven't looked into the details, so I'm not sure if this would cover all foreign governments, or just those that we consider to be potential adversaries.

What is your problem? I quoted myself and said "I'm just going to leave this here." How is that even remotely close to how you characterize it?

Right. Why not look at it all as one big tournament when you are in the position UND is in? You probably won't make the national tournament without winning the conference tournament, so why not change your perspective. Every year, about 80% of all teams in country are in the same position, and I guarantee you they approach their conference tournaments with a different attitude than UND normally does.

Like you wouldn't brag about it. How did your prediction pan out?

Just going to leave this here.

It'd be better for everyone if Kleven moves on to the next level after this season. I hate to see him leave, but it's getting kinda nuts.

...I feel a lot better when I can bitch about my "favorite" team...