Kevin G

"Does the cough button work?" --CC announcer, two minutes ago

This game is on the B1G 10 Network, if you're looking for something to watch b/f Sioux-CC. About 10 mins. left in third period.

Thought #1: Move the NCHC under the umbrella of the Summit League? I've no idea if that would be good or bad. But it seems like we all just went through major realignment, like, yesterday. I have no appetite for more major rejiggering at the moment. Thought #2: The NCHC can surely find its next commissioner within the ranks of siouxsports.com. Who knows more about college hockey that internet opinion makers? Right? Plus there may be a few of us who would be willing to be paid in beer.

I agree that most championship teams need a solid core of 3-4 year players. That being said, I think UND still needs more high-end scoring talent amongst its forwards.

I heard that possession of at least one ounce of marijuana was required for entry into the arena. Can anyone confirm?

A bit o' fun trivia about Colorado College and Colorado Springs: 1) Thomas Nelson Haskell founded Colorado College in 1874. Oddly, Haskell has ties to two other hockey schools: he graduated from Miami University (Ohio) and later taught at the University of Wisconsin. So CC was bound to become a mediocre hockey school (I kid...). 2) Bigfoot has been spotted (or "spotted") over 100 times around Colorado Springs in recent years. On a completely unrelated note, marijuana is legal there. 3) Nikola Tesla, the famous inventor, built a lab in Colorado Springs in 1899 because the area was known to have a lot of lightning strikes. The lab operated for less than a year and all of its equipment later auctioned off to satisfy Tesla's debts. 4) The elevation of Colorado Springs is 6,040 feet above sea level. Grand Forks is at 840 feet. So the boys will be playing almost exactly one mile higher this weekend. We'll see if anyone recently skipped leg day.

I so prefer winning.

Go do a Michigan in the box, you hoser.

"Jammer-ick"

Nice turn of phrase right there.

It's like how Brad Radke was so bad in the first inning, the Twins' pitching coach would have him pitch a pretend "first" inning in the bullpen so he would start the game in the "second" inning. As I recall, it didn't work.

Dang it, I missed a gimme! Good catch.

If blown out, choose one of the following excuses: It was SCSU's Super Bowl. We were a little banged up. They had extra time to prepare. Starting goalie's girlfriend dumped him. We weren't used to the altitude.

Okay historians, what's the worst loss in UND hockey history?

This is bewildering.

I'm not seeing as much improvement as I was hoping...particularly with respect to chemistry.

Agreed...can't remember such a Jekyll and Hyde team.

Not. Dead. Yet.

We're struggling mightily to get through the neutral zone with possession.

I was just pointing out one reason why he's annoying.

Pat Micheletti is a Gopher.

3-0 Huskies

The official announcement about Fenton leaving is here. It says Fenton will leave the NCHC after the season ends and begin Summit League duties in April 2022.

The longest continuous granite wall in the world is the Great Wall of China. The second longest? The wall surrounding the St. Cloud Prison. (And the prison made the prisoners quarry the stone and build the wall.)

UND playing at the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center brings to mind one of my favorite hockey memories. The first Sioux game I ever brought my son to was in St. Cloud, November 19, 2016. My dad had brought me to some games when I was little (at the old Ralph); now I was able to bring my son to see the Sioux. The highlight on the night was the first goal of the game, scored by Rhett Gardner off of a shot by Brock Boeser. The only replay I could find doesn't show the goal very well (at the 00:30 second mark), but after Gardner tipped the puck, it took forever for the puck to get through the SCSU goalie and slide oh so slowly across the goal line. The puck almost ran out of gas (at least as I recall). We were sitting goal line extended a couple of rows behind the glass, and we had a perfect view of the puck. It was like slow motion. And it was awesome. My son is now a die-hard Sioux fan, his room covered with UND pennants and posters. On a sidenote, the SCSU goalie that night? Zach Driscoll.