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If you've been closing your eyes every time the puck is in the UND end. I know I've wanted to.

Well it sounds like half the team decided to coop with Bismarck. I have a buddy with a young kid in the Hazen program. I don't know if a coop was seriously discussed. If it was, Dickinson or Mandan would be my guess. He says Hazen will struggle for awhile with numbers being down, but the youth levels are strong. Hopefully they tread water until the numbers rise back up.

Hazen is no different than any other small town competing against larger schools. When the numbers are up, they can compete, but when they are down, it can be ugly. Hazen had some strong teams from like 2000ish to 2005-2006 or so. I heard rumblings that they didn't think they were going to have enough kids to ice a team this year and were looking to coop with another school. It looks like they have 13 kids on the roster, 2 being goalies. Its also been mentioned they lost their top 3 players from last year. Beating a team with 11 skaters 24-1 is pathetic, but I would expect nothing less from Mike Peluso.