hockey1

When did he mock opposing coaches?

Thanks for confirming the DU bench penalty. My original post on this topic pointed out that UND had four straight power plays earlier in the game before DU had their five straight power plays.

I may be wrong but didn't UND get a power play on the bench minor?

I believe DU also got a bench penalty on that call since it was served by Matt glasser. Thus it was UND's forth straight power play.

Alot of people are talking about Denver getting five straight power plays, which seems alittle excessive, but remember UND also had four straight power plays earlier in the game which may have led to Dwozs frustration with the officials.

With the Gophers hosting their own holiday tournament and playing in the Holiday Showcase (Michigan, MSU and Wisc) it does limit their non conference scheduling. But in the last five years I know they have been to New Hampshire, Boston University, Ohio State, Omaha and to Alaska to play in their yearly tournament.

Out of curiousity how has lucia treated fans poorly?

I may have miss it but who said Lucia speared Trupp?

Alot of Sioux fans have had alot of class regarding lucia's medical condition too bad your not one of them.

Their is a classy Siouxfan.

Since you seem to know so much, How do know his career over at KFAN and the Twin Cities market?

What did he say to make fun of Bina, Oshie or Brandt?

Congratulations, you just proved by your remark that every fanbase has their assholes and your UND's. Before you reply and say something like "don't be so sensitive "check and see how many other Sioux fans are being classless - not many.

Your right, it is getting ridiculous. Its very simple, if you want to host a regional put a bid in!

I know the NCAA wants to get regionals off campus but I guess I just don't understand your point how its an unfair advantage. EVERY school has the opportunity to host a regional.

There may have been multiple bids to host the regional BUT if Minnesota's bid was the highest that is usually what determines it. Also, was it the Xcel or University of Minnesota that put the bid in since the regional is at the Xcel, .

I agree everyone has their opinion and I respect that. In regards to the Gophers hosting back to back regionals do we know who else put a bid in? The regionals are based on a bidding process and if nobody else put a bid in except the Gophers what is the NCAA going to do.

The Pepsi Center is a wonderfull arena and Denver could accomodate the Final Five. The question is will enough fans attend, since majority of the teams fan bases are over 900 miles away. Besides in your first response you were concerned about the cost of you driving to the cities for the Final Five. With it in Denver your expenses would be alot higher ( I am assuming you live in the GF area).

Like I said before smaller arena's will have to charge alot more for tickets to maximize ticket revenue than having it at a larger arena. The Xcel and Pepsi Center seat 18,000 whereas most other arena's are less than 12,000 so thats atleast 6,000 less paying customers. Thats alot of money each school will miss out on unless they charge more.

Besides the cities mentioned, who do you think can accomodate the Final Five that has an arena large enough?

The problem with most cities hosting the Final Five is that they do not have an arena with the capacity that St.Paul, Denver, Milwaukee or Madison have. These cities have arenas that have atleast 15,000 seats to hold the event, and since every school splits the revenue I don't think they would want to give that up. You could have it in a smaller capacity arena like the Ralph or CC's arena, etc but you would have to charge alot more more tickets to make up for the revenue you would lose by not having it in a large arena.

I maybe wrong here but isn't hosting a regional based on a bidding process? If so did UND put a bid in?

Not to be a jerk here but l it's your choice to chuck out the gas and hotel money for the weekend. As for if Gopher players have to stay in a hotel when they play at the X the answer is yes. All teams stay at either the St. Paul hotel or the Crown Plaza. Where do you think they should host the Final five or regionals?

I lived in North Dakota for 25 years and their fans (Sioux fans, Bison fans) are no differnt than any other fan base in supporting their teams. When their teams do well they support the hell out of them (going to the games, verbally supporting, etc) but if they have a few down years they stop going to the games and rip on their teams verbally. I know Grand Forks is smaller than the Twin Cities but where were these loyal Sioux fans in the mid nineties when the Sioux hockey team was struggling. They were getting maybe 3,000 people attending their games, anybody attending these games can verify this. Since then the Sioux has had success and this same fan base that abandoned them have returned to support them. This is classic bandwagon fans just like evry other fan base, including Minnesota fans.

Like I said, in attending games yes, but complaining about their team their is no difference.