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9 hours ago, siouxfaninseattle said:
What makes him a good player? 9 points in 44 games in the USHL, 32 points in 55 games in the NAHL,9 points in 29 games at AIC and then a good season 29 points in 28 games at Lindenwood (with 87 PIM). He does fill a need but the numbers don't scream good player.
Guys like Jamernik and Steph Pattyn’s numbers don't scream good players eitherif Johannes is Judd’s replacement, I love it.
Nothing personal against Caulfield, but he was the embodiment of this year’s squad…. inconsistent and always left you wanting more.
Johannes looks to be a no-nonsense, big, mean, intense and physical player who can add some points here and there. Hopefully with his age and experience he can add some leadership too; something this years team was sorely lacking as well.
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Assuming Caulfield stays, i wouldnt mind:
Blake-McLaughlin-James
Gaber-Berg-Perron
Caulfield-Schmaltz-Emerson
Strinden-Jamernik-Kunz/Ness
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2 hours ago, fightingsioux4life said:
I said a lot of it rang true, not necessarily all of it. There are too many mismatched parts on this team that do not fit together.
...and highlighted is the bizarre part; because everything fit together perfectly last year once they found their footing half-way through. They're essentially the same team that won the conference minus Ford and Driscoll. Sure they likely overachieved last year a little, but in no parallel universe should they be this bad.
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It would be a godsend if Frisch returned. Caulfield would be a welcomed return, but nothing vital. Can't imagine Johnson not going portal.
Best case scenario, at least starting out:
Portal
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JohnsonFrisch - Moore
Strathmann - Bast
Wiebe - Livanavage
(Komzak, Benoit)Blake - McLaughlin - Perron
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11 hours ago, BusinessSiouxt said:
By studying our tendencies and developing strategies. Innit what dey a-pose tuh do?
Our troubles don’t stem from what other teams are doing.
Our problems are almost always a result of self-inflicted mistakes—> A lack of attention to detail, lack of poise, can’t play a full 60, not learning from mistakes, etc. etc.
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37 minutes ago, Username Taken said:
I think the coaching staff has tried everything they can think of. The personnel just isn’t good. Go thru the lineup and tell me who is a game changer. Frisch, Kleven when not suspended, Blake, and Gaber on the PP. Everyone else is average, which is why this team is average. Throw in bad goaltending and this team is exactly where they should be.
On paper this team is far better than average. Talent wise they;re better and more experienced than last year; a team that won the NCHC. Driscoll and Ford are the only significant loses considering Sanderson didn't play the entire 2nd half and Calder was useless after the Goofs nearly slashed his arm off midseason.
It's basically the exact same D-core as the 2nd half of last year when they went on a massive winning streak en route to the league title. Last year they looked great, this year they're aweful.
It's so perplexing.
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1 hour ago, siouxkid12 said:
Dave Hakstol has saved many seasons with second half surges; we have not seen them with Berry in his time here.
Huh? What do you think happened last year?
They were a pedestrian 13-10-0 through late January. From that point they went 9-2-1 to finish the regular season enroute to an NCHC title. What's perplexing is they did it with the exact same D-core they have now as Sanderson was injured.
I'm not ready to write this team off just yet, but, man, they better turn it around fast. They can't dig themselves into too big a hole.
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This is a top 10 team on paper. Unfortunately, this group lacks any resemblance of confidence, poise and composure.
All games have ups and downs; but this team folds whenever momentum is lost. They start playing to not makes mistakes, which actually ensures tenative play and mistakes a plenty. It's like watching a deer in headlights the second anything goes wrong.
Sure they've come back from some deficits, but most of those deficits should not have existed in the first place. Their continued inability to play a full 60 is astounding.
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53 minutes ago, Benny Baker said:
Way too much nuance to make a blanket statement that registering a trademark ensures national rights. That is why there is so much IP litigation to resolve these disputes.
What is the geographic area that UND does business in? If I am UND's attorney, my argument would be that we're a national university, have students from all 50 states and internationally, and we even wore that Nodak jersey in the state of Nevada. At a minimum, we're certainly a regional school encompassing Minnesota where Nodak LLC is registered.
45 minutes ago, Benny Baker said:Or Nodak LLC would have been infringing on SRBND LLC's North Dakota registered tradename or, at a minimum, its geographical use of the Nodak trademark on green, black, white clothing apparel in North Dakota anyway: https://www.facebook.com/nodakclothing/
It takes a lot of IP litigation to actually narrow down the owners of trademarks and tradenames when there are competing interests.
Well of course. All of this is an entangled web of legal intricacies. But that doesn't nullify the gist of the problem. WTF is Berry's daughter doing registering NODAK; at a time when the NODAK jerseys were set to make a lot of money? And with the assistance of Tarek Howard?
Even if UND has found no legal impropriety, questions still need to be answered. Furthermore, if UND had sole rights to the trademark, why even negotiate with Nodak LLC?
Like a previous poster said, I'm not in the "Fire Berry Crowd", but, man, Berry has some splainin' to do. At least for transparency's sake.
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1 hour ago, Benny Baker said:
It's clickbait garbage.
Headline misrepresents that UND "now owns trademark" while article concedes "[Nodak] LLC has expressly acknowledged the University's existing rights in the NODAK mark as the senior user." UND owned it all along, even according to the LLC that registered the trademark.
Registration of a trademark doesn't necessarily mean ownership. If I registered (recorded) a Warranty Deed in Ward County today claiming to own Rob Port's house, does that mean I am automatically the owner?
Incorrect.
Just spent some time researching trademarks over the lunch-hour. You can't register a trademark without owning it first.The difficulty here is a word can be owned and trademarked by anybody; especially in the way Nodak LLC registered 'NODAK'. From their application:
'The mark consists of standard characters, without claim to any particular font style, size or color."
It all comes down to how a word is used. An existing owner can prevent other business from using a word/trademark only if they sell the same product or service. Companies making different products can use identical word/trademarks. For example Crest Toothpaste and Crest Construction.But this is where it gets potentially nefarious. Trademark registration applicants must declare what goods and services the word/trademark is used in conjunction with. NODAK LLC's was for apparel, clothing, etc; basically anything you can find at the Sioux Shop. WTF?
But, UND also owns the NODAK 'moniker' because they were the first to use it. HOWEVER, because they didn't register it, their usage rights are restricted to the geographic area they do business. Registering a trademark ensures national rights.
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On 11/8/2022 at 7:22 PM, scpa0305 said:
Aidan park to Michigan ….nice get. Rich getting richer.
On 11/8/2022 at 10:08 PM, brianvf said:Dang. I know we weren’t on his list of schools, but I thought he’d end up somewhere east coast. Can’t believe all the recruits still committing to Michigan right now after their recent controversies.
Park is a nice get. But ironically, for all the talk of Michigan’s recruiting prowess, I’d easily take our future recruits over theirs. Especially the higher-end guys:
Wilson, Burchill, Cerbone, Moldenhauer, Cerrato, Park, Spitznagel
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Strathmann, Livanavage, Wiebe, Mcinnis, Perron, Swanson, Boisvert
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1 hour ago, siouxnatty#8 said:
Gino is a great example of a coach who understood the types of players he had to bring in to have a winning team. We are in a different era and I think Berry needs to rethink his recruiting.
Geno left most recruiting duties to his assistants.It’s no surprise recruiting took a nose dive when Dean Blais and John Marks left; culminating in 3 sub .500 seasons a few years later (early 90s)
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6 hours ago, siouxnatty#8 said:
Here's my take on lines. I think barring injuries we go back to Senden Hain and Jammer as our shutdown line, Ness Albrecht and Portz on a line, Blake Mclaughlin and James on an all frosh line and lastly Schmaltz Gaber Caufield (possibly Kunz or Constanteni) and stick with the same lineup and let them get some chemistry instead of making wholesale line changes every week. I can't take all these line changes every single week. The players are probably frustrated and they're playing like they're frustrated. No chemistry and it's the coaches fault for making all these lineup changes every fricken series. I know we have talent. More than last year I think. Skate the piss out of the team too cause they look out of shape.
At the very least, the bottom 2 lines should be set in stone as Senden-Jammer-Hain and Albrecht-Ness-Portz. That gives the forwards a solid defensive foundation (if they play to potential) who can play against any line.
It's a total waste to bring someone like Senden back and play him in a role he's not suited to play (like with McLaughlin and Gaber saturday). Hell, it wouldve been better to keep Adam Calder instead.
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1 hour ago, KetoChronos said:
I grew up in TRF and graduated high school in EGF. Senior year my best friend’s dad was a Colonel at the air base, so we had access to unused season tickets. My love for college hockey was given birth watching Sioux games at the old Barn/Quonset in 1968 and 1969. I remember thinking that the Quonset was pretty fancy, as my only point of reference was the old arena in TRF.
I now live in Boulder Colorado and my wife and I have season tickets to University of Denver games. A few years ago I still pulled for the Sioux, but now I’m all in on the Pioneers.
It’s a different hockey culture here in Denver. There’s rarely talk of the Penrose Cup. Measuring a team’s success on winning the conference on paper only goes so far. UND might have won multiple Penrose Cups, but Denver and Minnesota Duluth have won four of the past five NCAA championships. Every Denver fan knows that the goal every year is the national championship. No one mourns if we don’t win it all, but that’s the ever-present target.
North Dakota has a great team, but I don’t think they deal with adversity very well. This season they’re looking for quick-and-easy, not showing up consistently when required to do the hard work forechecking and in the corners. Against Denver this series, especially on Saturday night, UND committed multiple turnovers because they seemed to be looking for the fast break. Lazy passes amount to wishful thinking at this level of play.
I don’t know that much about Brad Berry. It just seems to me that North Dakota expects the competition to roll over and play dead. It’s not a matter of talent. You’ve got talent in spades. Something is amiss with the commitment to grind it out, in what is essentially a grind it out sport.
This is a very good take.Perhaps this program has become a victim of its own sense of entitlement.
Who else has ‘the Palace on the Prairie’, new uniforms all the time, a Through These Doors media show, etc.
Maybe our mentality resembles the Gophers more than we like to admit.Do we still expect teams to show up at the Ralph, be in awe of the place, our culture and history, and roll over and die? Yea maybe.
The sky isn’t falling. We’re coming off 3 straight league titles. That said, if this team doesn’t get its act together, we’ll also have missed the playoffs 3 times in the past 6 seasons.
We pride ourselves on a lunchpail work mentality, yet Berry teams have been wildly inconsistent in playing as such.
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5 minutes ago, dden3 said:
Agree. Even better coaching can’t correct the lack of skill. We got the wrong recruits and transfers.
Nah, our Freshman (Blake, McLaughlin, James) are really good. They're just not being put in a position to succeed.
How are they supposed to do anything when our coaches, vets and team leaders look like the Bantam B team.
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2 hours ago, BusinessSiouxt said:
Sanderson covered a lot of sins.
Sanderson didn't play after January last year. Ironically Feb. is when they went on that big winning streak to end regular season and win the league title.
Sanderson’s spot duty aside, the only significant loss is Connor Ford.
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3 hours ago, fightingsioux4life said:
The 2016 title team was explosive on offense. It was built by Hak and coached by Berry. So I think the answer is more complicated than that.
The 2016 team had 1 line who could score on any regular basis; the CSB trio. The remaining key forwards were essentially grinders who could only score 20-25 pts in their best season (Chyzyk, Johnson, Gardner, Poganski, Sanderson).
The core of that championship team was the insanely deep D-core. I mean they made Cam Johnson look like Patrick Roy that season.
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Yea this team currently sucks, but lets keep things in perspective.
How soon we forget we’re coming off a three-peat of league titles. That’s something nobody in our league has achieved since we did it under Blais 23 years ago.
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7 hours ago, AJS said:
I understand that they had different roles going into last year, but giving it more thought and after a year of watching Calder, maybe Hain coming back was what pushed Calder out. A healthy Hain production wise matches Calder, plus he’s a better overall player.
Still stand by that I wish Calder wasn’t the first piece. They way I look at it we need a Senden comparison to enter as well as an additional player. If two more depth / bottom six guys enter the portal, then we’re in business.
I don't think Hain returning had anything to do with it. Calder is a goalscoring top 2 line player. With Calder we had 5 guys in realistic contention for those 4 wing positions; at least starting out. Gaber, Costantini, Calder, Caulfield and Blake. Maybe Calder realized he was on the outside looking in, and being a 24 y.o. transfer wanted a guaranteed top 2 line role.
That said, I'd rather have Calder than, say, Caulfield. Calder was quite good until his arm injury. Caulfield has been the epitome of inconsistency and, to a degree, lackadaisical play his entire career here. Yea I get he's a home-town kid, but still.
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3 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:
i was....and yeah they were stacked but like a said.....for every class to come in a goal should to be win a natty in your 4 years (or jason's 3)
Of course it is. But we were so good those years, expectations exceeded the norm. We couldve realistically won 5 national titles in a row from 97-01.
Arguably the 2 best teams (top to bottom) of that era were the ones that choked it away in 98 and 99.....led by Blake as an upperclassman.
Anyways, it's a completely different situation to compare Blake to Gaber.
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1 minute ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:
one title in his 3 years is good enough for me.....
You must have not been around back then. With the talent on those Blake-led late 90s teams, 1 title was a disapointment.
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12 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:
if a guy like jason blake would've lost to western michigan on a friday night he would've spent saturday night at the rick or the weight room instead gaber was slinging beers at brick and barley liking all of his mom's tweets about how good he is....
Jason Blake? He was involved in 2 of the most infamous playoff collapsing season in our programs history. Those 98 and 99 teams thouroughly steamrolled everybody, yet choked when it mattered.
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It sucks losing like this, but this team deserves a lot of credit. They greatly overachieved; especially considering Sanderson was out half the year. Nobody in their wildest dreams expected a league title out of these guys.
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CC vs UND Saturday Night
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I've been resigned to believing this season will likely be Blake's last, but I'm more optimistic now. After this weekend it's obvious, and I mean really obvious, he needs to diversify his game before even thinking about turning pro.
His talent is immense, yet not to the degree he can rely on his free-wheeling skills at the next level alone. CC's extremely structured defensive system thoroughly nullified his game , and he seemingly had no clue how to adapt which led to frustration and turnover after turnover.