Fratt Mattin

Which is why I wanted it

Correct. I’m not saying they should have kept the name in open defiance. However, I would have preferred a compromise option of just not having a nickname at all. I understand I’m probably in the minority there, but that’s what I would have liked.

As a fan who liked the old name/logo I just appreciate the hockey program not rolling over like every other sport. I didn’t want the change to be “easier”, I actually wanted quite the opposite. But I guess I’m stubborn.

Don’t really think you can pin it on Berry. Nobody was ever going to embrace a name that generic and meaningless. On the contrary, I think it would’ve alienated a lot of fans if they had tried to force a name everyone hated down our throats.

Would love to have him, but he’s from Massachusetts so I’m not holding my breath

Even still, I don’t understand why the old licensing agreement couldn’t be left in place and UND could not continue to use it in a more secondary capacity. I do see now why it couldn’t be the primary logo though

Completely agree. It was such a prominent part of the university’s branding for a long time. Pivoting to that as the school’s primary logo would’ve offered continuity and allowed fans to feel like our identity hadn’t been totally stripped away. Instead they decided to throw the baby out with the bathwater for reasons I still don’t understand

Nobody rejects it more than hockey, but I can’t say I’ve ever met anyone who actually likes it. It has become clear over time that the most popular choice, at least with the general public, would have been 1) having no nickname and 2) keeping the interlocking ND.

We should be going hard after Braeden Cootes. He’s the exact type of player Dane wants. Western Canadian, physical, fast, tenacious forechecker, and can score. He’s a center, but you could bump Rickwood or someone else out to the wing or move Cootes himself since he’s a righty