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Because the NHL tends to call penalties when you drape yourself all over a guy while the WCHA doesn't?

Some of them might, but you know OSU is pumping that $ right into the football team.

I loved the area where the arena is built...lots of awesome bars, restaurants, and shops. But I lived just off the 101 in Glendale, so it was super easy for me to get there for games. But I don't know where else they would have put it...It's not like they had room to put it downtown.

Both Nelson and Chorney got called up to their respective NHL teams this weekend.

So, with the break during his sophomore season, you're essentially basing that opinion solely on his freshman season? A season which has a notoriously hard learning curve for the defensive position?

From what I've heard, he never completely recovered from that nasty leg break (I think it was his sophomore season). Can't really fault a guy for a career limited by injury.

I'm happy with mine being all lowercase as well!

Props to the WCHA teams for that list...impressive.

LaPoint is coming back for graduate school at UND...figured we should praise the academic accomplishments of our former players as well as the athletic ones.

I'm excited for either one!

Blood has been called up to the AHL. Mac played in his first pro game yesterday against Marto and Gregoire. Brock Nelson needs 2 points to tie the rookie scoring lead and needs 1 g to break the Bridgeport Sound Tigers rookie record for goals in one season.

1) For the record, I didn't say it makes one racist to do that. To some extent, I do think it's human nature (though there are a lot of things that are human nature, which doesn't make them right). I just think a lot of innocent people suffer at the hands of it. 2) The 'white guy' arguments do hold weight around here. Most of the shooting rampages in this country were done by introverts. That's a common thread, yet we don't attack it since so many people in this country are innocent introverts. 3) The problem I have with this list is that it's subjective. We could easily insert North Korea in here, but then we'd have to start singing "One of these things is not like the other." (That was an attempt at a joke to lighten the mood in this thread). 4) Please don't pull that card. By now, a lot of us have lost close friends or loved ones over there. Or we get to witness friends struggle through day to day activities because of crippling PTSD.

Nope, I don't even own a TV. And to be honest, I'm fairly politically apathetic (Yes, I know that drives a lot of people nuts), so a lot of this left wing/right wing crap goes straight over my head. Yes, Americans should be more attentive of their surroundings, including world events. I just think that applies to being more attentive to everyone, not saying we need to look closely at a specific religion as a whole. I have several Muslim friends who, despite being as abhorred by 9/11 as the rest of us, were treated like absolute trash for a few years in the aftermath because of their faith. That's the problem with looking at a group 'as a whole'...it has a tendency to lead to abuse via racial/religion profiling for a lot of people who love this country just as much as you do.

Yep, it's the "as a whole" part that got me too. It has been stated that these men were Islamic extremists. I wouldn't want people to take a different look at the Christian community as a whole because of some extremists who decided that bombing abortion clinics is the best way to show their disapproval of that act. I don't think those extremists speak for the vast majority of Christians any more or less than these two guys or those behind 9/11 speak for the majority of Islamic faith.

The one from the Bruins game earlier in the week was pretty awesome too. The actual singer only sang the first few lines before letting the crowd take over. Plus, both teams did a joint stick salute to the fans at the end of the game. Sports aren't everything, but they certainly have a way of helping the healing process.

We'll have to agree to disagree, because I think the university should care about those things. For example, say Hak was fired (purely hypothetical...I'm not advocating that he be fired), and the university hires a coach with a track record of success, but he plays the trap game. I think there would be a backlash from fans, supporters, etc., because that's not Sioux hockey. So because of the coaching style, is that no longer a good fit for the university? There's a tradition to uphold, and the coaching philosophy plays into that. Disclaimer: I do realize that all teams employ the trap at some point or another, including the Sioux. But they don't do it night in and night out like Bemidji, etc., so I don't consider that the overall 'style' of what Sioux hockey entails.

All that makes perfect sense for a regular hire. I would just think that it would be a little different when it's an athletic hire. Yes, it's important to make sure the coach is a good fit with the institution, town, etc. But if they start asking the candidate questions about coaching philosophies (defense first, dump and chase, the trap, etc) - which I think are valid questions - will half the committee even have a clue what he's talking about?

That makes sense, then. In my work, being the committee chair carries a lot of weight compared to committee members.

Right. Common to have someone on the committee. Not as common to have the committee headed by and made up almost entirely of such individuals.

Yep. Because of the committee they set up. I get the whole thing about the Maine coaching job being more of a thing for the whole state than just for the school (especially once you get north of Portland). I would say that the Sioux head coach position is in a similar situation. But, even if that's the case, I don't understand how/why they have a professor of biology, ecology, and climate change at the head of the search committee.

Haha apparently that breeze I felt was actually the joke going right over my head. If Maine is smart, they'll throw all their money at Gwoz and get it wrapped up as soon as possible before Ohio State steals him first. If they wait a full 2 months or so to gather candidates, I'm afraid they'll lose him.

In other news, Anchorage narrows the coach search down to four: Chris Brown, Michael Corbett, Gary Heenan, and Damon Whitten. Brown is a DIII head coach, currently at Augsburg. Corbett is an associate coach at AFA. Heenan is a DIII head coach, currently at Utica. Whitten is an assistant coach at Tech.

For the record, being a hater and wanting sources are not synonymous.

Oh I have no problem with them taking the full 2 months. MafiaMan had stated that the administration hoped to have someone hired by next season. Next season is technically closer to 5 or 6 months away. By all means, take 2 or 3 months. 5 or 6? That's a bit ridiculous. That's all I meant.

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