keikla
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Well lets hope these big ten schools invest those bucks to promote their hockey teams.
Some of them might, but you know OSU is pumping that $ right into the football team.
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Biggest mistake for the Coyotes is where they built the arena. It would take me an hour to get there for a game in heavy traffic. 1/2 hour to get home only. It is too much of a pain to get to. They also get backseat coverage compared to the sucky Suns and Cards. Instability of who will buy them is a problem.
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.
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Both Nelson and Chorney got called up to their respective NHL teams this weekend.
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I hear ya, but there wasn't a heckuva lot being demonstrated pre-break either. Not going to pummel an alumnus, but he was a fairly big-time prospect that just didn't pan out.
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?
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Not to be a jerk, and good for Derek to pursue higher Ed, but IMO he is one of the biggest disappoints n the ice we've seen- not much for us, about the same in ECHL...sorry
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.
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Roger that! Siouxman's PM to me had the capital S. I edited the previous posting with the names and made you southpaw and not Southpaw.
I'm happy with mine being all lowercase as well!
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Props to the WCHA teams for that list...impressive.
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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.
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I'm excited for either one!
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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.
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Thank you!
I never said anywhere to "hate" an entire group of people, but yet some liberal, "educated", enabling, apologists on this site want to then to vilify those, including me, for being "racist, hateful and ignorant" for views that differ from theirs. I'm very comforable with my personal stance so keep firing away if it makes you feel better.
Your example above draws on human nature and in no way makes one a racist, hateful or ignorant for being more cautious, alert and discerning around "group" of people that have harmed you repeatedly.
The "white guy" arguments thrown around hold no water as those are tragic acts of RANDOM violence. What do all Muslim acts of violence and terror on the USA and our people, 9/11, Boston, Ft. Hood, USS Cole, ect..., have in common??? Islam and it's radical interpretation of it and because of this these are NEVER acts of RANDOM violence.
As to 82Sioux and his repeated history lessons...what are the 5 top five countries and it's people that "hate", your favorite word, the USA??? Egypt, Algeria, Lebanon, Palestine and Pakistan. See anything these coutries all have in common? And if some of them had the means to come to this country to do what just happened in Boston don't you think they would??? Does that make all those people bad or evil...no but as Cratter mentioned above it is human nature to look at things, situations, and people differently in the face of repeated acts of violence/terror perpetrated by a group with a common link/theme.
And maybe I have more skin in this game than most having lost someone close to my family overseas at the hands of the same type of cowards we witnessed in Boston that shapes my perspective. Racist?? Ignorant?? Hateful?? I guess a "rush to judgement" in using this terms has been made by some of the same people on this thread that told us not to do that to #1 and #2 when this was all unfolding. Ironic or hypocritical??
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.
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An honest question...you ever watch MSNBC?? They lead the way in painting with a broad brush against everything that isn't liberal or left leaning...especially the Christian right.
This will be my last comment on my "community as a whole" post...there are 4 million Muslims in the country and counting and if just 2 out of 4 million caused this terroristic act, I think I'm in the majority in feeling that we as a nation need to be more attentive and decerning as to our surroundings...including the Muslim community. A Democratic House Representative from Massachusetts when interviewed today on TV essentially said the same thing.
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.
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The statement that Sioux-cia keeps referring to, 'If this makes people take a different look at the Muslim community as a whole in this country...well so be it.', paints with a very wide brush. Be mad at the people that did this. Be mad at the group they actually belong to and follow, if that group contributed to the action. But don't hate an entire religion because of the actions of a minority.
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.
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Watched the National Anthem sung by crowd at Fenway. Pretty moving.
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.
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I doubt the university cares about any of those things. They want someone who has a proven track record of success and who is a good fit for the university/community. From their perspective, it is the coach's responsibility to make those decisions.
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.
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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?
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The article I read said the committee was comprised of faculty, business leaders and athletic boosters, which is a pretty common make-up for a committee of this type. And in the world of academia, the committee chair doesn't generally have more power than any other members of the committee. It is generally someone who is good at organization and leading meetings.
That makes sense, then. In my work, being the committee chair carries a lot of weight compared to committee members.
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It's fairly common to have a faculty member on the hiring committee. It is usually someone who has been on campus for a long time and is well liked by both the admin and the students. It is usually done to ensure that coach hired will fit into the culture of the campus.
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.
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I don't know why it's not a done deal already! He's practically begging Maine for the job...and they're dragging their feet.
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.
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I was being facetious...
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.
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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.
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Now that's how you bring it on a first post! Now take cover because the haters are coming.
For the record, being a hater and wanting sources are not synonymous.
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I'm still a believer that Maine's administration can mess this up six ways to Sunday* . . . but taking the full 2 months to determine the interview list won't be one of them. $.02
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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Either that or you dedicated the rest of your free time keying in that massive signature of yours.
"Hello, Pot? Yes, this is Kettle..."
1st round tonight
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Because the NHL tends to call penalties when you drape yourself all over a guy while the WCHA doesn't?