LeftyZL
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Obviously you can be competitive with players from one state if you pick the right ones. Look at all the great players from Minnesota at UND, St. Cloud, Bemidji, Omaha, etc. The gophers just need a better mix of players and ones that are going to give it all every game. The gophers can get most of the good recruits out of Minnesota, if they have a bigger problem, it is that they sometimes right out of high school. They do recruit out of state players, but if you were a recruit from elsewhere, would you go to a place where you will be the "non-Minnesotan, or a place with diversity like UND where you get good-natured ribbing if you are Canadian, Minnesotan, or what have you. Maybe it is a better educational opportunity to live through experiences of a more diverse group of guys, and the Sioux will be very geographically widespread over the next few years.
Maybe that's part of Minnesota's problem as well. Guaranteeing recruits they can come in straight out of high school without a year or 2 in juniors. If a top recruit had his choice of schools, he would most likely go to the school telling him he could play right now instead of a year from now. Maybe Minnesota get's some of the best in MN, but you can tell some just aren't ready for the WCHA physicalness.
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Lines Are Out:
Tonight
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Pony
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Moy's latest bracketology is out:
Region of Death this week is the West it looks like.
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Brad posted his picks as well:
http://undhockey.areavoices.com/
Definitely some homers picks from him (Trupp probably won't be on many ballots, nor will Hakstol), but I think he makes valid points on many of his other selections.
I overlooked Trupp. A really good year. But too many other good players had good years too.
I think everyone realizes the decisions are tough. Think about it: only 9 out of the 144+(12 forwards/game * 12 teams) are gonna get the recognition.
The issue is the placement of the players on the ballots of some people.
I can see the Hakstol argument angle that Schlossman is trying to make out. Just can't see many(any?) other voters agreeing with him. I'd go with Blais. The Gwoz a close 2nd.
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Here's Mine:
1st Team: Mike Connolly, Matt Frattin, Jason Zucker, Gardiner, Blood, Dell
2nd Team: Jack Connolly, Drew Shore, Jaden Schwartz, Schultz, Donovan, Kent Patterson
3rd Team: Justin Fontaine, Jason Gregoire, Drew LeBlanc, Justin Faulk, Olimb?, Faulkner
All Rookie: Same as Ciskie's. Rookie team was easy.
Player of the Year: Frattin
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Check out this Media ballot from someone who voted in the process. [click to view]
I'm just happy Cepis decided to dress up for that interview. Wow.
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None of you brainiacs have MacWilliam in for this? He is by far our best defenseman and will be the greatest flight risk aside from Gregoire. Andy Mac just kills people on the ice and is the most solid defenseman we have. Period! Can't think of anyone in the league I would rather have on the blueline! Nothing against Chay but he is a 3rd teamer for this award, IMO. Blood is very deserving of a 2nd team vote. Of course, people will vote on offensive stats for the most part and Chay will make 1st team by reputation and offensive production.
I whole-heartedly agree. MacWilliam and Blood are our 2 best Defensemen IMO. And then Marto and LaPoint. Nothing against Genoway, but he might be our 4th-5th defenseman this year. That says a lot to me about how good our D really is.
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The real idiots are the alleged friends of either kid. Person A should not have been left alone to damn near freeze. Why didn't his buddies keep a better eye on him since he was so drunk.
Person B has some dumb ass friends that let him drive drunk. I sure hope if my kid is ever stupid enough to try driving drunk that some friends put a stop to it.
Person A was left inside his house by his buddies. Person A ventured off on his own time.
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Anyone else have any issues?
Ticketmaster had the same glitch for me as it did later in the day during the Playoff ticket sales. It said almost every ticket in the arena was available until you tried purchase them. Then it said someone beat me to it.
I tried their new "pick your seat" thing or whatever and every seat was available. Obviously the glitch is not fixed yet.
I went back to Ticketmaster's original setting and let them pick my seat for me. Got front row in 307
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Tickets just went on sale at 10am to the general public for this event.
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But you nor anyone on ss.com has ever done that--right!!!
?Also, no "self-inflicted" injuries that could end his career, but, your world my friend! Oh, and no attempted cover-up by the Fargo media or NDSU--just sayin!
How's Kristo doing btw??!! Haven't heard much from the GF media or UND--hmmm??!!
You should know this by now:
One is a public matter since the NDSU player committed a crime.
One is a private matter since the UND player committed no crime.
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I hadn't seen it anywhere, it's an interesting statistic. However, you have 3 opponents who would not be a TUC under the "top 25" definition from previous years.
How many would Duluth have not be a TUC? You play with the rules at the present time. Not the past or the future.
Silly comment.
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Wow, did Moy even put any thought into this weeks brackets?
First he makes moves to avoid a Denver vs. Duluth matchup, but after all of his moves, he ends up with Denver vs. Duluth again. Plus he has 3 WCHA teams in Green Bay.
I'm not quite sure why he even ranked them from 1-16 to be honest. He might as well of put every team play as close to home as possible so we can re-watch the conference tournaments from the previous weekend. That sounds like fun to me.
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I think he might have been hinting at this, but Denver gaining the TUC-cliff ground and getting enough wins vs. TUCs strike me as nearly mutually exclusive. Restating the present, the TUC records right now are 23-7-3 vs. 15-7-3, so Denver quite simply needs to gain 8 wins. It can gain 1 by UAA and BSU dropping below .500, 2 more if Robert Morris drops below .500. Give them 2 vs. SCSU this weekend, they still need 3. An opening round sweep of Mankato, BSU, or AA would knock any of those three out of being a TUC, setting Denver back 1-0 or 1-0-1 vs. UND for AA or Mankato (whom UND has only played three times and twice), BUT ahead 2 for BSU (who Denver only played twice). So, Denver could probably take TUC if: they matched up with Bemidji in the opening round and swept, AA and Robert Morris also lost, UND gets bounced in the opening game of the Final Five, and Denver wins at least one game vs. a TUC.
If all that happens, they still need RPI. 2 wins vs SCSU, dropping the now negative win vs. MTech, 2 wins vs. BSU, and 1 win against (say) UND would get them up to about .569. They basically need UND to lose to MTech.
Stop it. You're making my head hurt.
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I am making the trek to Houghton should be fun. Flying to Marquette and driving.
Better have a 4 wheel drive vehicle. Through January, this winter Houghton has 130 inches of snow.
Can't imagine what it's like to drive the team bus up there this time of year.
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Per Brad's blog earlier in the week (and in yesterday's Herald) the Cup will not be presented this weekend but rather during the WCHA Playoffs....likely Saturday the 12th or Sunday the 13th after the Sioux wrap up the 1st round series (similar to how they did it 2009).
I still think the league should box it up and take it to Michigan Tech. I know it's about being respectful to the home team and what not. But, it's still nice for the team that wins the McNaughton Cup that day to finally see the reward for all the hard work.
Besides, when's the last time Michigan Tech saw their trophy anyways?
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Lines are out:
UND
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Senior Weekend:
Saturday-Frattin
Sunday-Malone
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Would you mind putting a Gopher one up for the rest of the year as well?
He already did.
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It may be a small amount of schools right now, or they may be some schools we don't know about that are refusing to play us because of the name. When I see the stories that came about with Dartmouth and Texas Tech, I can't help but think that as time goes by, the list of schools who won't play us will continue to grow. I could be way off base on this but I have a difficult time weighing out the pro's and con's. I love the Sioux name as most do on this board, but I would also like to see UND's athletic department be successful at the DI level. Personally, getting thrashed by schools like Idaho in both football and basketball is not ok with me. I feel we have the resources and committment to put out a product as good if not better than those types of schools but that is a different argument. If UND ends up on the NCAA's bad list, I don't see anything good happening to our athletic department. If there is a way we can keep the name and avoid that list, I'm all for it.
For one, Dartmouth has its own issues with its own name still 30 years later. Wasn't the Texas Tech issue something that was pictured on their program or something to that effect? Again, as Sicatoka points out, we control what we can control. We can't be held responsible for what other schools are doing. We've got enough on our plate to deal with.
For starters, UND was only on the "black balled list" for a short time, so we haven't seen how scheduling may be affected. But we do know that some schools have policies stating they won't play schools on that list. Those incidents have been isolated thus far, but will it stay that way? Wisconsin fans chant "Racist Mascot" whenever the Sioux go to Madison. Do there administrators want to deal with those issues if they don't have to?
Conference games, WCHA games/tournaments do not matter when it comes to being on the "black balled list." Sioux/UND fans will continue to attend those games, set records, provide a good gate etc. The games against "name" opponents/non-conference games/NCAA playoff games are what may/will be affected.
I've been to Madison for hockey and I've never heard them chant "Racist Mascot" before. Maybe I'm too busy watching the game or maybe they're just not very loud chanters. Anyways, not saying it's not happening, but was it a one-time occurence or has anyone else heard this while in Madison?
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Any description on how SC got the second goal?
It crossed the line.
On the serious side, it was a 4 on 3 PP goal. Just looked like Dell got cheating across the crease and the SCSU guy snuck it short side under the arm of Dell.
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2-1 Sioux
2nd Intermission
it's 2-2.
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We sure seem to be losing a lot of the stick battles. Does not look like a lot of urgency out there right now.
UND to the CIT
in Men's Basketball
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Sounds like about the same type of point guard about 200 other schools have.