82SiouxGuy

I'm pretty sure it was 7 OT periods. I was watching on TV and after every period I was tempted to drive over to the arena, but I figured it would be done by the time I got there. I don't think a lot of people complained about ending the game. The players were pretty much done be that point.

At this point the city is basically just willing to look at those issues. They haven't said they definitely want the casino. They haven't said that they are definitely against the casino. They are willing to explore the idea to see if it is something that would be good for the city or not. But, since they don't have answers yet, they had to give the tribe conditional support now or the idea would be finished. More traffic is probably the biggest thing that the casino could bring to Grand Forks. That would fill more hotel rooms, drive a lot of business to restaurants, and probably drive more retail business. There would be some better paying jobs in management at the casino and the other businesses. It would also bring a lot of lower paying jobs at the casino and other businesses. Since Grand Forks already has a very low unemployment rate and a lot of retail and restaurant businesses are already looking for employees, I don't think that those jobs will be an attraction for the city. It would be interesting to see what else the tribe would be able to come up with to sell the idea. But, I really don't think it matters because I don't think it has a chance to get through the state and federal hurdles.

Las Vegas doesn't own any of the casinos. The state of North Dakota isn't going to allow a city to own a casino. None of the other cities or their representatives would give Grand Forks the right to own a casino, unless they open it up to all cities. And North Dakota isn't going to open up gambling like that. There is less than 0% of that happening, and the city of Grand Forks isn't interested in doing any of that.

The city would have nothing to do with owning the casino. It would be owned by the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Tribe. I believe that the law they are talking about has to do with locating a casino off of reservation property. They would have to get support from the Governor, change the laws on location, and get approvals from the Federal government, among other things. The tribe needs city support to get any of the other things done, the state and Feds aren't going to force Grand Forks to have a tribal casino.

He's taking a long, paid vacation. He had at least another year left on his contract, so he's still getting paid for the year.

President's Day weekend, Monday off so a lot of students went home.

If he doesn't go on the ice during a game they should be able to call it a redshirt year.

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They did it quite a few times. It looked like the goal was to have Omaha get 2 or 3 players to commit toward the first puck carrier, which opened space to skate into the zone for the following player. It worked some of the time. Most of the other times the 2nd player either lost the puck after he entered the zone or they had problems with the next pass.

I'm pretty sure this has been discussed before. Add up total tickets sold to UND sporting events versus total tickets to NDSUAAS sporting events. Add up total dollars spent on tickets to UND sporting events versus total dollars spent on tickets to NDSUAAS sporting events. Then get back to us.

Michigan won 6 in 9 years. Denver won 4 in 10 years, 5 in 12. Wisconsin won 4 in 11 years. BC won 3 in 5 years and 4 in 12. What's your point? UND had a great stretch during those years. Other schools have had even better stretches. I'm guessing that not everyone thought UND had the best program during the early 90's. And college hockey has changed. More teams have the ability to win, or at least compete, for a title. Sorry if you can't deal with reality.

Gino got 3.

Some of the best coaches in college history took a long time to win their first national title, or had long stretches between national titles. Jerry York and Red Berenson are 2 examples. You can't win the title if you aren't in the tournament, and Hak has a good record of getting into the tournament.

When did he commit? Did it happen to be while his dad was an assistant at that school?

He may end up being a very good head coach, but he hasn't done it yet. Hak has made the NCAA tournament every year he has been head coach, and UND has the longest current streak of being in the tournament. I don't think many AD's would fire a successful coach just so they could hire an assistant with potential.

He isn't a proven winner as a head coach at the top level of college hockey, and there is no guarantee that he would do any better.

The 82 team was my favorite. The 87 team was one of the most explosive teams I've ever seen.

As others have noted during this continuous debate, who would you suggest to replace him? Hakstol is easily one of the top 10 coaches in college hockey. The others in that category aren't leaving their schools.

I do know the differences between the programs. But if Blais was the mythic coach that people keep suggesting he would have built it into a super-power by now.

This mythic coach is also 5-7 against Hakstol. Blais is a very good coach. He isn't the god that many of you keep trying to make him. I watched Gino take the UND program under Rube Bjorkman and bring it to the NCAA finals in 3 of his first 4 years, winning 2 of them. He built the best team in UND history, probably one of the best in college hockey history. I'm not sold that Blais was even the best coach at UND, much less the super-human being that you seem to believe he is.

It tends to implode after a regular season loss.

I didn't say anything about Blais as a coach or whether his success was a factor in recruiting. I said that you and many others have given (and are giving) too much credit to Blais for recruiting. He wasn't the only reason those players came to UND. If he was he would still be getting those type recruits at UNO. I don't see him getting many recruits that are drafted in the top of the first round of the NHL draft. And I don't think there is a huge difference between seasons where a team loses in the regional finals versus a season where they lose in the semi-finals of the NCAA.

I saw it, and I don't agree. Hakstol is in his 10th year. He has been in the NCAA tournament every year. He was recruiting coordinator under Blais before that. Blais wasn't responsible for every one of those recruits, and his recruits have been done for a while. The most highly drafted players were recruited while Blais was here. Hakstol has had similar success with players recruited while he was an assistant and with players recruited while he was head coach.

Hakstol's best record was 32-8-3 in 2010-2011. They lost in the semi-finals. That was his 7th season as head coach. Not many Blais recruits, if any, left by that point.

You're going to confuse him, he's not used to dealing with facts on his home forum.