Walsh Hall

Please stop exercising rational thought and common sense. In a time like this neither are appropriate. The world is ending and nothing will ever be the same. I forgot - Go get a couple years worth of toilet paper. It's your only hope of survival.

NCAA shuts it down. No tournament.

And the administration at the time (2009) was VERY slow to do anything (which may or may not have been the appropriate reaction). Just another indication of how this stuff is reported and judged.

Odds the games are played this weekend? If the NCHC is going to cancel for next week, there isn't much of a reason to play the games this week. (I know they would impact PWR, but that is kinda out the window at the moment...)

You don't need to be Nostradamus to see what's coming here.

The decision they are making now is to have it without fans or cancel it all together. Fans in attendance seems a distant 3rd place of the 3 options.

It's interesting to see the different views on this situation. I tend to believe this is overblown, but at the same time, the numbers and situation in Italy, and the death rate, are not good. It's so much harder to have a grasp on this stuff when everything is politicized. Can you trust the media or the administration? I try to trust common sense, but even that is tough to keep with the constant bombardment of crap from all sides...

At least we aren't hosting a regional this year.

The article doesn't say in the least that 20% won't recover. That is a 100% misread.

It is definitely looking that way.

To that end, Rick Santelli on CNBC said people should have corona parties like some folks do with the chickenpox. Get everyone infected and get it over with. He immediately had to give a heartfelt apology...

It makes sense. Instead of everyone getting it at once, it's spread out. If it's more spread out it's more manageable. Instead of 100 people showing up at the DMV at the same time, 2 come in each hour...

The fatality rate in the older age brackets is pretty sobering if accurate. The influenza death rate for 65+ is .5 % per CDC. This is around 10%. The Italy death rate is very high, but who knows at this point if the denominator is anywhere close to being accurate. I assume it isn't. If the the same number of people contracted this as the estimated number that get the flu (35m), it would not be good. I guess there isn't a playbook on how to handle this sort of issue, and at what potential body count you draw the line to shut stuff down. Seems silly to cancels these events, but if it saves 100 lives is it worth it? 10,000? 100,000?

At least he beat back the coasting 2nd D, just didn’t get him tied up. ( the same d man who was just getting back into the zone on goal 4) Regroup and come out hot tomorrow.

When is the last time GF didn't have the best Bantam team in the state? The Aviators are down this year from their usual standard.

The slash was not on the blade, but it did end there as the blade is typically at the bottom end of a stick.

The WMU player was dropping to a knee to get low anticipating a pass to one-time at the net. He was moving in a straight line prior to getting hit. The green tinted glasses are in full effect on this one.

Draw a line on the movement of the WMU player at 30 seconds in that video from the circle to contact with the goalie. He’s moving in a straight line which would be outside the crease. He’s checked by Gooch and his momentum changed by almost 90 degrees. I’m not complaining, but it’s concerning that the season could end on one of these BS calls which seem to happen frequently. Thankfully the Friday call didn’t end up mattering. The Saturday call may keep western out of the playoffs.

In the overhead angle you can see that the WMU player was not even going to enter the crease. He would have been a good 2 ft outside the crease. Scheel was obviously 100% interfered with and had no chance, but the WMU was pushing into him.

Both no goals were the wrong call, but I can’t believe they took away WMU’s goal last night. I was upset the UND goal was disallowed. I would have been absolutely furious if the WMU no-goal had happened to UND. I was surprised that Andy M. kept it together as well as he did.

In the West you can be very competitive with one good line, and Bott should have that next week. Bott's been a top half team not long ago with basically just that Aide line.

And frankly, it probably could have been worse if some of the East teams wanted to pile on. The margin for error is much smaller in the West. You need 5-6 quality players in each class to have a solid team with some depth. The top Eastern teams are able to absorb losing a few high end players. Outside possibly Bismarck, and a lesser extend Minot, the loss of a couple players is too much to overcome for the other schools in the West to be at all competitive.

I believe the 24 year old stat is correct. The average age when a player COMMITS to a college team is 18.9. The kids that accelerate or don't play juniors post-HS age are typically higher draft picks that aren't frequently playing as seniors in college.

This is probably the most parity in many years. It won't be a huge shock to have any of the top (4) teams in the East win it this year. Too bad the West is so down this year. It will likely be a sweep for the East in the opening round. I wouldn't be surprised if the East has pretty good parity for a few years. The GF Bantam teams this year are definitely a step below their typical level of play and domination.

That articles references a Roger Bamburak. I consider myself pretty knowledgeable concerning Sioux hockey, but that name was not familiar. Looks like the 14# overall pick in 1963. Played (3) yrs at UND, a handful of years in the EHL, and didn't make it to the NHL. You learn something every day.