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4 minutes ago, iramurphy said:
What does that have to do with St. Mary's new school????
The 48 acres of land on which the new St. Mary's is being built was donated by Knutson. I believe it is the same land offered for the potential event center project.
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1 minute ago, geaux_sioux said:
I’m talking Olympic level hockey. That takes away the unathletic factor and most other variables.
Seriously? Why are men basketball players better than women? Why are men sprinters faster than women? Why can men lift more weight than women? Why can men hit a golf ball further than women?
Many women should implement more checking into whose athletic endeavors as well?
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1 minute ago, geaux_sioux said:
So then why are women not as good at skating?
Apparently you haven't watched ND Bantam hockey. Most of the boys are not good skaters. It's no different than the girls. Some are great skaters, some are awful.
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2 hours ago, geaux_sioux said:
Seriously, the reason women suck at hockey is they can’t skate. They can’t skate cause they don’t check and they don’t need to be strong on their skates. Checking=better skating.
The fundamentals of sound skating are learned many years prior to allowing checking. Skating deficiencies, no matter the gender, are not caused by checking.
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1 hour ago, Oxbow6 said:
I have seen as many fouls called on players actually "boxing out" as I have seen "over the back" calls. Some officials have said "boxing out" eliminates the players right to that space on the floor. to petey's point that's why most rebounds are now 50/50 balls.
Can't make this up.
Yep. Many fouls are called in youth basketball for actually boxing out and for actually posting up. It would drive me crazy to see a kid doing what he was suppose to do, and get called for a foul.
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Caleb Petrie, 13 points in first 2 games in WDC for Bismarck.
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The optics are horrible.
That said, I have no idea of her value to the University, and it doesn't sound like anyone here does as well. She may be worth every penny and then some. It sounds like her compensation is not out-of-line with that position.
But the optics are absolutely horrible.
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Jamestown 2-1 over DIckinson after 2. Bismarck rolled Bottineau 10-2.
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2 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:
If college hockey is a different game than 15 or 30 years ago, is UND adapting to the change?
It's different in the parity. Minn, Michigan, Wis, BC, BU, and UND were all outside the top 20.
The elite kids are recruited at an insanely young age. There's as many misses as hits in recruiting a 14/15 year old. There also are way more kids to pick from that are essentially equal, and a stagnant number of college teams. The talent level difference isn't that great anymore. Add in the misses, and "lower" schools having generally older players, it isn't difficult to see why UMinn isn't dominant every year.
Add to the early recruiting, if the kid becomes a blue chipper, he's gone in a couple years.
Recruiting and striking a balance has to be extremely difficult, and certainly much more difficult than 15-30 years ago.
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1 hour ago, homer said:
It can be as laughable as blindly sticking up for someone/something without the facts.
Please list the "facts."
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I guess I don't see the big deal here. Athletes take supplements. The supplement he took was inappropriate or tainted. An athlete is responsible for what he/she puts in their body. There's an automatic suspension.
I see this as an unfortunate situation, not some grand conspiracy. Occam's Razor. Similar to the Nate Schmidt suspension. If he was getting HGH or steroids from a trainer that would be different. Same suspension, but totally different circumstance.
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18 minutes ago, SIOUXELEVENS said:
Most pathetic team since I’ve had season tickets (1984). Even Gino’s bad years his team were not even close to this !@#$ show. It will be cool next year to have an empty barn with s cool scoreboard. The first ten minutes of the third the puck never left our end. Berry quote “ make sure we play a good D game against a great offensive team, don’t want to get into a track meet “ whatever happened to if you pressure them in their end they can’t score in ours. Really doubting our season tickets for next year and that’s the first time in 35 years.
Apparently you missed MANY years if you think this is the most pathetic team since 1984. This is a competitive and slightly above average team in the nation.
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21 hours ago, cberkas said:
Switzerland got awarded 2 penalty shots on the same play, that’s crazy.
That was certainly odd. I thought the first shouldn't be a penalty shot as it didn't take away the scoring chance. The guy still has a breakaway after the first trip. The second trip was the one that ended up taking away the scoring chance.
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Average attendance for the MJHL
http://www.hockeydb.com/nhl-attendance/att_graph_season.php?lid=MJHL1999&sid=2017
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Find a young D2 guy what's innovative, energetic, and motivated to advance, and give him a shot. No lateral move or retread. I'd much rather strike out or hit a home run opposed to a single.
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Recruiting is so much harder today than it was 20 years ago. Look at the current top 20. I'd argue that only 3 teams in the top 20 are the old blue bloods of college hockey. Denver 7, Michigan 14, UND 17, no Minnesota, BU, BC, Wisconsin...
With the depth of kids coming up, early recruiting, and a relatively static number of programs the old days of the other Minnesota programs truly being gopher rejects just isn't the case any more. Minnesota used to essentially have their pick of the top five Minnesota HS players every year.
We still get a nice percentage of the kids we target, but the percent that pan out isn't the best. That's really no different than the other top programs. Good luck predicting the 14 or 15 year old kid that will be able to pick a corner at an elite level when he's 20 or 21. Or do you wait and see if 17-19 year old kids that develop are uncommitted and still hope they can produce at the college level? Add in the young recruit that pans out is probably gone after 2 years. If they don't pan out you're stuck with a below average player for 4 years.
I think the expectation of any program being elite year in and year old is flawed.
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I guess I'm still confident in this team. There are certainly many issues, but the D is very good, and the goaltending has largely been fine. They could be sitting a lot better, but there is a ton of season left. Reminds me of a team 5-6 years ago that was written off by most on here that ended up in the frozen four. I'll let this play out a bit more before casting judgment.
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13 hours ago, runaroundsioux said:Answer to all your ticket shortage problems. Join the Champions Club. $200 a year and you won't have to worry about gouging. Plus, get this, your membership fee goes to support ALL UND athletics.
I don't recall saying I wasn't a Champions Club member... The gouging isn't an issue for me, but it is just a common courtesy and rubs me the wrong way. If I'm in line with 20 other folks to buy a hot dog, and there are only 5 left, it doesn't cross my mind to buy all 5 to resell them to the others who want them.
I guess I do feel a camaraderie with my fellow UND fans and don't see them as a potential source of profit.
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7 minutes ago, Tbone said:
Regarding Vegas prices: it sure was disheartening the way the so called true Sioux fans, including some champions club members, were all too glad to attempt to rape other Sioux fans with grossly inflated resale prices. In saying that, I wonder how many non champions club members were able to purchase at face value on the online public sale. Were the vast majority of online (Stub Hub, Seat Geek, Ticketmaster resale) tickets actually from champions club members or were they from opportunistic non Sioux fans? I had a coworker offer me his for his online asking price of $800 each. I would have been tremendously embarrassed at being that level of gouger face to face with anybody. Supply and demand, I know. I ended up paying almost double, $150 each. I did enjoy how some on this forum publicly called out others for their attempts at larceny.
I cannot understanding selling above face to a fan of the same team. The people doing the gouging had to be nearly exclusively champions club members. That stuff leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
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1 hour ago, stoneySIOUX said:
Kind of like the 9 and what could be 11 from the 15-16 team. Pretty awesome.
I think on the 81-82 team there were 12 future NHLers. Two incredible teams for sure. Hopefully the 15-16 team adds a couple more.
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20 hours ago, tnt said:
From left, it looks like Rick Zombo's half face, above left is Dan Brennan, Bill Whittset, Dusty Carroll, Cary Eades, Archie, James Patrick, Dave Donnelly, Dave Tippett, then Gord Sherven and Palmiscno on the bottom. Two of these players wore two different numbers in their careers, can you name them and the numbers they wore?
7 of those played in the NHL. Pretty crazy.
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A plus number you win the amount and get your bet back. With (+210) Bet $10 get $31 when cash the ticket. With a minus (-110) you need to bet $110 to win $100. Bet $11 cash $21.
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11 hours ago, BigGame said:
Football will never be king in Grand Forks, it's a hockey town first and foremost. Hell, when was the last time Grand Forks had a decent high school football team?
It appears that GF HS’s have a grand total of one state championship going back to the 1940’s. (Central 2005). That has to be an indication of the relevance of the sport in the community.
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Is anyone familiar with the talent of the Bantam Elite league? What percentage of the top MN players opt to play in this league? In looking at the ND team I know ND could field a MUCH better team if you could hand-pick a team. The bottom half/third of the players are definitely not elite for that age group.
ND High School Hockey 2018-19
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Yes, they essentially all do. That said, it seems to have the most effect in hockey. The skating component really can't be improved unless you are skating. The average kids that I have seen really specializing in hockey in the off-season can improve dramatically.