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4 minutes ago, GDPritch said:
Absolute terrible call to put the Sioux down 2 men with like a minute left on a small grab and a dog dive behind his own goal. Absolute joke.
I agree, but that call was for the same thing they called when Jost was held a minute earlier. Both should have been no calls in the situation.
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6 minutes ago, petey23 said:
True. But he did throw him back out there on a 5 on 4 power play to try and bait UND into going after him and giving them a 5 on 3.
He's also plays the point on the first line power play. Be kinda odd not to have him out there. If the roles were reversed with Boeser he'd still be the quarterback on the PP.
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My glasses are tinted green, but I really don't see the outrage for the Poolman hit. There are 50 hits a game worse than that one. If he wasn't hurt nobody would have said a word about that hit. Nobody on the ice, including the UND players, reacted at all like there was a cheap shot. Berry and staff weren't saying anything or looking concerned until Tucker got to the bench and Piunk ran Cam.
The Johnson hit was an entirely different story.
Refs were absolutely brutal both ways.
The Poolman pairing was playing great. Losing or having a diminished Tucker will be a significant blow.
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Yep - AA (Bantams only), A, B1, and B.
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Not sure if Bismarck could field (3) teams.
In looking at numbers of bantam and peewee teams by city (not counts actual kids as the roster sizes vary)
GF - 6 Bantam, 7 peewee - 2 high schools
Fargo - 8 Bantam, 11 peewee - 3 high schools
Bismarck - 4 Bantam, 5 peewee - 2 high school
Minot - 3 Bantam, 4 peewee - 1 high school
Number of HS teams in proportion to bantam teams Bismarck is at the bottom.
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Mandan has 2 Bantam teams and 2 peewee teams. Williston has 1 Bantam and 2 peewee.
Mandan is building a new facility with 2 rinks which should open next year. It's a bottleneck in Mandan with only one rink. Limits potential number of kids and available ice time. I can't see either of these schools having a JV squad in the next 5 years.
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By Dave's logic the Ivy League is clearly the best football conference. It can't be disputed.
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I really thought a Pogo, Gardner, whoever, line would be a dominant line and great compliment to the top time. With an added year I thought they would be as good or better than the "heavy line" from last year and be physically dominant. That just hasn't happen. Maybe Johnson should get more credit for last year.
With the Boeser, Jost, Gersich line, and 3-4 lines that can at least hold serve, I see that second line as the big disappointment. No need to break up the top line if the 2nd is producing.
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The math doesn't factor anything but points. Guys like Greg Johnson and Dixon Ward were incredible two way players for a LONG time. Not a shot at any other player mentioned, but we're talking rarified air. I'd have to put Johnson, Ward, and Taylor in the top 5 for guys in the last 40 years.
In the end, Boeser can just stay 4 years and put the argument to bed.
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The 2011 Michigan goal got deflected up in the air and nobody tracked it. It landed in the slot on a Michigan players' stick. I think that could be characterized a good puck luck. Also, Nelson got stretcher off the ice in the first.
That game was a mismatch, but that's hockey.
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The only reason Ladue is gone is his age. If he is getting the $ he should go. Thompson is 3 years younger than Ladue. He has lots of time to develop. I think losing Stecher would be by far the biggest individual blow to the blue line.
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5 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:
Fargo is a superior city to Grand Forks.
Discuss.................
Just trying to divert the tension here.
Hard to argue with that. The true measure of a city is the number of HS championships held therein. I hear Fargo will be hosting all HS state championships outside of tennis. A source indicated that Fargo is pushing hard and the smart money is the tennis championship also being relocated to Fargo in 2021. The project tennis gate of $17 for Fargo dwarfs the $12 for GF.
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8 minutes ago, UND1983 said:
Same reason why Valley City, St. Marys, Shanley, Beulah, Wahpeton, and so forth were "too small" to compete with the AAA schools in football. So they move down and manhandle every AA team. Gee, that's fair to those teams that are legitimately small towns.
All about winning by having every advantage possible. Upsets be damned.
Now the bottom AA teams should say they are too small to compete with VC and Shanley and then go beat the hell out of A teams. And trickle it on down...
Did those teams (V.C., Shanley...) have an option? Looks like there are 16 AAA teams and 16 AA. There has to be a break somewhere.
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Bismarck could field two girls teams. It's just a matter of having one stacked team or two competitive teams. l know kids that have quit because with only one HS team the writing is on the wall. With two HS teams the 14u numbers would be higher. If the interest is in allowing more kids to play and grow the sport they should have 2 teams. If the interest is to win titles keep one.
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Is there a mandate that the WCHA playoff teams practice on the same ice, or that they practice at the game facility? If should make zero difference for the Sioux, but I could see the Huskies wanting to skate on the ice, ring pucks around the boards...
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10 hours ago, Blackheart said:
Was that Reg Berg who did that?
I think it was Erik Westrum
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On 12/10/2015 at 8:57 PM, fightingsioux4life said:
The goal of UND athletics should be to attain success at ALL sports.
That means MBB making the NCAA tournament.
That means WBB making the NCAA tournament (already happened once)
That means FB winning conference and national championships.
That means MH winning conference and national championships.
That means WH winning conference and national championships.
Notice what I did there? I didn't pit one sport against another and turn this into a game of false choices and further perpetuating the myth that this is all a zero-sum game. I want UND to succeed in all it's endeavors (academics, athletics and research). That should be our focus, not this petty debate of football vs. hockey vs. basketball vs. whatever else.
I would hope we all want success, but there may be a difference in how success is defined. Is winning a DIII title more of a success than being an also-ran at the highest level? Would you rather be a lower level powerhouse or middle of the pack up a level?
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I personally always looked at the lower divisions of a sport as just that, a lower division. Not a shot at them, that's just the way it is. I was very pleased when UND won a DII championship. It's a nice accomplishment. What NDSU has done is very impressive. It's great for the University and the State.
I personally prefer to watch the best competition at a given level. If a team wins a 9 man state championship that's the peak of what they can do.
When a youth hockey program wins the Bantam B state title I'm not going to be bragging. They are the best of the lousiest. It's nice that you're the best of the folks that couldn't cut it at the A level. I guess I look at the lower levels of all collegiate sports that way.
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That's the whole point of this so the haves can further separate from the have-nots.
I just think that is a bad thing, even if we are in the "have" side of the equation. The FCS playing field is already incredibly unbalanced based on the committed from the various institutions. That is just going to make it worse. I wish there was a gentleman's agreement that FCS school don't do FCOA, but FBS do.
This will be like having 3 teams in the NFL that don't need to abide by the salary cap. There will definitely be a competitive advantage for a very small number of schools, and that isn't good for the long term viability of the system.
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It's tough with the FCS thing. There are relatively few FCS programs that will have the institution commitment to pony up for the FCOA. FCS is already incredibly unbalanced in the level of commitment from the institutions. I fear with FCOA implemented the difference between the haves and have nots will be huge, and the group of haves will be vastly outnumber the have nots.
The hockey team absolutely needs FCOA. Not having them would be like Alabama or Ohio St. not having them in football.
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I can't see LaDue signing. He just isn't anyway near an NHL player at this point. He needs to improve his skating to stand a chance. He doesn't win footraces at the college level. I won't put him in my top 4 pro prospects from the D-core.
As an aside, I can't wait to see Poolman back at D next year. He will be an absolute beast.
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Congrats to Minot, but their draw as a #3 seed could not have broken better. I believe they beat one team with a cumulative record over .500 to win the state championship.
Seems like the key to winning these days is having the best players that aren't quite good enough to go play elsewhere. It appears that the east still has more top end, potential college type players, but if they ain't wearing the sweater of their HS it doesn't equate to championships.
Bismarck's team last year was carried largely by non-Bismarck kids that weren't quite good enough to cut it in juniors.
As a college football coach told me in regard to local talent with the change to play at a higher level, we want them to be good, but not too good.
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Past Champs - Girls
2003 Fargo South 2004 Fargo North 2005 Fargo North 2006 Bismarck 2007 Bismarck 2008 Fargo North 2009 Fargo North 2010 West Fargo 2011 Fargo North 2012 Fargo South 2013 Bismarck Blizzard 2014 West Fargo -
In looking at the past girl's champs, and the past records, it doesn't look like Bismarck has been overly dominant. It is surprising that GF, with only one team, hasn't been better.
Tucker Poolman
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I thought he looked a little disoriented skating out of the zone. Man I hope he's on the ice at practice tomorrow.