As far as guys I've seen I would think Howard Walker, James Patrick, Ian Kidd, Curtis Murphy, Brad Williamson, Travis Roche, Chay Genoway, Matt Greene, Mike Commodore, Russ Parent, and Scott Sandelin would be in the conversation.
Agree here as well. The ice conditions will be fair to partly crappy based on average high temp at that time of year...not thrilled to watch the Sioux skate in concrete...not trying to be a downer, just realistic...
My understanding is that Minny didn't want anything to do with a Big 10 Hockey Conference but because of the benefits they reaped from the B10 Network (especially in football) they were asked to fall on the sword to help carry hockey with Michigan and Mich St. If you want to blame/hate somebody start with Barry Alvarez, Jim Delaney, etc...Still hate the gofers though...
I found it interesting that in the majority of interviews on tv/radio in the twin cities throughout the season, Guentzel was consistently identified as one of the primary reasons for the Rodents resurgence. (especially by the players) Lucia was rarely mentioned it seemed except for his failure to call a timeout in the Final Five semifinal against the Sioux.
The gofs gonna keep him around so he can take over once Lucia-pet leaves to become pig-10 hockey commish?
Southwest suburbs myself...only 4.5 hours to GF for home games and just a shade over an hour to Mankato for the best road trip in the WCHA...ah Mettlers...
Really? Goren lead the country in goals his last year if I'm not mistaken and also lead his team to a championship...I'm not harshing on Nelson but Goren had a pretty big upside when he was done at UND. This next season could/would have been Nelson's year to really dominate at this level IMO.
Not even at gunpoint..I gotta live in Mpls with the the gofer faithful...it's bad enough even when they don't make the tourney...then again, dinky town is probably due for a good riot and some car fires...