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I guess looking at his numbers I just don't see it. Last save percentage over .900 was as a second year bantam. Thome's numbers weren't much better through juniors. At least Scheel put together a solid season at Pentiction, but it looks to me like we are bringing in a lot of big goalies with sub-par numbers lately.

I don't think the Big 10 name holds a lot of power for recruits, especially recruits north of the border. Was in Calgary this week, and at the bar there was no college basketball on. Wasn't on the local cable station, either. But there were three different hockey games on. And advertisements for the WHL playoffs. So the Big 10 success in basketball this season isn't going to sway too many. Besides, most hockey players aren't exactly basketball fans.

So before this incident, your stance was that if something happened with UND Hockey that there would be no suspensions and it would be dealt with just the same as NDSU dealt with their miscreants. Even after examples such as Oshie and Frattin were pointed out, and Blake with the previous head coach. Now that something did happen, and there are suspensions and it isn't dealt with the same way that NDSU deals with such issues, it is only because NDSU did nothing?

Or maybe a monorail....

I seriously doubt the UND coaches are going to change their style of play to match someone else's if their style of play has been working fine.

I just think it is funny that there are a number of Bison fans on a UND board talking about how the poll thing doesn't bother them and doesn't matter, but they are taking the time to go to an opponent's board, many months later, to point out how it was an error. After a championship season by their own team. And lecturing UND fans about how UND cares more about NDSU while they are on the UND board.

Goalie pads were already mandated to be smaller a few years back. And guess what? The goalies adapted and got better. At all levels. The only players oversized equipment helps are the less talented players with limited mobility. They are generally flushed out of the system by the time NCAA or NHL comes around. Gloves, blockers, chest pads, leg pads, even breezers were reduced in size by the new rules and it hasn't had much effect. The fact is that the goaltenders of today are much more athletic than even 10 years ago. I have no problem with progress in goalie equipment just like there has been exponential improvement in player equipment.

OK, I may be a day late, but a full shield or cage does not make the high sticks and elbows a moot point. An elbow to the cage does just as much damage to a neck, and possible concussion, as without a cage. And a high stick to the neck isn't a moot point even if you have a cage. I never played competitively, it wasn't an option growing up. But my boys do, and one or more of them have been injured in those ways at the youth level. As far as the neck guards, USA hockey mandated them a couple of years back, and have now backed off of it. Their research showed that they did no good, and possibly added harm when a skate blade injury did occur. Nothing like having some Kevlar or carbon fibers that were cut by the skate mixed in to the cut. Skate cuts can be horrific, but neck guards, at least using the current ones, don't do anything to mitigate the damage.

I tried to watch a couple of the games, but I ended up having to change the channel because of the stupid air horns from the stands. First game it gave me a headache just watching on TV. Tried again, in the championship game, and ended up changing the channel in the 2nd because I couldn't take those anymore. I would rather listen to the vuvuzelas from the last World Cup in South Africa....

OK, I couldn't let that go. I have never heard of an NHL GM badmouthing Hakstol and saying he can't develop players. Maybe I missed it...

Unless the gophers are playing Michigan...

No idea who, but the why is pretty easy. Duluth fans were chanting 'Smallpox Blankets' when we played there the last time, so of course a Gopher fan would have to copy that instead of coming up with something original, like 26 year old Canadians or 'There's nothing else to do in Grand Forks, that's why you sell out the arena'.

Yes, you are correct, the addition of SCSU to the league does make it more difficult to compete with Big Ten branding.

Just ask Anthony Grieco how the OHL route worked out for him and the fast track to the NHL. Season Team Lge GP A PIM Min GA EN SO GAA W L T Svs Pct GP A PIM 2005-06 Wellington Dukes OPJHL 26 0 10 2006-07 U. of North Dakota WCHA 8 0 0 378 22 0 0 3.49 3 2 1 168 0.884 2007-08 Mississauga St. Michael's Majors OHL 25 0 18 1276 85 2 0 4.00 5 10 3 639 0.883 - - - 2008-09 Victoria Grizzlies BCHL 40 0 9 2305 97 0 2 2.53 27 11 0 921 0.905 - - - 2009-10 U. of Western Ontario CIS 13 0 0 2010-11 U. of Western Ontario CIS 15 0 2 889 38 0 1 2.57 12 3 0 441 0.921 I believe Brad Schlossman posted a while back that he signed to play somewhere in Europe for the upcoming year.

Yeah, we got a set of Vaughn youth leg pads from Hockey Zone for $20 less than they sell for at GoalieMonkey, plus no shipping charges. I know the Elk River Play It Again has a pretty good selection of used goalie equipment if you ever get there, but I don't remember their prices being too great. If you contact Justin, let him know Jeff sent you, he'll take good care of you.