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Is he a relative of the Horcoff that used to play for Michigan State?

Is this pretty close to where Sanford bought the south end land?

Didn’t know where to put this, but I see the 47th Avenue interstate interchange was approved. Did anyone hear what the timeline is on that project?

It's scary that the Regional is in Fargo. Not a good track record recently of taking advantage of the "Home" regional. Looking at our schedule early, we could definitely be behind the eight ball after the first month and a half of the season. Maybe a good thing the HOF game isn't a destination game.

They probably are doing it for consistent travel near the end of the regular season, so you aren't flying half way across the country possibly two weeks in a row. Still think it needs to be changed up on a year to year basis, as I am sick of Omaha for more than one reason.

DU only plays Western, Duluth, St. Cloud and Omaha one series each. Now, more than ever, don't worry about the NCHC title, just set yourself up for postseason success, as schedule may very well dictate the champion.

Yeah, so even with the new pods we have to play Omaha again the last weekend. Stupid.

Unless Omac works extra hard on draws, then I would think he gets moved to wing. When they are hesitant to put you on the ice down the stretch because of the inability to win key draws, and they bring in another guy that took a ton of draws, it seems they might go that direction. Would think Wilkie and Berg are locked in, and either Jamernik or Schmaltz on a line together, and I would think they give Boisvert a shot early as well to see how he does. Adding Strinden to the mix only makes it more congested at Center.

When does the schedule come out for next year? It has to be pretty soon.

Any thoughts on Cooper Simpson?

Forward: Tkachuk (FLA) Robertson (DAL) Draisaitl (EDM) McDavid (EDM) Aho (CAR) Guentzel (CAR) McKinnon (COL) Rantanen (COL) Panarin (NYR) Defense: Fox (NYR) Makar (COL) Toews (COL) Bouchard (EDM) Burns (CAR) Heiskanen (DAL)

But to be honest, the way they were playing when they got those points wasn't conducive to winning the championship they did. They were horrible defensively early in the year, including our big comeback against them. They only scored 8 goals in 4 games in the national tournament, but they shut down the opposition pretty well, with the help of insane goaltending. I still think we could use a high end offensive defenseman like the younger Buium, but I really like that we appear to have defensemen that can play that shutdown game. We just need to make sure we are doing that at the right time of year, as if we would have brought the same mentality we had against Denver the series in Grand Forks, we wouldn't be having the same conversation we have had for the past several seasons.

Work for better is key. You can't just stand pat and think things are going to turn around or your cycle is going to wait as long as CC or Michigan Tech has, or worse yet become the Minnesota Vikings or Minnesota pro sports in general. If some of the other blue bloods like Minnesota, BC and Michigan win titles, that will be the next rallying cry, "well, the Vikings haven't ever won anything"? When we recruit with the premise that expectations are high and we expect to compete for championships consistently, then in the same breath say everything is cyclical, those two don't mesh. If everything is cyclical, then a program with the advantages of UND should hope for longer cycles of consistent success even if we don't win it all, much like under Hakstol. Still waiting for the Bison cycle to really turn downward where they don't even make the playoffs. What is the plan to move past the first round loss cycle and missing out completely, or are they just going by the premise that we will enter a "lucky" cycle soon. The last thing I want is a malaise to develop over the hockey program that has developed in some of our other sports where the expectation isn't even there anymore.

Don't know that Jack Randl seemed like a huge get for them out of Michigan, and that worked out quite well. When I saw Sam Stange play a few years ago, he seemed like a very good player, but I don't think he fit in with Wisconsin's plans. He seemed like a hardworking guy, and Omaha has certainly done well in minimizing any talent advantage against them by outworking teams.

In the new strip mall on the south end it says Little Bangkok coming soon. Is that a chain restaurant?