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With a part time mayor that has only increased cost of living in the city while the wages haven’t kept pace, is it any wonder why Grand Forks is stagnant right now. Like you say we need to get aggressive, but I don’t see that with a mayor that has no concept of economic development.

Was thinking that since he is 16 he would only be a sophomore in high school last year.

Is Halliday a 2020? With Ness, Gaber and Randklev and Mancinelli, it certainly would seem something has to give.

I could see Costello and Mancinelli flipping because I would guess they would be the ones getting pushed back.

Would guess this would rule out getting Jay O’Brien after he spends a year in Penticton.

On the positive side, it gives Minnesota another excuse for bad attendance.

https://www.reddeeradvocate.com/sports/video-garrett-valk-son-of-former-nhler-garry-valk-making-an-impact-at-rebels-main-camp/ Looks like he just recently moved to defense, so maybe a nice upside. Hopefully if he develops nicely he doesn’t go to the WHL. Playing for Chilliwack is a good sign.

True, your goalie wasn't a world beater, except against us. Sometimes losing those goalies works out great for teams, like when Duluth lost Kaskisuo and then Hunter Miska. You guys certainly should put up your share of goals, so even if it takes a while for your goaltender to get comfortable you should be able to pick up the slack. For sure need NCHC teams to do well in the non conference part of their schedules to bring all our pairwise up. We certainly didn't hold up our end of the bargain last year in that regard.

So are you a big gopher fan then?

But it certainly helps prevent teams that would possibly have a motto "Lose for Hughes" or "Play like Crappo for Kakko".

...and then there are people who are obsessed about those people that are obsessed. But the funny part is the people that yell "Fighting Sioux" the most, the students, never were in college when they were the "Fighting Sioux".

Since they are in trade talks with Pittsburgh about Phil Kessel, maybe they didn't have the cap space, although I am sure they plan on offloading a lot of cap space too. Haven't seen that Anders Lee signed with the Islanders yet, so maybe they would rather have a hometown boy rather than another old Fighting Sioux.

Raise your hand if you had Colton Sanderson being one of the leading goal scorers down the stretch of the Championship season!

Well, only 4 forwards on the team last year finished ahead of him in plus minus, and 3 of them were the line of Senden, Hain and Smith. It isn't a foregone conclusion that new guys are going to be responsible on both ends of the ice from the get go. On the contrary, guys like Adams were just figuring it out at the end of year two.

But you never know, as the layoff might not help with Rask being so incredible right now. It doesn't take much for things to turn in the other direction, as I'm sure not many people would have suspected that Martin Jones would be playing as well as he has based on the first few games in the Vegas series.

But if they are hoping Joe Thornton wins it, should they not have called a penalty on St. Louis when Thornton was complaining that they shot the puck into the net above the plexiglass, which replay confirms? They might have never got to overtime had they not missed that obvious call.

Don’t know how they missed that hand pass. That was worse than the call against Vegas because Vegas just was inept at killing a 5 minute major. In the same token, the refs missed an obvious delay of game penalty in the second while the Sharks were still leading that would have given them a chance to take a two goal lead. Just goes to show you that professional officiating isn’t much better than college. Cross checks to the back of the head, and dangerous hits that resulted in injury. Interesting to see if the refs apologize again, because horrible non calls both ways.

Not trying to convince you of anything, just saying that if you want to support a saintly team, you should cheer for the gophers because they have never done anything beyond reproach. Of course I am being facetious.

Sounds like the same thing people say about the Sioux, playing on the edge. Marchand is an idiot, but beyond him you have guys that play physical and play hard. Most of the guys you mentioned played in the 80’s during a different time in hockey. Remember Dean Dachyshyn, Dan Brennan, Howard Walker, Cary Eades, Jim Archibald, etc.

It's all a matter of perspective. You tell me your favorite team, and I'll pick out some from them as well over the years. Heck, let's pick the Sioux -- Prpich, Hextall, Blake, Schriner, etc.

I wonder what kind of impact Kleven will end up making. After watching a few of the games with the U.S. National team, I can see him spending a lot of time in the penalty box, as college hockey seems to be wanting to take the punishing hits out of the game. We're getting to the point where anything that looks like it hurts will draw a penalty. I can see him getting a bunch of unwarranted penalties like Matt Greene and Andrew MacWilliam. It sounds like he is progressing offensively nicely, so hopefully that will offset some of the attention I think he will garner because of his aggressive hitting.

https://www.milehighhockey.com/platform/amp/2019/5/11/18535859/2019-nhl-draft-prospect-profile-alex-tucotte-scouting-report

Inherently better could encompass one position -- goaltender. Ben Bishop compared to the list of goaltenders Hakstol had at Philly. It wasn't until after he left that they brought up Carter Hart, who performed much better than the cast they had before. That said, how many points out of the playoffs were they when Hakstol left, and how many did they end up out of it? Not really sure about that stat, but people were giving the new coach props, but I don't think they moved up, even with the improved goaltending.

Yeah, not sure what the thought process was there. His brother is at Wisconsin, and even if he didn't like it there I would assume he could go to Major Junior as a stepping stone to the NHL.