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Overreact much?

Not everyone wants to go for a graduate degree, so if he wanted to get into his hockey career, whatever level that may be, more power to him. Don't think another year at UND would change his hockey path, so why not play, get paid and have your degree to fall back on.

Matej Tomek with an 18 save shutout for Waterloo in preseason game tonight.

Thought someone said he graduated already.

To be fair, that is probably why they are taking these early commitments now, because they probably waited too long in offering guys like Adam Johnson, Riley Tufte, and Joey Anderson. It is a crap shoot knowing who is going to turn out and who isn't. I'm sure UND has waited too long on some of those guys too. Mitchell Mattson looked like he had first round potential at one point, but hasn't lived up to those expectations yet. I would guess had Kunz not visited Minnesota, UND may have waited to offer him, but that is the new reality for a lot of teams. I think the main thing is that there are so many great, well-coached players in each age group, that you can never get all of the ones that turn out to develop a little better.

Do you have to enter your credentials before each game, or a one time thing?

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Even if that wasn't the case, I would much rather a quarterback put a little more air under the ball and make his receiver pull up, than overthrow him on a wide open play. You can carry the momentum over from a long pass and catch, whereas it is almost demoralizing missing a wide open receiver completely.

Not quite sure what the situation was, but what was the reason Clive Georges and Zach Arnell weren't afforded another year of eligibility while Deluca was. What is the criteria for the NCAA making these decisions?

For sure, we need to have as many freshmen as possible contributing early so we don't start out behind the eight ball in the pairwise. With only 2 years, Jones needs to make the best of them, so hopefully he is one of the ones we can count on for production and responsibility in his own end from the get go.

I don't know, if you look at page 26 of this thread, it looked like he was almost an afterthought for a lot of people.

That is a good question not only for this game, but for many. What is the breaking point? It is a fine line that UND has to walk with this going forward, not only with single game tickets, but with season tickets. We have already seen apathy in other fan bases across the country, and even in the student fan base here for many games. You definitely want to keep the arena full to continue to perpetuate the success that UND has had. Without that success you will see the demand go down dramatically. We see how fast apathy can creep into a fan base, as witnessed by Wisconsin which had such a passionate fan base. Hope UND can walk that fine line and keep the success going and keep that apathy out of our fan base.

Heard he is going to work for "The Athletic" a new online venture of sports content.

In the Grand Forks Herald supplement "Grand Forks, a Thriving Community", Brad Berry said Brandon Bochenski is moving to Grand Forks now that his playing career is done.

But it is kind of ironic that thousands of people were crying because they couldn't purchase tickets at that price to the game against Minnesota in Las Vegas next year. Maybe if they hadn't been so vocal, they might not have been so apt to ask for so much for this series.

Agree we held our own in the old building, but not so sure we won most recruiting battles against Minnesota during those years.

Yeah, and the UND hockey team are thugs!

You mean like Carson Wentz who all the Major colleges missed on!

He isn't the husband of Sue Ellen, the bra less Wonder and heiress to the O'Henry candy bar fortune... wait, that's Mischke!

That will make a lot of those people that jump all over Wolanin happy. It seems we have had a lot of guys that fans could do without here, but they are good enough for the next level, and that includes a coach as well.

Well of course, they can't even afford clothes like the USA men's team can.

Have a feeling losing games to Alaska would hurt more than the losses to teams like Michigan State last year. With all the early departures from the NCHC the last few years, it will bring the depth of our league more on par with the other leagues. Will need to take care of business against teams like Minnesota and Wisconsin, because we probably won't be able to make up pairwise in our league as we did before. Denver is obviously going to be great, but after that everyone has question marks that will make or break them.

Did you even watch the game? http://www.ncaa.com/news/icehockey-men/article/2017-03-24/college-hockey-north-dakotas-mike-gornall-shatters-glass-big

Guess the regional isn't until 2021, but still, they are looking ahead, why wouldn't the NCHC.

Isn't there supposed to be Regional basketball games at the Target Center a couple years down the road?