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My guess is that Caulfield has the higher upside, but they are still developing, so who knows. Have heard Caulfield has had interest from the USA development team, so he may choose that or be playing somewhere else in the USHL next season. Being such a high pick, would think Costello has a decision to make as well.

Agree, the more people you can keep involved, the less likely you are to have apathy in your fan base should you encounter a down year. Nobody will want to jump off the bandwagon for fear of missing out on opportunities like this in the future.

It seems that most people are just interested because it is in Vegas. You can go to Vegas anytime. It sometimes bothers me that people will go to extreme lengths to see certain games, yet when there are plenty of tickets available, they don't support the team by showing up. It is no wonder why those special game tickets cost more yet are still in high demand.

If that is truly the case, then instead of hyping the release to the general public, they should have been expressing that tickets were very limited, rather than getting everybody's hopes up. And this is coming from somebody who got tickets in the Champions club presale.

I would think if we win enough to stay in the top 14 or so in the pairwise, we will get home ice, because some of the other teams we are competing with are playing each other like St. Cloud vs. Miami and Omaha and Western this weekend.

Well if UND's allotment was 5000, and it seats 7773, then there should be 2700+ tickets for sale on ticketmaster because I don't think any are set aside for the gophers.

Seems like they win every year!

3rd in a row?

So to clean it up you bring it up again? Nice logic!

Scheel is/was committed to Notre Dame, but maybe since Dylan St. Cyr flipped from Michigan to Notre Dame, he is reconsidering. I see that Manon Rheaume is Dylan St. Cyr's mom.

Usually don't wear a black jersey at home but tonight mine came out as well.

So just to nail it down for us, your realism says we have dark years ahead too, including the rest of this year? Of course "dark years" to some is not winning a national championship every year. Now tell me who is a realist.

Wow, who would think that Irish would be pessimistic?

As frustrating as it is, they aren't giving up much defensively, so if Jost could help them get up early and get to 3 goals, I think they can win more consistently.

You see what kind of character you have when you go through adversity. So far, when they go down by 2 goals, it looks like they believe they are done. I can't remember the last year in which we were really regressing this late in the year. They seem like they are trying to do it alone, not many tic tac toe passing plays, even just to get a shot on net. Need some line rushes with a defenseman following the play in the slot. A big win tomorrow would do wonders for confidence with a week off coming. I don't know what happens if they get swept at home again. Never thought I would see a stretch like this at home. With the apathy that seems to be appearing for athletics on campuses all over, you need to keep attracting new fans. Don't know if the atmosphere this year is attracting new fans.

Funny to see the GPL crowd talking trash about what the attendance will be at Fargo if UND doesn't make it. I guess the attendance would look similar to a Minnesota home game!

Maybe the USHL page just hasn't been updated then.

Anyone know the story on Colin Thiesen being uncommitted, despite being tied for the USHL goal scoring lead? Academics?

Just get in and let the cards fall where they may. At the very least it would be great to get some experience for the young guys so they don't have that learning curve in the future.

...and that's saying something!

...and all of them shorthanded!

Agree, I think NDSU has shown they can be competitive with most FBS teams. What some people fail to realize is it is a lot different being competitive early in the year when injuries haven't taken their toll, than it would be late in the year, or over a full season in those leagues. I think you are only talking about a one game shot, in which the Bison have certainly been impressive.

First it was the nickname excuse for not playing UND, then it was the need to be playing all the other teams in the state, according to Lucia. Now that they realize that playing UND is huge for keeping their pockets stuffed and fan base from being apathetic, they don't seem to care about keeping all the Minnesota teams in the loop every year or every other year. Am I wrong, or do they still plan on playing them outside of the tournament?

Agree, Duluth should be ashamed that they let both games at home come down to that against CC!

They must be out, because I put in for 2 tickets and there doesn't appear to be any more.