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...and we know how St. Cloud and Minnesota State swallowed up all the extra UND fan's tickets in Sioux Falls.

And sometimes it works the opposite way. I remember Nolan Patrick saying he always wanted to play for the Fighting Sioux, yet when push came to shove, he ended up playing for Brandon.

So they are going to put the 4 old video boards in the 4 corners of the upper deck?

So are all the banners above the ice surface now? The rendering shows some up above the student section in the upper deck. Maybe the scoreboard will obstruct the view of some of the banners.

Couldn't tell if we were outshooting them or not though.

The obsession isn't one sided. Don't ever recall people complaining that the football team never used the old logo on their helmets.

We hear post game all of the time about having passengers and selfish penalties, however I don't recall guys sitting for those issues. I'm sure it has happened at some point, but I recall guys continuing to take dumb penalty after dumb penalty with no consequence. I was heartened when Mismash sat the second game against Canisius only to find out it was due to injury. Way too much talent there to continue to operate with little intensity resulting in lazy passes and not bearing down on chances. Hate to single him out, but that seems to be the most glaring based on what we saw from him early last year when it looked like he would be the next star forward we are missing, someone who takes the team on their shoulder down the stretch of close games, preventing disasters like Canisius.

Paul LaDue with the game winning goal for the Kings today. Maybe he should be playing more since they don't seem to be doing much otherwise.

Yes, where is Schlossman when you need him? He sure put it out there when the record was good, but the last few years it seems 50/50.

He's not exactly ripping it up in Minnesota High School hockey with his size. Will be interested to see where he lands and how much he produces his first year.

That is the huge concern. They came out of Christmas last year in decent shape as well, only to lose a number of games they should have won. This is the second year in a row where they have lost pairwise ground after Christmas. Say what you want about how Hakstol's teams started, but they improved almost every year after the break. Now we seem to regress after the break. That flat out shouldn't happen with the younger teams we have had.

Who'd have ever imagined we would be comparing ourselves to Boston College in the negative sense, instead of "why can't we be like Boston College"!

Actually, 0-3-1 against Bemidji and Canisius.

He’s a piece of work!

This message board begs to differ!

That top line has almost as much offense as our top 8 players, so that much scoring goes a long way. And their next 3 highest scorers after the KHL line has 38 points compared to 42 points for our top 3 scorers.

Is this for real? What about Kaleb Johnson?

I'm guessing those are still there.

I thought there were rumors that Hakstol wanted to take Dane with him to Philly, but Dane wanted to stay here. Not sure if they were true, but I recall those circulating around back then. By all indications I see, Dane and Berry have a great working relationship.

The ironic thing is that with all of Schlossman's articles and blog posts in the past saying how UND has this string going, or hadn't been swept in how many years, he has really made the comparison that much more vivid. Would be interesting to see how many times he predicted sweeps for UND in the past, compared to the constant split predictions now. That in and of itself demonstrates how much confidence in the team has waned. If it wanes too much, good luck bidding on those regionals.

Did anyone see Dean Blais pour a vial of water from the Ralph onto the ice at the Xcel during a pregame ceremony tonight?

A lot of times Parise's net front presence isn't pretty, it's just determination to get to the hard areas. Sure he has finishing skills, but if our guys would get to those areas more often .. well, even a blind squirrel can find a nut on occasion.

I agree totally, but in the same regard the same situation applies to college. That is why I am concerned we haven't got production from some older guys coming in that had a track record, and we will definitely need production from younger guys next year. With the group coming in, I would think a few of them could make a noteworthy impact.

It bothered me on Friday that he tried to feed Brad after the game with the "not a lot you can do" line because you played so well. Thankfully, Brad was up front and had the same line of thinking that I had that they didn't have a shot on goal until the 9 minute mark to start the game, and you have to come out from the start like they played at the end. TH still downplayed that after Berry left the interview going back to the "what can you do" line. Now Saturday was a completely different story, being that they seemed to have consistent effort throughout.

Maybe not a downward trend as much as you could look at it that since the NCHC has become a league, it could be argued that Duluth, Denver and St. Cloud have been consistently better than UND in results that count. If we were back in the WCHA, that would never have been a standard that was acceptable. UND had always prided itself on having the most league titles and national championships and won more than their fair share of playoff championships. Hopefully we start with the latter this year, that will propel us going forward into next year.