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Hopefully our team knows just how important those games in Minneapolis are going to be for the gophers. Sure, it will be important for us as well, but they won't have a game that creates that much atmosphere against the defending National Champions and heated rival for a long time. The East Grand Forks boys need to impress on some of the new guys the need to keep the "Golden Boy" image that Nanne espouses left with a bit of tarnish on it after the rivalry weekend. One thing I guarantee you about that weekend, is that if the gophers win, the faithful will say how great the rivalry is and what a shame it was that it took this long to play, and if they lose, they should have never played us again because we are just a bunch of cheap hacks.

It seems more and more the Academic Elite are in love with bureaucratic procedure and committees, but lack the common sense of a gnat. So the next press conference we can expect is that they decided to remove a couple sports after all.

Speed kills is right!

Smith just has the leftover karma from the #26 walk-on jersey working for him. Good thing it didn't take the 4th year for it to take effect like it did for the previous owner. Seriously, love to see those kinds of guys succeed.

Was wondering myself if it was just an overzealous sub trying to show the coaches he will play to the whistle, but yeah, the chest thump makes you question his motivation.

Yeah, watching football and talking hockey causes confusion. Was wondering why Green Bay wasn't whistled for checking from behind!

I don't know what Wisconsin will end up like this year with their new coaching staff, but to say BC is average at this point is a bit premature, especially since BC is the team that many UND fans hold as the standard of "why can't we be like BC, they are always winning". We will get a chance to see how average they are when we play them.

Point I am trying to make is that it is far too early to know what teams do, or do not have. UND has looked good, but against teams picked to finish low in their league.

But it isn't early for BC trying to replace even more NFL defections?

So is Denver a below average team then since they got beat by BC?

I find it hard to believe a UND fan can make determinations this early in the season, considering the road UND has traditionally taken to the Frozen Four.

Why the whole team?

That Cal Poly team put up unbelievable offensive production in their win against SDSU.

Yeah, they need to lose enough to lose home field in the playoffs for losses to be of any consequence.

Kid has great hands. Would love to see another Burnaby recruit at UND.

"Gooch" ripping up "Mariooch"! I like it.

Hopefully Kawaguchi can become another in a line of UND players that came in undersized and under the radar a bit like Duncan and Caggiula. I know the coaches probably knew what they were getting with those guys. Not a lot of press about those guys starting out, not like the buzz with Rocco. St. Cloud has made a living off of those kind of players that panned out pretty well like Ryan Lasch, Garrett Roe, Jared Festler, David Morley, Jimmy Murray, etc. Hoping that Kawaguchi can be the next in line that takes off and stays all four years.

Perhaps the reason that they made the move on Kawaguchi is because they saw the writing on the wall for Bowers going elsewhere. I guess we'll see. Would be nice to have that problem with Bowers coming.

If they are going to commit to the women's program because they think it can compete for National titles, then they need to actually start to show some of that promise. I agree that they lose far too often to teams that they shouldn't lose to. To be honest, I think Bemidji State under Jim Scanlan has shown more improvement than UND has under Idalski.

Did anyone else see that Danny Willett now says his brother was right about American fans. What a gutless wonder. He might want to check out the kind of fans England has. Hey Danny, ever heard of soccer rioting!

Collin Adams was first star in both games this weekend with 4 goals and an assist.

Earth wind and fire Jost is the down to earth two way player Gersich skates like the wind. And Boeser is always on fire the way he can fire the puck. Too bad Jost isn't a big boy because it could be Girth Wind and Fire.

There were some saying in August that Heisenberg has him committed to Denver, but he isn't listed as committed there on his site now. Looks like he has been a pretty consistent scorer in the BCHL. Saw he is a cousin of former Wild player Devin Setagouchi.

It says Denver on his BCHL profile.