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I see former UND recruit Brendan Lemieux is also part of the trade.

Yeah, people don't deserve second chances. You should have been off this board a long time ago. Why the administrators saw fit to give you a second chance is beyond me. Given the second chance, you still rehash the same tired refrain.

... and you have the job of translator. It doesn't pay well, but it will indeed make you laugh.

Yet, you never reveal your sources for information you supposedly have ahead of time. For that matter, you never reveal the information until after the fact. Hmmm, either you don't want to jeopardize your GOBC network, or you are just full of crap. I'm pretty sure I know which one it is.

Agree, does he post on anything else? I guess the theory is that if you throw enough things at the wall, something will eventually stick, and then I guess we would get the "I told you so" refrain.

Kind of like the St. Cloud A.D. saying they wouldn't want to be in the league, then after some closed door negotiations, they jumped at the offer.

I'm sure it could be a selling point for some, but those that want to be on the fast track to the NHL might not care about nice weather for a year or two. Besides, it might be a little harder to turn the pages when you have that kind of weather to distract you. Better keep an eye on a big time program like ASU playing loose with NCAA regulations. You also have to ask if games will have the kind of atmosphere they do here when there is so much more to do for the students there. Hockey is the thing that makes winters more bearable here, and it shows by attendance. After all, Grand Forks is Hockey City USA for a reason.

That's what my point is. Even with his numbers in the USHL, I think he could still put up the numbers here that many freshmen do, including Chyzyk's 3 points his first year. I am confident the coaches will do the right thing for him and the team, and it won't be based on numbers, it will be on actually watching his performance at that level. I'm sure they would love to have him stay another year like Wilkie and Gersich, but that doesn't always work out. If Boeser comes it may be a no brainer, but who knows if they will get one of the higher end guys they would love to add to that class.

If they go the NCAA route, why would they be out? Doesn't Fabbro have a tie to Wisconsin? Saw on GPL that they said the same thing about us.

That's what I worry about, that they will bend over backwards on the scheduling. "We have a big football game that night, can we push the 2nd game of the series to Sunday?"

Yes, and if things work out the way they want, they will leave at some point anyway.

I certainly don't want to be in a situation where there are special rules for Notre Dame, like the old Minnesota rule, or other concessions to support their huge ego.

Did you like Chyzyk last year with the Sioux? If you looked at his numbers, he didn't stand out, but you could tell he added something to the lineup.

I think this is similar to the football scenario where fans are concerned who else recruited this guy and how many stars does he have next to his name. Fans look at all that crap and get consumed by it. I like Bubba's answer to that by saying they know what they are looking for and the roles they will play and don't care what others think about them.

I think they keep rotating between St. Paul and Detroit. Neither would let there hockey status accept anything less.

Michigan didn't scare many people last time we played them in the tournament either. I'm with Schlossman, just about any of the top 16 or so teams could win it all, and it wouldn't surprise me.

Why didn't he follow his other brother to Minnesota, does he like Johnny better.

I think they check people's tickets so much because there were so many empty seats in the lower bowl that people buying the cheap upperdeck tickets would just drop down. The thing I don't understand is why they don't have a little more time between games. We ended up just staying in the arena for concessions rather than frequenting a local establishment because there didn't seem to be enough time. Maybe the Target Center wants the extra business, but it doesn't benefit the downtown businesses quite as much.

I see they have Boeser at the bottom of the first round a few spots behind his linemate Novak. But they seem to think he plays for Sioux City. Nice to see Troy Murray mocked for Winnipeg though.

When were all of the improvements supposed to take place. I thought that was part of the agreement, the big upgrades that were supposed to take place.

Did I hear correctly that it was Achilles surgery? Pretty scary stuff if so, and a reminder to everyone that tomorrow isn't promised to you.

If no underclassmen leave, sometimes that means they want to stay to try to achieve an NCAA Championship together. I'm hoping they can get that done this year, then I wouldn't mind some leaving early. With a lot of the leaders on this team being seniors, it might be tough to even make the NCAA tourney next year, especially if they lose an underclassmen or two.

You can probably say the same thing about most teams in their losses. Even though they didn't look good last weekend they were still at about 20 percent which number wise isn't horrible.

Thompson was NCHC plater of the week last week, but paired with Panzarella I believe. I really think they want to stick with the Mattson-Ladue, Stecher-Ausmus pairing, which leaves you no other choice but to go with a couple offensive-minded defensemen. It could just be they need more time to get used to each other, or maybe now that they have a couple weeks off, they may want to rethink the Ausmus-Stecher pairing. Even though they have been the best pairing, they both have great defensive capabilities, and maybe they may choose to mix those with offensive defensemen. Either way I think we'll be o.k.

Guess he won't be working the West Regional at Scheels.