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Quite the string of weak to bad penalty calls against Florida tonight.

Sounds fine. Do they have a men's soccer team in need of a conference? How about tennis?

Well, if you need some time to think about it, Call a Timeout.

Count me as also hoping for a strong reset top to bottom. Culture is also part of the process of building a successful team (organization). How players (workers) treat one another, etc. Sometimes, when a team isn't getting the results that it should, a reset of people can help reset the culture too. Perhaps this is also a time for a reset. In a perfect world, all our incoming players bring with them tools that have worked elsewhere, and that can include aspects of culture that can work at UND too. For as long as I can remember, great leaders have been part of UND hockey's success. This is a time for great leaders to step forward.

ORU is evangelical ... so is Liberty. (HCU is Baptist and UIW is Catholic.) Yeah, I'm grasping at straws here.

Consolation prize: Rocco Grimaldi leads the World Championships in scoring. Named to the All-Tournament Team. Also t-6th in plus-minus.

My bad. TSN article makes it sound like their Calder Cup chasing AHL affiliate will get some help. Otherwise, yeah a 2nd round draft pick seems like a good choice.

Gophers' D Ryan Johnson signs with Buffalo, leaving after 2 years in Rodentland. https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/buffalo-sabres-sign-ryan-johnson-to-entry-level-deal-1.1965693

Rocco Grimaldi and Tyler Kleven and Team USA advance to the semifinals at the World Championships. https://www.iihf.com/en/events/2023/wm/news/45034/usa-cze Semifinals have been a curse in the past. Perhaps this is the year. Also hoping Grimaldi's play puts him in contention for Olympic consideration. He seems very well suited for the international game.

Mr Fenton, I have Augustana on line 1.

We're thinking "better to play Badgers Rodents Purple Cows and Rat Dogs early." They are thinking "better to play North Dakota early."

Welcome to the club!

If I squint a little I can connect that the Arizona Coyotes are the oldest NHL franchise never to appear in the Stanley Cup finals. Need better ownership, better senior leadership, and obviously a real NHL arena. (and yeah maybe they jointly build with ASU which would be fine; ASU basketball certainly needs a new home).

Alex Pietrangelo will be getting a call from Player Safety tomorrow. I've never seen a slash like that - brings the stick vertical, then down onto Dreisatl's wrist. Predicting he gets 3 playoff game suspension. Maybe more. That was another message-sending penalty by Vegas. Let's see if we can screw up Edmonton's goalie. And it follows directly the Edmonton instigation of a fight, so no surprise there.

"The more medicated the more dedicated." - Snoop Dogg

After Bennett Brien's masterpiece, ANY logo would have a tough act to follow.

Congratulations, again, to Dave Hakstol, on this historic nomination. Reviewing the 50 years of Jack Adams Award (aka coach of the year), I see 3 past winners with a connection to NCAA hockey: Red Berenson (Michigan, ew), Dave Tippett (UND, great guy), Rod Brind'Amour (Michigan State). None of them coached in NCAA first, and then went on to coach in the NHL. Which would make Hakstol the first to succeed on that path. Or, if Jim Montgomery wins, he coached NCAA before NHL too.

Toughest lead in hockey (pools) is a 25 point lead.

So ... both Florida and Seattle maintained their Road Ice Advantage after game 1.

If not for the President's Cup Curse, I might agree.

Congratulations to Dave Hakstol on his first playoff win as an NHL Head Coach!

The WCHA POTY was Tim Harrer of the Gophers, another in a long line of Gopher forwards who never got close enough to his own goalie to even say hi. Sounds vaguely familiar. He may have benefitted in national media by being Cyclone Taylor's grandson.

I wasn't as think as you drunk I was.

Thanks for posting! Brings back a lot of great memories. First week of school, fall 1979, and at a party where Doug Smail and Mark Taylor were both there. (Neither drinking, by the way.) I expressed surprise that Team Canada hadn't been smart enough to pick them for their Olympic Team, and both of them gave wry smiles, and said something to the effect of 'we will show them they made a mistake'.

If adding Bowling Green helped create better multi-sport scheduling / games with the MAC (esp FB, BB, VB), I would favor that. Adding Arizona State would help address the perceptions that NCHC is a bunch of small schools, and give NCHC hockey a voice at the table when the P5 are talking rules for D-1. (ASU still seems like a temporary add, in the bigger picture.)