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DU and ASU tied at. 0 after 1. Tonight’s game is at Gila River Arena. Decent crowd for a startup program . Other than a DU PP with some good chances, pretty even and played around the edges. ASU is physical and pretty fast. Question is whether DU skill guys show up.

Bowling Green sweeping Notre Dame is also very nice for WCHA Pairwise.

Goalies? Nope.

We should do this every Thanksgiving.

I’ve watched a lot of first-game first periods at Minnesota. That’s as good as I have ever seen from us. Keep it it going boys.

Before the game, if you told me we would play for over 20 minutes with a manpower disadvantage: 15 minutes of 5x4 3 minutes of 5x3 2 1/2 minutes of 6x5 I probably would not have predicted we win 4-1. Kudos to the boys for playing through all that - takes focus and grit to keep playing the systems when faced with that kind of disadvantage. Not to mention the conditioning required for several long shifts in there. Well done.

By facing a practice goalie who's wearing an Adam Scheel jersey.

Denver with no time or space. Our puck pressure has been excellent tonight.

When discussing National Championships... du announcers says “I think Michigan won most of theirs when there were still fish under the ice.” Lol

Certainly seems like an enormous backdoor way to evade scholarship limits. Just have a couple backroom conversations with boosters and "bam" your new recruit is set. How many "car commercials" with local football, basketball, and hockey stars are in our future... In that vein it can certainly help sports the University can't fund scholarships due to Title 9 issues (aka golf, baseball, M volleyball, etc), but the community now has a way to fund 'scholarships'. No idea how D-3 stays 'clean' of this.

They're just messing with everyone else's video reviews. Nobody can see the numbers ... Update score tied 1-1 ten minutes left.

Its only an exhibition, but Alberta 5 UMD 3. http://www.collegehockeystats.net/1920/boxes/malbmnd1.o05 Summary: UMD backup goalies allow 4 goals on 18 shots.

I agree. There's a lot of Orwellian doublespeak coming out of many college campuses these days. This fact based history combats that well.

Pretty good case of university Presidents and Trustees/Directors looking to pass the buck on down the chain. Perhaps appropriately, perhaps not. If I were an AD, everyone in my department would have to sign a certification of compliance. Passing the buck down toward the front lines. I'd also ask every rostered athlete, scholarship or no, to certify compliance.

Thanks for your thoughts. Always good to read what you have to say. This feels more like a temporary step back than a long-term stagnation of college hockey out west. The immediate catalyst, of course, being the budget crisis in Alaska. If I were the AD at any of the 7 departing schools, and two of the teams said they were moving to tiny arenas that are inadequate for modern D-1 hockey, I would have kicked them out (aka leave the WCHA). UAH's non-inclusion feels more fixable, as in a way to put external pressure in support of UAH proposals to their governance in Alabama. It was only 20 years ago that Mankato became a full-fledged member of the WCHA, and there's been a steady increase in D-1 teams out west, going back to Omaha and Bemidji as well. And there are certainly other good candidates, starting with natural rivals of Arizona State: UA and UNLV. I disagree with "the NCHC has a fear of others bringing them down". The record indicates "sick of being dragged down by other schools that disagreed with their views of how to move forward." (Read Schlossman's excellent series on the history of the formation of the NCHC, including the part about expletive ridden tirades and the failure to replace a failing Commissioner.) Edit: https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/4512561-nchc-series-part-1-how-nchc-was-formed

My favorite statistic of the draft so far is that the 9 first-round draft choices heading the NCAA route are all going to schools that did not make the NCAA tournament last year.

No to mention their Peay-K.

But the rankings were probably set before Shaw said he was leaving, so there's that.

Which makes them the equivalent of a division winner. Yeah, they are cursed.

Game 7 overtime tonight showcasing incredible skill, creativity and teamwork. Fabulous hockey.

Who's their captain again?

Splitting 18 scholarships among 25 players is hard enough. Splitting 18 scholarships among 28 players would be even harder.

Let's hope UND gets placed SOMEWHERE in 2020! No really. I'll settle for anywhere. Seriously. Anywhere.

I'd like to see the search cast a wide net this time, beyond people that are already close friends or alumni. I'd like the net cast wide, in the same way we search for on ice talent who wants to play at a premiere program, coaching hires should be "best available". Here's hoping there's been a lot of behind the scenes work over the past couple years, that can be leveraged now that there's an opening.

Hmmm.... If you are the part of UND that likes Kennedy, you probably say positive things about him. If you are the part of UND that dislikes Kennedy, you probably say positive things about him.