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Gino was an amazing judge of people and talent. Winning conference and national titles in the first two seasons, combines his skill in recruiting players and bringing in excellent assistant coaches. Rick Wilson wasn’t here long, but he went on to 30 seasons in the NHL. Dean Blais joined for the 1981-82 season. The coaching tree is long indeed. As athletic director, Gino hired some great coaches who revived other key sports on campus. Roger Thomas in 1986, Rich Glas in 1988, Gene Roebuck in 1987. While he was leading the USHL, from 1994-2009, (as both Commissioner and later President). the league experienced growth and was set up for future success. I will stop now, but will say I was excited when we hired him as head coach some 46 years ago, and my admiration has only grown over time.

MSU loses home opener to Merrimack 0-1. Bit of good news for hockey east ...

I imagine MSU Mankato - who is Merrimack's next opponent - is licking their chops.

Last time we lost the opening exhibition? October 11, 1996. THAT season turned out just fine.

UAA vs Denver just getting underway ... free video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCOc4Npe2Gg

Mavericks lead Michigan 4-1 15 minutes left in 3rd First time in my life I said "yay Pitlick" (he got their 3rd goal) EDIT: FINAL SCORE - 5-2 Mankato.

MSU Mavericks 2-1 Michigan mid 2nd. free audio: https://streamdb9web.securenetsystems.net/cirrusencore/KTOE

I wish I could give you the answer that you'd like to hear. (Yes he's coming back. The best contrarian indicator around ... if he complains about a call, the correct call is the opposite of what he says.) But at least no more Jim Rich trolling UND fans by (deliberately?) massacring the names ...

St Cloud improvements! https://www.stcloudlive.com/sports/college/broadcast-talent-shuffles-for-scsu-mens-hockey-broadcasts?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

If we're going to the MAC, let's get St Thomas to come with, and leave USD in the dust.

Belquist > Biletnikoff

Paul "Whiplash" Butters ... (goalie... we actually brought him a neck brace for whiplash one Saturday evening ... he declined haha)

Given this is Minnesota, asking their forwards to play defense has been a problem for the last 40 years.

Given the late date ... (and now that the rest of the MN roster is set) ... I wonder if he was told by Motzko that he wouldn't be on top line, or maybe not even second line (they have some real talent coming in at forward positions). He did get benched at times last year.

MSU says so too: https://msumavericks.com/news/2024/9/19/mens-hockey-rhett-pitlick-joins-minnesota-state-hockey.aspx

Especially NCAA programs with a lot of Canadian connections ....

In the comments to McMahon's tweets above, someone notes that Hockey East is at risk of splitting up - the Boston schools which have loads of money and will happily buy as many trophies as they can, contrasted with the smaller schools and lower budget schools that might rather stay with 18 scholarships and no revenue sharing. I think, a decade after the first attempts, the NCHC can become "National" and pick up some high profile Eastern schools.

Lot of in-game reps. Who had us kicking off 7 times in the first half?

Exsqueeze me, but I hallucinated that we won a field goal battle in the last 3 minutes to win the game.

I am not a lawyer, but I think some level of difference is prevailing practice. Still doesn't prevent lawsuits ...

https://thehockeynews.com/womens/college/here-are-the-details-on-katey-stones-lawsuit-against-harvard-university Unsurprisingly, Katey Stone fires back at Harvard. With the strong emotions here, a settlement is hard to imagine. Pop some popcorn. Side note - she alleges pay discrimination, which is a trap UND avoided when they ended women's D1 hockey. (Hard to argue its not the same job as Brad Berry does ...)

YAY! another floating tiger head!

Instead of best of 7 games , I think they should make it a 7-game total goals series . we are now even at 12-12.

Well, he did get to one Frozen Four in those 30 years. (And shared the 2019-2020 national COTY Award with a Mr Berry from North Dakota.)

Carson Soucy suspended 1 game ... https://www.nhl.com/news/vancouver-canucks-carson-soucy-suspended-1-game Still fuming that NCHC didn't hit that hack with a couple suspensions ...