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(Figured this should get its own thread, separate from the rest of the Stanley Cup discussion.) Proud to call you a Fighting Sioux (forever)! Savor every minute, and enjoy the summer. Well done, young man.

Wow, the fish were really flying tonight! Nashville playing more like the team that ripped through the Western Conference. I was thinking his TOI was down, but the box score says otherwise. Of course, your non-factor observation is true. https://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/pit-vs-nsh/2017/06/03/2016030413#game=2016030413,game_state=final,game_tab=stats Liking Roman Josi more, the more I see him play. Quietly effective.

Excellent observations. Would asterisk the other two forwards - Malkin and Crosby - who played at the Ralph in the 2005 World Juniors.

I am happy that Carter Rowney will get a chance to play for the Stanley Cup. Other than that.... hmm. I'll have to get back to you on that.

Quote from CBS is a bit different. I don't know which is true, just quoting a source. From the article below: Sources also told CBS Sports that the Missouri Valley intends to remain at 10 teams for the forseeable future. Most coaches and athletic directors within the league prefer the 10-team format and schedule. "No one wanted to go to 12," a source said. http://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/missouri-valley-presidents-vote-for-valpo-to-replace-wichita-state-stay-at-10-teams/

Or ... the rest of the locker room needs to ask the GM to trade him.

Agree. I think its a part of hockey culture. Just like the discussion about how nervous Paul LaDue was before the 2016 Title game and people kept needling him. It's what you do. What I found most interesting was that before his original commitment to Wi, he described considering just MN, WI and MI. Fascinating, and I bet there are a fair number of smart kids who don't look farther than that.

So what you're saying is they drew double the Big Ten (men's) final four average.

Frequent visits to Siouxsports.com will stave off the end of civilization.

The Wild have a much better chance of winning game 2. That's because most of St Louis' roster is in jail for stealing game 1.

#gofundmepionkgopro

DU up 3-1 8 minutes left

Repainting his helmet green and yellow.

Wouldn't want to risk crowd noise drowning out the Personalities.

NHL is certainly already campaigning ... Recent statements by their higher ups included quite pointedly the fan polls (not sure how scientific those were) of USA and Canada fans, which showed majority against. If players leave anyway, certainly the NHL will play the card "giving the fans what they want".

Link to the NHLPA response blasting the NHL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8hhxXkXoAESfYY.jpg

Sure we could save women's hockey. It would just take 31,000 people donating $1,000 each to generate that $31,000,000 endowment noted above. But the harder part is finding funding for the corresponding men's sport so UND doesn't have Title IX issues. Double edged sword, that one is.

Having been on the management side of layoffs, I agree with others who earlier point out how hard it is to send zero signals in advance. (Because if you send those signals, the grapevine goes bonkers and everyone stops working until you Tell.) I agree with multiple posters who have said UND's formal announcement needed a broader and deeper recap of (1) the problem - find a couple million while meeting the competitive needs of (1b) a new conference for most sports. (2) The options of cutting that size amount from budget were very limited, and all the other options had worse consequences: more reductions in participation, risk of failing conference minimums etc etc. The absence of those critically important facts is what allows the journalism covering to tell "what they heard", and UND allowed that by telling less than the full story in their formal announcement.

If practice was cancelled for the day of the announcement, that would have been an enormous clue.

So what I hear you saying is that NDSU should start women's hockey.

I can't support all the items on the USA Women's National Team list. But its clear USA Hockey did some incredibly dumb things that got it to this point. Take that list of "incidental" things: fly business class, a companion can accompany you on trips, etc. They gave those to the men but not the women. So on the way back from Sochi, the men flew first class, but the women were in coach. Also glad to hear of late breaking news of an agreement. This too is best for long term progress of hockey in the USA.

The bad news is two conferences will claim them.

Lowell changed lines and never got their coverage sorted out before Notre Dame scored.

... I'm just really happy they aren't playing the Gophers today.