burd
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No Twitter, no Facebook, no SiouxSports.com...just the newspaper the next day telling you if the team won or lost at Northern Michigan or Michigan Tech.
Less national coverage?
I can remember living in the SF bay area in the early 80s having to make phone calls the next day to find out if they won. Not the best years for a Sioux fan to be in a hockey dead zone.
Now, as to other things . . .
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Miami @ SCSU
CC @ UND
Denver @ UNO
Western @ Duluth
A good chance for most of these series to go three games. I like UND's first round matchup a lot more than what some other teams are looking at.
My predictions:
SCSU over Miami in 3.
UND over CC in 2.
Denver beats UNO in 3.
Western beats Duluth in 3.
I agree, Wilbur, but I'm going with UNO against DU.
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St. Cloud has started a legacy under Motzko lately and seems to be getting the most of their players. Hopefully the Sioux will add to their legacy from this point on in the season. It is nice to see the board so active again tonight, although that seems like it has become the norm --- if the Sioux lose.
St. Cloud has been better the last couple of years, but a legacy?
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In early December, an NCAA berth seemed unlikely. You have to count you blessings sometimes. The boys have actually done what they had to do the second half.
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That short handed goal is really inexcusable. You have a 5 min major and you let them come down and score. That pretty much sealed our fate.
The shorthanded goal was actually a freakish good pass and a great play by the shooter. Our mistake was taking the penalty and letting him get to the net.
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Wins are always better, but getting cc next weekend wouldn't be all bad. Miami is still dangerous.
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Did Notermann hit any pipes?
I remember him hitting quite a few back in the day.
Watching him and Spiewak out there together was always fun...
And Notermann's old man over on USCHO. Wonder how many other parents post on these sites.
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What about Sparky?! Will he never come back?
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I haven't lowered my expectations for the program at all.
1. I expect the program to be competitive for a national championship. I expect they will be in the NCAA tournament a high majority of the years, with a legitimate chance to advance.
2. I expect the program to be clean. No recruiting scandals. No payments to student athletes. No academic cheating.
3. I expect the players to be treated with the same respect shown to other students, so that they leave the University with fond memories and good feelings about their experience. I want them to be proud to be UND alum, happy to come back and support the University, willing to send their own children there.
4. I expect the team to compete for league and conference tournament titles.
5. Finally, I want the program to be considered in that elite class of 5-7 programs at the top of NCAA college hockey.
In my opinion, the UND hockey program has met those standards under Hakstol, and under his predecessors.
That's pretty much how I feel. And expanding on Hovey's first point, I want to be able to watch a UND team that is consistently among the best teams in the country, so the games are both fun to watch and meaningful. Hak's teams have given that. Hak has not won a NC yet, and we all expect that; but he also has not put us through three for four years like Minnesota recently went through under Lucia, or some of the bad years Eaves had recently, or some of Sandy's teams in in Duluth, or the disaster Miami has been this year.
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Does anyone know if the Sioux are showing any interest in Harrison Aide, Mr Hockey for this year? The kid can obviously put the puck in the net!
Great parents and extremely athletic family. The kid lives for hockey.
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My very first hockey game was the first night the old Ralph had the first game ever. Sat right next to the guy with the red light. Was right on the ice behind the glass. East end of the rink. Spent a lot of time ducking even with the glass between myself and the puck. LOL. But I was very hooked and loved going to the games win or lose or lose or lose. That was about the ratio. But they won that first night.
I was there too. Jeff Sauer and CC in town, if I remember right.
Those of us who began watching the Sioux in the old barn thought the new building was very nice but too quiet and civilized. A little like fans felt after the move from the old Ralph to the new.
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Be nice to get a 3 seed or better.
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OK, that's straightened out, but we can still do a little face-washing around here, can't we?
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I think they are both uncalled for...I have stated my thought many times but there are some that live on the ends of the spectrum. I don't care what anyone says, blais did much more for this program then Hakstol has. Again, do I think Hakstol should be fired? No, you cannot fire someone that has had his kind of success. However I do think that after a 13-15 year tenure (3-5 years from now) both parties may have to go there separate ways if we haven't won a national title. A coach with his success deserves 13-15 years to try and get it done. He has put an entertaining product on the ice, no one can deny that. But to mock blais is ludicrous. In speculation, I'm guessing he would have won 1-2 more had he not left. There were some nice blue chippers that came in at the time he was leaving.
I don't think anyone is mocking Blais, scpa, as much as tweaking the "fire Hak" people by joking about what Dean could have done or is now doing in UNO.
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No doubt, if anything he's a great coach... Nice guy and an interesting person.
And that blazer.
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Gotta disagree on that one and agree with SIOUXELEVENS immediate reply...40 SOGs but no real grade A scoring chances. Michigan controlled the tempo of that game from the get-go...and no adjustments were made at all.
If that is true, he will definitely have to show he can develop that ability to game coach on the big stage when he has the talent to win.
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That would never happen with Hakstol.
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Some good points. It's not all the head coach, of course, but I think when we remember now good Frattin was we overlook how well his situation was handled. What happened after he left the program and returned to Edmonton was pretty remarkable, IMO, and Hak and his staff deserve some credit for that.
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Blais has always played high risk high reward, sometimes in works sometimes they give up leads. Hakstol could loosen up a little and take some chances in his game plans(like having Marto out against Gerbe instead of Finley) Hakstol is a great recruiter and assembles an awesome team just needs to take his game generalship to a new level.
This is exactly the way I see it. I'm not sure the Sioux have had a better program coach than Hakstol. And I'm not sure how you game-coach any better than putting 40 SOG and only giving up one goal while the goalie is on the ice (Mich 2011), but I think he needs to do something.
On the balance, it seems Blais recommendation that they hire Hakstol has been good for UND. They do need to win one, though, to keep recruiting the elite talent, IMO
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They don't want to lose anybody for Friday night in St. Cloud.
Beat me to it, Sprig
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Sounds like things will start to go UND's way if they keep up the pace.
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UMD definitely has some skill through their forward lines. They skate well too.
Heard Cameranesi's name a lot last night on radio.
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Im still posting aint i?
I aint afirad of the crowd.
I just want a natty.
If hak cant give us one let the nexy guy inline give us one (sandy) as he has one.
Stopped by the grocery store on my way home from work today and witnessed this young mother dealing with a toddler who was lying on the floor kicking and screaming his head off for something in the candy rack. The child didn't speak well for his size, but the mother was really good about it, saying to the lady next to her in line, "he's just two, he doesn't know any better."
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Nice weekend, but we shouldn't draw too many conclusions about what the team did different. Miami is at the bottom for a reason.
NCHC playoffs.....Away we go.
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You would go with the goalie.