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  1. One of the most horrific hockey injuries is the blade cut, which can and does happen to players with cages, neck guards, gloves and everything else. It just gives me the vapors to see it. Why they don't have the sense to go to rollerblades is beyond me.

  2. As in...

    The theory that making players vulnerable to gory facial injuries by taking away the full shield/cage will make the game safer is like saying you could make the roads safer by taking away everybody's seatbelts.

    :silly:

    Not quite there yet, Dave, (the eye-roll) but we can see you're trying.

  3. As long as everybody has a full shield/cage, we don't have to worry so much about players keeping their sticks down. It becomes a moot point when the faces are all protected. The theory that making players vulnerable to gory facial injuries by taking away the full shield/cage will make the game safer is like saying you could make the roads safer by taking away everybody's seatbelts. It is, to put it bluntly, a stupid argument. Anybody who subscribes to that theory just doesn't get it. It isn't 1930 anymore, time for the game to evolve. Safety is safety, people. Get a clue.

    Every once in a while, people are pursuaded more by the merit of an idea than by the force of an insult.

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  4. It's the unrestricted submarine warfare that the CHL wages on College Hockey to get all the best talent in North America. It's also the "live and let live" attitude that College Hockey has towards the CHL. This is a unilateral war in which one side uses machine guns and the other side uses wooden swords. It shouldn't surprise anyone that these things are happening. College Hockey, Inc. needs to take the gloves off and really get after it. Stop being so nice and deferential towards the CHL.

    Leave them to their karmic destiny, Grasshopper. They will come back as the Chicago Cubs' farm system or Mankato's hockey program . . .

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  5. That's the way I remember it when he was here. But now I here Paul Allen and NHL announcers saying "Pa REES ay." Either Zach has changed the pronunciation (ala Joe Theisman), we had it wrong all along, or the announcers don't have a clue.

    JP's name was usually pronounced "Pa REE zay," I believe, and I would guess that most NHL announcers are familiar with that.

  6. I mean, realistically if you put me at the bottom of the face-off circle with a clean look and Ed Belfour in the pipes, I am going to score 20 percent of the time, a D1 forward will score 40 percent of the time, an elite player will score on 60+% of those looks...there just isn't much a goalie can do...too much net to cover.

    Yeah, but you'd whiff 20% of the time too, Yzerman, and that would be worth seeing.

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  7. Since it's that time of year, I'll throw out a golf analogy, which may be full of sh**. This from a fan who really liked Eidsness.

    There are some guys who, if you golf with them often enough, you grow to expect some things. I golf with one guy who plays at about a 9. He knows what to do with his clubs and is fully capable of putting together a 73-75 at a fairly challenging course. But if he's hitting the ball real well and scoring at or near par, I can almost guarantee he will cough up a double or triple somewhere along the way to blow his low score. It's not pressure, because we don't play for money, and he might hit the tough hole on the front nine. Maybe it's concentration. Maybe he's just a good but not real good golfer.

    Eidsness seemed that way to me. He was real good for the Sioux, and I expecially liked his maturity. We were lucky to have him. But I was never surprised to see the softie--usually just one.

    I suppose statistics would disprove what that analogy suggests about his play, but hey, it's summer. It would be a treat, though, to get a goalie who, when he is on, is just plain shut-down. Might be what is needed for #8.

  8. I really think Kristo gets an A this year, he showed solid leadership last year, and his commitment to the program is impressive. I thought for sure he would have signed after his sophomore year, to get him all 4 years is amazing.

    I agree. He really showed desire to win last year and, at the same time, he played the team game in the offensive end.

  9. Saw this in the job opening;

    "women and minorities encouraged to apply" - brought to you by the same pathetic administration that gave us the spinless 10 year acquiescence to the fascist and equally as ignorant NCAA.

    It is really amazing to me where we as americans have gone. We are clueless and defenseless to the whims of both fools and evil men.

    I wonder just exactly what would be the minimum IQ required to be able to see that clause as the sexist and racist statement that it is.

    Much in the way that the NCAA policy against Native Americans is hideously racest. Yet most of us see crap like this and get some sort of comfort in the belief that our world is a better place for it. Me, I just want to throw up

    I somehow think you are pretty familiar with the minimum.

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  10. I think Kristo coming back may have some fans on GPL a little worried, some of them are figuring he will still leave, think he is a headcase and using UND as leverage, and that he's not that big of difference maker. I may be in the minority but if I could only choose one who would be back next year between Kristo and Nelson, it would have been Kristo and it would've been a pretty easy decison for me.

    Nelson was really coming into his own, but I'd tend to agree. Kristo showed last year how badly he wants to win while, at the same time, being more disciplined on offense. UND will have some real hard-to-contain quickness next year, and Danny's energy will be contagious.

  11. The NCAA does a very thorough investigation. They would investigate said "fan" that did the tweet and find out that they weren't really a UND fan.

    Not only that--very few gopher fans know how to use twitter yet, so you could pretty much rule them out.

  12. It would be nice to see a breakdown of Canadians that played US college hockey compared to the majors.

    Interesting information, but I think it's also a different question with a high draft pick. It may be that it is for those players that the CHL gets its rep. For example, Seth Jones probably does not worry too much whether he will get to the NHL. For him, the question is which route can get him there the soonest and to stay.

  13. Goalies (3): Maris (Sr), Saunders (Jr), Gothberg (Fr)

    Forwards (15): Rowney (Sr), Kristo (Sr), Knight (Sr), Rodwell (Jr), Mitch MacMillan (Jr), Dickin (Jr), Gaarder (So), Grimaldi (So), Mark MacMillan (So), O'Donnell (So), Parks (So), Pattyn (So), St. Clair (Fr), Chyzyk (Fr), Koules (Fr)

    Defense (8): MacWilliam (Sr), Gleason (Sr), Simpson (Jr), Forbort (Jr), Mattson (So), Panzarella (So), Senkbeil (So), Schmaltz (Fr)

    Potential Early Departures (2): Kristo (80/20), Forbort (20/80)

    Potential Arrivals (1): Jones

    My early lines assuming no more departures:

    Parks-Knight-Kristo

    MacMillan-Grimaldi-O'Donnell

    Chyzyk-Rowney-Rodwell

    Pattyn-Koules-St. Clair

    Extras: Mitch MacMillan, Dickin, Gaarder

    Forbort-Schmaltz

    MacWilliam-Mattson

    Simpson-Gleason

    Extras: Panzarella, Senkbeil

    Saunders

    Gothberg

    Maris

    Makes sense, but I hate to see Gaarder off the ice. Really like his play

  14. The Sioux were lead by Blood Kristo and Nelson all season and with them all leaving I do not see much success next year for the Sioux. Du or Minn Dul. on top

    I love Blood, and he was a horse this year. But man, he coughed up a lot of pucks.

  15. Just got done watching the game on DVR.

    Wow, absolute domination by BC. They got outshot, but had so many odd man rushes...it was crazy. And they capitalized on almost all of them.

    I get the impression that UMN fans can't give us crap any longer for our recent woes against BC in the F4.

    Also, what the heck was Matson from UMN thinking at the end? That was bush league. A two-handed slash followed by a cross-check to the face of the BC player...all over a battle for the puck along the boards. Extremely weak. I thought (according to UMN fans) only UND players did that crap when losing? I'm sure Gopher fans will spin that somehow, but either way that was a very weak move -- by the team captain, no less -- when Gopher fans would have us believe that they are angels on the ice.

    BC is very, very good this year. I don't think any WCHA team could have hung with them this year in the tourney. If UND would have made it to Tampa, I have a bad feeling it would have been a similar result.

    On to next season!

    York has something historic going at BC. Amazing.

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