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Oh no! Does that mean we have to send him over to Denver or one of the other elite schools?

My sources tell me Wilbur became involved.

Over your head. You probably weren’t even alive.

I'm a social media idiot, so I'm sincere here. What is a back channel in modern social media setting? Someone published to a person who then contacted you? Again, I'm not questioning the accuracy of your statement--just wanting to understand the process. Mostly because a shyt ton of the information we consume moves in manners similar to that.

How does someone tell you and stay anonymous?

Better than listening to these nattering nabobs of negativism.

Keep in mind; Lucy is still holding the football.

Jerry York's profane rants were as famous as they were scandalous. Sticks and other equipment? Pete Townshend of hockey coaches.

Also Jerry York

The guy in 4th grade doing arm farts from the back row.

Take it from a guy who regularly talks through his arse, Sioux> is talking through his arse.

Any evidence to support that?

My source, which is usually never 100% accurate, tells me he's rethinking his decision based on career advice he's read on these threads.

Those folks were deeply unhappy under Hak, and there were a lot of them.

Wood doesn't have Maurice Richard's speed or Ovie's shot. Not much of a fighter. Meh, another project.

Denver is everywhere. That's the problem.

Exactly, Wilbur. We can be fans of the game and program without letting results make or ruin our day. Small stuff/big stuff. That doesn't mean you won't be available if they're in a pinch for a tendie, though, right?

With all this negative noise going on, BB needs to bring Matt Foley in as a motivational speaker before we lose just about everybody.

UND has a higher average star rating than Mich, Mich St. WI, and UMinn?? But chippahs . . .

It may seem like Sic is just a slug from where we sit, but who's to say he doesn't have goals like anyone else.

Speaking of rural Minnesota culture, what's on the Angle up there on Lake of the Woods? Any villages? Rental cabins for fishing? Sasquatch?

UND is still a national powerhouse and will continue to be for at least the near future. And there are precedents, even in elite-dominated college BB. Spokane is hardly a cosmopolitan city, yet small school Gonzaga can compete with anybody.

I realize these kids are playing for a career in the NHL, but recruiting elite players is not like it was generations ago (Blais?) when a lot of them left small towns in Minnesota or the Canadian prairie and went directly to college. Now, they're playing just about year round and spending several years in juniors. The chippahs are on traveling teams before that. They're getting culturally more sophisticated (or at least more experienced). They still put hockey first, but if there are two relatively equal programs to chose from, and one is in Denver, Ann Arbor, or Boston and one is in Mankato or Grand Forks, that will be a factor to increasing numbers of kids, IMO. To say nothing of NIL. The day when Warroad/Roseau and Range kids identified with the small town culture in GF as opposed to the city kids in the Mpls, whom they saw as rivals growing up, is pretty much history. Now, the elite kids in Roseau play against and with the elite twin city kids in venues and for teams other than their local high schools. I mean it isn't yet like BB, where the blue bloods at Kentucky are very familiar with the blue bloods at Duke and other elite BB factories. They've often been teammates on traveling club teams growing up. College hockey isn't that yet, thank Parise, but it's getting more so. But you all know from experience that I'm talking out of my arse on things like this. I have no explanation for how one who knows so little can say so much.

Well played.

On the other hand, when your audience is old and a little infirm, repetition has its advantages.