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Winning the NCHC conference banner is hard-earned and something to be proud of.

He is that, but I wonder if anyone sits on a deeper talent pool than UMich, if you include the talent on both sides of the border and the development program. Add to that the tradition, campus and their academic reputation for recruits who weigh that factor. Yet it seems to have done them little good in the recent past. Thankfully.

We better stop them then.

These have been two tough years on the ice, but I feel our grammar has improved noticeably.

Does the B1G finally gain recognition as the best conference in college hockey?

Who wouldn't, given the opportunity?

Doesn't matter--the rink stays.

What will Dave K/Speedkills' new handle be now? Simple question.

It is. Good breaks will only get you so far.

I'm sure there is a lot of truth to that, but people are often saying it's the assistant coaches who are the important recruiters. I obviously don't know, but it's often said.

It's a good thing for Sandy UND didn't hire him when Blais left--he'd have been fired after all those bad seasons.

I don't see it that way. I see an NCHC fourpeat.

The power play justifiably gets dissed a lot, but they worked hard, went into corners, passed the puck fairly well and had better puck movement and scoring opportunities as the season progressed. They just couldn't shoot for shytt. And I think they never got the confidence to think they were going to score. The kind of confidence that makes players go to the net and play in the ozone like they smell blood in the water.

I don't get to see UMD play in person like a lot of posters here, but I'm OK with them winning it. Rather see a new team get a banner, but UMD is a little like a brother we fight and compete with all the time. Keeping the NC in the family would be very cool too. The only bad outcome here, as far as I'm concerned, is that it's not us.

Daloot will win another one tomorrow, I think.

Yeah, they're way ahead.

Any team that wins at this point deserves the spoils, so I'm OK with anyone winning, though I'd like to see UMass succeed. Good for the game to see a new face on top of the hill.

No, just resting up in the P box.

Like MM said in another thread, you would have had him fired long ago, as bad a coach as he appeared to be, judging by his record, for a significant number of years.

Just illustrates how selective people's memories can be (and how broken their analytical functions can be) when they are frustrated.

That is for sure. He had some very down years with players he recruited. But gf whines a lot more than he thinks.

I wonder what Gardner's % would figure out to be if you consider those he couldn't win from the P box.

I assume coaches will be permitted to talk to the recruit while in utero? If the mom's a UMinn fan or grad, I wonder if there is a way to require that she be sedated or asleep during these "conversations?" Or sign a statement denouncing gopher hockey.

So, will the laws eventually provide that D1 hockey recruiting becomes legal at the same point that abortion ceases to be? I kid. I kid. NOT intended as a political right to life/choice comment.

Alan Hangsleben must be hurt.