jimdahl

5 losses is the fewest ever for the Sioux. 11-5-0 in 47-48 and 15-5-0 in 52-53 It's worth noting that so many fewer games were played back then that those winning percentages aren't as great as some recent seasons. That record goes to: 40-8-0 in 86-87 (.833) Of course, that includes playoffs. UND's current all-games WIN% is .803 so they'd need to continue to win a little more than 4/5 remaining games (including playoffs) to do better.

FYI -- new changes this weekend, it now correctly accounts for ties in the standings (important in determining whether a team has secured home ice or not). Looks like CC can clinch home ice with 3 points this weekend. Things are starting to fall into place.

With 4 goals and an assist in regulation in the NHL all-star game: * Heatley tied Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Vincent Damphousse and Mike Gartner for the most goals in an All-Star game * Became the youngest player in an All-Star game to earn a hat trick (22 years and 12 days edged out Gretzky by 1 day) I think the Badgers miss him.

Don't get me wrong, it's a team game first and foremost and the team lost. But one personal bright spot -- Parise continued his scoring success against tough WCHA teams. 2 pts last night gives him the nation's lead at 2.13 ppg (Sejna, whose only point was an assist on the empty net goal, has 2.00 ppg).

I said: JBB said: I think my meaning was very clear, but I'll spell it out AGAIN: I want you to discontinue your intentional misspellings of UND and its team name on these forums.

Again, JBB, can you cite this quote from Roger Thomas? I don't recall Thomas saying we weren't playing NDSU next year in any sport. If you're just rumor-mongering and Sioux-bashing as usual, we're not interested. By the way, your childish digs misspelling UND and its team name are also not welcome here.

I don't know, I think it's kind of funny. Let one of the Gopher fans write the NCAA a letter saying "I read on a message board on Prideonice.com that someone else read on a message board on SiouxSports.com that someone going by the handle PCM listened to a radio show in which he claimed that Blais might have mentioned a recruits' name!" They can then sit back and wait for the axe to fall

TC transplant-- You're still making the mistake of using quotation marks in a misleading manner. I suspect you're quoting forecheck or PCM's summaries of coach's shows, not the coach's shows themselves. Unless you have an actual transcript or recording of the coach's shows, I'd be careful attributing quotes to Dean Blais that the original authors didn't! If the quotation marks aren't there in the summary, then it's not exactly what Blais said.

Looks like it could be a moot point, anyway. The Commission on Opportunity in Athletics has rejected the proposed changes to Title IX. * 7-7 deadlock on the proposal to change male/female requirements from proportional to institutional representation to 50/50 with a leeway of 2-3% (Commissioner Lisa Graham Keegan was not present for that vote) * 11-4 against eliminating the proportionality requirement * Commissioners stressed that the Education Department should start enforcing sanctions against schools that don't comply with Title IX (there has never been a punitive enforcement action in the past) My understanding is that this body has no actual power, but just advises the Education Secretary, Rod Paige. However, this is a big setback for the movement.

A complement to the WCHA "what-if calculator", the possibilities page shows the remaining possible outcomes of the WCHA. It also reports if this weekend's games can make any significant changes to the possible outcomes. Though it lacks the fun of interactivity, it's giving you useful information that would be pretty difficult to calculate by hand (for example, spend some time establishing to your satisfaction that AA can't finish higher than 5th -- it's true, but takes a minute or two to confirm "by hand"). Because of the interactions between teams it's not just a matter of adding the possible remaining points to current points and seeing where you land in the current standings. You can't assume all other teams will lose out because every series has to give 4 pts away. The information should also get a lot more interesting in coming weeks (assuming the program can keep up, which is certainly not guaranteed). (Updated -- expanded the description of why this is actually useful and not obvious)

Your interpretation is correct, you can watch the WDAZ video feed from the in-forum website (albeit not with great quality). They do it pretty rarely. They've also done a couple football games in the past.

I agree that the biggest impact would be on wrestling. However, when you look at the breathing room this could generate (a lot of schools could drop their ratio from the current 60 W - 40 M to ~45 W - 55 M), it really does open the opportunity to add quite a few spots for male players at large schools. After wrestling, I think hockey could be high on the list at some schools. The fact that so many schools have club hockey teams that have the expensive uniforms, equipment, and already have a local ACHA travel schedule, some of which even have respectable attendance, makes me think they could go NCAA if they weren't being held back. Making those programs profitable seems the biggest barrier to jumping NCAA. Of course, most schools have only a couple profitable sports that support the rest, but I suspect hockey would be discriminated against because it's perceived as expensive. Hockey facilities can be another big cost (though the ACHA teams clearly rent ice time somewhere already). Like ScottM said, I didn't mean to imply that I would expect a torrent. But I do think this could open the gates for a very slow trickle of big name schools that would otherwise definitely never do it.

How many advance to round 3? As I recall, in round 3 everyone only gets to vote once, so there the cream usually rises to the top because the effects of ballot-stuffers are minimized.

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/spo...rts/5044395.htm I haven't seen this discussed much in college hockey circles, but it seems like it could have a huge impact on the sport. There are a lot of schools with ACHA club teams that could easily be high-tier D-III or low-tier D-I teams if those schools could sponsor men's ice hockey as an NCAA sport. Adding women's hockey simultaneously is cost-prohibitive for most schools, but an easing of Title IX could create an opportunity for a lot of schools with strong ACHA hockey programs to go NCAA. I've heard lots of arguments against the expansion of college hockey (particularly potential negative impacts on the smaller schools that are big time in hockey, like UND), but I would consider continued growth a good thing.

Huh -- that's definitely a glitch. I'll do some research and see if I can figure it out.

Hmmm... can't say I agree with this. Though Mankato is creeping up on us, they'll have played 4 more games than us after this weekend and have to play UND/at CC in 2 of their remaining 4 series. If Mankato turns out to be a threat in the final standings, it's cause we messed up (e.g. getting swept in Mankato). On to the topic at hand... Though it always sounds like whining to complain about the calls after a game, I've been to many a game where key calls definitely tilted the momentum if not directly resulted in a power play goal (one could argue the refs handed Minnesota the championship last year on the back of an inconsistent call).

Since it's an off week, thought I'd bump this thread (sometimes it's fun to see your pre-season predictions; for me it's just painful). Clearly we all gave Denver too much credit and Mankato not enough. As far as my thought that Wisconsin would turn it around, well, thankfully I didn't put any money it. At least we were all right that Jason would have a great year!

While it's true that the influx of some Gopher fans has made this thread a little more frat party than UND hockey discussion, I'm frankly pleased that the rest of the board has still maintained its character. I wouldn't consider entertaining the POI-crowd to necessarily be a good thing, I'm happy to just talk about the Sioux and hence bore those Gopher fans who aren't coming here to find out about the Sioux.

Appeal denied, no more play for Allen: http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/spo...rts/5025635.htm

This was my answer last time the question was asked: http://siouxsports.com/forums/index.php?ac...ct=ST&f=5&t=291

The Big Sky itself has said there's not currently room for NDSU/SDSU. Your assumption that there will be a change in that policy, but that then there *really* won't be enough room for UND forever is kind of funny. Regardless, I find that entire argument line uninteresting because in the long-run there is no issue of room, but rather of institutional/geographic fit (as the rest of us keep trying to discuss). If your window is long enough, ANY conference is willing to add a member that's a good fit. I struggle to think of a conference that I follow that hasn't had a change in membership in the last 15 years. The fact is that NDSU/SDSU are currently very poor geographic fits in Big Sky. However, if they were added (and particularly if some Western schools left), all of a sudden a school in Grand Forks now fits pretty well in the geographic footprint of Big Sky. Add to that the similarity of institutions (as WYOBISONMAN pointed out) between Montana, Montana State, NDSU, SDSU, and UND, and all of a sudden UND is a great fit. I'm the first to admit it would require changes in the stated positions of Big Sky and UND. Frankly, I don't think there's much of a chance of Big Sky adding NDSU so I think UND considering D-IAA is actually the more likely of the changes in my game of "what if".

I agree that SDSU/NDSU aren't particularly likely to actually be admitted to Big Sky (particularly in the near future). Everyone remembers the quote right from the Big Sky web page: It's just that you've often tried to taunt us with your scenario in which NDSU goes to Big Sky and that somehow locks UND out. Since that assertion is built on your known bias of hoping UND will whither away and die while NDSU flourishes, I wanted to present the opposite (I think plausible) argument that the ag schools joining Big Sky could actually improve UND's chances of joining in the future. Both are made up scenarios that require a lot of things to happen that people currently claim won't (the quote above, Sac State or other Western schools leaving or expansion past 10 members, and UND considering D-IAA). I'm just saying NDSU's success wouldn't necessarily be UND's doom.

1. Wisconsin 2. Minnesota 3. CC 4. Michigan 5. Canisius Michigan: old WCHA rivals, trading titles in late 90s, competing for most NCAA championships, have played each other the last 3 years in pretty competitive games, Morrison: "Sometimes the best team doesn't win" Canisius: 3 NC meetings in one year? Clearly this is our new enemy

From the 1/22/03 coach's show recap: First, I don't think fans rip Brandt "so much". You see a lot of questioning on this board (and others) about UND's goaltending because it's the most questionable position, not because Brandt is horrible. Saying goaltending is our most questionable position is more a reflection of how great the rest of the team is than putting down Brandt. As far as stats being "so great": GP Record GAA SV% 13 9-1-2 2.32 .897 Historical record: '00-01 Kollar 2.66 .911 '00-01 Goehring 2.38 .918 '99-00 Goehring 1.89 .927 '98-99 Goehring 2.40 .915 '97-98 Goehring 2.27 .913 '96-97 Schweitzer 2.31 .908 Why are fans down on current goaltending? The historical stats above aren't from my giant stack of media guides or historical records, rather I was able to cull them all the UND record books -- they all appear in the top 10 lists for GAA and SV% for all-time UND goaltenders. That's a tough 5 years to follow by anyone.