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No, UND made its own luck with bad non-conference performances, but it did go 2-1 against Hockey East teams still in the tournament and Hockey East got 6 teams in the tournament despite UMass and UConn having as bad or worse non-conference performances. Nobody really understands how the Pairwise works, but UMass losing to RPI, Omaha, Sacred Heart and Vermont twice and getting a 3 seed is puzzling.

I don't disagree, but other teams struggled in non-conference games and it didn't seem to matter. How do you explain Ohio State getting swept by Princeton and tying American International, Michigan splitting with SCSU, Minnesota losing to Omaha, BU losing to Yale and tying Harvard, UConn losing to Holy Cross, Vermont and UW, UMass losing to RPI, Omaha, Sacred Heart and Vermont twice??

Minnesota lost to Omaha, but swept UMD and SCSU. Michigan split with SCSU, beat and tied ASU and split with WMU. I agree with you.

I was at the UND v. BU series early in the year. UND destroyed BU on Friday night, and then came out a bit flat on Saturday and lost 4-3. UND should have swept BU. I wasn't that impressed with BU

When UND played ASU, ASU won 4-1 with Homer Gibson in net. UND won the next night 4-3 with Luke in net. That weekend, Gibson looked like the better goalie

I don't disagree and I thought it was strange that ASU offered him in the first place, but he was less than complimentary about Powers and how he treats players.

The portal works both ways. They had a Fargo kid and his dad said Powers pushed him out--basically telling him to transfer or watch games from the stands.

Like Western Michigan?

He is actually good

Ron Hextall and Billy Smith were not afraid of leaving the crease and a little extracurricular activity 😆

Does that mean Livanavage will stay if Dane gets the job? GFHockey previously posted that Livanavage decided to turn pro. What does than mean for James?

The Gophers fan base would disagree strongly. They would like Raboin to replace Motzko once he resigns. He was the person that recruited both Knies and Cooley to UM. Are Cooley and Knies "chippaz"?

I was told by a Gopher fan today that Raboin is very well regarded by the Gophers and he hoped that he would be the next coach when Motzko retires. He said he is an excellent recruiter and landed Knies and Cooley

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I have 2 tickets for the entire regional in Section 103, Row G, seats 22-23. I paid $203.21 for the package, and I am just looking to get that back. Text me at (701) 371-0195.

Gretzky is not illiterate.

You are always smashed, but never believable. Are you Mark Kauk?

What is your basis for saying this? I have seen scholarship offers, and they are not limited to one year.

Crytic. It looks like "Carter Bear". Is he committing to UND?

I never said I was content with the state of the program, but you NEVER have anything positive to say. You make Debbie Downer seem like an optimist. If you are this unhappy, you really should find more hobbies.

You must be just a joy to hang around with. A raincloud looking for a parade.

Really? How do you explain Western Michigan and their use of portal transfers or decommitments? The leading scorer is Alex Bump, who decommitted from Vermont, Grant Slukynsky who is a portal transfer from Northern Michigan, his brother Hampton (G) who decommitted from Northern Michigan, Matteo Costantini who is a portal transfer from UND, Brian Kramer who is a portal transfer from AIU, Robby Drazner who is a portal transfer from Miami, Cameron Rowe (G) who is a portal transfer from Wisconsin and Tristan Lemyre who is a portal transfer from DU? Has WMU leaned too heavily on portal transfers? How about Michigan State and their leading scorer, Will Howard (UMD)? How about Denver and Pohlkamp, Tristan Broz or Cameron Wright? You also fail to mention that UND has had some very good players who came via the transfer portal. How would UND have been without Connor Ford, Caleb McDonald, Garrett Pyke, Bennett Zmolek, Chris Jandric and even Zach Driscoll and TJ? Many programs have benefitted from the transfer portal, and it is not limited to hockey. Jahmyr Gibbs came to Alabama from Georgia Tech, etc.

I agree, and the Wings typically don't push recruits to sign early. They did sign Tuomisto and Carter Mazur early, but the Wings don't bring up guys from the AHL early (or sometimes at all), so why jump early just to sit in the AHL for more years?

I disagree. I'm from Grand Forks and have a lot of pride for Grand Forks, but even if you combined the high schools, Grand Forks very rarely produces top Division 1 talent like Moorhead--GFRR and Central do not have a player nearly as good as Mason Kraft, let alone Brooks Cullen. Historically, Moorhead has had better players as well. Ryan Kraft, Chris Vandevelde, Brian Lee, John Lee, Matt Cullen, Mark Cullen, Joe Cullen, Jason Blake, Will Borgen, Ethan Frisch, etc. Grand Forks has had some really good players as well with Grant and Ryan Potulny, Jeff and Jay Panzer, Paul LaDue and many others, but Moorhead constantly produces D1 talent and quite a few pros. Moorhead would win the majority of the games with a combined GFHS team.

That game against Moorhead was in EGF. EGF would have no answer for Mason Kraft. He has gotten better throughout the year. Moorhead also has better players and more depth. It would not be that close if they played now.