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I have never been opposed to the portal. UND has grabbed some very good and impactful players out of the portal--Connor Ford, Zmolek, Pyke, Chris Jandric, Ashton Calder, Driscoll, TJ to name a few.

Mark Osiecki was an assistant coach to Dean Blais in 1996-97 when they won the national championship in Milwaukee

Playing Devil's Advocate, but the decision to not bring in Scott Morrow backfired, as did the decision to not bring in Rizzo, who after sitting for a year, flipped his commitment to DU. There were some who thought Oshie wasn't ready at 18 and straight out of HS and I shudder to think about what would have happened if he decommitted.

Western Michigan did it successfully. 6 players from the portal and 2 flipped commitments from Hampton and Bump.

You love to spin things to support your narrative. Taking your argument to its logical extreme, 10 of your beloved BU squad's wins were against Holy Cross, Union, Merrimack, Vermont, Lowell, Notre Dame and Northeastern. That is 12 wins against everyone else! Oh, and they got boat raced 7-2 by UND and beat UND 4-3 in a game that UND predictably gave away.

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.