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This came across my Twitter feed so I came here to post it. So does this count as the official announcement that Lindenwood is starting a D1 hockey program? I don't remember hearing an "official" announcement but I am going to assume if they are recruiting players then there is going to be a team.

I think the Wild management royally screwed up with how they handled Parise. You don't dump on a veteran leader of the team like that. Given the results last night the message didn't motivate the boys at all. All this did was fracture the locker room between players and coaching staff/management. Healthy scratched a franchise player because he took an extended shift to try to make something happen? GTFO with that crap. The franchise players are who you WANT on the ice in crunch time. This is isn't junior or college hockey where coaches wield absolute authority and power, this is the NHL. You healthy scratch guys who are loafing on and off the ice, who aren't committed, who are being cancers in the locker room, sure, the players understand that. This was just dumb. Parise taking it like a pro, as expected. Four years left on the contract. Good job Wild.

If you guys could just throw up links prior to the game that would be great. Would love to have some HS hockey on in the background while working at the office. Yes, I'm a hockey junkie that will watch any game from anywhere at almost any level. HockeyTV is either the greatest thing ever if you ask me or the worst thing ever if you ask my wife.

Just start the game at sunset and play it in prime time. As beautiful as that backdrop was for the Saturday afternoon game it was absolutely stunning with the sun going down on Sunday evening. That and the ice doesn't melt in the sun so you can actually play a game. Saturday's game should have been in prime time on NBC Saturday night.

^^^That exact same thing happened to me while reffing a Pee Wee game about 25 years ago. I swear that puck hit the cross bar and called it no goal. The home crowd (my hometown) swears that puck went in. Looking at the trajectory of the puck, how it rebounded square off the goal, and a Pee Wee shooting the puck so not exactly a rocket shot, that puck had to have hit the cross bar. But I could have been wrong too. I got destroyed by the parents, called every name in the book. My final season reffing I was doing everything from HS games to Squirt tournaments, college club games, even lined a USHL game. That's what happens when there are literally only 4 referees in town. FOUR. I decided I was done when after a HS game some parents thought they could just open the door to the ref room and start in on us. Happened at youth games too. These people all know you so they thought they could just walk in and give you a piece of their mind. I'd had enough and quit. When I coach I don't yell at the refs. I will call them over to ask them about a call and get an explanation sometimes, but it's just a conversation and I don't show the ref up. Believe it or not, yelling at the refs won't get you a call but being nice to the refs will get you the benefit of the doubt in many calls. Reffing is a hard job. Oh, and that was No Goal. No idea what that goal judge was looking at.

Blast from the past. I just came across something that was on my phone. The results from USAH Regional Camp in Grand Forks a few years ago from select 15's. Tyler Kleven was one of the two D selected. Lol, my kid never had a chance of going to Natty Camp. That is the other thing you learn after you've gone through it once. As good as you think your kid is there is always another kid out there who is better and a thousand other kids who are working hard to be better than your kid.

My oldest is 18 and off playing hockey now so I have been through this once already. I'm now starting over coaching my youngest, 4 years old, in his first year of Mini Mites. I can say I have a totally different perspective on things having gone through it once, taken a couple years off coaching, and then getting back into it starting over from the beginning. The first thing I noticed is while the people I coach with mean well, they are younger and just going through this the first time. You can sense the anxiety when their kids aren't engaged and dominating play. "Get in there! Go after the puck!" Then there's my kid just skating around all over, sometimes playing the puck, sometimes ignoring it. He's winded by the end of his shift, for sure. Asked him what he's doing out there and he says he likes skating around. Good, he's one of the best skaters we got out there. I don't give a crap if he's out there battling for pucks, he's 4, he's just having fun, and that is the point of this that a few of the dad coaches don't get. It's supposed to be fun otherwise they won't develop a love of the game and want to come back. Relax and enjoy the ride. Hockey players are the same as any other athletes. They're mostly good kids just trying to grow up and figure things out. We focus on the negative way too much and it turns people off on the sport. Focus on the good things the game brings out because there are a lot of them. We're supposed to be ambassadors for the game.

As somebody who lives to the south of you, you do not want this. If hockey is not designated as a "varsity" sport it is deemed not legitimate and is just a club recreational sport and league. Ask those who live in South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, etc. who play "varsity" high school hockey under USA Hockey. South Dakota and Iowa HS teams can't even schedule Minnesota HS programs that they have grown up playing against throughout youth hockey because Minnesota won't allow it because Minnesota is varsity and South Dakota & Iowa is club. It's okay to play Jr. Gold teams though. Pretty much a joke. North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan have legitimate high school hockey because it is a varsity sponsored sport in the state. Fargo, Grand Forks, and other ND HS programs can schedule Minnesota programs because it is varsity hockey. Organize it under USA Hockey and it becomes club and those games go away.

Ivy League is thinking BIGTIME here. They are filling the XFL void and having football in the spring. This has nothing to do with COVID and everything to do with massive ratings for spring football. Just kidding.

So basically we're back to the virus being about as deadly as the flu. IMO, the only numbers that count are hospitalizations and deaths. The more positive tests without health issues the better because that simply means the virus is not as deadly. That's a good thing, people. I hope those lines tracking positive cases and deaths continue to diverge at a rapid rate. Set the COVID pandemic aside, what happened the last two nights in NYC was a sh*tshow embarrassment (pretty much the entire last month+ has been a circus). The F-ing looney bin whacks are taking over the country and the Democrat run city governments are doing nothing to restore order. In fact, they are appeasing the mob by defunding police departments and slashing budgets. It is Democrats doing this and Democrat "leaders" like AOC are calling for more cuts to the PD. Normal people are watching this circus and will in no way vote for the Democrats even though many of us believe Trump is an embarrassment. You won't see us put up Trump yard signs or slapping on bumper stickers because we don't want to have our property vandalized. We won't answer a poll saying we'll vote for Trump because being outed as a Trump voter is just not worth the harassment. What will happen is like what happened last time, we'll go to the polls where it is private, hold our noses, and vote for Trump again because the alternative is a party that has been hijacked by whack jobs. Hopefully by 2024 we've come to our senses and a new Populist party is formed of people from the center of both the Democratic and Republican parties and we can get rid of the whackos on both fringes.

Going back to that Jets article, I started to laugh at this quote: "Have you ever gone to Toronto and watched a Leafs game one night and a Raptors game the next? Same building, totally different beast in terms of how much entertainment drives the NBA. "Hockey is saying we've got a million corporate tickets sold and we don't really care as much." I don't think it's a hockey does not care issue. When you go to a hockey game the game is the entertainment, the game is the product. I read those quotes as an indictment of the NBA's product. When you go to an NBA game the clubs know the actual product is boring so they are forced to keep you entertained with a bunch of gimmicky crap to make it an "experience". Now tell me, which game has the problem here? Hockey or basketball? ETA: Oh, and if Winnipeg is "soft" because 1,500 tickets are available the day of the game on the secondary market, you know, tickets that have already been sold, then how freaking soft is Florida and Arizona? If there is concern for Winnipeg then there should be an absolute 5-alarm fire level of concern for those other two franchises because those buildings are EMPTY.

If only cancer was as contagious as the Wuhan Flu we would have cured it by now. So when we are done finding a vaccine for this virus let's keep the pedal down and cure cancer too.

Way off the rails at this point but is therapeutic and full of information, both good and bad, but informative. A thread like this is probably necessary in a time like this. People need to vent, share, inform, just need to feel like you're doing something.

This maybe explains my illness a few weeks back. My 3 old runs a fever of 103 one evening so we take him to urgent care. They say he tests positive for influenza A but by the next day he is 100% recovered (isn't that stuff supposed ot hang around for about 5 days?) and I am staying home from work with him that day in expectation that he has the flu. I proceed to get sick, but it was like nothing I had experienced before. Nothing respiratory but I felt severely "off". Every time I took his temp that day (which was about every hour) I would take my temp. His temp had returned to normal, mine was a severely low temp, like registering 93.5 degrees temp at times and ranged from 93.5 to 96 for a couple of days (which I looked up and 93.5 body temp is on the verge of hypothermia), then back to normal. I was like, huh, that was weird, my entire body was cold to the touch yet I didn't feel cold, chills, no body aches, and I was totally functional. It was really strange.

Don't make excuses for the ChiComs. They are not our friends. Hopefully this incident wakes us up to that realization and we move our supply and manufacturing to other areas of the world, and the most critical functions like medical supplies, pharmaceuticals, or anything that effects our national security we bring back home. We'd never depend on another country for our food supply, why do we depend on other countries for medical supplies?

Yes, viruses happen. It's everything else in my post that is the issue. The lying, coverup, lack of information, lack of sharing information.

Chinese misinformation campaign meant to cause discord and distrust in the USA and to shift the blame from where it lies, China. If we take one thing from this it's that China cannot be trusted and we have got to stop doing business with them. They lied about the outbreak, lied about the numbers, did not contain it, and now are still not forthcoming with information that we could use to stop it here. We need to cut China off.

Safe to say all graduations will be cancelled. U of M already cancelled theirs. More HS and colleges will follow.

Would need to see the stats on what ages the patients are and how many of them have underlying conditions.

Nah, I think it's fair that if the young and healthy in this country are getting their lives so disrupted it's only fair those who are in high risk categories change their lifestyle too. Those 10-19 years old have a .2% death rate according to the numbers out of China, yet their state tournaments were cancelled and schools closed. Could have held the games with no fans, still closed. Those kids had their high school dreams stripped from them, probably have their proms and graduations cancelled too, yet they are at very low risk. Yes, I understand they can still be carriers but how about this, just stay away from the old and at risk. 18 year olds hanging out together isn't the problem, it's an 18 year old giving it to an 80 year old. Best way to prevent this is for the old people to stay home. People who are over 70 are, for the most part, retired and financially secure. They are in a much better position in their lives to go through a quarantine as opposed to a 23 year old waitress (.2% mortality rate) who is trying to make ends meet, yet it's her business that is shut down. She won't be able to pay her rent yet we have old folks still out wandering around. They should be publicly criticized for doing so. Maybe they'll change their behavior then and by you shaming them, you just saved their life. Of course, if you don't feel well you should obviously stay home. How is that different than any other time? It's not okay to be out spreading a cold or the flu either. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/lamvo/coronavirus-death-rates-age-charts-us-china

Ding, ding, ding. Just like the body overreacting to fight off a virus and killing itself we are reacting in such a way that we may win the fight against the virus but we'll end up damaging our economy and our way of life to the point it might take a decade to recover. The elderly and those with underlying conditions are the people most at risk they should be quarantined immediately. That's the immediate action we should be taking. It's time to publicly shame any elderly person you see roaming around in public. Just yesterday I witnessed an old couple at a diner after going to church having their Sunday breakfast, wheat toast. Are you effing kidding me? You're 70+ years old and you're going out for wheat toast? Meanwhile, high school kids are getting their activities cancelled, schools are getting closed, the young and healthy in this country are sacrificing so old people won't die and old people are going out for toast? I've got a 99.6% survival rate according to the statistics but my 401k and our economic future are going into the toilet in an effort to save the lives of those at risk, yet they ignore the shutdowns and go out for toast. Unbelievable.

I think they are just saying this to make them feel better about the situation before finally saying no can do.

Terrible idea by the NCAA to give a redo year for winter sports. Think about hockey for a second, how many times do we hear about players getting delayed entry to college and sent back to Juniors? Now multiple that by the hundreds. How about all those players who are aging out this season who now all of the sudden do not have a spot on the team because seniors get another year of eligibility. Now think about the ripple effects of this going back 4 years worth of recruiting classes. Talk about kids now in high school getting f--ked out of a chance to play college hockey because there are players several years older than them still in college using up that last year of eligibility. All this for players who have already completed 95+% of the season. Hell, many teams seasons were effectively over as they had already been eliminated from conference tournaments and had no chance at the NCAAs. Just one incredibly stupid idea after another being made in this world lately. The whole world has gone insane.

Also, just learned the governor of South Dakota has cancelled school statewide for next week. As of now there will be hockey on TV. South Dakota HS tournament is on Midco this weekend. This might be the last live hockey you watch this season, so if you are hard up for some puck...

Nah, hit the casino. What could go wrong? Yes, the casinos are still open but my 5 year old daughter's swim class is cancelled, as is her dance class. My nephew's entire baseball season has been cancelled. Isn't it ironic that youth activities are being cancelled left and right when kids are at low risk but the casinos are still open so the slot jockeys on oxygen can get their fix?