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Vanek's three-year contract carries an annual NHL salary-cap charge of $6.5 million and will pay him $5.5 million in 2014-15, $6.5 million in 2015-16, and $7.5 million in 2016-17, when he will be 33 years old.

I always tried to stay close to the equipment guys. They help hold the place together. I say good for him if he has a decal. I broke my leg one year and missed spring ball. I put a helmet sticker on my cast and got my arse chewed by one of the assistant coaches but he didn't tell me to remove it.

Thank you. I have been trying to tell some of the uneducated about this same thing for a while. The intensity will ratchet up incredibly as the game approaches.

Hmmmm Trophy holder: UND won 28-21 on Oct. 18, 2003, in Grand Forks Current streak: UND has won the last 3 nickel trophy competitions Nickel-winning record: UND leads 35-30 All-time UND vs NDSU record: UND leads 62-45-3 UND has won 9 of the last 11 head to head. But then again you don't care because there is no rivalry.

It doesn't really matter except when some push the notion that 'we don't care about you and have moved on'. It's a passive aggressive way to say you are superior to UND. If you and your friends go away and never post here again we will know you have moved on. Until that happens you are showing your hypocrisy.

You do realize that every time you post here you undermine your stance that the rivalry doesn't exist or that it is dead. How much time do you spend on the SDSU and NIU fan sites? Not sure how you explain my son's roommate who is from Pittsburgh and has no ties to the area and dislikes everything NDSU - but whatever makes you feel better. They really only need to experience one bb game to get it and they have played every year lately. My kids are pretty smart as evidenced by their college choice. I'm sure they could spell both words by that time.

Nope. They experienced it first hand. The arrogance and entitlement of SU fans at past fb games and at vb and bb games since they have been at UND really turned them off. Their friends at UND feel the same way and many of them have no family ties to UND. Just because you say that students today don't care about the college that is 75 miles away doesn't make it true. At a minimum they have hs classmates that attend the other school which makes the rivalry real.

I have two kids currently enrolled at UND and there is plenty of animosity toward NDSU from them. They also hate UM in hockey and we aren't in the same conference there either.

Has anybody seen a link to Luke Johnson's goal? My kids are in Europe and I wanted them to see it.

I don't believe that the charter stayed at the team hotel last year.

I'm not saying it is justified. It goes back before Craig Mack to the time of the Broten's in the mid to late 70's. EGF, Bemidji and others fielded teams that competed pretty well with the Roseau teams but not many of those kids got a chance to play DI in college.

I am an EGF guy originally and there are a lot of Gopher fans there. A lot of it goes back to the 1970s and 1980s when the general consensus was that Gino ignored Section 8 and instead had mostly Canadian players. I remember a jamboree or Section tourney at EGF in late 70's and supposedly every WCHA coaching staff had someone there to watch except UND. Whether or not it was 100% true, it was a popular story in EGF at that time. Even though 40 years have passed many still hold onto things like that. My mother-in-law cheers for UM in hockey even though she had a son-in-law play fb at UND and three grandchildren go to school there and has zero ties to UM. She knows the families of the current UND hockey players from EGF and also Dixon Bowen who has committed. There is something to be said for loyalty and old allegiances die hard. A bunch of my hockey connected friends in EGF have started to cheer for UND over UM in the last 10 years or so as more EGF kids have played there.

I don't know the rules either but Lou Nanne is definitely very connected to the U of M. http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/blog/sports-business/2013/12/lou-nanne-gophers-fundraising-campaign.html Lou Nanne—a Minnesota Gopher’s Athletic Hall of Famer and senior managing director at Minneapolis-based RBC Global Asset Management—has been tasked with raising funds to upgrade University of Minnesota sports facilities. The school recently announced that Nanne will lead fundraising efforts for a $190 million plan to build new Gopher football and basketball practice facilities, a “student-athlete academic and counseling center, nutrition and training tables, Olympic sports facilities, and other training and support needs for the University’s athletic programs.”

If the BS you are spouting was true you wouldn't be on a UND message board. You can prove to everybody that this will be just another game by disappearing from this site for good and maybe kicking it up at the Incarnate Word or even the Weber State fan site. You are up to 146 posts here, how many do you have on Weber State's fan board?

I am one of the people that always believed the Sioux people supported the nickname but also realized our options eventually ran out. Standing Rock didn't vote and our deadline expired so the NCAA imposed sanctions, potential conferences were hesitant and larger schools wouldn't play us. Only the uneducated and foolish still can't face the reality of the situation. Continuing the fight was killing our sports other than hockey. You don't need to believe me - just ask the UND coaches of sports other than hockey. I have and they said the same as I stated above. I was pretty militant about keeping the nickname but eventually realized it was over.

At one time we did have a way out but most people would say all options were exhausted before Kelley took office.

Illinois and Florida State don't have the same issue we have so they don't really apply to this conversation. Florida State got tribal approval and I am not sure what Illinois did to avoid problems. You can pretend that we had a way out but we didn't and that happened before Kelley came into office. The only program that wouldn't have been totally screwed was the hockey team. That may be the only program some care about but it isn't the only one on campus. I was strong nickname supporter until the cost got too high. It wasn't really a hard decision for those that care about a majority of the sports on campus.

Most people understand that: we all loved the name we were willing to go to battle to the end the penalties from the NCAA and other universities (UM, Wisc, Iowa) finally got to be too much so we realized the best course of action was to move on

I'm not sure if you are saying Kelley is to blame for not settling on a new nickname immediately or not but didn't the legislature eventually mandate a 3 year cooling off period where we weren't allowed to choose a new nickname anyway?

I have met Dayo a few times and he is really an impressive person. He is a good student and a Chemical Engineering major. Our 2015 team and beyond will be in good hands if we have people like him on board.

I was a few rows behind the bench. 90% of what Jones did was berate his players, whine to the officials or hang his head and pout. I really don't mind a coach that gets after his players. I also don't mind a coach that works the officials but he is really bad at it. His body language with slumped shoulders and head hanging is really bad. Maybe he is just beaten down by this point. I don't know.

Sitting behind the und bench. Jones would be hard to play for. Very negative all the time with players and terrible body langeuage. Whiner.

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Got 2 tix. Still looking for 4

I watched him play twice last year. He was a horse in HS.