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James Patrick? From Winnipeg, so can connect with Manitobans. Coaches in British Columbia for Victoria, so should be able to connect with BC and other western Canadian kids, is an alum so has ties to UND, and has had a long and successful career in the NHL. He checks a lot of boxes, but I can't say know much about his coaching ability, other than he's spent a lot of time as an NHL assistant and has some decent tenure as a WHL coach now.

Nice weekend against a sub-par familiar team. Now let's see what we've got against a very good familiar team.

Holy moly, what a goalie!

I pre-emptively posted that.....good news is I was wrong! Four more years!

I blame Brad Berry on the election results.

When the mods quote me in ten years that I wanted Berry gone...here's your proof! Bookmark it.

No, they quickly swept that whole thing under the rug.

Congrats, he's a former player, let's keep him forever then. No reason to see what else is out there I guess. He certainly hasn't done anything scummy like go through multiple layers of protection (including other former players and family members) to hide the fact that he was using a logo/wordmark that had no association with UND.

My scope is bigger than the small populace of SiouxSports these days.

Then why do many disavow any criticism of the program, no matter how ugly things look? They clearly like what they see.

You quoted the wrong post, but change is change. It always runs the risk of losing recruits, but if the coaches aren't putting the players in a position to succeed when they have more resources than any other program, then the change is worth the risk.

I agree, everyone needs to relax and give Berry 8 more years to win another NCAA regional game since that's the standard he's set so far.

What kind of fan enjoys and is okay with watching their team play like ass?

Really hurt Denver going from Gwozdecky to Montgomery to Carle since 2013.

Ha, sorry...the comment seemed odd from you, but I was in a zone.

We're a university of North Dakota...no longer The University of North Dakota.

One, UND was a second half team under Hakstol and he hasn't been the coach in ten years. Two, Cornell somehow managed to sweep us with their first two games of the year....you'd think we'd have a huge advantage of "playing together" versus them at this point in the season.

Well that makes sense....last time I flew Allegiant I came home after losing my ass too.

There are no more resources we can possibly give Berry and his players that I'm aware of. They have everything.

Just give Berry a few more years, say 7 or 8 more...he'll prove the Berry haters wrong.

Relax, it's a long season.

Congratulations Berry stans, you got to see one good period of hockey.

All of that's fine and dandy, and of course it's a good opportunity to do some of that, but nothing is getting cemented in one exhibition game. How well are you going to test out lines and d-pairings when you come out and skate with 20 pound lead skates anyways? Where's the energy coming off a long off-season? Where's the motivation to turn the game around after getting punched in the mouth? I don't think UND learned anything in that game other than the level of work that was put in wouldn't be good enough to compete at a high level and that's what people are talking about when they make comments about the game. There is not a single resource I can think of that UND is missing to properly prepare an elite roster of college hockey talent, yet somehow we're still talking about the things that those tools are designed to prevent. Imagine how bad UND would be if they didn't have the resources they did. /s

The point of people bringing it up is it sets a tone for where UND is at to start the year. It doesn't count, but doesn't make it meaningless. If it was completely meaningless for the program, don't play an exhibition game...ever. What's the point? Obviously Brad sees importance in it. The loss is not going to change our PWR, but that's not the point. You lack imagination to think outside of the box and see the bigger picture. Again, the loss doesn't matter...it's how we lost, why we lost, and what it may or may not mean for the games that do count.

Since you're always so into semantics and fail to use any sort of figurative reasoning (despite everyone knowing that the game doesn't count, but that's not the point of bringing it up)...here ya go: