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They used the same pics for both on the SiouxShop website.

Hockey; UND

Doesn't matter much to me. The best team will win conference either way.

That's a little optimistic in my opinion. I can see splittng with SCSU more than Duluth. Also, a split against OSU/Miami would be fine as well. The problem with our first halves in recent memory is that we don't win the ones we should....like losing games against teams like Tech.

I didn't see this posted anywhere, but Big Joe Finley scored his first AHL goal of the preseason.....against Jordan Parise. Brad posted it on his Twitter feed a few days ago.

Watching the new Brad Miller Time, you can see the team WILL have three stripes on their breezers. I think adding that to them will really improve the overall look. Now I'm excited to see the on-ice look completely. The helmets and breezers primary color will still be black.

Hmmmm.....what to do, what to do....

Wow....that is crazy. I can't believe it's that close already. I gotta get my !@$! organized. Since I've never needed to know before, how do I watch home games from two states away? Is there a season package to watch online or anything through fightingsioux.com?

You are evil and sexist. What about the females? Surely they would be offended by a male oriented nickname....

You took time out of your not so busy (?) life to come post the lamest flame ever? Wow....haha.

So is Goon happy or mad that Mr. Kessel is no longer a Bruin? (via trade to Toronto)

And our good buddy THETRIOUXPER (Troy). Everyone's gotta die sometime. Some you feel sorry for, some you don't. Like I stated, I don't think he deserved to die. I just strongly disagree with his "politics" while in a position to "better" the NCAA.

Words can't describe the elation I'm feeling. Yes, I understand that this isn't over. However, it makes me feel great, that to at least one group of people, that they understand what the nickname and logo means to an entire community disregarding the color of one's skin, one's history and background, or one's opinions. When someone uses the term Sioux to describe themselves, they are breaking a barrier and considering themself part of the Sioux family, which dates back 100s of years. Only respect and love for that name can be used to describe that. Whether or not Standing Rock understands that is fine, because at least one group gets "it." Thank you Spirit Lake. (PS, how fitting is it that this happened on the day of a certain someone's passing?)

I knew it wasn't the best choice of words to post about a man's passing, but the man's double-standards on many subjects is cause for a strong dis-taste in my mouth for the guy. All he did was protect his big money markets and poop on littler markets like UND for his own benefit. For that, I have no remorse.

Didn't realize this thread had started here before posting the news in the Nickname section... But, what I posted may be offensive and inappropriate to some....however, his handling of matters the NCAA shouldn't have business in and the double-standards he practiced were all too much for me, and many others.

....but I'm not entirely saddened by the passing of Myles Brand. "Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch! Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead. Wake up - sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed. Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead. He's gone where the goblins go, Below - below - below. Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out. Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low. Let them know The Wicked Witch is dead!" http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=4478889

The only times over the past couple years the Ralph struggled to fill the building was during holiday weekend games. And even then, there were plenty of people in the house.

I would agree solely in hockey, but in all combined sports (like it seems you are suggesting), I doubt it. No one outside of the upper midwest gives a hoot about Minnesota in anything other than hockey. Not sure who that designation would go to for sure, but it doesn't really matter either.

In fairness to the green cuffs (which at first I hated), the Blackhawks have similar black cuffs on their home jerseys, and many posters on here are correct, they aren't that visible in game situations.

Ditto. The Sioux name/logo is special, but if it has to go, there's not much that can be done. I would like to see the whole uniform on ice, especially to see if they go really retro with green helmets and pants....although I doubt it with the amount of black in the jerseys. I'm curious to see the black ones. I'm guessing they are just another similar design of the blackhawks striping on that as well. Three stripes, two green with one white and same logoing on front and shoulders. One other thing....if the Sioux do similar vertial 3-stripes on the sides of the breezers, the whole uni could look pretty cool

Thanks Shawn!

I have to admit that the pictures I've seen on here as opposed to Brad's Blog look much nicer. Still not awesome, but not as bad as as I thought.

Those make me want to cry, they are so ugly. I like old school, but these don't even look old school to me. They look like cheap $30 style jerseys you'd pick up at Wal-Mart or something. I was very excited to see what we'd get, but am truly disappointed. The green "cuffs" on the home jerseys need to go, it's just way to gaudy. We went from the nicest jerseys in hockey to some of the worst.

Depends....probably not so much this year as most. On an average year, around $500-750 (if you don't count apparel). Two years ago I splurged a little and went to Boston, Michigan, Madison twice (regular season and regionals), and Denver, as well as all the home games. This year, I won't get season tickets being out of state now, but I'll probably buy some games on the internet, and I hope to get to the Twin Cities for the series there and hopefully one series in GF. Also, I plan on going to the Notre Dame tourney in Chicago. If they make the Frozen Four, I'll see if I can make that since Detroit is only about a 7 hour drive, but that's a bit too far into the future to plan for.

After thinking about it, and debating back and forth in my own mind about whether or not I approve of the imagery, I find that I'm ok about it. Everyone has the same goal in athletics, to win. Does this imagery help a team win? No...but the mindset about wanting to beat your opponents is nothing new and every team finds ways to depict their opponents in a negative mindset. UND does it with anyone they play in recognizable sports, so it's somewhat hypocritical to think otherwise when it comes to the TT situation. Does UND itself publicly depict imagery like this for our opponents? Not in recent memory (other than the Jumbotron-gate against Minnesota last season in hockey with the bubble thoughts pictured above Gopher players, and even then it didn't put down their logo, just their athletes, which is worse in the situation). But, the entire fanbase is relentless when it comes to teams like Minnesota, Wisconsin, Denver, North Dakota State, etc. Also, their mascot caricature is no better in terms of the southern, old-west style stereotyping. It's an old, ugly dude with a nasty porn stache that has a chip on his shoulder and has somewhat of a drunk attitude to him. Any caucasian could as easily be offended by that, but aren't. Do I enjoy seeing our team depicted the way they did in Lubbock? No. But, what they did wasn't wrong in my opinion either. I understand the PC sensitivity on the matter, but as a school, we have to expect these things and not take them seriously. All we can do at UND is help better that image of Native Americans across the US (and Canada), but not force our ideas upon them, especially over something that wasn't all that bad. It sounds harsh, and that's not my intent, but it's just my opinion. The bigger the deal we make of the situation, the worse the nickname looks. If we said, "ok, cool, they have to go to the lengths of putting down a new D1-AA school to make themselves look better while we collect a paycheck, great!" If anything, it makes the nickname seem more intimidating since they went the direction they did in trying to put it down (doesn't make sense, I know, but think about it). Anyways, I hope something like this doesn't do as much harm as it seems it could because I don't think the issue is that big. If UND, it's fans, it's athletes, it's supporters all come together and stand strong about what WE believe, issues like this shouldn't matter. One more thing in a lenthy opinion....think about the saying "Go Sioux!" and what that really means when thousands and thousands of people say it over and over for every home athletic event. Everytime someone utters that phrase, they are putting their full emotion into support of a whole nation of people, and if some people refuse to see that, it's unfortunate.