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We can't give up PP goals tonight and expect to win. And Kristo can't be the square peg trying to fit into the round hole...he has to find a place to fit in on the ice tonight.

The black sweaters are a given tonight. Hit a couple of open nets and make a couple of big save=win!

In ATL and snowing like crazy! Global warming!? Getting "Gore-d" no matter where I go! Need 2 points tonight in a big way. GO SIOUX!!

Correct. There is an 86% chance of hitting major flood stage in Fargo (30 ft.) and a 10% of hitting 40.1 ft. These % were given out prior to the last 9-10" of snow this past weekend. The new revised flood forecast comes out, I believe, on Feb. 19. This will take into account the snow from this last storm.

Live in Fargo and we are already planning the 1/2 mile, 4 ft high sandbag dike that saved us last year. Was noted in the local news today that so far this is the wettest winter on record EVER for Fargo! Two 500 year floods back to back??!! Lived in Williston in the mid to late 90's. That town was a complete mess...was still recovering from the previous oil boom bust. People west of Jamestown generally have animosity for Fargo. Don't get it either and never will. But I'm sure I can place a call to Fetch in early April and he'll come running to help throw sandbags for a week!?

Geez...do you ever just punch yourself in the face just to start a fight? How many times in this thread have people pointed out factual "things" and the same "things" over and over. Pull your head out of your...

Dude, did you just have a colonoscopy today? I have read some of your posts today on various threads...wow! We all have bad days, but...

Or possibly he/she is the owner of the McD's and was there checking to make sure that the crew, all NDSU Ph. D. grads, didn't skim some coin from the till!

We'll have to agree to disagree on these issues, but to the 4 comments of yours above: 1) Nat'l Championships are the goal, especially with UND's hockey program. 30, soon to be 31, NFL teams will all be in the same boat soon. You only have one winner in all sports when it's said and done. That doesn't mean seasons aren't a success, but if you ask any players from UND in the past 5 years if they reached their ultimate goal, I think you know what the answer will be. 2) Right now, you think any one, Hak included, cares about streaks or stats? They all know they need wins and at this point they don't care how they get them. 1-0 or 7-6, they'll take a "W". 3) Why does anyone play any game? "You play to win the game." 4) Cornell's streak has what to do with UND? Their streak is broken, UND's is not. Again, we are looking at things differently. Past teams had different players and were playing at a different level at this same date in time. You can take what you want from those teams, but frankly it tells us nothing about this year's team IMO. So again, we'll just agree that we see things differently here.

No worries, I had the same feelings towards Hot Pockets a few years back!

Saturday's game was a game where not all the guys on the ice showed up. I saw it and Hak saw it too. Hak even mentioned that in his post game comments that there were a number of "passangers" on the ice Sat. But to the team's credit, it's the first time I've seen that this year...not all the guys giving a solid effort. Why do you think the bench was shortened and lines were juggled mid way thru the 2nd period? I'll bet anything you won't see that effort, or lack of, from anyone on this team again this year. If there is one thing about Hak's teams, effort and work ethic is a must.

Me too, but I'm getting extremely bloated!

Easy...you know your experiences or the experiences of others you referenced are inaccurate and irrelevant because none of you are on the "right" side of this controversy.

Hey now...you are actually making sense! You know those from SU don't care for that sort of thing!

Correct...we need to focus on getting wins, not sawing Marvin in half. As for this thread, Hak is a good coach and will be here for a long time, which is fine by me. My concern is last night was the first time all year, I saw only a handful of guys "show up". There were a lot of passangers out on the ice last night. This is a young team that is obviously frustrated by the recent string of games and outcomes, but last night was the first time I started to wonder if Hak and his staff might be losing a few guys mentally. I'm not going to throw any player under the bus, but it was obvious that some guys didn't come to play last night.

They are the only team in our sights. My gut says we'll be making 2 trips to CC in a span of 2 weeks.

On the way back from Fargo last pm, was listening to the postgame with TH and his sidekick, Ole, I believe. At the very end Ole made reference in great detail to Kristo. Great skill and talent, but has not been able to fit in with WHOEVER he plays along side. Definitely doesn't feel he is the right fit with Trupp/Malone. Ole felt that Kristo needs to give the puck up more and more quickly than he does. Basically said Kristo is the key to getting this offensive on track and that he needs to play on a line where he can get/create more time and space for himself. Ole also referenced our goaltending play...getting a save when you need it the most and we don't seem to get that.

Well, since you watch a lot of sports, I guess we'll all defer to you. Having watched this years's team have you noticed any trends or streaks? How about the total inabilty to protect a 2 goal lead and nail down a win...just to name one. Or the "useless" fact that we have scored 4 (+) goals in 1 game out of the last 14! We have 4, count em, 4 weekends left...that's not the middle of the season/year. Bring some more irrelelvent stats from years gone by, that always helps when discussing the team of the present. Ummm...another 0-4 on the PP last night and 0-last 32...add that to your "useful facts". But just keep telling us we are now 6th in PP % in the WCHA and "we are due." Ummm...just got swept at home. Below .500 in the league and luckily thanks to UM losing still just 6th in the WCHA...but I know those are "useless facts".

I still think it's going to take 3 goals tonight to get us a point or 2.

No outrage, just tired of hearing "We are 0 for whatever on the PP but all that means is we are due." "We are statistically ranked (#) in this category." What does any of that have to do with wins or loses??? You seem to be pretty special at floating opinions and trival numbers around. So if we lose tonight, which is a possibility, and UM wins, which is a possibility and we drop to 7th in the WCHA...remember to tell everyone that's a useless fact as well. BTW the last time I looked the games in Dec. and Jan. counted the same in the standings as the games in Feb. and March. ALL those games lead to potentially getting some where in April. We are a .500 team in our own league. That's what we are...period. Do I feel this team has the potential to be there in April? Possibly. But you disregarding the obvious, our current record and place in the WCHA, as a "useless fact" is actually humerous. Goodness, spin only goes so far, but you are working it.

Yet another example of a meaningless stat. So that fact that we are 5th in the league in PP numbers masks that fact that we are 6th in league standings! Seems to me the latter fact is more relevent.

And they have only scored 4 goals, and 1 was an ENG, in the last 4 games and dropped nationally in offensive rankings!?!? This discussion of team rankings, GAA, how well we played, blal, blah, blah...is irrelevant if this team can't score and get a "W". If we wind up #5 nationally in defensive rankings and don't make the NCAA field, I will fail to see any relevance in that statistic.

Just about to head up I-29 for some fine dining at the Moon before the game. I think Frattin gets it going and UND roughs up the Pios defensively. Frattin x2 and Trupp. UND 3-2.

When you say "a lot", I assume you're saying the Foundation is more at fault in this mess than Joe? Please...

That is documented and reported as fact so to say Joe or his better/worse half didn't want this house done a certain way or on a certain time schedule is just flat out false.