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much like their team.

whoa... if youre saying that miller light is better than bud light, then i guess i'll buy you all the crappy miller light at that ndsu playoff game next year.

big difference is that there wasnt an nhl the year after zach signed. new jersey had to send him to the ahl.

i'm just saying if the competition is that much better... what was stopping the almight ndsu from winning a national championshp recently? it's gotta be tough knowing that since the #1 sport at ndsu won a championship, UND has won two in their #1 sport and another one in the #2 sport. seems like bohl realizes that ndsu has already taken a back seat to UND hockey. anybody notice that nobody from UND is comparing the popularity of the two sports? it's like miller lite commercials v bud light commercials... as the #2 beer, a lot of miller light's commercials compare it with bud light, but almost all of bud light commericals make no mention of miller light.

i agree that the state of d2 football has declined... but that never stopped the bison from not winning recent championships.

talking to a person in the know, it sounds like clay matvick will be in the arena to do some type of color/playbyplay. he normally doesn't do the gophers games, so i don't think mazacco and woog will be there.

that's not really an "original forum" stat. it was in the UND press release sent out by the Athletic Dept.

Notre Dame isn't the Fighting Leprechauns, they're the Fighting Irish. However, I guess if you're asking when was the last time you saw a leprechauns... well when was the last time you saw a real living Fighting Sioux Cartoon. If the Sioux Logo represents real people, then why doesn't the Fighting Irish Logo represent real people. Both are cartoon drawings and not real pictures of a Native American or Irish American. As usual, the double standard just walks itself out into the open and everyone but GK and the NCAA can see it.

tampa wanted him bad after last year. it doesn't really have as much to do with the coach as with the front office wanting to get him in their system.

this team reminds me of teams in the past when they hit the playoffs. after a goal, a lot of teams act like they've been there before and thats fine... but i want to see guys acting like they just won the national championship after every goal. that excitement has to get contagious and other players can just feel the excitement and energy. i love see our guys smiling and really getting into it during the playoffs. it helps take some of the pressure off of being a fan. thanks again pcm (ps, did you hear about kenny's dog tags in las vegas two weekends ago? pretty special.)

teams have until august after a player graduates to sign them. this could be incentive for 1) a player to stay all 4 years and 2) get onto a better team or into a better system.

you call me out for listing just two goaltenders, but then you ask if a 31 v 30 pick is that much better. i'd say a 65 v a 33 is a huge difference, but when you're within 10-15 picks, the skill level is most likely going to be the same. you know what else? taylor chorney played better than brian lee this year. brian lee is the #9 overall pick, chorney is a mid 2nd rounder. I think lee will have an easier time making an NHL lineup than Chorney. This has nothing to do with gophers/sioux... it has everything to do with knowing that when a team only gets one 1st rounder per year, they have a lot of stock in that player. they pay that person a lot of money and no team wants to have a 1st rounder sit in their ahl system and take all that money. potunly won't get 1st round money, even if he is better than a lot of 1st rounders. he'll get what most draft picks around him make, as bochenski did this year. he will be much more easily sent down, because there isnt a million dollar price tag around his neck. skill can you get into the nhl, but it takes much more effort from a low rounder to overcome the stigma of not having a lot of potential. however, i agree with you that on-ice perfomance can move a player up, like st. louis and others... but there are other players who are handed things (crosby) because they are taken so high and the team has a lot to lose.

i meant steps on the ice on friday night... even if he is practicing, it still leaves a little doubt in mich's mind,

i wonder how many people on this board will email her requesting a poster.

the most important sioux head of the regional is the one right below the name on the front of the jerseys.

he'll be day to day until he steps onto the ice. this gives the sioux the ability to make mich guess whether stafford will play or not. they'll have to prepare a little differently if he is in, but also be prepared in case he isnt.

You throw out random low draft picks who have made it big, and you act like it's easy for any 6th rounder to make it. These are special people who do special things, but not everyone makes it. Karl Goehring, a free agent outplayed Pascal Leclaire, a #1 draft pick for Columbus, in Syracuse for two years. Anytime there was an opening at the NHL level, they'd promote Leclaire, despite the fact that he would get rocked in his games. i'm not basing this on a fake knowledge of the nhl. stats buddy. leclaire 8 21 3 .890 3.56 goehring 18 21 4 .914 2.67 also, I never said that low draft picks can't make it to the nhl... but they have more to prove. They have to overcome a lot more than a higher draft pick has to. Lower draft picks rarely get put on a top line with other super-skilled players, so they have to produce from the 3rd or 4th line. It's like with Kessel this year. Put him on a line with Irmen and Potulny and you see how they can score based on the PP stats. Have him on the 3rd line with rookies and he doesn't do as well as he could. There is a lot more to overcome for a 3rd round pick than a 1st round pick.

The ice is going to look a bit different when you get to the arena. Instead of the Sioux indian head at center ice, there will be a different UND logo. Don't worry, it's not because the Sioux logo is offensive to the NCAA, it's because the logo is the wrong size.

Ok, let's get realistic here. Obviously, if someone puts up 140 pts vs 7, they would most likely have a better chance of making the show... but that's not the case. We're looking at two players who have similar stats. If you don't think teams have more invested in a first round pick than a 3rd rounder, then you're crazy. They'll most likely give a 1st rounder a few extra chances to prove what he's got. Why? Marketing. Name all the 3rd rounders from the past 3 drafts without looking. Now name all the 1st rounders. Unless you spend your days memorizing the names of 3rd rounders, you'll name a lot more guys who went in the 1st. Nobody (i just scrolled through the convo, but if someone is saying this, they're pretty dumb) is saying that there is absolutely no chance irmen and potulny can make the show. But nobody is saying it's guaranteed either. College hockey is wierd, especially the WCHA. While we put out a lot of very highly skilled players, we also have points leaders who never make it in the NHL. Panzer, Senja, Goehring, Pohl, Westrum, Lundbohm. All of those guys dominated NCAA hockey, but look at how many NHL games they have combined: 34. And sejna has 27 of those. I wouldn't be surprised to see any of zajac, stafford, irmen and potulny make the show... but I wouldn't be surprised if only two of them made it either.

i remember seeing one of those in 2000. when asked best atmosphere and hardest place to play, every single person said the old ralph. how i long for the days of standing outside at 8am to get into a game. stand all game and scream my lungs off. those were the days of college hockey. fortunately, i was able to get a full year in that arena before moving into the palace.

they have to turn pro sometime... they can't play for another 20 years.

rumor has it zajac is staying so he can play with darcy next year.

what we need is 3-4 UND alum who have 50-100 million dollars each. then setup an unofficial trust fund for after sioux players graduate. if you play UND hockey for four years and graduate from UND, you get 1 million. that would hopefully help keep a lot more people around for their senior seasons. alright, who has the money?

now, i don't want to take credit for predicting this or anything... but i will.

i like how the sioux game is the night game... yet bu is a host out east and they are stuck in the early game.