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Just rewatched the video... Sheldon Dries, #8, ripped off Gaarder's helmet and then you could see him grab towards his face. After the ref breaks them up, Gaarder says to the ref "He ripped my facemask off and poked me in the eye."

Not only can we clinch home ice, we can win the Penrose Cup outright if things fall the right way.

What you got against southpaws?

NCHC is taking a look at the scrum during this game. Not sure if there will be any additional punishment but I could see Gaarder getting a game for throwing a punch.

That's on the director and unfortunately it's something they do every broadcast at Miami. If the puck is near the net, they take the tight cam. Often it's a split second before a goal which makes editing highlights a huge pain. Watch the nchc goals of the week video and you'll notice it looks a bit off when Miami scores at home.

Once UNO moves into their on campus arena next year, they could bid for a regional in the CenturyLink center, where they play now.

We would clinch at least a share of the Penrose but would be the number two seed of we got swept at Miami.

This is the worst team ever to be up 1-0

Because that's the only reason a team can come out flat.

Any time the announcers say Lawson Lunatics, take a drink

But let's be honest... we are better than everyone else

Thanks for the well thought-out response. My only interactions with Brian have been through the NCHC and I can definitely see how he comes off as unemotional. He's a pretty straight forward guy who doesn't have a lot of ups or downs, at least outwardly. Remember, before Faison we had a rah-rah kind of guy in Buning and that didn't work out too well. I think Jones is definitely on Faison's radar, as he should be. I don't foresee any extension. From what I have read, this is Jones' final year under contract, although there is an option for keeping him around two more years. I would be surprised and upset if Jones is around any longer than the extension would allow. While I haven't been the loud screaming and yelling type to have Jones fired that seems pretty common (or just loud) around here, I don't think he's earned an extension. I just don't think he's forced Faison to fire him. The basketball team has the talent to win but we just haven't seen it. As was mentioned, five of the conference losses have come by 7 points or less. That's more about experience than anything. Of the 7 players who had more than 10 minutes of playing time last night, only Nash played consistently last year. Tyler, De Rouen, Shanks and Cashman weren't on the team. Hooker averaged 4 ppg and Antwi started one game all year. As for Mussman, here's quick blurb from SFI the day after he received an extension in the summer of 2012: Not everyone, including those who are heralded for their coverage of UND football thought the Mussman extension was a bad thing. You don't really fire a coach after it seemed like things were on the up-swing. While they only beat Sioux Falls by 2 at home, they also lost at Fresno by just 5 (a game UND was leading in the 4th quarter). Mussman was named the coach of the year in the Great West for that season. Looking back at the schedule, Muss was fired about when he should have been, although earlier in the season would have been acceptable too but then you get into some coaches not applying because they don't want to abandon their team mid-season. I think the crappy timing of UND going through the transition while NDSU started getting hot in football and basketball hurt UND more than anything Faison has done. I've been defending Faison on here even before I took a look at all of the accomplishments of the UND athletic department. When I stepped outside of the "We need to be as good or better than NDSU" lens, it's pretty remarkable how the athletic department (note... athletic department, not just athletics) has continued to progress since Faison took over.

Should have been a blocking foul. The guy moved right into the way, forcing the turnover.

These unnecessary fouls and missed free throws are definitely on Jones

This is some pretty horrific officating

I'm curious why so many people bring this up, yet there isn't a lot of proof to back up the claim. Faison fired Mussman and hired Bubba to increase the competitiveness of the team. Faison brought in a great volleyball coach after being forced to fire Hardee. Faison secured the building of the IPF, which undoubtedly will help increase the quality of the teams in all sports. Is it all because he hasn't fired a basketball coach who finished 3rd and 2nd respectively in his two years in the big sky? Or because there isn't a video board in the Betty? I'm curious why so many people think this and what are some examples.

People claim they want to see a winner... at home UND is 84-34 under Coach Jones. One season has been under .500 at home (09-10). Since then, here's the home record: 11-3, 13-1, 10-5, 11-3. This year it's 3-4 with five more home games. If people want to see a winner, maybe they should go to UND men's basketball games at home. I don't think the quality of the non-conference teams coming in have been that great, but UND went 8-2 at home against Big Sky teams... the teams that make up a majority of our schedule each year. Average attendance for those 10 games? 1,734. Only one game had more than 2,000 people in attendance. If a team that goes 8-2 at home and finished third in the conference the prior year can't draw more than 2,000 fans per game what is the coach and AD supposed to do about it?

Why is blame only limited to Faison or Jones? Why can't the fans be to blame for not showing up?

The NCHC actually said no to Notre Dame after the Irish came in with too many demands, including their current TV deal.

Why not?

It's impressive that everything bad with the program is Jones' fault yet none of the good things are due to him.

I guess I worded it a little incorrectly. The practices happened but that was the first time anyone had skated on the ice. The original plan was for a local team to get some ice time to help get it ready for the practices. That was the part that didn't happen. They were still filling in holes and whatnot at 2 a.m. Thursday morning.

The ice was supposed to be in on Wednesday night so a local team could skate on it that night and the teams could practice Thursday morning. That wasn't the case and the Target Center really dropped the ball on that one. There were a lot of mistakes by the TC that affected things but that's expected with it being their first hockey tournament in forever. I know the NCHC was pretty upset and that things are going to be much better this year.

Has anyone been to Reno? It's not exactly a destination city. I could see a rotation of Denver and Portland as those two are more likely to draw fans who want to do more than watch basketball.

FSN had a significantly larger viewership than Midco, which means more money from advertisers. It costs a lot of money to rent a legit full-HD truck. It costs a lot of money to hire a freelance crew. Most national networks just rent trucks around the country and also rent a Sat uplink truck to send their feed to the heavens and back to earth. If the money was there, they would do it. Unfortunately, PS Doors and American Tire don't pay enough of the bills.