MafiaMan

I've said it before...UND hockey seems to cater developing players for the pros as opposed to putting together pieces parts to make a great team. Doug Woog had the same problems in his later years at Minnesota - too many guys wanting to score 20 goals a season and not enough role players. Peter Armbrust...Matt Henderson...Brad DeFauw...the Hoogsteens...Jeff Panzer...now it's all about NHL draft board status.

Good thing, too, because St Cloud State helps the NCHC with national exposure. Yes, that's sarcasm. Big 10 football exists thanks to Northwestern, Illinois, and Indiana. But even those schools recognize that Michigan and Ohio State are the straws that stir the drink. Seems like the NCHC wants to bend over backwards making sure everyone's treated the same. In theory, good. In practice, not-so-much.

UND will be at the NCHC tournament next spring. Book it.

Come to the Hoggsbreath next spring and I'll be happy to re-tell the story of my trip to Ann Arbor for the 1998 western regional...and how I am to blame for the Sioux not winning back-to-back national championships.

Props to the Chargers for playing what sounded like a hard-fought 4-3 game last night...hot on the heels of the 10-0 thrashing they received on Friday.

Yea, because that's what every new head coach wants...the former head coach reporting to him. No possible conflict there...

Jackson can't play net...don't they have Goehring for that?

In terms of a Sioux sweep or gfhockey saying something positive?

How many dumb penalties did Hakstol take tonight? How many soft goals did Jackson let in?

I didn't say it would be this weekend, did I?

And examples of this are where?

I bet he gets a home sweep before you post a positive comment.

Just like clockwork...

Of course it does. But I'm not sure I would trade the success of the past 13 years for 10 years of .500 it below mediocrity, a couple of Frozen Fours, and a national title.

Duluth is 4-18-3 in Grand Forks during the Sandelin era. Isn't this the part where gfhockey chimes in demanding that Hak be canned for his failure to win those 7 games? I've got UMD winning tonight 4-3. Wait. Double not-so-fast-my-friend. Sioux 4-2 again. Raise the sticks.

Lance Renville! That cat was hotter than a pistol in that whole tournament.

I was wondering the same thing when you've got a great match-up between long-time rivals UMD and UND...and you opt to show Nebraska-Omaha and Michigan instead?

Things haven't gotten any better since you and Wilbur told the '97 team my home address. Was awakened at 3:30am this morning by the sound of a car with Nebraska BLAISER license plates peeling down the street after leaving a flaming bag of pooh on my porch.

I get hate e-mail from Jason Blake every year on the anniversary of that loss...

I'll take those words to my grave, Wilbur..."pack up the bus...we're comin' to Boston!" Some nights, I wake up in a cold sweat to that nightmare.

Hmnnnn...for all the doomsday preppers on this site whining about last week's performance in Omaha, maybe the Mavericks aren't as bad as originally thought? Or should Red Berenson have been fired 10 minutes after last night's game ended?

UNO! UNO!

Maine takes Boston U out behind the woodshed tonight 7-0.

Game update: 1 point for the Sioux, 0 for the Bulldogs.

Yea, 2004. 2005 was the BC and BU region of death out east and the all-WCHA Frozen Four.