MafiaMan

I had no idea this thread was even still alive…

@coltssiouxfan I can assure you, they were legit.

Stearns.

“Hey, St Cloud, we’re asking you to leave the conference because you didn’t like our nickname from 10+ years ago…” Sorry, if we’re kicking out schools based on their politics, we’d better get rid of CC and Denver too while we’re at it, and probably Duluth too.

To be fair, 16-20 other teams have been better than UND in the Pairwise over the past 3-5 seasons.

Home of the Midgets!

Life’s too busy for hockey chat these days.

That green shell looks a million times better when accompanied by a white face mask as opposed to black. The 701 on the bumper? Chef’s kiss.

You all rang?

The team should be wearing black patches with Al’s famous cowboy hat on them all next season. Make it happen!

Harvard, Cornell, Alaska, and Michigan Tech ABOVE North Dakota? Clearly the Pairwise formula needs tweaking.

Basically 3:00 away from winning a national championship only to see it dissipate onto a vapor cloud 10 seconds into OT? Sorry, Sic, these kids were devastated — even later on in the locker room interviews. I don’t blame Faber ar all for his actions, This was a gut punch.

I don’t think he was crying for the cameras. That’s a gut-punch loss if ever there was one.

I went by myself on the 2005 bus to Columbus. The hours of planning that went into a single road trip must have been in the hundreds. Al treated everyone like family. Still probably a top 10 highlight of my life, despite the loss to Denver in the title game. Also had the good fortune of being on-hand for the Al Pearson tribute night. Unbelievable that he even made it to the game. His hat sitting outside that section permanently will be an awesome tribute to a mountain of a man and like someone else put it, North Dakota hockey’s original “super fan.” It’s been a long road for Al with his Parkinson’s Disease battle. God’s got him in good hands up in Heaven, just in time for Easter. Godspeed, Al, you were the best of the best in Grand Forks. We’ll miss you.

Welp, I guess we have to cheer for the Q on Saturday night.

“Beating” someone in 3X3 OT or by “winning” the shootout is a hell of a lot different than 5X5.

Pffft, that’s nothing! @Godsmack has been banned from softball, hockey, pickleball, AND dart leagues in the state of Colorado. He is currently appealing his bowling ban for allegedly throwing a 16 pound ball at a group of Catholic nuns during a recent charity event for St. Luke’s Nursing Home.

I don’t blame you for being salty. I thought Hastings would stay in Mankato too.

@bale31is looking at becoming a Michigan Tech fan…but it’s under the hush-hush at the moment.

Nightingale as a great hire for the Spartans I think he’ll turn that program around sooner rather than later.

@The Sicatoka The old John McKay (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) line, right? ”What do you think of your team’s execution, coach?” ”I’m in favor of it…”

The team was 3 games above .500 on the season and we’re grumbling about some new faces on the roster? Maybe next year’s Houston Texans can be better than this year’s team…they just need the exact same players back. That’s not how it usually works, is it?

[commissioner steps to the podium] ”With the first pick in the 2023 portal draft…the University of North Dakota selects…”