MafiaMan

If we're going to turn hockey into soccer by having the players intentionally kick goals into the nets, why don't we just take away the sticks while we're at it?

Honestly...how hard is it to do some research? It's not rocket science.

Personal insults accomplish nothing. I respect GrahamCracker's opinion and respectfully disagree. A few years ago, I stood in line at Target behind an American Indian wearing a Cleveland baseball hat and Indians jersey. Racist? Misguided? An Uncle Tom? I don't know...you tell me. Just the other day I was at the pool and an American Indian man walks up to me and says he noticed the tattoo on my back shoulderblade. It is of the old Sioux logo (Blackhawk, if you will) with the words "NORTH DAKOTA" above it and "FIGHTING SIOUX" below it. He asked to see it close-up and asked if I was Indian. I am not and told him that I attended UND and am a fan of the hockey team. He was familiar with the school and the hockey team. His response? A) "You're a racist pig!" B) "Change the nickname!" C) "Cool tattoo...I like it." The answer would be C. The gentleman must be another uninformed commoner who needs to be told that white society is putting him down. Or maybe, just maybe, he really thought it was a cool tattoo. While we're busy trying to wipe out the Sioux nickname and logo, perhaps we can start burning history books, too, and making sure no one knows who inhabited North Dakota before white Germans and Norwegians. I don't see how changing the nickname accomplishes anything.

I don't know if I agree with fines being levied against officials who make bad calls, but I agree that the problem isn't necessarily new rules, it's the enforcement of existing rules.

While I realize there is a big difference in the games, broomball is played with the blue/line then red line "in the zone" rule and it's actually quite simple. Teams will carry or dump the puck into the zone past the blue line and the defensive team must get it past the red line to get it back "out" of the zone as opposed to just pushing the puck past the blue line. I suppose one could argue in hockey, however, is that all this does is push two defensemen back to the red line. While that creates a three on three atmosphere inside the zone closer to the net, scoring chances may actually decrease since your D-men have no hope of scoring on a slap shot from the red line.

Not that there's anything wrong with that!

She's busy right now helping Don Lucia fill out his lineup card. Thanks for the trip down Fantasy Lane, chandler23.

Mmmmmmm....Jamie Luner and Lisa Rinna Oh wait...they were on Melrose Place. Oh well. anyways

LOL...completely off the topic, but this reminds me of one of my favorite lines ever in a movie...from The Naked Gun. Lt Drebin is in the hospital chatting with Nordberg's wife after the opening scene where Nordberg (OJ Simpson) is shot while boarding a ship loaded with drug-runners... "Oh Frank...what's the prognosis?" "Well, the doctor's say he's got a 50/50 chance...although there's only a 33 percent chance of that."

Good call, chandler23. Perhaps while we're at it, we can rewind the tape of the big showdown at the end of this past season and watch it again. You know the one...where #1 UMD takes on #2 UND for all the marbles in the Final Five. There's a reason why they play the games. Polls and expectations don't decide anything...well, unless you're NCAA football, but that's another post for another forum.

OK, I'm going to agree with Gopher fans on this one...UND's 10 year gap between 1987 and 1997 was long enough, but we're half-way there with the 2000-2005 "drought." That being said, we could be BC and go 49 years between titles. I'd rather be UND or Minnesota. And even though Minnesota didn't win the big one under Woog, they were expected to contend far more often than the Sioux were from a big stretch starting in about 1991 and lasting until 1996.

LOL...now THAT'S funny. Here's a typical conversation I have had several times over the past 13 years with someone from Mpls/St Paul who hasn't been ever been outside of the city limits: "So you're from North Dakota?" "yep, grew up in Belfield." "I've been to Mount Rushmore...nice place." "Um...that's South Dakota." "Oh. So what's in North Dakota?"

You're welcome, HockeyMom.

I was trying to make you chuckle, chandler23. I don't think UND is alone in playing the underdog role. It's no different than the other schools outside of Michigan State and Michigan in the CCHA (Ferris State, Ohio State, Western Michigan, Northern Michigan, etc.) or the Merrimacks, Providence Colleges, UMass-Lowells, or UMass's of Hockey East. Every year, smaller schools like Colorado College, Lake Superior State, etc., no matter what their record winds up as, end up travelling all over to play teams in hostile environments, namely games in Mpls/St Paul or Detroit. I realize this is the nature of the beast, but this is why I preferred home games for the NCAA playoffs as opposed to "regionals." If a small school has done well in the regular season and conference tournament, why is the reward a death sentence 1,000 miles away for the NCAA tournament? Shouldn't the home fans be entitled to see their team at home against a lesser opponent? If, say, a Northern Michigan wins the CCHA and then wins the post-season title, why should they wind up playing Michigan in Yost or be sent to a regional in Minnesota or worse yet, Boston? Why shouldn't they wind up at home against a lower-seeded team? Just my two cents. I won't get into debates about travel costs, etc. There are pluses and minuses of both the home/away playoffs and regional playoffs.

I'm not sure who complains about "limited resources" or where that quote came from, chandler23. I live in the Twin Cities and I'll tell you why I despise the Gophers (in any sport): #1) Heaven forbid, anyone cheer for someone other than the Gophers here. I've got news for you, folks. In Minnesota, the "U of M" stands for Minnesota. Everywhere else in the world, you mention "U of M" and they know you're talking about Meeee-chigan. #2) Fox Sports North or The Gopher Homer Channel? #3) Doug Woog blowing his stack over a non-call on the Sioux, then chuckling to himself over an obvious Gopher slash that is also not called. #4) maroon and gold? Seriously, it's like poop brown and pee yellow. Who picked those colors anyways? #5) Golden Gophers. Check out that mascot. Is it a ground squirrel, beaver, chipmunk, gopher, or some combination of all of those four? #6) Speaking of Goldy, the "spin your head" thing was old the second time I saw it. #7) The two blatant non-calls against Adam Hauser in OT, followed by a center-ice penalty against Maine. Black Bear fans, you know what I'm talking about. #8) All those fans touting "Minnesota's Pride on Ice," then quickly disassociating themselves from that idea once they won a title with a "foreigner" on the roster. #9) Big Ten football inside the Metrodome? What's next? The Wild playing home games at Richfield Ice Arena? #10) Don Lucia talking about the Xcel Energy Center like it's some sort of hostile environment for his team to play there. Cue the video of him in 2001 saying that he expected a "50/50" fan ratio for the Maine/Minnesota game. I'm sure I could come up with 20 more reasons, but that's a good start. With all due respect to GreyEagle, WPoS, and sagard...let the flaming begin!