siouxkid12

Don't blame Forum Communcations for not supporting Grand Forks because as someone who used to work for them, Grand Forks BARELY supported WDAZ.

my mouth is watering just reading that...

Heard nothing but great things about that place but I always forget about that place when I get back to town....

ASU has done everything to create a viable hockey program that will contend for championships in the years to come. The NCHC shouldn't be dragging their feet on this one and just let them in. Who cares if its 9 teams in a conference, the highest seed can get a bye in the conference tournament.

reduced fee with a replacement university = only feasible way to still drive home the originally point of making it hard to exit.

Waiving the fee sets a precedent that I don't think the conference should go down. I know a lot has changed since the NCHC has formed but ultimately they had to have known that coming out west year after year was going to be costly.

Then everyone would have to leave Sioux Sports because everyone is equally to blame in saying the same crap over and over again.

For FO(* sake, lets not hang our hat on that season. I am sick of our fans saying "if we played that tournament, we would've been national champs", that season never played out and we will never know. The 98-99 team was one of the best teams UND ever had and they lost in their first game of the tournament that year.

If you want a safe space for positivity just go to "All things Fighting Sioux" on facebook. Mama Gaber will take care of you

You are correct that it would be a nightmare scenario but Berry is such a "nice guy" who won a national title that I do not think anyone would pony up the dough. They will let his contract run out and bid him farewell.

And what boosters will pay for it? Kris isn't paying for it...

It is in the eyes of the fans but not in the eyes of the school. I highly doubt the school "buys-out" Berry. Staff members will be let go before the school fires Berry.

Why take a chance with any team then? Playing Bemidji and developing a rivalry with them is a good thing for local/college hockey. Have you seen UND in the pairwise lately? With the way we have been the last few years, I wouldn't be going around knocking other teams while saying it "hurts" us to play them. Guess what, if we wouldn't have tied them last year, we would've been in a better position in the Pairwise. If they are an easy team to beat, then we should beat them. All you need to do in college hockey is win your games, the rest will take care of itself. It's time for our fanbase to get over this "we are better than other teams" mentality, its sickening.

Can you explain your reasoning? I am seriously curious

I’d say we probably have gotten the best warroad has produced over the years.

Generational gap? Please! you named 6 players out of over 300 players that have played hockey elsewhere. I wouldn't exactly say UND has a strong "foothold" on the Warroad players like you think.

What do you mean a foothold? Oshie and Nelson are the only ones that have came to UND from Warroad (Lee Marvin was another one). There has been A LOT of talent that has gone elsewhere from there. It's always been a neutral ground.

That would be foolish for all parties. Washington is an aging team that needs to be rebuilt but wont until Ovie passes Gretzky.

Minnesota got conservative or the players for Quinnipiac shut them down? As much as you guys are saying "No disrespect to Quinnipiac" you really are disrespecting them. You are basically saying that the Gophers shouldn't have lost when they were up by two goals and Quinnipiac should've packed it in. I don't care what anyone says about Quinnipiac's strength of schedule or anything, they are a great team (stats back it up) and they consistently played well all year.

If you're team is winning national championships, are you really going to stop going? You might but the average fan isn't going to stop going.

It does make for a less entertaining game but when they goal is to win, you don't care what the fans think.

I wouldn't say there is a pattern, Motzko ran into a VERY VERY good team (and every metric stated it), that happens. And of those "pre-game" metrics that were talked about by the analysts, how many games were actually watched by them? I sat and listened to a lot of those dweebs and I just shook my head at how uninformed they were on college hockey and the teams that were playing.

Not going to dive too far into it but offensively Quinnipiac was #6 and ND was #7 (only by a slim margin) but the thing that separated them was UND's defense (which was ranked 2nd).

So you're saying Motzko shouldn't have lost this game? Motzko can only coach so much and then his players have to execute and the players couldn't clearly execute once Pecknolds 1-1-3 neutral zone forecheck settled in (2nd period). Quinnipiac was relentless after the first period (which was obviously their worst). They had more shots on net and limited Minnesota's and they also won the faceoff battle (not a single Minnesota player was in double digit wins in the circle). Also, lets look at the stats and give credit to Quinnipiac before criticizing Minnesota. Yes, Minnesota was ranked higher and had more recognition than Quinnipiac throughout the season but dive into the stats and you will see that Quinnipiac was a much better team overall. Faceoff win % - Quinnipiac #2 Minnesota #15 PK % - Quinnipiac #4 Minnesota #12 PP % - Quinnipiac #15 Minnesota #4 Scoring Defense - Quinnipiac #1 Minnesota #6 Scoring Margin - Quinnipiac #1 Minnesota #2 Scoring Offense - Quinnipiac #3 Minnesota #2 (they are awfully close in this category though) Win % - Quinnipiac #1 Minnesota #3 Goalies - Quinnipiac (Perets) Winning %, GAA, Save % - #1/#2 in all those categories Minnesota (Close) #3/#4 in all those categories. This loss isn't on Motzko whatsoever, this was just a very good Bobcats team.

At least with Mankato it's because the coaches is leaving...