siouxkid12

I thought I read somewhere that in his last contract with ESPN he had them put in the Frozen Four gig or he wouldn't sign it... not sure if that was true or not

I hope all the turmoil going on in Boston is good news for us "greedy" fans out here. I would love to see Zane come back!

you are always on "break", is this a union job?

I thought you were too busy in Dickinson today, why are you still here?

Yes, there is an ignore button but you would probably make another account. I'm not the moderator, so I'm not sure. It's just to easy...

I thought you were hung over and being lazy today?

my bad....my point was there are a lot of coaches out there that have yet to win a title....

sorry it took so long to rattle off a few names but I was on a call out in Grand Rapids Michigan

Dick Umile Jim Madigan Norm Bazin

1. Enrico Blasi 2. Andy Murray 3. Tom Serratore 4. Damon Whitten 5. Bob Daniels 6. Chris Bergeron 7. Walt Kyle 8. Dallas Ferguson 9. Tom Anastos 10. Guy Gadowsky CHIRP CHIRP

A lot of coaches haven't. Is that the number one priority when hiring a coach at any school?

why is that alarming?

I thought you said Hak has never won a title?

For sure but they are totally different players today than they were back then.

You can't compare Oshie, Toews, Parise, and Stafford from back when they were at UND vs now because they are totally different players. Outside of those 4, only Parise was really dominate, when he wasn't getting molested. For as good as Oshie and Toews were there were also easily distracted, which could've affected their play. Stafford was a good player but was he really GREAT? Now, I am not saying they were bad players when they were at UND, I just think people need to stop comparing them from now to back then..

go spew your garbage elsewhere. learn how to read, this is a different topic thread.

not an early departure but it looks like the general is moving on...

players opinions don't matter, don't you know that!

Does anyone think our out of conference games hurt us? I mean I like seeing us play Wisconsin, Minnesota and teams from the old conference but should we be playing more teams out East (so we can get used to that style of play)?

I should've said that when the people say we dominated college hockey was when we won NC. I still think we are a dominate program but at the same time I also realize that there is some parity is college hockey now. I mean who would've thought that the last three NCAA champs would all win their first title? As a fan base I think we have overlooked other teams and how they have "caught" up with the times. In the end I wish I had the answer to winning a NC every year but I don't and neither does anyone else. All we can hope for is the chance to be there and get a little luck along the way.

I think part of the problem is a lot of people on here live in the past and how we used to dominate college hockey (as some say) and the other side has grown accustom to the transformation of college hockey over the years and understand that the landscape is much different now-a-days.

That's the thing, they can't come up with a reason. They also only see what's on the ice at the time the game is played, so how can they give an adequate answer to what line combinations should be on the ice?

I'm sorry but I haven't heard anything that would scream Hakstol is not a good coach. I have heard from you that Hak is the CEO of the team and the "buck" stops with him. That's not a good enough analogy, as I have said before, at some point the players have to take it upon themselves and say that they are the ones who screwed up. It's not Hak's fault Zane didn't bring his A game on Thursday and its not his fault his players hit more pipes than usual. He never got out coached, it was just a few terrible plays that messed it up for the team (and I'm sure every player knows that). I'm not going to sit here at say that I'm right and you're wrong but until I see evidence that the UND hockey program is in a tailspin and its time for a new coach, you wont be changing my mind. I am also glad the Athletic Department see's it that way too.

There would be no way we could pay anything over that without having other sports suffer (although hockey is the biggest money maker).

It's just my opinion but I think Tippet is more of an NHL coach and Murray is a college coach. It seems like Murray is wired to mentor and coach younger players rather than put up with egos at the NHL level...