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watered-down? nah, that can't be. this is supposed to be the premier collegiate hockey conference in the country.

I'm hoping the UND team that showed up fri at DU and the Miami series at the Ralph is the team that shows up on Thurs. I really like our chances if that happens.

your preseason top three next season in no particular order: UND, Miami and Minnesota.

I'm not sure that game was the loudest. That moment and leading into UND's game agianst Michigan that night was definately the most electric the Ralph has been. There have been some Gopher games where it has been just as loud if not louder

IF UND beats Minnesota next Thurs and faces BC in the final, I will not be at all surprised to see Mitch in the lineup for that game. But first things first.

something tells me they won't be the 8 seed next season

Barber is returning to Miami per Brad per Starman

on their blogs they can be as biased as they want to be. as for things published in the actual paper Brad is very unbiased. in fact he calls it as he sees it for the most part even in his blog and during live chats. Goon has actually tones down his his bias since he got his credentials.

and I'm sure he picked UND over Michigan in 2011 as well. He also likes Dowd to win the Hobey. who cares what these talking heads have to say or who they pick. I'm willing to bet there won't be a lot if anyt hat would pick UND to win next Thurs. I like our chances against them in a one and done, if it were a seven game series or five game series for that matter I might feel differently.

Sioux Hockey first got my attention as a seventh grader during the 1987 frozen four as that was the first time I had ever seen or heard of UND hockey living out west. I watched games on TV periodically over the years and then in the fall of 1992 I came up for a Sioux-Bison football game and my friends took me to my first game at the old ralph that night. I don't remember who they played it was like Northern Michigan or Northeastern or something like that, but from that point on it has become an obsession as my wife says.

but are you dumber for having done that?

and yet they produce fraudulent Hobey Baker Candidates.

there reasoning for not letting UND host a frozen four for the women was that the Ralph is too big. and it makes sense if you think about it. we all bitch and moan about the men playing in empty arenas for the regionals and it would be the same thing for the women at the Ralph. you get what 1500-2000 tops for that and have 10000 empty seats, not a good atmosphere. the Ralph will host again, I would bet my house on it.

going back to on campus sites is almost virtually going to happen at some point here. we saw it with Notre Dame next year and I won't be surprised when the next round of sites it released that there aren't on-campus sites. out west here you will see The Ralph, Marriucci, Amsoil Arena, The Kohl Center and The World Arena all start to get regionals again.

maybe the same thing will happen to Wilcox that hapnened to Lamoruex that year in the Frozen Four and he let's in 6 goals during the Thursday game

there is a rule or unwritten rule somewhere that when all possible they will try to keep a #1 seed from playing on an hosts school's ice, especially if they are the #1 or #2 overall seed. in 2008 UND had to go to the Kohl Center and the reason they had to was because Michigan would have but they were the #1 overall seed that year and they were protecting them so instead Michigan went to Albany. That was the first year the committee started to do that.

I don't disagree. However, IMO Dowd is far from being one of the top three players in the country.

and if UND would have met Minnesota in 2006, UND would have wore their road jerseys.

Hobey Hat Trick is Gaudreau, Nic Dowd and Greg Carey. Dowd, really? what the hell is with this Hobey committee and their love affair with SCSU players.

Hastol has been on record as saying he would rather play in an opponents rink that is filled versus the type of atmosphere that was like in Grand Rapids last year.

wouldn't that mean UND couldn't wear it's black jerseys as well?

I'm willing to bet that you should be safe for this as it probably hasn't sold out as they are still pushing it via twitter. I remember in 2005 it sold out like in one day and was all over the news that it did. have a great trip, wish I was able to go as well.

why does it sound like there is a lot of apologizing going on for this team making the frozen four? the 2004 team didn't make it this far and I'm pretty sure most on here were devistated by that as that team was one of the best to take the ice in the last 10-15 years. maybe this makes up for that. this team may or may not win next thursday but have done more than I would have expected on Nov. 29.

I saw the Herald named this blizzard Gigi, they should have named it Gaarder.

und is on the hobey baker party crasher tour: rumpel-check motte-check wilcox-check??? gaudreau-check??? looks like CHN has UND/Minn as the first game in philly.