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  1. My understanding is the difference is casting a tab vs. Netflix/Youtube where in the former, the computer still has to encode and play the video on top of sending it back out to stream it so if your computer can't handle/process doing the two things, both of which are intensive, that is what causes the lagging.  Correct on it not being the graphics though.  When streaming Netflix via the app, the Chromecast is actually getting the signal straight from the router/modem and the computer/device is only being used as a "remote" more or less.  In my situation, especially since I'm using wireless, I'm getting hit on both ends.  Regardless, I'm going to have to look into something else so I can watch the other internet streams without hooking up my laptop.  Just a matter of how much I want to spend and how much effort I want to put into something (HTPC).

    I use a chromebook with a hard-wire connection to my router, and an HDMI cable to the tv.  No problems at all (except for last weeks WCHA webcast from BSU).

  2. Would love to see a sweep, but I haven't been impressed with our defense in early season play these last, oh...nine years or so.  Friday night v. BSU was indicative of early play last season, etc.  That said, Scotty Owens teams liked racehorse hockey and we always played well with that style rather than against a trap and transition team.  But...this is not a Scotty Owens coached team.  So, like I said...I would love to see a sweep.

     

    With the brooms in the hands of the Green jersey players, that is.  

     

    Win Friday, then look forward to Saturday night.

     

    GO SIOUX!

  3. Me too.  They better be refunding.  Grainy is one thing....not working at all is another.

    i got a notice that I'd get a refund too.  Cut off my access to the site right away, but it wasn't worth anything anyway.  Totally frozen up during the period break.  WCHA tv better get their act together.

  4. So from the looks of things the UND Insider package will no longer offer video streaming of the Men's games, but the NCHC feed will carry those instead.  But the NCHC page says they only offer conference games, so I am wondering about options for viewing the Manitoba exhibition game, the Bemidji State series, and the Providence series, through a streaming service.   Might it be that UND will stream all their home games through NCHC anyway?  I'm curious if anyone knows this.  Thanks

  5. One for George Pelawa.

     

    Before you get all "Never played a game" on me just remember...without playing a single game beyond high school, he changed the game of hockey forever.

     

    It was not a 'big guy' sport until George stepped on the ice at the Minnesota HS tourney and drug five bloomington jefferson jaguars up and down with him, scoring seemingly at will.  A man amongst boys.

     

    And he was a Sioux commit.  So...one for George Pelawa.

  6. I'd be in favor of a new rule requiring penalties to be called for high sticks to the face on a consistent basis. Oh, and for holding, interference, tackling, clutching...etc., all to be consistently called. And for the patented "Budish facewash" to be a contact to the head minor. Just saying. If you're going to have rules, call 'em.

  7. In regard to the CC job, I could see Gwoz wanting that job just to recruit like a fiend and keep the Gold Pan in C.Springs for a good, long time. That is, if CC is looking for a coach with a proven record and an axe to grind.

  8. After the Rau dive resulted in a PPG that made it a 1 goal game, gophers started diving all over the place to try and get another PP. Are the coaches telling them to dive because of the ticky tack way the game was called, or did the players take it on themselves?

    Whether or not Rau and Co learned this behavior at UM is unknown, but what is clear is that the UM coaching staff does not discourage diving and (as you point out) it escalated after Rau "sold" his call with time getting short. To his credit, he sold it and they picked up a PP goal to make a game of it.

    It begs the question "Is this a good (if not preferred) coaching strategy? Consider that if Rocco drops like a sack of spuds after Holl high sticks him to the face it would have quite likely stopped play at the buzzer. Any review would have caught the high stick and counting the goal at that time would have been very controversial. (Whistle should have blown the play dead when Holl touches the puck). But do we want to see the Green and White take up diving as a team sport? As hard as it is to want to turn back the clock and wish Rocco had done that, I still say "No". UND plays nose-to-nose hockey and doesn't dive or jersey pop. And I can live with that.

    It still surprises me that the NCAA can review that goal, make sure the play is not offsides as they cross the blue line, and NOT over-rule the goal based on the obvious high-stick to the face. This is certainly not protective of players, and hasn't the NCAA now, defacto, just said it's ok to stick people in the facemask? Really interesting non-call there.

    Thoughts welcome.

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  9. We should be standing up and applading these guys for what they have accomplished this year. I am not trying to call this a moral victory. This was a season that we were almost left for dead and this team had the will, determination, and pride to fight back and get better. Many teams would have not had the resolve this team did. They would have called the season a loss and finished 500 and starting looking towards next year. One thing that we can always appreciate about Sioux hockey teams is their determination and their never give up attitude. Sure sometimes it takes a a loss to St Lawrence at home to get that fire going, but they always seem to finally get that.

    Sure I hate losing to the Gophers. It sucks we lost in the semifinals. But, every person who has ever cheered for the Univerity of North Dakota hockey team should be pround of not only this team, but every team that we see skate year in and year out. I am glad that I am a fan of this team. Couldn't imagine ever cheering for anyone else. Proud to be a Sioux fan whether we win a NAtional Championship, or lose in the final secon in the Frozen Four to our biggest rival. Sioux fan for life....not just something we hashtag at the end of our posts. We as Sioux fans mean it.

    Epic Post.

    And you are spot on. I hope the road from the Airport to the University is lined with fans, clapping for this TEAM when they get back to town. They've earned all of our respect and will, like so many other teams, live on in our memories.

  10. What a scumbag!!!! WOW!

    Well... I hope this A-hole sees this and it really pisses him off:

    The No. 1 moment in DDC's countdown of his Top 10 moments in the UND/Minnesota rivalry... Chris Porter's wrap around

    http://daddydumpandc...innesota_9.html

    Thanks for posting this, though I've watched it recently it is an all-time classic. Made better because I watched that game in a bar full of gopher fans who sat and glared at me when I jumped up from the bar and yelled "YES!!!: HA! Better still was this goal coming as sweet redemption on the heels of Blake Wheeler's hail mary in the Final Five. It's one thing to lose the Broadmoor, but quite another to move on to the Frozen Four and send the gophers home. That was a great goal.

  11. If the timeout is #3. I can't imagine what #2 and #1 are going to be. Assuming they will follow suit with the other 8 and be pro UND, I would assume we aren't going to see the 1979 Championship game or the Wheeler OT winner in the Final 5. Any guesses on what they might be? I am probably guessing Porters wrap around OT game winner in the Regional Championship in Denver is going to make the top 2. But what will the other one be?

    We've seen Malone's hit on Wehr's, so I'm thinking tomorrow will be the Frattin Express Train.

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