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Were you in MSP the year that Bison made it to the Dance the same weekend as the Final 5? I was and I saw either UND or NDSU fans all over down there. So I beg to differ about them traveling. 200 fans to Sioux falls is actually good considering USD and SDSU fans buy up the tickets to the Summit league tourney games, just like UND buys up tickets to the Frozen Faceoff.

And are probably better off for it. Is their move to the PIG10 just hockey?

Because, our guys feel that there is unfinished business. IMHO the loss of Tucker for the NCAA's sat wrong in a lot of players heads. They knew that they had a special thing going and had to wonder what he would have meant in that BU game. I guess this team learned, albeit late in the season, what it took to win night in and night out. Next year is going to be special, 180 days till puck drop.

Think about the economic impact for GF of this move, it has little impact to the local economy. How many people travel to see any of the given sports? I would say that the major 4 of M/WBB FB and MH draw from more than the city. People like me actually make a trip to GF which includes hotel stay, food, gas and some other local money spent all to go to a hockey game on my part. This happens with the 4 major sports and the rest of the sports I would say are peripheral. Kennedy definitely gets it, but apparently people are skeptical that he does get it.

It was the same crew that worked the game between UND/BU

I am sure I am going to pay for this, but NHJHL, OH, I just got it, never mind. In all reality, the success that Hak had in taking the team to the playoffs in year 1 and just being eliminated from contention in the last week says a lot. Philly was supposed to be a rebuild and he has accelerated their success.

Larry Brown and Pete Carroll did real well, oh you mean in the Saturday morning mimosa league.

Lots of talk on here about the 2017-18 season, Who are the opponents? Who do we only see once in conference?

nope, not one bit, but lets just go down this road a little. Big 12, who moves A&M, Colorado, Nebraska, Missouri. Where they go, SEC, Pac 10 and Big 10. So there are 4 conferences that had movement. Big East, Which one do you want? ACC minus SC and Maryland, Stable? Conference USA, again, which one? Do you get the picture, there are going to be changes. I could go on and on, Summit, MVC, Big Sky, they have all had changes and will continue. The days of having a conference be the same teams for 20-30 yrs I fear are gone. UND is doing what it choses is the best for UND and there are a lot of North Dakotans who have been clamoring for UND and NDSU to be playing against each other in more than one or 2 sports. Well, I for one applaud UND for making these moves.

Is this the old Conference USA? Cause that is a revolving door too, so may be a bigger name schools, but I see teams that have all been in other leagues in the past 4-5 year. Get used to it, there is movement in college sports and will be until the P5 split off and do their own thing. As far as following college sports, doe kay.

Unstable Summit or MVC? First of all, the Summit is actually quite stable for Basketball and the MVC for football is also stable. Am I missing something? The reason that UND left the Big Sky was travel. This is going to make the Summit and MVC more stable with teams closer. Wichita is a one trick pony and losing them in the MVC basketball is going to hurt that conf. but that isn't UND's problem. The move for Wichita is head scratching because they are moving from a conference that is a great bb conf. to one I don't think I have heard of.

they had already used it

Sorry, after Duluth pulled the dirty plays out of the bag in the championship, I can't pull for them. Think about it, 1st series we play against them Soucy takes out Boesser. He had to sit for a while after he tried gutting out a series in Minneapolis to follow. Second series we play them Soucy takes out Jost. Then the championship game because Soucy is out, Pionk takes out Tucker and for good measure, runs Cam. For one minute, you can't tell me this is coincidence. I thought they took out a few other players this year too. If that is what you have to do to win, then watch out next year, paybacks are a bugger.

Are there guys who are drafted who don't go on to play pro hockey? What round was he drafted in.

Thanks, I get it that it is tough for some to follow our inside jokes. In all seriousness, don't think that we are all anti women sports on here. We all love UND and want what is best for UND. I don't know if you a resident of ND, but I am and I ask that my tax dollars be spent wisely. In the case of women's hockey, that wasn't being done. Sorry for being so blunt, but I call a spade a spade. If the Olympians think this is a great way to grow the game, then I think USA hockey needs to pay for some of the continual loses.

Oh Darn, I think I have the 1997 rule book before the rules changed in 2012. All these circles around UND hockey have my head spinning. Speaking of circles, do we have that October date that we can circle for the start of the season of MENS HOCKEY?

Per Rule 7 of @MafiaMan handbook, there will be no circle jerks unless there is a Friday win by the Men's Hockey team and they must include a mimosa. This must happen on the Saturday morning following the Friday win. Article 3 of this rule is that this event can't happen at the Hoggsbreath, per his trying to get a clarification of this rule and the waitress forth giving a slap of the his face. (Poor Mafiaman just wanted a clarification and left with a pack of ice on his face) So with this being said, guess we will have to wait until sometime in Oct. to get the Mimosa and talk further of this subject.

This is a great article. Rob reports the truth that Brad refuses to.

What else do you expect from someone who has never known the word budget?

I already voted no and would suggest everyone go vote

I mean taking it to twitter in response to their tweets. Social media with people like goon and every other apologist of the program is tough to beat. They had a victory in the Olympic women's team issue and now they feel this is their next endeavor. It's time to get their stuff out of the Sioux Shop, let raise their money in their own.

Who on here has the nuts to actually take these 2 on?

We all know he Jost went for all the wrong reasons. Watching today was Jost painful, thinking of all the growth he could have had next year. Jost shaking my head.

Oh, but they are a great hockey school. what a sham of a fan base. I think that they actually have more people from other schools cheer for their team than they have themselves.

The reason they cut S&D was because the summit league does not have S&D.