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Maybe it was an undersized kid dressed up like a lion that couldn't even walk straight.

Communications, Hospitality Management, Recreation Sports.....plenty of those degrees paths can be found on any big times college sports rosters. This was the main risk of bringing him in early. The fact he was so young and maybe/maybe not the most disciplined student (which the public wouldn't know). Skill wise I don't think bringing him in early was an issue. He can play.

Good. Complete bush league from that EGF player. These are all high end kids that know what they are doing/can control their movements. 100% intentional.

Shooting into the playoffs like a 20 year old bottle rocket that's been sitting out in a moist garage

Whether it's hypocritical or not, it's driven into these players what they can and can't do. They often get paid $1million or more to follow those few extra rules the rest of us don't need to worry about. It's not that big of an ask.

Not the first or last professional athlete to be an idiot and jeopardize their careers over gambling. Sad.

That Erbert and Gerbert's was so poorly run. Whoever owned it clearly didn't give a crap.

Imagine that. A game where the Gophers are on a perpetual powerplay

Some nice pieces but some might want to pump the brakes a little bit about thinking a portal player from Alaska and Miami are gonna turn this around. Need at least 3 of the 5 fresh D to come in ready like Frisch was to have a chance. Either way, let these talented young Fresh and Soph players play and stop relying so much on mid tier portal players to save the day.

The frustrating thing is most fans are fine with a slightly down year if it means a reload of talented youngsters. That should have been last year though. Spicer should have come in. The 5 freshman forwards then should have played every game along with Kunz, Schmaltz and Portz. Sacrifice 4 years of a US NDTP forward for a 5th year role player and a 5th year that couldn't stay on the ice throughout his career? Cmon. It will be curious to see what is really going on behind the scenes. A former NHL defenseman coach, who has a reputation of knowing what he's doing when it comes to grooming D-men for the NHL, currently has no D on the roster.

Budy just wasn't very good. I never understood what coaches saw in him.

Berry and UND have that covered. Can't lose 1st round picks to portal if you never had them in the first place.

Is there a law against having teams that are competitive each year AND that win a title every so often? Why does it have to be an either or? GFhockey is right......too many grinders and not enough blue chippas.

Spicer's not lighting it up for Duluth, but neither are the guys UND kept instead. This team's biggest mistake will end up being not briningjng in Spicer and just playing the heck out of the freshmen forwards so they'd be in a great spot next year.

Because UND would get any benefits of the doubt in a league with Michigan and Minnesota.

Split coming up. Spicer will outscore Senden and Hain combined, effectively putting the finishing touch on UNDs season.

A season like this is why I really would have liked the team to bring in Spicer maybe a year too soon....rather than trot out the 5th years again (though with one perpetually injured he hasn't really been out there). Most people were too optimistic about this team from the go and now the best d-men all leave after this season.

As much as I like the Grand Forks schools, any chance of high school hockey staying relevant in ND rests with at least a couple of the Fargo schools having competitive teams.

Good thing UND doesn't have to play Clarkson this year lol.

What time does the game start?

In all fairness, Hak couldn't win with Hak guys so it'd kind of unfair to ding Berry on that argument alone.

If that environment doesn't get a team jacked up to give their best effort I don't know what will.

You probably nailed the expected mix. However I think there will be plenty of empty seats judging by the number of posts trying to offload tickets. Curious if that's the result of alot of people waiting too long and having the "holy smokes" moment when they looked for airfare.

Perpetual mediocrity

Bubba will make them pay.....next year.....or the year after.....or the year after that