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At what point do mental health considerations come into play....the damage of increased stress and suicides caused by the joblessness/financial crash as a result of actions taken to combat Corona? Those will last long past when Corona is done.

Yet the MSM keeps trying their best to fuel the panic. All of the media outlets should be required to have a split screen......with the reporter on one side and Oxbow on the other side just holding up signs with real facts putting this Corona stuff in perspective. Country would be mostly back open in a week.

His game doesn't translate well to the NHL. He's undersized and not particularly fast. Nice college player though. The same AHL/Europe money will be there whether he leaves this year or next.

You must not live in North Fargo lol.

Absolute joke officiating. Neither boarding should have been 5....but if you call one ......the other one was the perfect chance to even up your mistake.

Refs doing all they can to prolong the Gophers season in this one.

That is a possibility.

You went off on a tangent. Yes ND needs something besides high school hockey to keep talent in state....but that's not a point I brought up. What I said was that prior to Bantams, Grand Forks takes the approach that they will have equally balanced teams at each level (PeeWee A, Squirt A, B1, etc...every level). Fargo meanwhile has taken the approach of loading teams even within those classifications (for example, huge discrepancy between their two Squirt As this year). Maybe that will work out for the better, who knows, but it is different than how Grand Forks does it.

It will be interesting to see if the Fargo method works come high school. At youth levels, they always stack a team. If there are 2 squirt A's.....they stack one of those A teams and so on. Grand Forks has two squirt A's, 2 Pee Wee A's, etc and they are split as evenly as possible (for the most part). Grand Forks doesn't start stacking a team til the Bantam AA level but other towns also do that. Will be interesting.

The only unknown is whether UND hosts Texas or Oklahoma in the Potato Bowl during UND's inaugural FBS season.

Wow, Nostradamus 2.0 in the house. Who would have ever thought that extending a .500 coach while your rival school is getting carpel tunnel from putting NC rings on would not be popular with the fan base?

The only people happy with the Bubba extension are the same people that are happy with getting 1.5% interest from a bank CD on their retirement nest egg.

Who better to carry the torch of continued mediocrity into the future? Would have liked to see at least 1 playoff win before giving him an extension.

I think the bigger point is that Forum Communications basically charging a fee for anyone outstate to watch high school hockey is pathetic on their part .....and another sign of how desperately they are struggling. All they had to do is go to Scheels for some money and plaster their logo all over the feed.

Absolutely. If parity is the goal, a split all the way down Washington (or similar street) is needed. With very few exceptions, Central isn't and hasn't been competitive in sports for years.

You don't get it. Why do you think all of those good players wanted to open enroll to Central instead of just going to Red River? Coaching was a significant factor. Assuming Red River doesn't botch the permanent hire for that spot after this season ends, you will see RR gain the upper hand for the foreseeable future (which is already on the cusp of happening).

In all fairness, Central doesn't have what would be the 2 top players in the state playing for them this season (Panzer and Spicer) or else they could have sleepwalked to the title. That being said, the parity is good and Red River finally having a decent coach like Central does is good for hockey overall.

The facility isn't perfect, but it's more than fine if the product on the field is good. Unfortunately UND is stuck in a rut of thinking that a guy that has never won a college playoff game in 10-11 years of being a head coach is the right guy to turn the team into a power.

Shotgun Sally's in Grand Forks has always had spotty service. I've never been to a place that can have 4-5 bartenders moving around like they are busy but no one actually getting served drinks.

Atta boy Bubba......keeping the Southern Illinois to UND coaching pipeline intact.

#1 Pump the brakes on the Scheel is the best goalie in college hockey talk. He's good, but a long ways from great #2 UMD 11-3 in last 14 games against UND. Make no mistake about it, the road to #9 still goes through Duluth #3 Thome needs to start tomorrow and a win is more needed than UNDs record indicates.

Horrible call.

Yes. Look at all of of OC and DC picks. Not a one has been a threat to him due to ineptitude (Rudolph) or inexperience (Freund and Holinka).

Bubba doesn't want to feel threatened.

And who is responsible for getting them?