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Honestly don’t know why some of you still cheer for UND or are you this negative with everything in your lives? “Yeah I won the million dollar lottery but some other guy won a bigger one. And think of the taxes!”

Thanks for putting all that together. As I suspected, no program has been as “consistent” about being in the mix every year. As someone else mentioned that won’t stop the teeth knashing of the “natty or bust” crowd. However, I think level headed adults can recognize how impressive that is without qualifying it with “but where are da nattys?”

I don't know how to put this exactly but is there a school in the last 15-20 years that's had a better average pairwise ranking than UND? What's the worst they've finished? 20th? Every other school seems to have had a real huge clunker year(or 3!)

He acknowledge in a youtube video someone posted on here that while they have world class facilities that are helpful, it can be difficult to recruit against these schools in more attractive cities. Some kids are set on going to that large campus atmosphere, which I get because I was the same way. That hasn't changed because of the Big 10 conference though, you'll always have kids that want to go to that massive college with the biggest parties/football games/etc. But there's plenty of high end players that do not need that and want to focus nearly all of their time on getting better, winning titles and getting to the next level. Johnny Toews, Tyson Jost, & Jake Sanderson come to mind as guys that could have closed their eyes and picked a school to go to yet chose UND for a reason.

There's something to be said for schools that place hockey as a priority, there's a recruiting advantage to being the big man on campus. The Big10 will get theirs for sure but this is a little too chicken little for me. I see the BIG and NCHC alternating years and which conference is the best in the west. Sure the BIG will get more of the high end young kids that are 1-2 year players but that creates its own set of problems, see: Boston University & Wisconsin's unbalanced classes. Unless Michigan gets through this gauntlet of a Frozen Four, we still haven't seen one of these "super teams" win the big prize.

And before the GTG taking a draw we won and rifling it into the crowd rather than off the glass SMH

Yup, I believe this was 2013 as well so everyone was getting on board after the 2011 title. Also just reminded me that he said he "used to be a Gopher fan because he went to school there". Just hopping around MN colleges depending on who wins I guess. If Mankato takes it all this year I'm sure he'll buy his purple cow jersey and talk about how great Derrick McKay was in net all year.

Had a "big UMD fan" ask me if Duluth had to win the semifinal game to get in the tourney. Reminder that people on this board are wayyy more tuned in than your average college hockey fan. Another time at a wife's work party I had when I lived in the cities, my wife's coworker was giving me crap about being a UND fan. He was a "big Bulldog fan" and his favorite player was "Josh Connolly". I respond "You mean Jack Connolly?" <pause> "yeah that's what I meant". He also couldn't name their starting goalie that year.

Correlation does not equal causation

Yes lol they would gladly take him if they get to the F4

This is with UMD and all favorites winning

Can I at least get a congratulations post Sic? AHA: AIC / RIT / Air Force / Mercyhurst ECAC: Quinnipiac / Clarkson / Harvard / Colgate HEA: Northeastern / UMass / UM-Lowell / Connecticut CCHA: Minnesota State / Bemidji State B1G: Minnesota / Michigan NCHC: Denver / UND / WMU / UMD

How’s his hand gonna hold up to nhl skates if he’s getting cut by college skates? And what about nhl Covid? Going to be seeing bigger,faster Covid. Need to stick around UND to work on his immune system

Stupidly enough I hadn't considered how much better that regional would be attended as compared to others. I'm now fully on board for a Loveland regional!

CC played like their season was on the line last night. Hard on every single puck and gave UND zero time and space. They played their best possible game and still couldn't pull it out. My guess is with CC facing the prospect of winning 2 straight games in REA, UND scores early and wins going away by a score of 5-1.

I always think it's so funny when everyone says they expect their new arena to be the best in college hockey, sure it is

I believe it’s Al’s last bus trip, kinda bummed I never made a trip but it never lines up with my schedule

Delusion is strong with some of you on here. You are setting yourself to be really disappointed expecting a national title every 3-5 years. If it happens it's an anomaly(See: Lake Superior State, BC & UMD). Reset your expectations. Feel free to check my math but it should be pretty close: Titles Years Eligible Avg Years Between Titles Michigan 9 73 8.1 Denver 8 70 8.8 North Dakota 8 73 9.1 Wisconsin 6 56 9.3 Minnesota 5 73 14.6 Boston College 5 73 14.6 UMD 3 57 19.0

Was just thinking this same thing

Same, probably because he still looks 20

Fans just need to quit trying to be first to declare the season dead before it's over. Just because we won some games does not make us the 2015-16 team AND just because we lost some games does not make us the 2017-18 team. Try to enjoy the ride

Who of us hasn't done the suck it motion to a rival?... I remember the last time I did it because it was during recess and my fellow 4th graders were the NWO.

That's funny because with 12 minutes left the guy next to me turns and says "THINK DRISCOLL WILL GET THE SHUTOUT?!" I responded with a large sigh "No... not anymore" SMH