SJHovey

A lot of North Dakota fans at breakfast in our hotel this morning.

Holiday Inn Express on Broadway

Checked into our hotel about a half hour ago. Sunny and 66 here. I’ve seen two groups of UND fans in our hotel at check in.

I assume a lot of people will be at the pre-game party. It would be nice if we could get it there.

Seems like transferring their two tickets to her phone and letting her accompany him through the card line is the easiest. FYI, I wouldn't assume that the arena is going to be the only place in Nashville with any sort of entrance requirements. I've been doing some checking on different bars, restaurants and music venues in Nashville to sort of see what will be happening next week, and more than once I've seen notices on their websites indicating that proof of vaccination or a negative test will be required to enter.

I don't think you're going to have to worry about it. I just took a look back at my photos from the Vegas game and pre-game party and there was a solid mixture of white, green and black jerseys. I think our group of 7 will be primarily white jerseys, with a couple of greens mixed in, but I may mix it up with my black jersey.

I did not. But see, that's the kind of ingenuity I'm looking for out of our crowd.

Since this is essentially going to be a Halloween game, anyone doing costumes?

We’ll know a lot more by New Years. Schedule is going to ramp up significantly between now and then.

Minnesota is going to have a good team this year. I don’t see them on the losing end of another thanksgiving weekend massacre this year.

Twenty-four hours before flight, check in on line and load boarding pass onto phone. Pack bags. Make sure tickets to game are loaded onto phone. Arrange transportation to airport. Stand in TSA security checkpoint line. Present boarding pass and id. Remove shoes and load crap into bin. Go through x-ray machine. Put shoes back on and police up crap. Wait for boarding. Present boarding pass. Stand in line watching people try to hoist crap into overhead bin. Two hour ride in cramped airplane. Stand in cramped plane for twenty minutes as people try to remove crap from overhead bin. Navigate airport to ground transportation (bus, cab or car). Drive to hotel. Present id and credit card at hotel. Unpack crap. Find way to Bridgestone arena. Present electronic ticket. I CAN'T WAIT TO GO! You'll need to pull a card out of your wallet to show the ticket agent. Screw it. I'm not going.

I guess I don't know for sure, but I suspect that when they wrote "will be checking proof of vaccination/negative tests at all entrances for the time being" that they are probably referencing the fact that Bridgestone's policy currently is in place until November 15.

It was my understanding that two years ago, when tickets went on sale, the game was pretty much a sellout. Even if half the UND fans stayed home, a number I have a difficult time believing, we'd still have 8500 fans there, and it would sound loud.

You guys are letting the politics of the vaccine cloud your thinking. Private company. Private property. They make the rules. You don’t get to bring your gun. You can’t bring your cow, or your pet chickens. You can’t even bring your drunk, naked cousin from Watford City. If you want to go to a sporting event where no vaccine is required, head to Alerus. Now, if you want to bring your cow, pet chickens or drunk, naked cousin from Watford City, you’re going to have to go to the Fargo Dome.

I guess I'll have to ask you to cite for me one or two of the "volumes" of examples where complying with the demands/rules of a private property owner/business before entering said property owner/business' building turned out to be ignorant and naive. The next thing I know you'll probably be telling me I'm going to have to wear pants to the game.

My desire is for us to pack the place, and rock downtown Nashville like we did in Vegas. I'd rather have them require the covid card and let us fill the arena than reduce capacity, or eliminate the crowd altogether. If this let's the arena people, the City of Nashville or the State of Tennessee feel better about letting us fill the barn, then I can make due.

I'm not looking to pick any fights on the vaccine or anything else, but in my opinion we are asked, and willingly provide, lots more sensitive information all the time, for legitimate and maybe less legitimate reasons. For instance, someone asked what you'd do when asked to produce your Real ID or passport to get on the plane, and I think it was Sic who said he'd give them non-medical information. I don't know what anyone else's vaccine card looks like, but mine has my name, my D.O.B., the brand of the vaccine I received, the dates I received the shots, and the location where I received them. That's it. Until you're about 30, every time you go into a bar you give them your name and D.O.B. I can do a heck of a lot more damage to you with your Real ID or passport than I can with the Covid card. I got my shots at Walmart, of all places, right next to the check out aisles, with a steady stream of the refuse that is the Walmart customer base walking past me as I sat and waited. It doesn't get much less confidential than that. I don't know if they still do this, but when I registered at UND I had to turn over all kinds of vaccination records, for them to keep on file (again, they didn't ask to just glance at them). I've had to turn over my social security card and passport or other id every time I've gotten a job. I had to give a copy of my birth certificate and passport to the clown at the DMV that gave me my enhanced drivers license. Is any of that ideal? No, but we have to do it, and we do. Whoever posted that all they're going to do is glance at the card and let you go is 100% right. They won't remember any of your information ten seconds later.

I guess I get bailing out on attending the game if you've made the personal choice not to get vaccinated, and don't wish to get tested in the days before. Not sure I track on the idea of bailing on a trip, that should be a blast, just because I don't want to tell anyone that I'm vaccinated. It's not like I'm telling Bridgestone (or anyone else for that matter) anything that they can use to harm me.

It's not a North Dakota hockey jersey. It's one of my "miscellaneous" jerseys I've had laying around. Back when the World Juniors were in Grand Forks, one of my purchases was a Canadian team jersey. No number or name, but it's a sweet jersey that I've just had laying around now for more than 15 years. I wanted to give EPS a chance so I thought that would be a good one to send since it wouldn't kill me if something happened to it. I'll try to post photos, although I am severely technologically challenged, so we'll see.

I just wanted to post here that I followed suggestions of other posters and sent a jersey to EPS to have a number and name added. Just received it back today. Very satisfied with the result. I thought they did a great job. Seems to be very professionally stitched. They received the jersey from me on January 11 so it was almost exactly a three month process. Thanks for the tip.

I'm ok with St. Clown winning. Keeps the NCHC streak alive, and that chaps the azzes of B1G and HE fans. I guess Duluth found out it's different playing bonus hockey against a team that didn't have to play the night before. Probably caught them by surprise.

I was listening to a podcast somewhere and they were talking about him, and his NHL future. I think the person who was interviewed was a scout. I was sort of surprised by the comments. He basically said that if he gets the right NHL coach, he should be able to stick in the NHL. If he ends up with someone who expects him to play a 200' game, he's going to score a million goals in the AHL.

My guess is this. ESPN probably has "real" sports they want to put on ESPN2 and ESPNU on Friday night. However, the afternoon is a different matter. They elected to go with the Wisconsin and Michigan games in the afternoon, rather than UND, probably for tv ratings. We might have a better "in person" following, but we aren't going to match schools like the B1G schools or a team like BC for a television audience. Now, admittedly, even the B1G schools and BC draw pathetic viewership for hockey. Thus, they'll broadcast the "cream" of the hockey games, but only during the afternoon.