petey23

Actually they have gone out of their way to set up these very matchups....what they don't want is 2005 again.

they sold their soul in 92

it is amazing to me how time and time again this team with the experience they have can come out to start a game looking like my softball team does on a Sunday morning 8 am game in Detroit Lakes or at Red Willow. I can see having a clunker here or there or coming out flat a couple times but every other game is ridiculous.

Doubt it. They are in the same boat as most college kids when they get a year or 2 out of college....Sooner or later you want/have to get paid as the Obama plan ain't for everyone. http://olympictalk.n...s-out-a-winner/ link is to article about argueably the best women's hockey player in the World and inarguably the best womens goaltender in the world and the lack of opportunity to make money playing hockey and unless the NHL is going to prop up a womens league like the NBA does it probably won't happen anytime soon....no chance a women's pro league has a shot to make enough money for players to make a living.

Yeah they had beat Minot 10-2 and 10-4 that year.

I certainly don't like our substitution patterns either but in fairness to Jones on this one....Nash had a great first half scoring a foot from the rim and when he put him out there in the 2nd half he seemed to be pretty disinterested in or allergic to the paint for some reason....he isn't much of an asset 22 feet from the rim.

Ugh. That was the 2nd time that Bismarck had hands down the best team in the state and didn't get it done. I think they dominated Red River the whole game and outshot them by about 20 which was amazing as Bismarck was short handed for a huge portion of the game.

GM1 12:00 pm #1W-Bismarck High vs #4E-Fargo South/Shanley GM2 30 Min After #2E-West Fargo vs #3W-Bismarck Century GM3 6:00 pm #1E-G.F. Central vs #4W-Mandan GM4 30 Min After #2W-Minot vs #3E-G.F. Red River I like the Demons and Patriots to meet in one semi and Central and Red River in the other. I think the Demons beat Century by a goal 4-3 and Central takes out Red River 5-2. I like the Demons to exorcise the Ghost of Tom Philion and win the state title over Central 3-2 in overtime.

Wait! What? Now I am confused.....would this make you Sam or Cousin Oliver?

Sadly. It is exactly as has been reported as far as the incident that led to his dismissal(now as far as motivations behind what this parent did could be another story). Stay tuned if this parent tries to angle for an "assistant" coaching job in the program. This was to be Coach Swanson's final season as he was stepping down after this season to spend his time watching his kids activities as they are getting to that age. The bad thing that no one is really talking about is the rift this is causing/will cause within the team.

Jesus. I don't even......nevermind

If I had more than second hand info I would share.....but at this point, even though I am about 99% sure it is correct I am going to hold off with that info....although I am sure it will come out eventually....At the same time if the Administration at Shanley had any stones what so ever they would have told him to set up a meeting with his kid and the coach, so they deserve the negative publicity and blowback they are currently receiving.

The pussification of America continues. Joel is going to be on WDAY radio this afternoon and judging by the comments and support he is getting on his Facebook page and other people commenting about the story on their own FB pages I would say Shanley is going to get run through the ringer on this and rightfully so. The intersting thing will be the backlash this parent may feel in regards to his business dealings and interactions. I don't know him that well but know who he is, but I know quite a few people who run in his circle who may not be aware at this point that he is the one behind this mess as many of these same people also know Joel and have made some pretty disparaging comments regarding how this even happened in the first place and towards the person who put this in motion and at this point I don't think many know who caused this to happen.

Correct. I went over to SW Arena in Fargo last night to watch my buddies kid play and they had a table set up taking gate depending on which game you were going to watch. The other rink there had a girls high school game and they were charging $5 and I thought to myself ---I wouldn't pay $1 to watch the 2 best womens college teams in the country play but someone has to pay $5 to watch there kid play girls high school hockey.

FYP

1985-86 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 29 1 2 1436 88 0 2 3.68 15 9 1 668 0.884 - - - Not sure why hockeydb didn't drop his cumulative stats down like they usually do? I am a Flyers fan so that is how I was pretty positive that Jensen had some NHL experience. Unforutnately his being called into action that year was due to the untimely traffic accident of Pelle Lindbergh.

9-6-0

At first glance it looks like the NCHC has been terrible in non conference games and it 2nd glance it is true that it hasn't been great......but..............maybe in the future they should look at the B10(Mike Eaves) non conference scheduling strategy. I consider and most who know college hockey would agree that the Hockey East, Big 10, NCHC, and now also the ECAC are the top 4 conferences in college hockey and the AHA and WCHA are without a doubt a notch below these 4. When breaking down non conference schedules you will find that the Big 10 has split it's non conference games 50/50 with half their games against the lower tier conferences(30-7-4) and half against their peer conferences(16-22-3) while the NCHC has a 38/62 split going 17-7-7 against the lower tier conferences and 18-23-8 against their peer conferences. The ECAC has a similar split as the NCHC at 34/66 going 22-9-4 against the lower tier conferences and 28-28-12 against their peer conferences. Hockey East has left little doubt they are the premier conference in hockey this season by not only playing 71% of their non conference games against their per conferences, but going 42-31-15 in these games while also going 28-8-0 against the lower tier conferences. I would currently rank our conference 3rd overall with the Big 10 4th but the problem comes in that the leagues are not balanced..... where the Big 10 has 3 pretty good teams and 1 below average team and 2 aweful teams, the NCHC has 1 pretty good team, 6 pretty average teams and 1 bad team. Laying out the Big 10 and the NCHC you can see how top heavy the Big 10 league is. If you were rating all the teams from both conferences you would have Minnesota SCSU Bucky Michigan UND WMU UMD DU Miami UNO Ohio State Sparty CC Penn State So while the Big 10 currently has 3 of the top 4 teams between the conferences, they also have 3 of the bottom 4 between them.

WTF are you talking about. Nebraska had 4 freshmen or redshirt freshmen QB's and a sophomore QB on the roster last year......one of whom started at the end of the season. And to compare Pelini to Muss is completely absurd. I swear sometimes people post on here just to build up their post count in hopes that others will see the high post count and assume they know what they are talking about.

Hope we can get this kid. His options at Minnesota would be to change positions or back-up Jones for 4 years(or 3 if he redshirts).

Tix are gone. Thanks

I have 2 available tonight in section 106. I am out of town so I would have them reprinted and left at will call. $40 for the pair. We can settle up later.

Don't feel like quoting and multiple posts. Have NO interest in Nelson at all. Could he compete for the job at UND? Sure, but I wouldn't say he would win the job outright over what we have. Could he win the starting job at NDSU? Not likely, I think a lot of NDSU people who are plugged into the program are very excited by having Carson Wentz the next 2 years. By almost all accounts he is a more talented QB than Jensen was....the question is the intangfibles as very few kids are born winners and leaders like Jensen was.

Well if his dad is also around 7-0, I am pretty sure I saw him at halftime today.

I see UND under Bubba slowing the tempo and pace of the game down. Cut out about 12 snaps a game which is 2-4 possessions. Keeping the offense on the field for longer periods of time allows you to hide a little of your depth issues on defense. As dominant as NDSU was on defense this year, I don't think Bison fans will tell you they were overly deep on defense and rotating 7 or 8 additional guys in like some teams do.....Their offense operates at pretty much the same tempo and pace game in and game out which allows their D to be rested and fresh.(getting 3 and outs helps as well) I think UND will have a gameplan on offense and try to stick to it as much as possible...many times under Muss it seemed like we went into games with a well lets see what happens and react to it plan instead of dictating our game. Many times a game would get over and it was like "well, we just couldn't run the ball" and I was thinking "Are you sure? There is a difference between not being able to run the ball and not running the ball" The biggest thing we need on defense is some guys who can cover in the secondary, someone to plug the middle and occupy 2 blockers and some speed at linebacker. This will allow us to bring pressure out of the 3-4 instead of the passive 3-4 we have played the last few seasons. I would rather see us give up a big play here and there with a chance at causing turnovers vs. getting gouged for 8-12 yards every down. I know Bubba said that initially we will probably be a team that bends and hopefully doesn't break but eventually I think he will have the personnel in place to be able to bring heat on defense. I think we will start putting our best athletes on defenserather than stockpiling running backs and wide outs on offense.