Godsmack

https://www.therinklive.com/mens-college/big-10/mankato-to-madison-pipeline-continues-as-mavs-former-athletic-trainer-heads-to-wisconsin God, who’s next, the Mankato arena Zamboni driver? I wouldn’t be surprised if Hastings swiped the bag of practice pucks along with him on his way out the door as well.

https://cctigers.com/news/2023/4/28/mens-ice-hockey-ken-landau-earns-broadcasting-award.aspx The bar must be set very low given the numerous snarky comments Landau makes about other teams, particularly UND. Heard him at one point delight in the fact that UND was sitting in seventh place. Not sure what relevance those comments had to do with anything at that moment.

https://www.uscho.com/2023/05/05/colgate-assistant-coach-borges-moves-to-arizona-state-for-similar-role-with-sun-devils/ Any coincidence that Colgate player Alex Young has transferred to ASU as well?

First thought I had when he name dropped MSU and UND was, I can easily think of a handful of other teams who’ve been equally “aggressive” (aka, active) in the portal. Bentley, Northeastern, Miami, UMass Lowell, and probably many others. So why single out MSU and UND?

CC is turning the corner. Mayotte had done a lot already with Haviland’s kids. They did advance to the championship game of the Frozen Faceoff and have shown a compete level they didn’t under the previous leadership. I don’t see CC going anywhere, not to mention, DU would not support getting rid of them either.

Even by AF’s own admission, I bet they wouldn’t want to join the NCHC. Between their tough academic standards and the fact that they can only recruit Americans, I think they’re happy in Atlantic hockey where, for the most part, they’ve been competitive.

This talk of waiving Miami’s exit fee because it’s “the right thing to do” seems a bit naive to me. Wouldn’t that set a bad precedent???

To me, I feel like ASU wouldn’t stay in the NCHC long term anyway. That they’d just use us as a stepping stone.

I’ll never forget that huge goal he scored for us in Duluth a few seasons ago. He looked so damn happy, you could see his smile from ear to ear. And if I recall, that may have been either the game tying or game winning goal, on the road no less. I love Albrecht’s enthusiasm and team first mentality.

The optics of this type of situation doesn’t look good. Motzko did the same exact thing when he left St. Cloud for Minnesota. I’m sure it isn’t the first or last time something like this happens to a program. “Thank you for letting me serve as your school’s head coach, I’ll be forever grateful….now let me poach as many good current and prospective players from you as I possibly can.”

He looks like Bobby Clark with those missing chiclets

Good points. Reminded me of the Vegas game where after we built the 2-0 lead, we took the foot off the gas a bit until there were only a couple minutes left in the game and we desperately needed a goal.

As you can see, they’ve sold a few burritos over the years…

Yah totally! Skate away, you’re less than 5 minutes from hoisting that trophy.

https://www.therinklive.com/mens-college/big-10/gophers-captain-brock-faber-signs-with-hometown-minnesota-wild

Can someone remind me which Gopher player it was who tossed his twig during his cele against us?

I haven’t seen or heard too much complaining about the age disparity among the Q and Minny players.

I thought the coaching by Pecknold was a thing of beauty. Such a ballsy call pulling the goalie with three minutes to play. At the time he did that, I openly complained to my wife how that was the wrong decision. Goes to show why he’s the coach and I’m sitting on my living room couch. Edit: Not to mention, that set play to start the overtime (which I eventually got to see after the fact). Just a great piece of coaching in such a high pressure game with everything at stake. Hats off to coach Pecknold and of course, to his players who executed.

Also, what’s the over/under on whether Gopher fans will whine about the age of the Quinnipiac players over on GPL?

What’s the over/under on @MafiaMan trolling GPL tonight???

I paused the game at the second intermission to do stories and put my 3 year old daughter to bed. So we’re reading stories and she goes out to the living room to get something and comes back and says, “I paused your game for you, daddy.” I thought nothing of that comment…B1G mistake! (pun intended) My wife and I come back out to the living room, and I suspected something happened so I quickly turned the channel so as not to see any spoilers. I then turn on the recording and we pick up where we left off. Fast forward to the end of regulation and the end of my recording so I turn the channel back over to ESPN2 and BOOM! -I see Quinnipiac celebrating. I totally missed the overtime! Full disclosure, I am in no way mad at my kid. In fact, when I saw Q celebrating I laughed out loud and said to my wife, “Well, we don’t have to worry about Minnesota winning in overtime!” So can someone here tell me how Q scored because I still don’t know! Congrats to the Bobcats. I respected the hell out of them and how hard they played, particularly that third period. Great game.

I personally have no issue with the guy either. I think he’s done a phenomenal job during his 29 years there. One of my favorite UND road trips of all time happened last season when I went out to Connecticut for the series against Q. The local fans were super cool and nice and many of them came up to me to chat and were impressed with the number of fans in green who showed up for the series.

Well, if the relationship between Pecknold and UND is that bad, why did he and Berry schedule their two series against one another this year and last? Seemingly things aren’t that toxic between the two programs.

I wasn’t aware that Fantilli had off ice issues. I took Schloss’ comments to just mean he’d taken quite a few penalties and detractors were saying that’s why he didn’t deserve to win the Hobey.