Godsmack

In reading an article about St. Cloud at the NCHC media day, I got the sense Cruikshank is a centerman but was put on the wing position at Minnesota and perhaps that didn’t sit well with him because coach Brett Larson said in his recorded interview with the guys from the rink.com that he was purposely going to slot him in at the center position.

Yah, I’ve always gone directly to the DU athletics site to buy my tickets for the North Dakota series. Keep in mind that they charge a premium price for this series and a buddy of mine just told me they’ve raised ticket prices across the board due to them and the Avs having won it all and hockey being the hot ticket in town. I would strongly recommend that if you plan on going, you lock up your tickets ASAP as this series typically sells out very quickly. I’m taking a year off from going to both the UND as well as the CC series at Magness. Just don’t want to have to deal with being around a bunch of gloating DU fans so will be watching it on tv instead. That said, you will have fun, the energy in Magness is electric when UND comes to town. A huge contingent of North Dakota fans will be in attendance. As far as where to stay, I can’t help you out there as I live in Colorado so lodging was never something I had to deal with.

The part that still rubs me the wrong way too is why he’d want to back out of the GLI in the first place. Michigan’s been a part of that tradition forever and to want to back out because you anticipate a bunch of your players being gone at the world juniors, well boo hoo.

The only thing I DON’T miss about Cruikshank no longer playing at CC is having to be reminded about his Olympian parents!

Posting this here and on the UND hockey season thread as well… https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/the-2022-grand-forks-herald-preseason-college-hockey-top-20

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/the-2022-grand-forks-herald-preseason-college-hockey-top-20

I went to the season ticket holder fan fest today and they unveiled the new jerseys and I was impressed. Long overdue to highlight the new Tiger head logo and crest.

The media guys on the rink live podcast talked about this and it sounds like sticking with the NCHC.tv is a lot more lucrative for the conference. https://www.therinklive.com/inside-trl/which-team-may-surprise-people-in-the-nchc-key-takeaways-from-media-day-key-conference-players-to-watch

I remember seeing them against UND some years back.

https://www.therinklive.com/inside-trl/which-team-may-surprise-people-in-the-nchc-key-takeaways-from-media-day-key-conference-players-to-watch Here’s the link to the NCHC media day podcast with Schlossman, Myers, Wellen, Hattin, and Paisley.

I like to watch this YouTube video shortly before the start of the season. Gets me all kinds of fired up for North Dakota hockey. Friends and fellow CC fans ask me inquisitively how come I’m so passionate about UND hockey. I guess if they have to ask they just wouldn’t understand.

For those in the Rocky Mountain region interested, single game tickets for Air Force hockey have gone on sale starting today. AF and DU are co-hosting this year’s ice breaker tournament with Maine and Notre Dame coming to town.

Man, don’t envy UNI and their defense having had to play against Air Force last weekend. Just finished watching AF run the ball down the throats of CU and it sounds like they did the same against UNI last weekend as well.

https://cctigers.com/news/2022/7/26/mens-ice-hockey-mark-stuart-named-assistant-coach-with-edmonton-oilers.aspx?fbclid=IwAR2iUbBB5I4YuPJVja9I9-vSETR-5KRZSta_RYwXSD3xSBcGR-qApGt6nrw

Coincidentally, I met Coach Mayotte a few weeks ago while playing a drop in session. He saw me sitting on the CC bench wearing a game worn Schwartz jersey and wanted to ask me about it. I wanted to ask him why they don’t have the redesigned Tiger logo prominently displayed on the new sweaters instead of that plain, boring font (like how UND had prior to the 2016-2017 season) but I chickened out. The school likely dropped thousands of dollars hiring some Madison Avenue marketing firm on this new Tiger logo (and mascot name-Prowler was deemed not PC and was therefore dropped) but it’s nowhere to be found on the jerseys. Odd.

https://cctigers.com/news/2022/7/14/mens-ice-hockey-mayotte-announces-2022-23-newcomers.aspx?fbclid=IwAR36krbsXc30zSLGGksu7POJFWVzJARPfH7fXhqaVKWPwWfVHPud8M6v9hs

Do you know what the process is for assigning numbers to new players? Do they have any say into picking their own number from what’s available or do the coaches assign them out?

Given Cornell just removed a bust of Lincoln and a copy of one of only five of the Gettysburg Address, nothing shocks me anymore. Even “honest Abe” has become persona nongrada

Given the current climate on the DU campus, it is not better me the realm of possibility that the Pioneers nickname could eventually be dropped. There is a small-but vocal-minority trying to change it just as they did with removing Boone as the school’s official mascot.

Doubtful but I guess it depends on which schools out west ended up adding D-I hockey. DU has a reputation for never being satisfied with whichever non-hockey conferences they’ve been in. They left the WAC and DU fans do nothing but bitch about the Summit. They have a superiority complex relative the other member schools so I could see them liking the brighter lights of a conference with power 5 schools. CC, highly unlikely.

I posed the question because tomorrow, I’m skating at Robson Arena and I had planned on wearing my game worn Gersich jersey but my friend who works at CC advised me not to because some of the CC players may be there working out and they and some of the staff might be offended. I obliged and told her I won’t wear it, I’ll wear one of my game worn CC jerseys instead. I get it-I’m a guest there, I want to be respectful in their barn, and I don’t want to tick off any CC people but I found it to be a bit thin skinned the assumption that a player might get his feelings hurt seeing a beer leaguer skating around in a North Dakota jersey.

Hypothetical question…if I were to show up at a drop in session at the Ralph and I wore a CC jersey, would anyone there (players, coaches, staff) be offended or take it the wrong way? Asking for a friend.

Why are they leaning towards relocating the NCHC headquarters from Colorado to Minnesota? Was that a condition put in place by the incoming commissioner?

So will Sidorski be required to take classes? Sounds like he’s graduating with a double major from Union so curious to know what the academic rules are for 5th year seniors?