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For the record, I would be remiss if I didn’t tell the story of a former coworker and SCSU grad who invited me multiple times up to St. Cloud from Denver for a series or two against UND and CC. While the timing didn’t work out and I couldn’t attend, at one of the series, he caught an SCSU game puck and gave it to me when he returned to Colorado as he knows I collect college pucks so that was way cool of him. He knew I not only collected store bought pucks but have a particular fondness for game used pucks with the logo on the front and back and all the scratches, nicks, and dings in them. @petey23you bring up an excellent point I failed to consider in my earlier posts. Bad apples everywhere but many more good ones too.

Funny story each of the first three years of the Frozen Faceoff there was this kid, probably about 18-19. He cheered for both St. Cloud and Duluth as well as whoever else happened to be playing UND. He’d jump up wildly and scream his head off anytime UND got scored on, took a penalty, etc. Totally pissing off the UND fans around him. The great irony was, he always wore a Parise Minnesota Wild jersey. After one of his recent spastic bouts, I asked him, “You do realize where Zach Parise played his college hockey right?”

My buddy and his wife took a road trip to St. Cloud a few years ago for a series against CC. He’s been to virtually every barn in HE, ECAC, and the NCHC and met a lot of cool fanbase and he said by far, St. Cloud’s was the worst. Thought their you know what didn’t stink, were at best apathetic towards them and at worst downright rude. They didn’t bother staying for the Saturday night game, choosing to drive down I-94 for the Gophers/Harvard game (good choice as that game went to overtime). I can’t bring myself to root for St. Cloud tomorrow either. Would be very happy seeing Coach Carvel and his players raise that trophy.

Any thoughts on whether Adams will return?

He makes a lot of acrobatic saves which, while flashy, typically means he’s out of position.

His numbers would tell someone who’s not familiar with him or CC hockey a different story but watching him as much as I did this season, he really seems to have the fundamentals. That, and he appears to be a calming presence out there. Certainly much better positioning and fundamentals than Vernon.

You mean, Dominic Basse?

Worst night of sleep in as long as I can remember. Took forever to fall asleep and when I did, kept thinking about that goal and the what if’s. Stinging loss but so incredibly proud of the players and coaching staff for battling back and how hard they played. Proud to call myself a North Dakota fan.

That was such a classy move. I’m sure he and every other goalie who’s played at a high level have been in that unenviable position before so he could probably empathize.

So if Kawaguchi doesn’t return, Sendin with the C on his sweater?

Everyone has to do a shot whenever Bucci says, “YO! DING DONG!”

To your point, we have Xfinity and my wife (who’s the brains in this operation) found ESPN 3 on the channel guide and it comes on. If you can use streaming services through your provider, and you have ESPN, you might be able to get ESPN 3 on your television. Edit: ESPN 3 won’t show up on your channel guide; you have to specifically search for ESPN channels to locate ESPN 3.

Oh really? I did not know that. Interesting.

Not to mention, in normal years, the ECAC schools-at least the Ivies-don’t start playing games until a month after the rest of the conferences have started. I follow Cornell and see that after teams like UND and virtually everybody else have had 4-6 games under their belt, they’re just getting in their first warm up game against a Canadian University. Why do they do that?

You think Cole Caufield will leave after this season?

Wisconsin could be another possibility for Cruikshank as he’s from there. Wisconsin offers a lot of compelling reasons to go there as well.

There’s so many old UND/DU scrum videos out there on Youtube. Fun stuff. But I digress.

I still watch this from time to time. Hearing Pat Sweeney’s voice go up about ten octaves was icing on the cake!

Yah, and from what I hear, he loves his HS coaching gig and is paid handsomely for it. But to your point, he’d make a fun, interesting addition to the NCHC coaching fold!

Loved it when Gwoz was quoted as saying, “They will always be the Fighting Sioux to me” (or something to that effect)

It would be nice if somehow, the NCHC could reclaim it.

Given how crappy he was treated when let go, it would be a nice project to try to rebuild DU’s rivals to the south.

I know it’s a wild card but just wondering out loud if it’s a gig he might be interested in throwing his name in the hat.

How about Grant Potulny?

Eric Rud is a name that instantly comes to mind.