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I would love some insight about the merits of a Dane Jackson hire. And I’m not being facetious here either, I genuinely want to know as I suspect there’s a lot to like about him as well. I’m guessing he’s wired into the Canadian recruiting circuit, knows the coaches, etc.

Years ago, I attended the CC hockey team awards dinner after their season had ended. Sitting at a table with a bunch of the players, I asked them for their quick takes on the other WCHA teams and when I asked about Minnesota, they universally said things like, arrogant, prima donnas, chirpers. When I asked for their take on North Dakota, they all said things like, tough, physical, etc and one guy went so far as to say something to the effect of, UND doesn’t talk much, they just go out there and hit you in the mouth. I loved that! It gave me a sense of pride for UND hockey hearing a bunch of players from another program talk about Sioux hockey that way. I hope we can get back to having that kind of identity.

I also heard somewhere that Gwoz and DU were having difficulty reaching an agreement on a new contract so he flirted with the Ohio State opening and that pissed off the DU administration. Any merit to that story?

Excellent list of questions! Another thing that drove me crazy was seemingly easy opportunities to simply get the puck out of the zone even if there weren’t any good passing opportunities; to throw the puck off the glass or boards, reset, and live to fight another day. But instead, we get cute with the puck, turn it over, and then get hemmed in our zone to where we either get scored on or take a penalty. There’s no question in there but rather just something I’d want addressed and acknowledged by Dane.

Just curious anyone’s thoughts on Kris Mayotte? He was name dropped in Schlossman’s article. I’m sure a long shot for a variety of reasons but it definitely caught my eye when I saw that. A dark horse for sure.

I see what you did there

Frank Serratore! For the hilarious hockey stories and the epic post game interviews!

I went to the CC/Augustana games this season at Robson and take this observation in the spirit it’s intended, Auggie didn’t strike me as a bunch of A list world beaters, but they outworked CC. And CC isn’t exactly the premier team in the nation but Augustana simply outworked the Tigers. My bet is, the players took on the personality of the coach.

The Live in Five podcast this week oughta be interesting!

The answer’s always no if you don’t ask, right?! Can’t hurt to at least explore and if it’s a quick thanks but no thanks, cool mark him off the list and move on.

If memory serves, Motzko was out interviewing at Minnesota the week he should’ve been preparing his team for AIC (or was it Air Force?).

Ted Lasso

Talk about strange bed fellows

What about Peter Mannino? Been an assistant/associate head coach for a long time and uber competitive. Imagine the irony if we hired the guy who heat us in the 05 championship.

What makes me a little nervous is the possibility of our AD totally bungling this. I still have fresh memories of the former AD at CC hiring his pal Mike Haviland and turning a bad situation into an absolute calamity. I sure hope Chaves doesn’t do anything remotely similar as Ken Ralph did at CC.

May as well have kept Berry on if that’s the case.

Guessing our AD doesn’t have much if any hockey background? If that’s to be the case, would he lean on anyone knowledgeable in the college hockey world to help in the screening and decision making process?

I think a missed opportunity was not going after Gwoz hard after CC let Owens go. That ship has sailed though. Gwoz is happy making $250k a year and being home on time for dinner every night coaching at Valor Christian High in Denver.

The only thing better than a glass of beer is tea with Miss McGill

My shortlist: Murray Chadwick - Hamilton Mustangs Reggie Dunlop - Charlestown Chiefs Gordon Bombay - District 5 Ducks

Dallas Ferguson. Starman was raving about him last night during the broadcast of the frozen Faceoff championship game.

Wasn’t it John Cooper at Ohio State who won tons of games but got fired for one simple reason? -Losing to Michigan.

Didn’t he just accept a coaching position in professional hockey though?

Mike Haviland!!!!! 😂