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If Senden plays this season like last season, hard to imagine he won’t be wearing a letter of some sort next year, his junior season. Love Mark Senden’s game!

CC’s incoming freshmen class for 2019-2020. For the most part, more small bodies, but hopefully they’re better skating players than in years past. Josiah Slavin among one of the incoming freshman. https://cctigers.com/news/2019/7/31/mens-ice-hockey-tigers-announce-class-of-2023.aspx?fbclid=IwAR1L9KAx4fF0JDOR26AhchCPkP3p6pyaPDcz668bUsg-UVgBdAeJ5Wz6qmo

1. Cornell (their coach spoke at Sioux boosters several years ago and gave a great speech. He talked about how he liked scheduling games with UND because they’re willing to travel and return the favor whereas certain “big” schools only want you to come to their barn). He said they’re willing to play anyone, anywhere, so long as their opponents will come to their arena. Plus, the student section at Lynah Rink is pretty darn creative with their cheers and chants! 2. ASU - I went out to Tempe last December for the series against CC. While their current arena (ironically named, Oceanside Arena) is nothing to write home about and CC got smoked, the atmosphere was great. Plus, the weather in the winter time is awesome. 3. Bowling Green - Bergeron got that program in the right direction and given how they took the eventual national champs to the limit this past April, I think they’d be a tough, physical opponent and they’d give fans a program most of us have never seen in person before. 4. Penn State - A road series at State College would be an incredibly fun series! Has anyone seen that Nittany Lion student section at Pegula Ice Arena? -They’re rockin’ and I bet they’d go bat sh*t crazy if a blue blood like UND and it’s massive traveling fan contingent came to town! The atmosphere would be electric! 5. Quinnipiac - I thought that after UND and Q had faced each other a couple of times in the national tournament in recent years, Coach Berry and Coach Pecknold would’ve scheduled some series against one another but maybe there was too much personal bad blood between the two programs after the national championship game. That said, I think the two programs could get a nice non-traditional rivalry going and build off what they started in the Fargo regional and national championship in Tampa. Honorable Mention - Air Force Academy. Coach Serratore gave one of the best, funniest speeches in Sioux booster history, you could bet he’d give another fantastic talk if he and his team ever came back to Grand Forks! He gets more out of players than any other coach in college hockey given their inherent recruiting limitations. You can count on AF pushing top teams to the limit (they darn near upset North Dakota in 2011 at the Ice Breaker tournament at the Ralph).

In the lines of the new sweaters, does anyone know if they’ll be adding decals to their buckets? To my knowledge, UND is the only team in the conference w/o stickers. Yah, I know, I’m kindof getting nit picky here but...

I think the only change of significance was no more laces as well as the removal of the shoulder yoke on the black sweaters.

http://news.sportslogos.net/2019/07/22/north-dakota-fighting-hawks-unveil-new-hockey-jerseys/ @MafiaMan, thoughts, comments, questions, concerns?

Heck, why not keep the Senden, Hein, Smith line in tact? They seemed effective last year.

I guess after years of going to CC games, I’ve gotten used to all of their participation banners hung directly above the ice.

Question for the group: What is everyone’s thoughts on the placement of the new banners? My first thought was, they were more prominent when they were hung over the ice than where they are located now. It’s hard to determine if my first impression is correct without going in there and seeing them in person. Thoughts?

Yah, JT Miller was a classic example of this. Didn’t he bail on us at the 11th hour?

How about this as an option....UAA and/or UAF joining the Canadian college ranks? There’s been talk of Canadian schools joining the NCAA, why not the opposite? They could play the likes of Simon Frazier, University of BC, etc.

I wanna say Haviland carried 30 guys on the roster last season. Not sure what the NCAA limit is, if there is one, but not a bad idea to carry a few extra non-scholarship guys in case of injuries.

That’s what she said

So you have it as fact that the reason UND wasn’t extended an invite is because of the reason you cite? The tone of your post sounds like you take delight in stating UND isn’t of the same academic standing/prestige as the affiliates or the B1G. Any chance to take a dig at UND is kinda how your posts come across to me.

Good question. I don’t recall whether or not it was. I’m guessing not as we didn’t have any while waiting. Maybe bring a few road sodas with you just in case!

Anyone who’s planning on going out for this UND/Penn State game must hit Hattie B’s Hot Chicken! Went out to Nashville to play in a beer league hockey tournament last year and we went there for lunch one day. Stood in line for 45 minutes outside and it was so worth the wait!

And boy, did Sanderson ever score a HUGE goal in the regional final against Michigan!

Sounds like Schloss was on to something last December when he wrote this about Pinto last December. https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/4543083-und-commit-shane-pinto-rising-nhl-draft-boards

And yet, despite all of Sandelin’s successes, he still will make less than Coach Mike Haviland at C.C. I do not say this to brag, in fact, I think it’s downright ridiculous that he’s one of the highest paid coaches in the country and he hasn’t accomplished anything during his tenure at CC.

I met Peter Stoykewych at a Colorado Springs Sky Sox baseball game of all places. He and some other CC players were there signing autographs and they saw me wearing a Winnipeg Jets shirt. Very cool guys. This story Peter shared about college hockey is one of many reasons why I think it’s the greatest game on earth.

https://moosehockey.com/blog/captains-log-ed3/?fbclid=IwAR2GqmNi6Ql0_MykdNkv2P8943O6OWtaDHEKpwtBUbixZ8kX95Pvm6i7AEg

I can dishonestly say, I was one of the few!

Nick Olczyk left the CC program. Going to pursue a career in sports broadcasting.

Kennedy is an a hole IMO but the CU Boulder folks are even bigger a holes so I’m glad he got elected as the next CU system president.

So what happens with the old scoreboard? -Will it be sold to NDSU?