Godsmack

Well, Better the Yankees than the Nittany Lions.

Any reason why there aren’t names on the backs of their jerseys?

I’m fully in support of Pios fans on this... https://letsgodu.com/2019/09/09/dus-promises-made-promises-broken/

Denver administration sometimes would engage in this too. They’d schedule their home series against North Dakota during breaks so that they could sell the student section seats to the general public at their premium price point. Sneaky.

I went to the DU tickets athletics site earlier today but could not find that single game tickets have gone on sale yet. Am I missing something?

Single game tickets are starting to go on sale at various schools. Air Force tickets just went on sale a few days ago and not surprisingly, the series against Arizona State is selling very fast. The AF ticket site is down so you will want to call their ticket office if you wish to order tickets. The number is, (719)472-1895.

Being this is a warm up game for the Bison, I predict they win 48-3 en route to an eventual SEC championship and then on to the BCS.

Sounds like the DU administration is going about this Pioneer thing in a very underhanded, sneaky fashion. https://letsgodu.com/2019/08/22/breaking-news-du-removes-pioneer-card-name-from-du-identity-cards/

CC has announced their captains. Congrats to Wilkie as he will be wearing a letter this season. https://gazette.com/sports/cc-hockey-confident-in-sophomore-senior-pairing-of-co-captains/article_beeb550a-c932-11e9-a711-2b2438cbfcdb.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share&fbclid=IwAR2yo7lUC3Sr-zJziBCLyl2hHmlGhlR43hDXYKid1RunQx5H-Qqc3aAEEpU

Well, at least it doesn’t say cream of sumyungi

Any new news on a possible Manitoba junior hockey league team coming to Grand Forks?

Well, Godsmack sold out the 20,000 seat Pepsi Center last August so I think they’re still a draw but point taken, these kids are into their thing. I don’t even know what the hell EDM is or stands for?!

I was at that show too! Funny story-Bon Jovi was opening for Ratt and 6 months later, after Slippery When Wet came out, Ratt was the support act for Bon Jovi! I still have my guitar pick that Robbin Crosby tossed out to the crowd! But I digress....I better stop before someone tells me to take this conversation to a different thread!

Yah, part of me is stuck in the 2019’s (Chevelle, Disturbed, Like a Storm, etc.) and part of me is still stuck in the 80’s.

How could you not get fired up for the game listening to Funeral Bell by Black Label Society?!?!

The powers that be probably wouldn’t let me play DJ.....there’d be a plethora of Godsmack, Ratt, Metallica, Disturbed, etc.

All this talk about changes in philosophy and culture and stuff but what I really want to know is, does the team need some new warm up music??? -I didn’t get to a UND home game last season so can anyone comment on the genre and quality of tunes played during warm ups?

I agree about both cost as well as low cost streaming alternatives such as NCHC.tv. My wife and I have been CC season ticket holders for several years now and plan to continue to renew our tickets after the new Robson Arena opens up, with one caveat...we fully expect the ticket prices to go up, that’s a given but we have our limits and if they price gauge the fans, we are willing to drop our season tickets. Our patience is already running thin given the poor quality of the product on the ice under Haviland’s watch but given its only going to seat about 3,000 people, and the new, “wow” factor driving interest, demand should be high, at least for a season or two. I could see if the product on the ice at the Ralph continues to stagnate that even UND fans will walk, especially given the higher ticket prices relative to other programs. We have the NCHC.tv subscription and are perfectly content watching the CC games from there (although nothing can compare to live, in-person game experiences) or attending AF games. Point being, programs should learn from the mistakes of others (U of M for example) by recognizing the value and importance of its loyal fan base.

I agree. I also like how they don’t haze the freshmen by making them load and unload all the gear on road trips. Even the coaches help out. Definitely a great culture here.

In Schlossman’s story in the Herald today, Berry was quoted as saying that they delayed the vote until later than in years past so that all the players had a body of work with which to judge, especially the freshmen. I didn’t know that incoming freshmen got to vote for the captains. Interesting.

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.