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  1. 16 hours ago, Sioux>Bison said:

    Anyone going? Looking for some tickets 

    Good luck. DU jacked up the prices to levels I’ve never seen before. I believe I got the last set of tickets that we’re going for $51 a piece. The rest were selling face value at over $90 a piece. What sucks is, in order to get the cheaper tickets, I’ll have to sit right above the DU student section. Simple economics of supply and demand, I get it but man, $91 a ticket plus fees?! For two games of two seats each game, it’s more than what I paid for my CC season tickets! 

  2. 33 minutes ago, thUNDer said:

    Should add though, that we shared our NCHCtv creds with 2 other households in other communities a few years back & all 3 of households are grateful not having to huddle around our Dell desktop like the olden days;)

    I still remember paying like $9.95 to order the UND/Wisconsin championship game at the Badger Hockey showdown circa 1999 or 2000 and how long it took my America Online dial up to get the audio streaming, lol. But I’m pretty certain it was worth it because I think we beat the Badgers in overtime if I’m not mistaken.

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  3. 44 minutes ago, iramurphy said:

    He must be too young to remember students bringing back cases of Coors before there was Coors Light. 

    Yah, I mis-spoke. I meant to say Coors banquet beer is what he says he’d pick up and bring back to North Dakota back in the 50’s or 60’s.

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  4. 17 minutes ago, Goon said:

    Grain Belt is pure garbage. Give me a Stella, Guinness, Coors Light, Corona or a Modelo.  

    I remember drinking way too much Natty Lite in college. Or should I say, I don’t remember drinking way too much Natty Lite in college.

  5. 14 minutes ago, siouxfaninseattle said:

    Kind of the reverse of going from Denver to GF with a trunkful of Coors. Ah, the good old days....

    My dad tells me of stories from back in like the 60’s of him driving through Colorado on his way back to GF and buddies practically begging him to load up the car with cases of Coors Light! 

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  6. On 11/21/2023 at 10:49 AM, skateshattrick said:

    Bemidji is like watching paint dry. They trap and try to keep the score low so that they can steal a tie or win late. It is brutal hockey to watch. Jacques Lemaire style hockey. 

    Spot on!

    Circa 2005, I went to a CC/Bemidji State game at World Arena and after 19 minutes and 50 seconds of a boring, scoreless fist period, CC got a break away and scored a last second goal.
     

    Me and a girl I’d been dating who was born and raised in Bemidji were practically asleep from boredom until that late goal. I was so surprised, I shot up out of my seat, with a full draft beer in my hand, and throw my arms up in celebration.

    Sadly, my full beer went flying in the air and landed all over two BSU fans sitting in front of me. it was like the Matrix, it all happened so fast and yet in slow motion as I tried in vain to catch a 16 ounce plastic cup of draft beer as gravity took over and the beer rained down. 

    To make matters worse, the gal I was with turned and pointed at me, laughing hysterically, which only served to p*ss off the two beer drenched BSU dudes who were sitting in front of us even more. Their team gives up a gut punch late goal AND they get drenched in Coors Light.

    I apologized profusely and they were rightfully ticked off but ultimately very gracious about everything. It also helped (a little) when I ran back down to the concourse and came back with three beers, two of which for these guys. So at the end of the day, the one beer I got to drink amounted to what I ended up paying for five of them.
     

    So that’s my lasting memory of Bemidji State hockey. 

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  7. 1 hour ago, brianvf said:

    Brad mentioned in his podcast this week that we've had some stinker games at home the day after Thanksgiving.  So hopefully we can turn that around and not have a letdown.  We need to schedule more games on Thanksgiving...remember the Murder at Mariucci a few years ago?  :D 

     

    I loved the Gopher color guy’s comment after Smith scored the 9th goal about rubbing salt in the wound and basically risk waking a sleeping giant for the following game. What’s Smith supposed to do, NOT shoot that puck as he’s coming down Broadway? Plus, it wasn’t like he did some epic cele after the goal.

  8. 6 hours ago, BusinessSiouxt said:

    Actually, a pretty poor call for a 5 min major was the difference. Denver was down 2 at the time and being pretty much played even up to that point. Denver is sloppy in their own end, and vulnerable because of it…

    Funny how it always seems DU getting the benefit of calls like that at Magness. 

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  9. Nothing about Omaha’s performance on Friday instills confidence in me that they will win this afternoon. Looks like the one area of concern with DU is perhaps their goaltending and/or play in the defensive zone. I mean, Omaha did score 4 goals on Friday which normally should give any team a high percentage chance at winning any hockey game. 
     

    CC has their own set of problems. I saw a stat last night on the scoreboard that says CC’s underclassmen have scored 30 of their 41 goals and have accounted for like, 66 of the teams 106 points. I’m going for memory here so I may be off on the exact #’s but you get my point. Glass half full? Or half empty? Long term, very encouraging that the freshmen and sophomores are competing and having success but discouraging in the sense of what the upperclassmen are (or are not) delivering. 

  10. 1 hour ago, Esoteric said:

    I was hoping good things for CC.  Tonight watching the game, the announcer was whining, saying jerky things about their opponent, the ice in Denver.  It was like listening to a Karen.  

    Who was the announcer? Was it the radio voice of the Tigers, Ken Landau?

    We went to the game, regrettably. CC went 0-8 on the power play, including a five on three and a 5 minute power play. I think the Tigers only got 2 shots on goal during that. The power play got increasingly worse as the game went along. 

  11. We tried Skyline Chili one Saturday prior to the UND/Miami game and we weren’t impressed. I actually didn’t mind it so much but yah, a plate full of overcooked wet noodles covered in chili and cheese. To each their own though. I think we were just a little let down because of all the hype we had heard about how great it was. 

  12. 14 hours ago, farce poobah said:

    I see CC sits at #16 in the (very early) Pairwise ratings today; nice to see continuing progress at CC.  

    The days of players like Peter Sejna, Marty Sertich, Brett Sterling, Jaden Schwartz, Rylan Schwartz, Tom Preissing, Mark Stewart, Jack Hillen, Curtis McElhinney, Richard Bachman, Noah Clarke, Chad Rau, and many others. Man, it seems like a lifetime ago when CC had all these fast, skilled, high flying players and teams. I do think we have the right coach in place to get the program back on track though after the disastrous Haviland era ran the program into the ground.  

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  13. 16 minutes ago, Wilbur said:

    Okay, @farce poobah has got me thinking of new sandwich combos at the Pep, but lets see what we know about the Hawks....

    ~Lost their last four games.
    ~1-3 on the road
    ~Swept at home by the mighty CC Tigers last weekend. (Did @Godsmack watch?)
    ~Lead in points by Mathew Barbolini who was their MVP last year and also their most improved player.

    This has all the makings of a TCOS, but Ludvig and company stole one last year at the Ralph, so lets not count points before they're had.  

    Yes, I watched quite a bit of both games but my top priority was watching the UND games. I did flip back and forth and caught enough of the two CC/Miami games to confidently say that while Mbereko faced over 60 shots on the weekend, there was never a sense of panic among the players (or me the fan for that matter) that there was any reasonable chance of losing either game. 
     

    CC is much improved over last year, much faster and more skilled freshmen who are really playing well. That said, they aren’t yet top half contenders just yet, IMO. Like Schlossman said in his pre season team previews, CC is likely a season away from truly contending for a top half finish. With that said, part of it was CC playing well but also, Miami just looks like a very bad team. 
     

    I have memories of Miami shocking UND last fall and winning a game at the Ralph so hopefully that is discussed by the coaching staff with the players to prepare them not to take Miami lightly. 

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