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Austin Poganski playing for the Blues this afternoon. Has seen some good action in the first period. Hopefully he will find a good fit there.

They must have seen something in practice to swap Jammer away from Hain and Senden. That was a great line, and Weatherby has not been where I expected him to be so far this year. He is better on the dot than Jammer, so maybe they wanted to get that line zone time against the big line of Denver. Also, you know we are loaded on D when we sit the Defensemen of the week in the NCHC. I would have thought he would have been the extra skater tonight, but Keane is a great option as well. No worries, let's go boys!!

Cam Johnson penciled in as the backup for Columbus today. Doubt he will make it into the game, but he is dressed for the Blue Jackets.

These are absolutely horrible. I saw them play the Islanders and I doubt that they will wear these very often. The three stars have to have some significance, because they included them on the pants as well. They are so ugly that I do not care to do the research into that question myself.

Gaber

I hope Liberty is the next college team to go to D1 status. For those that have not heard about them, they are a real good club team and I think would love to be part of a D1 conference. They have better facilities than a few D1 teams now. Would not surprise me for them to beat LIU again tonight.

I am putting the NCAA rule book definition for "Charging" into this post for reference. Why they would call this charging when he did not take strides, or traveled a "great distance", or leave his feet is the reason I question the call. It was a two minute goaltender interference penalty. Period. Once again, because he got hurt due to an uncoordinated flop, the NCHC took action that was not fitting the crime. They need to stop the flops, but I do not see this happening. The Pionk hit was far worse as there was no defensemen pushing him into the goalie, and he led with the forearm while skating into the crease. Rule 43 - Charging 43.1 Charging - A player shall not skate more than two strides and jump into or charge an opponent. Charging is the action of a player, who as a result of distance traveled, checks an opponent violently in any manner from the front or side. Note: A legal body check is one in which a player checks an opponent who is in possession of the puck, by using the hip or body from the front or diagonally from the front or straight from the side. PENALTY—Minor or major at the discretion of the referee. A game misconduct or disqualification may be assessed at the discretion of the referee. A player shall not charge or otherwise foul a goalkeeper while the goalkeeper is within the crease or privileged area (see 71.2). PENALTY—Minor or major at the discretion of the referee. A game misconduct or disqualification may be assessed at the discretion of the referee.

How did Midco's coverage of the game not be effected by the "Internet" outage? I do not doubt that you are right, but the Midco service not being effected is a question mark. That you rely on feeding 1000's of customers from one internet source is highly questionable. If this is the case there should be back up plans in place to maintain service.

Take a look at this link when you think that athletics are not important fundraisers for the universities, while most still are not positive on the balance sheet. It is very interesting to see from this article what effect Covid had on the P5 and why they decided to play the games to try to get some money coming in without losing billions. It is also interesting to note that there were NO FCS teams that were profitable, while only a third of the FBS teams were. The NCAA is run by the P5 conferences, make no mistake about that. Do Colleges Make Money From Athletics? | BestColleges

I have not called, but have a string of e-mails that I have sent. I always copy info@nchchockey.com in my e-mails to sidearm. The frustrating part is that it never seems to be their problem when they respond, and all of a sudden they find a problem and things change. Sometimes they never seem to read the e-mails and I have actually sent screen shots to them to show them the problems. Whoever redid the NCHC-TV App for the Apple TV this winter did a very poor job. It was better before their redo of the App. Amazingly I never had any problems with any other of the Apps on Apple TV. I am actually thinking of doing FloHockey for a couple of months to check out their broadcasts of WCHA and the ECHL games. Would be good if some folks have that opportunity to provide feedback on that platform vs. NCHC-TV.

For those that think that NCHC-TV has been good at solving problems, this has not been the case whatsoever. Those of us that have been All-access pass users from the beginning have seen that to be the case. The Apple TV App has been horrendous to use and that has been the case until the last couple of weeks. Moving around the App is bad and previous to this week, if you moved to the "Live" games, it would knock you out of the App almost every day that you tried to watch games. For those that have not had a problem with Roku or other platforms, since the first week of the pod, good for you. The issue is that what we pay for is what they say we should get. Apple TV was one of the first that they said would be a good system to run, and I bought the newest Apple TV to make that happen to replace my old Apple TV which I had to Airplay to from my IPad. Through the whole pod, when the Apple TV App did not work, I tried to Airplay from the NCHC-TV App on my IPad and it did not work. It did work when I airplayed from the NCHC-TV web site. As far as last night, it was another bad situation and if they are not using sat feed and counting on internet to feed them the stream, that is another serious issue. I am not sure if that is the case from every arena. That is obviously the reason Midco worked and Sidearm did not. If Sidearm does not have the capability to use a sat feed, they need to change that situation.

Kierstad

I can Airplay from the website and not from the App on my IPad. Still not working tonight as it kicks me out of the App when I move to the "Live" section. They have fixed the schedule and I can play highlights etc., now. They say they are trying to "pinpoint" the issues. Quite the show they have going on there.

Ness

Did anyone try to watch the games yesterday on an Apple TV? I tried to watch the CC-Miami game last night it showed a SCSU-Omaha press conference. The game schedule does not update very well. I watched Saturday and Sunday on the Apple TV without much problem, although the games do not update on the live stream section and the upcoming schedule is all messed up in the live section as well. When I sent a message to Sidearm they said they were not aware of any problems. This is a pretty usual response, but I am sure there were not a lot of folks trying to watch last night. Also, I tried to Airplay from my IPad when the App did not work and got the gray NCHCTV rectangle in the top right with just audio of the game. This is the same that I got at the start of the pod, but have not tried it since the Apple TV had started working (at least for a while). It is definitely time for the NCHC to move on from this group. Does not seem like they are to focused on satisfying the customer base.

JBD

It is a concern, but for a D-man (regardless how good) to leave after one year is an anomaly. Ottawa would have to be concerned that he would not be developing to have that happen. Now after next year, very likely. They have too many young D-men in their system to push him into the lineup. He is going to be very good, but I think he will benefit from Poolman to develop some more muscle to be even better on the defensive side. I think Ottawa is well aware and will keep a watchful eye on him and not rush him.

Yep, my Apple TV says the game is not available yet. I cannot even stream it from my IPad to the TV through the Apple TV - only audio.

My Apple TV just started working after I e-mailed Sidearm and copied the NCHC.TV. The change in the app still sucks and does not leave me a lot of confidence.

My new Apple TV using the NCHC App does not work for the live game. I click the game and the archive of this afternoons comes up. I watched it on my Ipad and not the Apple TV this afternoon, so I am not sure what is going on. Sidearm is a real disaster that should have been done away with. I have been an all-league pass holder form the beginning and they always have an excuse that does not play very well with being a good source for streaming.

There was a NCHC App Update today that I downloaded and it still did not work. The App on Apple TV was changed and it was horrible the last couple of days to move around the site. I also have had to use my computer.

JBD

Sidearm is responsible. I always copy the NCHC so they know the issues that everyone is having. I really doubt Sidearm is being transparent with all the billing problems. They updated the Apple TV app and actually made it worse. The movement around using that is sketchy at best now.

The game is listed as being on ESPN3 and not ESPN+ on their website. That means you do not have to have a subscription to watch the game, should be free online for those wanting to see it. Unless I missed something. Let's have a good start to the season!

This is what happened to my subscription. They said the current subscription did not auto-renew when they had listed (early October, I believe October 3rd), so I had to re-subscribe. They said that was the only way to keep my subscription up to date. I paid for that, and they said it would be at the lowered rate. It was not and now the other subscription auto-renewed at the right rate. I e-mailed them and they verified this. They also sent me five emails saying my subscription was cancelled. When I responded back to say that I just wanted my money back for the early subscription at the high rate, and to be subscribed with the other rate, they said that was the case. Not sure why I got five cancellation e-mails within a 10 minute time frame. Also, I pointed out this issue back in October and it did happen as I thought. That is why I paid attention to my e-mails and my credit card statement.