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Once Richards releases Berry and gives him the old golden handshake, Brad will be behind the Sioux bench...no doubt in my mind.

I wonder if Berry's contract has a parachute...better to be fired than to quit...so he will take his buy-out and then come to GF?? Been known to happen that way

"For every season a player plays in the WHL, they receive a full year guaranteed Scholarship, including tuition, textbooks and compulsory fees, to a post-secondary institution of their choice. For example, players graduating from a four-year WHL career are eligible to receive four years of scholarship funding. The WHL Scholarship, combined with additional financial assistance from Universities in Western Canada, makes the WHL – Canada West Universities joint scholarship equivalent to any other offer available in North America today"

CHL might still have (used to have) a special deal with the NHL where a signed player of junior hockey age could not be assigned to the AHL or ECHL, but rather had to play in the CHL until they turned 21. I guess if you are elite and sure to be drafted in the first part of the first round, with a rookie max deal guaranteed, you might as well sign on draft day and invest your signing bonus immediately-

Pipe ceremony trumps all in this debate.

Congrats! I don't know what a BSPXW is...Bachelor Science _______ ___________ __________

Matt Greene if you're talking dmen

Brings back very sad memories for me as well...I was in college (at a neighboring/WCHA rival University) and when I came back to help and went into my old room (which was in the basement) and realized that all of those childhood items were gone- it was tragic. Although I didn't have a Hrkac stick...

ahhh...that makes sense

Please tell me it is one of his player's father...

Hak = Man with a Plan

So... Litke has never coached D1, has never coached NHL, and never played in the NHL ...his qualifications don't stack up with the others mentioned.

You don't quit your current job until all the details of the new job are finalized. You then tell your former employer you resign, and you tell your new employer to go ahead and make the announcement. If you're Hak, you also don't dismiss Eades until you have confidence that you're going to get the guy you want...

As myself and others have suggested, it looks like the job description was written for Brad Berry.

I read that as Brad Berry and the defensemen

An athletic program does not define a good education, however, having a good athletic program attracts high potential students, which furthers the educational ability of the University. The brightest students want to attend a University that has a good athletic program. It is a cycle. UND is not going to compete with the IVY's or other top tier Universities on the basis of faculty and academics alone. Having a top notch athletic program might be what draws some higher end candidates. Those higher end candidates work as research assistants, etc and make the education better... Athletics are key to a University's marketing, not only for athletes, but also for students.

As opposed to the coaching change thread that has been filled with rumor mill fodder, I want this thread to be a thank you to the coach. I will start: Thank you for the culture of toughness and winning that you've brought to the program as a player and coach. You have an honored seat at Sioux Hockey all-time table. I will miss seeing "green steel" behind the bench. Good Luck coach Eades!

Another thing that people criticize the PWR about is that it is time agnostic. So, a win is a win, no matter when it occurs. Take a typical UND year, clearly beating us in November is easier than beating us in February. That would never factor in. A lot of folks think that if you are playing your best hockey at the end of the year, it also deserves some additional credit. If you are tied in virtually all aspects with four or five other teams near the bubble, but you go 10-2 down the stretch and the others go 5-7 or 6-6, should that be worth some additional credit? The PWR does take subjectivity out of it- it is a math formula, we all know that while it makes it consistent, that doesn't necessarily make it right. A few years ago, the PWR worked so that UND lost its way to a #1 seed in the NCAAs...

definitely true. The pairwise is determined by RPI (which was well dscribed earlier as your record, your opponents' records, and your opponents' opponents' record), your comparison of record head to head, your comparison of record against "teams under consideration" for the NCAA tournament, and your comparison of record against "common opponents". RPI is the tie breaker. RPI, COP, and TUC are all worth "one goal" each win head to head is wort "one goal". Example: If UND has a better RPI, better record against COPs, and better record against TUCs, but gets swept in a 4 game series by the Gophers, the Gophers would win the pairwise comparison vs UND 4-3. They do not double count TUC and head to head when calculating TUC, so in this example, say both UND and UMN are tournament teams, the Gophers four wins would not hurt us twice vs the Gophers- those 4 losses would be removed from the TUC record for purposes of that pairwise calculation i.e. UND vs UMN. It is important to note that the pairwise is a comparison of one team vs each of the other teams under consideration for the tournament. Wins against cupcakes do not help. The RPI of those games is often lower than the total RPI, in which case they are removed from the RPI calculation. Losing against cupcakes kills you. Again, the best bet for sandbagging the Pairwise is to play non-conference games vs the middle tier opponents. If you're BC, it is ideal to play last years Wisconsin or a St. Cloud- they are TUCs, but they weren't tournament teams (falling outside the top 16). BC should win these games- in a one or two game series- boosting their record against TUCs and COPs for WCHA teams. Even in a great year, it is tough for a UND to sweep all four games vs a Wisconsin or St. Cloud (case in point- last years .500 record against them). If BC plays Wisconsin once and St Cloud twice and goes 2-1 vs them, and UND plays those teams 8 times and goes 5-3, BC has the PWR advantage on both TUC and COP: 0.666 vs 0.625. So, you want to play mid-tier teams that your non-conference powerhouses play most often. That is sandbagging, however, I still believe to be the best, you need to play the best. In an ideal world UND would play BC/BU/Maine/NH/Cornell/Michigan type teams every year.

The RPI described is right on. The TUC and the COP components have not been addressed. If you beat say New Hampshire in a one game out of conference situation, and say BC goes 3-1 vs them in 4 games. You win the COP category vs BC ( all else being equal). Now it is likely that you face more than just the one COP (common opponent), so it isn't as simple as I am describing. In theory, you are best playing your out of conference games against the middle tier teams- you are likely to win one game, and they are likely to pull off one win vs the top teams in a 4 game series.

Hak has said its a restructure, so potentially the roles of recruiting and power play and defenseman might be split. Hak himself played D... A successful former pro as recruiter and D coach makes sense- Bombardir would be great, Herter too. Berry was awesome, but he might be a tough hire. A great offensive coach to run the power play, recruit, etc also maks sense- Steve Johnson fits that bill. If I were Hak, the ex d, I take over the d coaching personally, and bring Johnson in to recruit and coach forwards and the power play.

Not the first time that a CEO and VP had a fundamental difference in philosophy or vision and the VP moves on. It is business. I am guessing that it was all about business.

Having had two of the recently most successful local boys come through our program can't hurt (Zajac and Toews)

It will certainly keep the sticks down...as for yaps, I don't think you can get around that with an auto match penalty for fighting still on the books...I do think it is important to keep fighting out of the college game. You don't want the NCAA to be a training ground for goons (not you goon)...Imagine that world...a Michigan Tech vs Alaska game would have endless fighting...it would look like the Federal League...we'd have to get Hak a brown leather suit ala Reg Dunlop.

And as a generality, US fans are pretty ignorant regarding international play and the Memorial Cup...I've heard many US hockey fans ask "what is the WJC?" We die hard Sioux hockey fans...who are talking about it in May...are an exception- oh, and I am American!!