Frozen4sioux

I think theres too much in motion to actually cuttail all games this weekend, but after sunday, the season is IMHO over.

IMHO there is now a 65% chance this weekends games will be the last NCAA games of the year. If so.... UND must win the CC series, in 3 games if neccessary, but if they lose 2. They likely drop to 2 in PWR. Is the national champion declared via PWR??..... or coaches poll??.... or not at all??? If a tournamentless champion IS crowned... is it legitimate? Do we (or god forbid Mankato) hamg the banner? Watdafuk happened today??????

Simba cam is going to be reaaally awkward.

Yep in Bismarck If I wanted to watch at a bar. Id go to the Stadium.

They do, know some kids that played last fall and will again here this spring.

No Fargo Youth hockey explicitly stated that they would stack teams for this season. This was the first year it was explicitly stated openly prior to team selection. fer example the PW AA, A , then a stacked B1 and then balanced B1 teams after that. Same for Bantams, same for Squirts. It will beninteresting to see how this philosophy plays out focusing on developing 1 team and feeding 3 High school teams.... Same situationnin West Fargo... Conventional logic and common sense (and history) say its a fools errand. Inevitably a few top kids will go AAA, Juniors, or MHD... which leaves what... 12 kids per year from the AA team to be dispersed to the three HS programs. The only reason to stack PW and squirt teams in ND is the parental vanity of winning winning winning now now now. Sure little Brayclaiden might win a few now... but come High school, they will just be more fodder for GF to dominate.

Remember Z Yon looked like a god on Ice in the MN tourney with Roseau that year.... It was a long journey playing through tougher competition to finally make it to GF and be the role guy he is today. Im not sure if he has signed a NLI or what the plans are, when he committed or if the new rules would have given him more time to shine. Time will tell, but he is fun to watch right now in this tourney.

Oh my thats a kid that just dove all over the place..... thats tough to live with. I hope.

Played a more physical and skilled game tonight than ive seen from him in awhile.

Looking for last minute 4 tx, lower bowl preffered...

JBD was absolutely on a different level tonight. He is a special talent.

I do expect pinto to not play and go to the room... if they have a room... dont like him taking this faceoff

Not sure that tool would try and flex his 88 IQs here again

Wow...what a stupid thing to do

I’m really not sure there... I suppose your in the same boat as any college or junior coach somewhere that maybe wanted to take a look at these kids.... 2-0 Davies.... that might be the dagger.

Anywho..... 1-0 Davies 5:50 left in 1st, Davis PP now and has been controlling play.

It’s actually on ME TV in the Bismarck market. midco 594 Thank you to Farmer Union Insurance for sponsoring it.... and an especially pokey pineapple up the pooper to the Forum for trying to profit from it.

is this some kind of bumfuk joke.... im sorry but if the only way to watch the STATE hockey tourney is to subscribe to the Fargo fish wrap .... What a joke,... it’s crap like this, I don’t blame ANYBODY for sending their kids away from NDHSAA hockey. Ridiculous...... yet Another Huge fail. Consider the exposure difference for those kids that went to EGF.....

Derek Forbort to Calgary Zane McIntyre to NJ Rocco resigns in Smashville 2 years/2Mill per ZPar stays but but is sick of Loserville USA. Stech stays put, Jost stays put ... Jordan Schmaltz to the NYI (AHL deal)

At the absolute minimum.

Just a question, does huskyland hang the 5 point banner now, first week of offseason (aka playoffs for winning teams) or for the opener next season? Have fun golfing sparky.

Hate channel MM here but must... You didnt "seen" anything, you saw it.... "I Seen" is for people who flunked out of NDSU.....or graduated from Duluth.

The time has come, its actually well past the time that the NCAA must address this devastating disease affecting the college hockey game. The systematic use of the embellishment to pervert the officialls responsibility to the rules and the heightened awareness of "player safety", is akin and more devestating to this game than the Astros sign stealing is to baseball. As we have seen, the use of this method of cheating the game has given teams distinct advantages and have developed a culture of acceptability. This culture has been engrained for years in the U of minnesota programs, UMD and SCSU in particular. How does the removal of these tactics actually come about? It has to come from all aspects of the game. On ice officials: We need to realize that "In game" it is quite difficult to crackdown on acts of theatrical manipulation. However it does need to be a "point of emphasis" ...again. If players know that its being watched for it may help. For penalization, the 2/10 should be used, for instances such as the general trip exageration or the drop and flop after a post whistle scrum, another example is the goalie initiating contact in crease and then flopping. For the more severe faking of head contact the 5/Game should be something that is available to the officials, and make it reviewable. The NCAA & The conferences: No conference should want to be known as welcoming to these tactics, and the supplemental disipline should and MUST respect how devastating this culture is to hockey. The use of 1 and 2 game suspensions, and graduated from there, is something that every player and coach should fear..... to the point of eliminating it from their programs culture. Case in point the Pheoling Phlop from the past weekend.... 4 game suspension. That would drive the point home. The hit, jerk the head, and grabbing of facemask and helmet in and itself is obvious, but the all too common "Gophering" ( bobbing ones head up to look check that an officials sees the distress, and then back down) this is an obvious tell tale indicator. If a player is truly hurt, they arent thinking about manipulation of the call, they are hurt. When these acts are so engrained in the program culture that the training and support staff are in on the manipulation, coaches also need to be held accountable in suspensions and possible fines. Helping players off the ice and down the tunnel until an effective call is made and them allowing the "hurt" player to reappear for powerplay, and often times the next faceoff after review.... its as if there is no respect whatsoever for the officials or the game. This is the same as clubhouse personnel banging drums and watching cameras for signs. The NCAA needs to take these points of emphasis and disiplinary measures and make them uniform accross all conferences. Bottom line, we all have to be vocal to the leagues and with the ADs of our schools tobpressure the leagues to get this aspect of hockey OUT of the game.

You aren't wrong or out of place in saying this.... The differential factor is the purposeful action that these asshats are using to SUCCESSFULLY sway the officials calls for these situations. The theatrics are a disgusting insult to the game of hockey, the same programs have been relying on this culture to create an advantage. It puts officials in an even worse situation, IMHO, when a shoulder bump can be slow motion viewed can be disected to appear like the zapruder film... suddenly these guys start seeing what often times isnt really there. The change HAS to come from the NCAA... (it won't, ever)... the conference (a possibility) and the officials as a whole, supervisors on down.... until then coaches will continue to allow the culture of embellishment at places like UMD and St. Clown. Sooner or later someone with the balls to take on this issue has to stand up.