Siouxperfan7

OK, calm down. I should have put a little smiley behind my comment as I meant for it to be sarcastic. YOu can mess with the lines, sure. Needs to be done. But obvioulsy you don't move a D-man to forward for the first time in the NCAA tournament. I agree with you MAttson needs to stay where he is at.

NCHC Frozen Faceoff should be in the Xcel. Period. While the WCHA was successful there, I think playing the Final 5 in Grand Rapids, MI would be better for the league due to all the great lakes area schools in the conference. B1G is not going to draw the crowds they want to due to the fact that the majority of the schools are more focused on the NCAA basketball tournament. Not sure what theya re going to do, but playing in 18000 seat arenas when less than 3000 people show up to games looks very bad. If the NCHC really wants to be THE premier college hockey conference, they need to showcase their product at their conference tournament at a premier facility. The Target Center deffinitely is not a premier hockey facility by any means. The X is.

Going into the NCAA Tournament scoring 1 goal a game the weekend before and thinking that nothing needs to be chaged is a little risky too!

So if we were bringing back all our starters from last year, would everyone be happy?!! Did we all foget how last years team did? In an attept to be a glass is half full guy in this situation, I think this is actualy good for the team. Tyler was good, sure. And DeRouen played with some great intensity and husstle, but losing them isn't the end of the world. Giving new guys a chance to step up and fill some roles can be a good thing. Last years team was bad. Pretty easy to see that. Replacing some of those players with new, and hopefully better, guys is something that we all can look forward to.

I also noticed that they decided not to put 2 B1G teams in any one regional I think we are on to something!!

The old Ralph was around 6,000. Sheels arena hold 5000 for hockey, howerver there will be a lot more than that when you add up the standing room. Having been in both I would sa that they are very comparable. The old Ralph was a little bigger in terms of the size of the building and the height of the rood. Scheels is a bit more intimate with a lower roof. It has the potential to get pretty loud in there if we get a couple early goals on Friday night. The atmoshpere will deffinitely bring back some momories of the Old Ralph! Hopefully we can harness some of the old magic the old Ralph brough as well!

Game of the day coming up shortly with Kansas playing Witchita State. Should be a dandy!

I wonder what the attendance numbers will be today at the B1G! Minnesota playing this afternoon should be a little better you would think. More curious about the Michigan/Michigan State game tonight. You would think 2 instate rivals playing the night game in their conference tournament in their home state would draw quite a few fans. I guess we will see!!

I think you may have picked the wrong year to be ripping on the NCHC and bragging about the B1G.

The biggest problem with the B1G tournament is that at the 6 B1G schools, hockey is probably the 3rd or 4th most popular sport at that school. It is probably the most popular at Minnesota, but at the other schools it's not even close. So when you are having a tournament for your 3rd most poplar sport at the same time your second most popular sport (Mens basketball) is competing in the NCAA basketball tournament, this type of interest in the conference hockey tournament is almost expected.

Imagine the awesome basketball court design we could have!! Similar to what the Mountain West used for their conference tournament

Imagine the awesome basketball court design we could have!! Similar to what the Mountain West used for their conference tournament

Big 12 teams losing early in the tournament. No big suprise. Thought they were going to buck that trend this year....guess not!!

Heels fan are we?!!

I like Eastern Washington to pull of the upset. Should be a good game. Deffinitely cheering for the Zags to crush the Bison. I will be cheering for my team, the Blue Devils, but I have Kentucky beating Iowa State for the Championship to pull off the perfect season.

Dave put your green tinited glasses back on when you pick the Hobey Hat Trick!!

I was kind of being a little sarcastic. Sure stars is an easy logo, but that's not what people want. We want something that is original and that stands out. How many ways can you make a star that differeiciates from every other Star logo out there?!!

University of North Dakota Stars. Everybody wins!!

26 G, 55 A, in 46 games. (Played in every game that season).

Well, when half the tournament field is from the NCHC, I don;t blame you for having that feeling!!

Original. This goes for the name as well. How many different bulldog, huskie, eagle, wildcat, etc logos and names are there out there. That is the one thing I think is important when selecting a new name and logo. Find something original. It might be a daunting task, but if the powers that be can pull it off and come up with a logo that is unique and cool, fans will support it.

Playing in the night semi final was an advantage for the Gophers. More walk up single game tickets will be sold to gopher fans going to the 7:00pm game on a Friday than a 2:00pm game on a Friday afternoon. Which resulted in more Gopher fans at the semi final game creating an even bigger home ice advantage. The disadvantage was the Saturday game where, no matter if they won or lost, the team they played had more rest.

He says Miami and Denver are both pretty strong in goal. I guess Zane is just OK. Not sure why this guy won't guve UND any respect. I guess we will just hate to hoist the trophy in April in Boston to prove it to him!!

UND fans complained for years about the "Minnesota Rule" at the Final 5. It would be pretty hypocritical of us to want the same thing and not expect the same reaction from other fan bases.

SIMR (Sitting in my recliner) tickets are free!! Also, I can drink beer from my seat!! That sounds like a much better deal to me!