Siouxperfan7

So when will the "Who Hits the Zajacpot" thread start??!!! He will be a free agent after next year!!!

Looking good for the Wild next year!! Now we just have to hope the season doesn't get delayed or cancelled!!

Mikko Koivu, Dany Heatley, Devin Setoguchi and Matt Cullen. Mikael Granlund....now Parise and Suter!!! Oh boy!! Gonna be fun!! What a great day for Minnesota Wild hockey!!!

I hope you are right!!

Where did you hear that the Wild jet is in Wisconsin?

University of North Dakota Channel Cats!!!

http://www.fightingsioux.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=205500178&DB_OEM_ID=13500

I realize that he is going back to Minnesota because his family is there and he wants to discuss it with them. But the fact that he is coming to Minnesota today and plans on making his announcement of where he is going to sign today makes me very optomistic. Don't think he is going to make an announcement in Minnesota that he is going to play somewhere else. If he gets on a plane to fly out of Minnesota before his announcement, you can pretty much assume that he is signing somewhere else. Here's to hoping that a press conference is scheduled while he is still in Minneapolis!!

Yeo was in his first year of coaching the team last year. Look at how they played before the team was depeleted by injury. They were playing like a playoff team. He had those guys playing great hockey. He has a great system that he uses. Much different (and better) that Richards used. With or without Parise and Suter, the Wild are going to be good next year.

These guys were producing last year. It wasn't just all talk about potential. The Wild has the best record in the NHL after the first 2 months and change last year. Then their roster was depleted with a ton of injuries. Who knows where they would have finished had they been healthy last year. With the current roster now without Parise or Suter I would say that they are a playoff team next year (barring injury). Adding those two guys would elevate the Wild to one of the top teams in the Western Conference.

There has always been people who say that Muss isn't a good coach and that we should move in a new direction. I am not one of those people. I think Muss has done a great job, expecially with recruiting. Sure we had a bad year 2 years ago and last year was a little rocky at times. But I think that he has really set us up with the recruits he has brought in to be a very good team this year and the next couple years. I guess time will tell. But put me on the side that is for the Muss extension!

Lack of talent? Granlund, Koivu, Heatly, Setoguchi, Zucker, Clutterbuck.....You saying these guys are a bunch of slouches?!! The Wild have a ton of great young players either coming up in their system or playing for them next year (Granlund, Zucker) plus some great veterans. There may be plenty of reasons why Parise may chose not to play here but it is certainly not because of a lack of talent!

Sales of green Blahawk jerseys would drastically increase as a result!!!

I think that the idea of playing with a team that is loaded with potential (based on their last 3 years of draft pick, free agent signings) and the potential to play with Suter is very attractive to Parise. I think that playing on lines with Koivu, Settegucci, and Heatly seems like on OK thing.

Great point. while the interlocking ND logo has been associated with the football team more than any other team, that doesn't mean that UND won't move away from that in the future. New name means new logo and new jerseys. And for the football team, new helmets!!! So I can see how they may have left it off. Instead of being ticked about the logos on the new turf, we should be excited that we have new state of the art turf that will not only look great, but will be a whole lot easier on out players!! Lets just put things in perspective.

Remedy to this problem, CBS Sports shows more hockey games....more importantly moe UND hockey games!!

I heard that Roebuck wanted the game to be in Grand Forks first. NDSU was not in favor of that. So now that Gene is gone, they can schedule the game without and backlash from the coach. Glad this game is being played finally. I wonder if they will schedule a double header with the mens game!! Play this game at the BSA and have the Fargo Acro Team perform between the games!! Now that would bring it back to how it used to be!!!

Minnesota...at The Barn!!! Get that game scheduled!!!

Maybe we solved our naming debate....University of North Dakota Alerus Financials!! Wouldn't need to change the turf or anything!!

I thought this was a UND sports forum. Why do people keep bringing up NDSU??!!

As per the email I sent to him regarding this issue, here was his response: As a part of the naming agreement for the facility, Alerus Financial retains the mid-field area for their logo. Brian Brian Faison Director of Athletics University of North Dakota (P): 701-777-2234 (F): 701-777-2285 E-mail: brian.faison@athletics.UND.edu www.undsports.com

Fargodome Turf looks like it is pretty much intalled and complete. http://www.astroturfusa.com/In-the-News.aspx?id=453 Time to come up to GF to get ours in!!!

I will agree with you that the Griz are going to be tough. I think that they will win the Big Sky this year. I really don't think all this off the field stuff is going to affect the play on the field. But I guess time will tell. The game agaist the Bobcats is probably going to be for the conference. (As usual). Griz are going to be tough. I hope we bring our best game agaist you guys this year. Could be a very entertaining game. Hope you are ready for some "3rd and Loud"!!!

My guess is since its the same company installing turf at both the Fargodome and NDSU, once they are done in Fargo, they should be coming up to Grand Forks right? I would expect the turf at the AL to be in at the latst next week. Sidenote: looking at the Bison logo in the middle of the filed makes me wonder how nice the interlocking ND would look at the Alerus. Oh well. The new turf is going to be sweet!

Tsunami.....no. The logo would have to be green. Too much like Green Wave. EGFHS has that. We need to stay away from HS nicknames in the area...especially within 5 miled of campus!!!