fightingsioux4life

Cripes, all the Russians are doing is camping three guys in front of the net and they are shutting us down. That has to change. Some serious net crashing needs to take place in the 3rd or it's hello Bronze medal game and hello Sweden.

I wouldn't want to play Seattle right now; they are peaking at the end of the year like always.

Well, they are still on holiday break, but your point is well taken.

I think Sweden might be the favorite right now.

Me and my girlfriend were there on Sunday in that bitter cold. That concourse was crowded. The sightlines are pretty good in that place. Next year, they'll be in U.S. Bank Stadium and I cannot wait to set foot into that place.

Well, when you have been mediocre to average in all of your major programs (except hockey) for years, it is hard to convince people to donate money to the athletic department. In order to generate excitement and passion in your programs, you need to have some sort of winning tradition. Other than hockey, what do they have to hang their hat on? Nothing.

1996-97 Season thru December 1996: O11 Alberta (Ex.) L 1-2 O18 Denver* W 3-2 OT O19 Denver* W 6-2 O25 Michigan Tech* W 7-3 O26 Michigan Tech* W 4-3 N1 Northern Michigan* W 3-2 N2 Northern Michigan* W 5-0 N8 Minnesota* L 2-3 N9 Minnesota* L 6-10 N15 St. Cloud State* L 2-5 N16 St. Cloud State* W 5-3 N22 Alaska Anchorage* L 2-3 N23 Alaska Anchorage* W 5-3 N29 Minnesota-Duluth* W 8-4 N30 Minnesota-Duluth* W 4-3 D6 Colorado College* T 5-5 OT D7 Colorado College* W 7-3 D27 Boston University W 6-4 D28 Boston University T 2-2 OT 12-4-2 in the first half for the 1996-97 team; the team that reestablished us as a league and national power.

It was the championship game in the Target Center (the last Final Five there before the X opened). The final was 5-3 (it was 2-2 after two periods). The Badgers would go on to lose badly to Boston College at the West Regional in Minneapolis the following week, while we would beat Niagara (who upset New Hampshire the night before) 4-1 to advance to Providence.

Yeah, I guess I could have been more specific. And I did remedy that.

Well, when you have just been fired from SIU and you are unsure of your next step, coming back home to Grand Forks to work within Bubba's program may make sense. I am thinking it wouldn't take him long to find another HC job.

Here's an article about NAU Division I hockey: http://azdailysun.com/print-specific/feature/hockey-a-former-tradition-at-northern-arizona/article_20a9f3d2-1192-57cd-b9d3-d3a0a8b3d7db.html Here are the results of our games vs. Northern Arizona from the 2013-14 UND Men's Hockey Media Guide: Northern Arizona UND leads 8-0-0 (1.000) Home: 6-0-0 Away: 1-0-0 Neutral: 1-0-0 Date Site W-L-T Score Playoffs 12-8-78 N W 10-2 12-9-78 A W 12-2 10-23-81 H W 10-2 10-24-81 H W 8-2 10-19-84 H W 9-3 10-20-84 H W 6-2 12-13-85 H W 12-1 12-14-85 H W 5-4

It would make sense for Lennon to come back to Grand Forks. He went to school here, built his resume here and probably would like to live here again. But I guess we'll find out soon enough.

I think the NCHC gives us plenty of "prep for tourney time". It's easily the toughest conference in the NCAA right now. And, as was noted above, our program has always extended a "welcome to the club" greeting to young programs by playing them. I remember playing Northern Arizona in the 1980's as well as the other programs mentioned above. I would really like us to schedule Arizona State in a home and home contract (one series in Grand Forks, the other in Arizona) to help that program get off the ground. College hockey needs to keep the programs it has and add them whenever possible.

His big brother? No. But I know him personally and I know his commitment to this school and its programs. Ouch, that really stings (not).

To be fair, the same argument could be made as to why UND Men's Hockey shouldn't be able to fill a 12,000 seat arena with a metro area of 100,000 at most. That is what some people were saying when the current REA was being built; we will never be able to fill it on a regular basis. Well, unless it is over the holiday break or spring break, we do just that. NDSU has big hurdles going FBS (conference home or lack thereof, funding 22 extra scholarships, funding a new stadium), but metro area size is the least of them.

And now they'll claim they are "back on track for the gold". This should be alarming to our neighbors to the north. Getting pushed to a shootout by the Swiss is not a good sign for them.

If Canada and/or Russia light up the scoreboard on him, then I will become concerned it was more about us not burying our chances.

Well, you asked for details and I delivered. Any questions?

1999-2000 Season N20 MSU-Mankato* L 5-6 N27 Vermont@ W 8-0 N28 New Hampshire@ L 2-6 D3 Minnesota-Duluth* W 6-3 D4 Minnesota-Duluth* W 5-4 D10 Denver* W 7-3 D11 Denver* L 2-7 After opening the year 8-0-1, we went 4-3 in our last 7 games before the Christmas break. And some of those losses were ugly. D27 Miami (OH)^^ W 5-2 D28 Wisconsin^^ W 3-2 OT J7 Colorado College* T 1-1 OT J8 Colorado College* W 4-0 J14 Wisconsin* L 2-3 OT J15 Wisconsin* L 5-6 OT J21 Minnesota* W 1-0 J22 Minnesota* L 2-5 J28 Michigan Tech* W 5-0 J29 Michigan Tech* W 11-1 F4 St. Cloud State* L 0-3 F5 St. Cloud State* T 1-1 OT Following the Christmas break, we went 6-4-2 in our next 12 games, including two tough OT road losses against Wisconsin and that 5-2 loss at home vs. Minnesota. After that, we would lose only one more time (Game 2 of the WCHA first round at home vs. Denver) on our way to our 7th NCAA title. My point was that we didn't look like NCAA title contenders from mid-November until the beginning of February; then we went on that roll all the way to Providence.

At this time in 1999, I didn't think we had a snowball's chance of winning it all that season. I am glad I was wrong about that.

Then they better hope UND never becomes a member of their conferences (MVFC and Summit) because then they would be making the trip up north every other year whether they liked it or not.

Careful, Hajdu has made it abundantly clear on this forum that "No part of his job says he has to tolerate rudeness". This is what I talk about on here all the time, the lack of media coverage, marketing and promotion of our programs (yes, there ARE other programs not named Men's Hockey). We have always lagged behind the Ag School in that area and it needs to stop.

He is supposed to stick around as a TE.

He is referring to the period between 1993 and 2003 when UND beat NDSU on the gridiron 10 out of 13 times (including 1-1 in the playoffs). He could have been more precise, but his original point stands.