fightingsioux4life

One of the advantages of being an undrafted free agent is that you can negotiate with any team you want, thus giving you more leverage in those negotiations. If Stecher gets low-balled by a team, he can just tell them where to stick it and then go talk to another team or teams.

What other "beef" do you need? It is telling that Gino took the same players that Rube couldn't do jack squat with and took them to the NCAA title game. And then won the NCAA title the very next season. Irish is right, we lucked out with Gino and we also lucked out with Blais. Both hires happened at crucial times in the history of this program. I shudder to think of what might have happened if we made the wrong choice on either or both hires.

That sounds about right. I really hope this guy gets a legitimate chance to make it to the NHL and doesn't get shafted because he isn't 6' 3" tall.

I saw him on WDAZ News @ 10 saying he is leaning towards signing a contract. He also said "This is a business and I hope the fans understand that". I don't think Mr. Stecher really knows just how much of a business the NHL is. And he won't until he signs a contract with someone. Once you sign that piece of paper, you become just another piece of meat to be used however they want to use you. That is probably why almost every player that leaves early wishes that they hadn't left early. Because all the NHL seems to care about is how big you are (or aren't), Stecher could very well get buried in the AHL for years, getting passed over for bigger, taller defensemen. I really hope he does his homework on the teams that pursue him so he doesn't get stuck in an organization that doesn't give him a fair shot at making the big league. Having said all that, I thank him for his contributions to this team and program and I wish him all the best.

I like that.

Nobody had a problem with DOT.

Michigan's goalie said after just one minute of play, he knew that his team hadn't played anyone like us all year. So I think this is a valid point.

Addiction sucks. I am so glad I never got hooked into that stuff. I think it started when his wife left him for his own brother. Some people turn to alcohol. Dubay turned to illegal drugs. As a fellow human being, I am pulling for him to get his life in order.

Looks like the repeat bid is getting a big boost: http://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/4006817-und-hockey-boeser-announces-hes-coming-back-sophomore-season

He is getting North Dakota mixed up with his own team. That was a very succinct description of Golden Gopher Hockey, under both Woog and Lucia.

Any maybe you need to e-mail Tom Miller and tell him he doesn't know what he is talking about. I happen to think he was right.

Wow, you guys are really good at putting words into my mouth. I never said the things you are alleging I said. And I wasn't implying that either. Thanks for totally missing the point of my post.

Look, when we as a fan base had watched six consecutive national semifinal losses (2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2015) and then watched Denver score two goals to tie the game in the third period and were going on yet another PP (which was almost called a 5 minute major), you cannot seriously insinuate that people should not have been thinking "Here we go again". As Tom Miller said in the Heraldo on Friday, anyone who claims they weren't thinking that were not being honest. I do not blame any of our fans for feeling a bitter and negative sense of déjà vu as that third period got away from us. It's called being a passionate, die-hard fan of this team, program and institution. It's called posting emotional comments in the heat of the moment. But I suppose you are going to go ahead and try to tell me that you have never, ever done that during your time on this planet? Yep, that's what I thought. End Rant.

Amen, could not agree more.

I promised to change my avatar if we won #8 and I have delivered.....just like our hockey team did last night!!!

This is precisely why awards like this are so overrated. They are subjective and based on market size and media coverage, or lack thereof. The title that really matters will be awarded tomorrow night.

Hey, great minds think alike, right?

It happened to Bill Buckner in 1986, so I wouldn't put it past anyone.

You and about a half million other people.

Yeah, I would like to retire this one.

Maybe it's cheaper for them to watch it at a pub than buy game tickets. Or they want to drink alcohol while they watch, which they can't do inside of the arena because the "moral supremacists" at the NCAA won't allow it.

Well, they haven't won a natty since 2012, so they should watch their mouths. I think the last time we played them in the Frozen Four was the debacle in Denver in 2008 (which is what gave birth to my avatar! ), so living in the past is a bit of a waste of time. Besides revenge, the other reason to want them is so we get the last line change for the title game.

I'll be at Ground Round in Grand Forks watching both semifinal games.

Thanks for the insight, it makes more sense now.

Yeah, I remember that.