fightingsioux4life

Did something spook you.....

I am starting to warm up to Oilers. And with all the cute headline ideas, I bet Schlossman is too.

Yes, I think you are the only one that thinks that. But that doesn't mean you are wrong. I hope you are right; he deserves success as much as anyone.

I agree with a lot of this, but please leave the partisan political crap out of it. All it does is start a political flame war, which usually ends with the thread being locked. I often am the black sheep on this forum when it comes to certain topics, but I am not afraid to speak my mind and I make an effort to back up my point of view. Just keep the personal cheap shots out of it (and don't respond to anyone else's cheap shots) and I think you'll be fine.

I just hope he is prepared to ride the buses in the AHL for 3-4 years, if not longer. Someone please tell me if you believe I am wrong about that.

You need both. You need that handful of studs that will stick around 2-3 years at most, but you also need that larger group of guys that stays four years and gets better from year 1 to year 2 and from year 2 to year 3 and so on. And I think Hakstol is starting to do this, so the next couple of years will be interesting.

This is a good point. Timing is very important when it comes to public issues like this.

Wasn't Charlie Crist the governor of Florida by the time all of this crap hit the fan? Anyway, I don't know if it would have made a difference for us or not. Remember, Al Carlson and his buddies went to Indianapolis to try and talk the NCAA out of their policy and it didn't work. The NCAA wasn't going to budge on this.

I think part of the blame lies with UND and UND boosters. If we had engaged the tribes over the past 50 years or so and developed a working relationship instead of calling anti-nickname activists "bed wetters" and other demeaning terms, we might have been able to dodge this bullet. But we didn't, so we got dinged and we can't do anything about it now. I have moved on, but not without some regrets and a little bitterness over how we were treated by the NCAA and people like Ron His Horse Is Thunder.

Then this whole question is permanently moot.

Then how did UNC and ISU get on there? Shouldn't they be banned too?

Probably something about ROI and/or TV ratings. What kind of ratings are ISU and UNC getting on televised games with their lousy track records? I am guessing it's not good.

This doesn't surprise me. For years, Gerald Groenewold has pretty much gotten away with whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted. He forgot that he serves at the pleasure of the President of the University of North Dakota and that he isn't a private business owner. I for one don't feel sorry for him.

As do I, but the older episodes are funnier.

I think I can explain this nonsense. Ever since Karl Goehring graduated and moved on, no goaltender is good enough for our fan base. And our opponents always have the greatest goaltender in the history of the game. Hence "The Brad Schlossman Rule". Hence the annual tradition of blaming UND goaltenders for every loss, no matter how many shots he was peppered with and no matter how bad our offense was. I think a lot of people have taken this attitude and applied it to the NHL playoffs. I'm afraid there is not much we can do about it, but I share your disgust.

I honestly don't have a favorite NHL team; I just like to watch good games and the Stanley Cup playoffs are as good as sports ever gets. I like it when former UND players make it in the big leagues in any sport, but that doesn't change which teams I like or don't like. Like MafiaMan has said before, the emphasis on having UND players make it in the NHL is not necessarily good for the program when that becomes the focus instead of winning championships at the collegiate level. If it has to come down to a trade-off, I will take winning championships at the NCAA level over having a bunch of former UND players in the NHL. I guess we all have different opinions on that, which is okay.

If these kids don't think they fit in, they should leave. Having kids on the roster that don't want to be there is bad for team chemistry and bad for locker room culture. We might have to get worse before we get better and I am fine with that.

Let's see..... A Wild-Blackhawks rematch from last year.....CHECK. Team Thug-N-Slug (Philadelphia) knocked out by the Rangers.....CHECK Getting Montreal out of the playoffs.....Opps, not yet. Overall, I like what is happening so far.

Well said, this is good advice for all our fans.

No, no, no, not that "Pride of Lions" crap. Some people at G.F. Central High School were pushing that in the mid-1990's. Thank God Knights was chosen. I have no problem with the others on your list, however.

True, but this is all about the long-term and not the short-term. I can accept a couple of lean years if it leads to success down the road.

Wow, this program was in even worse shape than we all suspected! A couple more years of Mussman and.....I don't even want to think about it.

First of all, this was Williston, not the entire region. What about other areas in western North Dakota? Should they be thrown under the bus because of something Williston did? I say no. But I imagine the almighty moral supremacists in Bismarck will do just that. After all, Al Carlson usually gets his way. Second of all, this is something the people of Williston obviously wanted. When a community triples in size, you will get demands for additional amenities from the people that now live there. Not all oil workers came here alone; some of them brought their families with them. If Williston had refused to consider it and/or refused to put it on the ballot, then the people probably would have voted them out of office and elected people that would do what they wanted. Or maybe Williston should just sell off all their public parks and whatever other recreation assets they have to prove to the almighty moral supremacists in Bismarck that they have the right PRIORITIES and that they are frugal and prudent? Thirdly, what is "more important and time-sensitive" is in the eye of the beholder. Everything in North Dakota shouldn't always revolve around what the Harold Hamm's of the world want. This is our state, not theirs, they are just guests here. And if that sounds too parochial for some people, too bad. I am so sick of our "leaders" in Bismarck selling out North Dakota to the likes of Hamm and Walmart. And lastly, even if they hadn't built this thing, they would still need help from Bismarck. I would rather Williston get that money then the good folks of Bentonville, AR. But what do I know? All I've done is live in North Dakota for the past 37 years. That really doesn't count for much anymore, does it?

So you think they are wasting money on stuff? They have roads that are being pounded into gravel by heavy trucks and people being killed because the roads aren't big enough to handle all of it. They have had to build public infrastructure for this huge influx of people after years of depopulation. These are things we take for granted in the east, but they don't happen without money being spent. I realize Al Carlson thinks we are raking in too much money from the oil boom, but if anyone should pay for all this stuff, it's the oil companies. They are the ones making the mess, so we should use those oil tax dollars to do it.