fightingsioux4life

As long as you agreed to sit where you were told. No thanks, I will take my chances with picking my own section and seat.

The atmosphere was awesome. I cannot wait for us to get back to that.

Not going to give up on that, are you?

Be careful. You'll be accused of focusing too much on NCAA titles.

Not quite, that area is fenced off. I think they were standing just to the north of where East Hall was (which was demolished after my freshman year at UND). I was there watching some of the demolition today. Bittersweet.......bitter because we are losing an iconic building; sweet because of the state-of-the-art IPF that will come of it.

Don't need it. Remember, we have "The Ralph"! Unless we are playing Duke or North Carolina at home (never gonna happen), we won't fill the main arena for basketball. Which is why all of our regular season basketball games should be played in The Betty. Great atmosphere, great sightlines, a good home court advantage for our teams. If our programs ever outgrow it, we can talk about building a stand-alone basketball facility. Right now, I think the IPF is sucking all the air out of the room.

The fact that he made a committment and then reneged on that committment is what has some people ticked off. If you aren't a man of your word, why should anybody trust you?

But according to Don Cherry and the rest of the CHL shills, anybody playing NCAA hockey just isn't any good. Maybe games like this on Canadian soil will help cut through all the garbage that kids north of the border are fed on a regular basis.

That sounds a lot like what Qwest (now CenturyLink) used to do when I had problems with their phone service. Everything was always "your fault" and "you aren't guaranteed anything" and all this other garbage. That is one of the main reasons I switched to Midco phone service almost a decade ago and haven't regretted it once.

I think there is a clause in the agreement that says UND cannot remain without a nickname of some kind.

Not an option in the agreement with the NC$$.

That only lasted a couple of years (thank God).

Or "Green and White".

Good choice! Close enough to campus, but far enough away to provide parking and to be able to build it as big as they need to. Before the new REA was built, that whole area was wide open green space. Now, it's pretty much filled up.

My thoughts exactly.

Three words: Just Win Baby!!!

Ed Belfour brought The Cup to Grand Forks in 1999. Mike Commodore did it in 2006. So it isn't totally unprecedented. But let's not forget, these guys have everybody and their uncle asking for a personal visit with The Cup and not everyone will get told yes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rwPovyR9HY "Okay.... As long as you're willing to admit that."

I was being a smart-mouth (one of my many skills). Apparently your Moo U education didn't teach you that.

A slice of humble pie for Imperial Cass County? It's long overdue!

I still maintain that comparing the United States and Canada is apples and oranges. Mr. Ballard is probably more concerned with playing time than this stuff.

Whatever the tax burden is in Minnesota now, it still can't be higher than what it was in Vancouver. And I am talking both Provincial and Federal.

It might take us 3-4 years to figure that one out!

I am talking about the entire history of this franchise, not last year. I think they have some pieces in place to become an annual playoff contender, but I will believe it when I see it. Doug Risebrough did a lot of damage to this franchise and it will take time to clean it up. Whether it will happen or not is the question.

The Mild keep making $$$$$$$$$ because the fans keep buying tickets whether the team wins or loses, so there isn't an incentive to improve the team more than they have to. "Hometown Boy" Zach Parise is playing for the "State of Hockey", so that means we have to get season tickets and go to every game. Last year, I was arguing that Parise and Suter should have signed with a real playoff contender and not an annual pretender. I hope the Mild become something more, but I am not holding my breath.