fightingsioux4life

That will depend on the judgement of the ND Supreme Court and/or the intelligence of "the folks" of North Dakota. Neither of which I have much confidence in.

If they can help us bring home the Gold, I am all for it.

It's pretty simple: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.

I think Mrs. Lord of the Flies should become Ron Paul's running mate!

I think Portland believes they have a better chance of getting Jones because they have the rights to several of our other recruits. So they are looking into obtaining his rights from Everett and then using these other kids as leverage to get Jones to sign with them. Then they might have a better chance at picking off some of our other kids. That is all I can think of. I honestly wouldn't put anything past these Major Junior weasels. I honestly believe they want to destroy NCAA hockey and then take over all player development for North America. Some people on here might call that paranoia, but I really believe it.

So in other words, UND and Denver are just supposed to take what is dished out to them and shut their mouths? Sorry, that ain't how it works. Neither program wanted to get stuck in a watered-down WCHA where the small schools would out-vote them on everything. You might have even had some sort of scholarship cap introduced and it would have passed because most of the schools in the WCHA would benefit from such a rule. Then UND and Denver would have had to live with the cap or leave and there might not be a viable conference option for them. The NCHC came together at this moment in time and you have to jump on board before the train leaves the station.

The tribes should have spoken up earlier than they did. Spirit Lake sat on their hands for years and Standing Rock refuses to discuss the issue or allow a vote on it. I have a hard time feeling sorry for either tribe.

As long as Molson offers a quality product that the fans will buy, it should work out just fine for everyone.

The number of games will decrease as teams are eliminated. In the next couple of weeks, we'll won't have to flip back and forth much.

I suppose having Molson is part of a strategy to get more Canadians to come down for games. That's the only reason I can come up with.

That is my biggest fear as well. The Final Five right now is the best tournament in the country....bar none. It is second only to the Frozen Four in difficulty level and quality of teams. I am concerned what kind of tournament the NCHC will have and where it will be located.

Do you realize how much money it would take to bring Memorial Stadium up to modern standards? It was terribly obsolete when we left it after the 2000 season and it is even more inadequate now. Unless some donor steps up and writes a big check (think Ralph Engelstad 2.0), this is not going to happen.

Next year is the last year of Sioux fans hitting the road for the WCHA Final Five and I must confess to being a little sad about it. This has been circled on my calendar for years and now it's going away. I would really like a rotation between Omaha and St. Paul; that would make the most sense for the most teams. Denver is not an optimal location; it is too far west. I think Chicago is a little too far east and is not at all a college hockey market. Whatever they work out, I hope it is as fun as the Final Five has been all these years.

In that case, build a brand new stadium in Sioux Falls and move all your home games there permanently. I am not joking about that, either.

I think it was 2pm this afternoon.

Couldn't agree more. Me, my mom and our cat were forced to go to Minot to stay with relatives while my dad (who worked at the City Health Department) worked almost 24 hours at a time at the Emergency Operations Center. Our basement was flooded, but nothing else was lost. I also was grateful for the Salvation Army and Red Cross for their help in making life somewhat livable. Those meals weren't bad! The silver lining in this is that Grand Forks was able to reinvent downtown, which had become very dumpy up until the flood. Now it's a major attraction for people in Grand Forks and the region.

My perspective on this is kind of mixed. On one hand, you have the Flyers, a franchise that has always promoted and celebrated Thug N Slug hockey. I never have and never will like the Flyers. In 1997, I thoroughly enjoyed watching the Red Wings sweep Eric "Wonder Boy" Lindros and the overrated "Legion of Doom" line out of the Stanley Cup Finals. From Bobby Clarke in the 1970's to today, the Flyers are an example of what this great game shouldn't be like. And I think any Flyer fans that complain about what the Pens are doing are being just a little bit hypocritical. On the other hand, you have the Pens, a very talented and skilled team that has, for some reason, resorted to the same tactics you expect from the Flyers in order to prove their toughness. I do not think this is a smart approach. If you have skill and speed up front, then use it. Don't take stupid penalties and neutralize your own skilled players because you are on the penalty kill for half the game. I believe that Crosby is trying to set the tone as the Captain of his team by playing uncharacteristically rough and tumble with a rough and tumble team. I also think he is trying to prove that he is over his concussion problems and that he is not a soft touch. While I understand the psychological reasons for all this, the Pens shouldn't resort to this garbage. You have speed and skill, use it. That is what they did last night. The Flyers took a bunch of stupid penalties and the Pens used their skill to make them pay for it. The Pens also cut out the cheap stuff and focused on playing the game. The Flyers better end this series in Game 5 or else the Pens will gain even more confidence and start to believe they can pull off the comeback.

The sanctions will more than likely mean no conference home for football and basketball (I do not believe that the Big Sky is bluffing). That would plunge the athletic department into a sea of red ink that no amount of REA beer revenues could compensate for. We would have to switch to non-scholarship status for all non-hockey programs and run a shoe string, bargain basement operation using whatever revenues we get from Men's Hockey. And even then, it would be difficult to make it work.

That should be enough to keep burning the bandwidth!

My friend, I will gladly feel dumb if indeed the name and logo are saved by Spirit Lake's lawsuit. I just don't think it will happen. And you are wrong about the name being retired too soon. The repeal of the law included a provision that we couldn't pick a new name until sometime in 2015. So if Spirit Lake does somehow save the name, we could go back to using it again. All this referral does is back us into a corner and put our membership in the Big Sky Conference in serious jeopardy.

You can't get everybody. She might have liked the campus, the educational choices and being further away from Mom and Dad. We have a lot of talented kids coming in, so I am not worried.

Well put.

The only reason Fetch wants an AHL team is because he is mad about the impending demise of the Fighting Sioux nickname and logo. He wants REA to kick out UND and then get an AHL team and call them the Fighting Sioux. I can tell you right now if that ever happens, I will never set foot in that place ever again for any event. The AHL team would last one or two years tops, after REA had burned its bridges with UND. I would call that poetic justice. Bottom line: I don't think people in Grand Forks would warm up to a minor league team. This is a college town.

I think the fact that the Seminole tribe endorses the use of their name by Florida State would make their situation a little different. We have the endorsement of Spirit Lake, but not Standing Rock, so that would be interesting.