Goon

I am going to stand in your corner too Redwing 77, The loss of Smaby is huge and his absence will be missed a lot. Also, I would never question Smaby's heart the kid is a monster, awesome hitter and pretty good on defense. If I am not mistake Matt came to UND barely 18 years old so maybe some people should cut him a little slack, Smaby is awesome.

Although there are a numbers of NCAA players going to the NHL, I don't think Grapes is going to be alive when the NCAA does finally catch up with Major Junior hockey in Canada. I guess there is something for the NCAA to shoot for.

Don Cherry and some of the things he says Here is an interesting clip that I found on the CBC web page some interesting stuff here.

Canuck thanks for answering my questions, it clears thing up a bit for me. I am also for the NCAA letting kids that play in the CHL/WHL while in high school being able to play in the NCAA after high school without them losing any eligibility, however, the NCAA doesn't see it that way because Major Junior hockey players are consider something to the effect of being a semi-pro because they receive per-diem for their meals.

I like that description of Myles Brand. Very nice.

I have a question for Canuck? Are you actually a Sioux fan or are you just here to defend Canada's honor and pick apart what is wrong with American hockey (as you see it) but also you seem to be a little petty if not nit picky with UND fans because we are not kissing the ring when it comes to WHL/CHL hockey or Canadian hockey as a whole. No, seriously all flaming aside, you seem to have an axe to grind with most American fans of the college game. Why do you come here to post? Just wondering? Because I haven't seen you make one post that was very nice about anything that is NCAA or UND. I have gathered these things from reading your post the last few years and I am trying to clear some things up here. You seem to be very anti Sioux and almost anti American-anti college hockey. Maybe I am reading you wrong. Lastly, This is a UND message board that is part of college hockey, not a CHL/WHL hockey page, I could actually care less about the WHL or Major Junior hockey in Canada, in many respects Major Junior hockey in Canada is nothing more than a meat market with its sole purpose is to groom hockey for the Professional ranks I am sure the hockey is good but the NCAA is starting to take from those ranks. To me this proves that the standing of the NCAA is starting to make head way with the players of teir 1 hockey players north of the border. No one should be shocked that this board isn't going to have a pro Major Jr hockey oppinion nor really a pro canadian slant either. This page is about the Sioux and don't get me wrong we appreciate our Canadian players from the Prairies of Canada. Goon's take on Don Cherry: On one last note I love Don Cherry in my oppinion the man is Canada's version of Rush Limbaugh that is a better dresser and hasn't been arrested for pain killer abuse. It seem Cherry is as polerizing of a character, you either like him or hate him. Frankly, I agree with most of what he says. The thing I admires about the man is very patriotic and loves the troops and that Cherry has a lot of nice things to say about North American in general. I have heard Cherry say that he appreciates the American and that they would be their for the Canadians if they were ever attacks. A view that a lot of Canadians don't have do to their socialist/leftist leanings. I think it is funny that a lot of canucks think Cherry is a jerk (cherry apparently is loved in the USA) and that all he does is promote goons and thugs as his favorite hockey players, that isn't exactly true, the other night he chastised Neil from the Sens for turtling after challenging Dingman to a fight (apparently Neil pointed at Dingman who was sitting on the Lighting bench and said you and me next, so next shift out Dingman challenges this a$$ to a fight and Neil dropps to the ice and turtles--totally classless). Then Cherry bad mouthed Zedano Chara for goading a smaller skilled player Vincent Lecavalier into a fight when he didn't need too. What Cherry promotes is a code of conduct, you conduct yourself like a thug you should have to pay for it. That I would like to see the NCAA adopt, if you hack a star player with your stick you have to defend your actions by fighting. There is no hiding behind the officials. If Punkovich had played in the USHL, NHL or WHL he would have been killed or beat up very bad. Lastly, a lot of people have said that Cherry is very zenphobic and doesn't like the euro players in the NHL but he is expressing fears a lot of people have. Personally I would rather see a bunch of north American players in the NHL as opposed to all the players from Sweden and Russia. That is my personal opinion and there are quite a few out there that feel the same way. I remember hearing Gopher fans talking about the same thing, most of them didn't want to see a bunch of Candians on their team and wanted to see the boys from Minnesota playing for the Maroon and gold.

My dog Dakota has been on the line with the Sabres all day and he can't get a confirmation either way.

Boy if I was negoiating a big pro contract and I had someone releasing information to a fan web page I would be really happy with your. Again, until there is a link to a news release, a press release, a newspaper article I would urge caution. There is a enough trolling go on this season in the off season.

Source, link and official news releases please.

Charles sounds rattled. Ahhhhh, this is not a good day for UND sports.

Miles is a Baffoon, you can see he definately Hates UND or the fact that the School is pushing him hard. I hope we take this weasle to court and win this for good. Then we can shut him up and his pompus do good attitude. They have definately way over stepped his bounds.

Now the Farmers are down by two goals. Oh the Humanity. I can't complain since I hate the DIRTY HABS, Think it goes back to me being a Boston Bruins fan and most Bruins fans don't like the HABS...

Basically they are farmers. By the way the Hab are down 1-0

After all those weeks that one still bring tears of joy to my eyes.

LOL, now we are clouding the issue with facts. I didn't think there any more 900,000.00 bonuses.

Nothing yet on the Hockey Futures or on the Buffalo News or NHL.com but its still early. The Drew Stafford watch looks like its in it final stages.

AZSioux has to be a good guy, he is from Bemidji.

I like the idea of Dakotans.

Sica, I think just because the NCAA let FSU keep its name for NCAA Tourneys and UND not keep its name for NCAA Tourneys basically says there is a double standard and that since FSU is a huge school with a lot of money: plus the fact that their governor made a big stink in the beginning of the process basically then strong armed the the NCAA to back down, basically proves that if your a small school your going to not be ruled against favorably even if you have a letter from your name sake tribe. Correct me if I am wrong UND does have a letter from the Spirit lake Tribe basically stating they have the support of the Spirit Lake Sioux. Since no one from Fort Totten or from the Spirit Lake Tribe has ever rescinded that letter of support that should be enough to have any court slap The NCAA around. However, this just proves the double standard and inconsistency of the NCAA and this ruling this should be enough for them to be slapped or sanctioned by a court of law. What good for one should be good for another school. Again, this is what happens when you let this P.C. crap get out of hand. It

Just another little note here, the Senators will get back to you they will act on our concerns. Also, I talked to one of Conrad's aids the other day and he basically said that Senators are aware of what the people of ND are concerned about. They actually approve most responses before they are sent out to the ND voters. I have wrotten both Conrad and Dorgan on various issues and gotten prompt responses on various issues. Recently during the Alito vote I was sent a email message from a right wing religious group that Conrad was considering not voting for Judge Sam Alito during the Alito confirmation. I called his office and funny thing happened, apparently a bunch of people called his office and he voted for Alito. So they listen. Time to Bend their Ears. Funny how the minute that Jeb Bush squawked the FSU Seminols were taken off the list.

Now its time for these three guys to stop sitting on both sides of the fence and come down one way or another. Of course they don't want to do this because they want to have it both ways. Maybe we should call their office and voice our displeaure.

I believe your going to see a lot of that next season the opposition in the rear view mirror epecially teams that are big and slow.

If I am not mistaken isn't UND trying to get Mario Lamoureux?

How dare people be on their best behavior when the Tribal Leaders were at UND.

Thats fine Bruce the NCAA is going to get their ass sued anyways and I don't see how we can lose in a court of law on this one. Then we will see that the NCAA is going to lose this battle. If UND could get an injuction they could have this in court for years.