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21 minutes ago, GFG said:
Is he one of the bottom guys? IIRC penn state lost their top Dman for the year a few weeks ago
Yeah, #4 was Myllari, a freshman who was put in the lineup due to Kevin Kerr being injured
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15 minutes ago, cberkas said:
Who is that?
Kevin Kerr
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12 minutes ago, beebsb010 said:
No but they would have had they played. The Gophers were WEAK as I said they were. Remember, you felt the need to validate the Gophers GODLINESS by pointing out that they beat "our" favorite squad? The Big 10 was awful and I called it months ago.
But hey, I'd be salty too if I had egg all over my face.
Good night my man!
If Minnesota was weak than what was UND considering they couldn't beat them? Losing both Novak and Lindgren to injury was a lot for MN, especially Lindgren because they didn't have a lot of depth on D. The team was very inconsistent this year (saw it again in the game vs Notre Dame) and most Gophers fans knew they weren't major title contenders because of that inconsistency. The B1G was not a bad conference, though. I think most college hockey fans throughout the country would agree that UMD and Denver were the top 2 teams in the country the majority of the year, but outside of those 2 the rest of the NCHC was basically on par with the rest of the conferences.
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1 hour ago, Randy Lahey said:
Anyone notice how bad the #4 defensemen is for penn state?
Is he one of the bottom guys? IIRC penn state lost their top Dman for the year a few weeks ago
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Just now, cberkas said:
He's two years younger then Lucia, Grant is most likely going to be the heir apparent at Minnesota.
Guentzel has left Minnesota for a USHL head coaching job and two assist jobs at CC and Omaha.
I know, but why come back as an assistant if head coach is what you truly want? Especially if you have head coaching offers. Unless he just doesn't want to be a head coach, which I'm sure is possible.
I could see Grant getting the job as well. There's been talk that the only reason he doesn't have a head coaching job right now is due to his lack of head coaching experience. If Lucia thinks he can do it and puts in a word to the AD I could see that happening.
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18 hours ago, cberkas said:
I still think Mike Guentzel wasted his opportunity to be a head coach.
I can't recall where I heard it, but I'm pretty sure somebody said that Lucia is planning on handing the head coaching job to him in the near future. I can't remember where it was...I think it was somebody on KFAN a few weeks ago. Obviously no way to know if that's true or not, but I wouldn't doubt it one bit. I just don't see why Guentzel would have stayed at Minnesota otherwise.
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1 minute ago, cberkas said:
I've seen them play pretty bad at time but get the calls at the right time and win.
They've had some bad stretches, but they were awful all around tonight. Super slow, never first to loose pucks, couldn't hold possession of the puck. It looked like most of them were playing with terrible hangovers
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2 minutes ago, cberkas said:
Michigan beats Minnesota 5-3
That was ugly. Probably the worst game I've seen Minnesota play all year. They deserved to lose for sure. Hopefully they realize they're not locked into the NCAA's yet..
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2 hours ago, UNDBIZ said:
Pretty sure UND requires on-campus students to have received the MMR (mumps, measles, rubella) vaccine. According to the CDC, the vaccine is only 88% effective in preventing mumps.
Came here to say that haha. A lot of people think vaccines for virus' are basically 100% effective, which isn't true. The flu vaccine is even worse. Pretty sure it's below 50% effective because the vaccination is only for the known/common strains and there are constantly new strains of the flu virus
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19 hours ago, beebsb010 said:
Still not getting it, so I will just assume you indeed ARE drinking.
I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT NORTH DAKOTA.
YOU brought up how the Gophers are so good and may win it all this year. I SAID they are in a joke of a conference, their record doesn't impress me because of that and UMD or Denver would destroy them. So....AGAIN......I'm not sure how any of the teams in their conference being ahead of UND has to do with anything.
Just curious, would you bet on Denver to beat Ohio State at home? Because you would be 0-1 on that this year. If OSU can beat Denver on the road I would bet that Minnesota can beat both Denver and Duluth. Would they be underdogs? Absolutely they would be, but I think it's unlikely that they'd get crushed. The B1G is the 2nd best conference in college hockey this season with only 6 teams, so no, it isn't that bad.
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21 hours ago, SiouxScore said:
Pathetic effort all the way around tonight. This team knew going into this weekend their season was really kind of on the line these last 4 games and they show zero sign of any urgency or desperation. Way too many times this year it hasn't been a lack of talent and skill it has been a lack of focus, energy, toughness, and just determination and those are things you just don't really teach. Show a little determination and desperation and win 4 games in a row and see where we are at. A lot of guys on this team need to start playing for the program and play with the type of effort and determination that those who have come before them have played with. No excuses find a way.
As a Minnesota fan this comment is almost exactly how I've felt more often than not the last 8 or so years.
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1 hour ago, cberkas said:
Nebraska
http://huskercorner.com/2017/02/26/nebraska-huskers-making-case-division-nebraska-ice-hockey/
Not sure where this guy is getting his information on the B1G starting a women's conference.
Nebraska is not going DI in hockey without a donor. It's as simple as that. They're trying to get their football team back up to where they think it should be and it's likely going to get even more difficult with the schools in their division making big hires and putting more money into the sport. For the time being any money they have is going to be heading towards football.
As for the B1G sponsoring women's hockey...I don't think anything has been said anywhere. It seems like more of a "I think this will happen" statement than it does a fact.
On a side note, I didn't recall ever seeing anywhere how much money the B1G hockey schools get from BTN. While looking to see if the Googles could find anything about B1G women's hockey I saw another Nebraska article with a tweet from Let's Play Hockey in 2013:
I didn't realize they were receiving that much money. If that's what UND could get out of it then I think it turns into a no brainer.
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32 minutes ago, zonadub said:
UND being included in discussions about B1G schools 14 times a year (home/away) would raise the profile of the school. Being mentioned in the same sportscasts as Penn State or Ohio State will bring more prestige than being included with Youngstown in football reports or Ft Wayne in basketball. The collateral benefit of the B1G is much greater than Summit/MVFC. Can't imagine that Kennedy would say No if the opportunity would present itself.
Agreed. It may not please all UND hockey fans, but being associated with the B1G conference + Notre Dame could and probably would be huge for the university. It gets the university noticed around the entire B1G footprint playing those teams, being talked about on BTN shows, having their highlights on BTN and being seen in the B1G hockey standings anywhere they are shown.
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5 minutes ago, iluvdebbies said:
He's wrong....Minnesota would only be in third in the Pairwise.
I shall deliver the message
Edit: Nevermind. He probably was right earlier but the results of tonights games probably changed it
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14 hours ago, MafiaMan said:
@GFG Yep, the effect of losses to teams ranked 40 amd below is a nuclear bomb to NCAA tournament hopes. I had hoped that MSU would get a few more wins after that UND series - instead, they went on a double-digit losing streak!
Just for fun a guy on GPL tinkered with it as well and found that if Minnesota didn't completely collapse against SCSU just one night and had beaten Northeastern they'd be #1 overall right now.
I've said it for years and I'll continue to say it, but I'm personally not a huge fan of the pairwise. It's not terrible by any means, I'm just not a huge fan. I like that non-conference games have importance, but in my personal opinion they're weighted to heavily in the pairwise when compared to the amount of non-conference games actually played. Especially in today's age of college hockey where there's so much parity. I don't know how I'd fix it or what would be a better solution, but some discussion about it might be fun. It would be interesting to hear Jim Dahl's thoughts on it as well.
Edit: On a side note, due to the parity in college hockey, I've been thinking the last few years that it would be fun to expand the tournament to 20 teams. I know it's a lot of teams, but there aren't many sports out there with parity like college hockey. Especially in a one and done tournament.
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3 hours ago, bigskyvikes said:
Why did you have to post this?!
Seriously though...That cannot be accurate....? They are still 3 for their last 10, how can one of those two games double their power?
That's how it is for a lot of bubble teams. IIRC Minnesota only needed one more win the last couple of times they missed the tournament to push them comfortably in. Non-conference losses are bad...non-conference losses to bad teams are horrible.
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On 2/19/2017 at 8:12 AM, MafiaMan said:
UND continues to poop its collective pants...while Minnesota is crapping out rainbows seemingly every weekend.
I'm still not high on this team. I'm glad they're finally winning games but Schierhorn's jekyll and hyde performances aren't good enough to get it done in the NCAA tournament. He gives up a lot of soft goals.
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29 minutes ago, InHeavenThereIsNoBeer said:
IMO I think that sort of acts as a sort of metaphor for Big10 vs NCHC
"Come on over to the BIG UND, we have more money! Btw the product on the ice might suffer due to weaker OOC records, priorities at BIG institutions etc.... BUT WE HAVE LOTS OF MONEY!"
B1G is #2 this year in OOC records. If you move UND to the B1G this year the B1G has a better OOC record than the NCHC.
B1G w/ UND: 52-31-13 (.609)
NCHC w/o UND: 32-19-12 (.603)
So no, the B1G is not that much weaker than the NCHC right now and it appears as though the teams are improving, UND is the difference. If it was that weak then maybe UND would've actually gotten a win in their 4 games against B1G teams this year. (sorry, just making a point)
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13 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:
Last I read they don't have all their financing in order yet.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2016/06/17/state-awards-12-million-toward-coralville-arena/86033032/They still said no. A few guys on GPL have lived down there and said there's no way it would ever happen. Like you said, though, financing. Not a chance in hell Iowa takes millions of dollars that could potentially be spent on football or basketball and starts up men's and women's hockey programs. Once again, a donor is needed.
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2 minutes ago, jdub27 said:
Hockey has little to no bearing on the TV contract/revenues that the B1G schools get from the B1G Network, but that is where any money that UND gets would have to come from. There are 8 schools who don't play hockey and plus I really don't think UND is going to bring a huge amount of fans to Penn State, Michigan, Michigan State or Ohio State. I'm not saying its not possible and the original post even states it is an uphill battle, but you're going to have to convince over half the conference to give up some of their money regardless of how small of the amount is, relatively speaking.
They very well may, and it needs to benefit both sides. I just see it as a hard sell to 8 out of 14 schools that it doesn't benefit at all plus a few more that will see minimal benefit.
The extra money comes from having more live sporting events televised on BTN/FOX networks. You can charge more for advertisements with live sports than non-live shows on the network. This would likely lead to some UND home games not on BTN to being on FSN/FSN+ (UND could produce it all in house and take in extra money that would normally go to a place like Midco). And a game with UND you might be able to charge more for advertisements if you prove they have higher viewership numbers than others. I'm pretty sure it's not a coincidence that Minnesota is on BTN so much more than the other B1G schools. More viewers and a large metro area to draw that core audience from. I guarantee UND brings more viewers to the table than anyone in the conference but Minnesota. On top of that UND will also bring them good numbers from the Twin Cities metro, which is probably their major market for college hockey.
Obviously I can't say all of this would be 100% true, but it seems to make sense. Just fun to speculate.
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1 minute ago, The Sicatoka said:
farce, I see UMD or UNO as noise, leverage, pressure, on UND should an offer come. --> "Take it or we'll ... "
I just don't see a "hyphen" (UM-D or UN-O) getting in with Big Brother.
I don't either, but if it comes down to UND saying no I guess UMD wouldn't be the worst option.
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1 minute ago, farce poobah said:
Not understanding the internal Big Ten politics here, so welcome thoughts from those that do...
Is it realistic for Omaha to be dangled as a competing possibility? I would think Nebraska U would say no and get their way (the same way that they squashed UNO football and wrestling).
And Is it realistic for UMD to be dangled as a competing possibility? In the U of M system, would UMD entering be a threat to U Minnesota?
In either scenario, how would the league's voting balance be affected since there's now two schools from Minnesota / Nebraska voting in lockstep on things?
Omaha hockey would be no threat to Nebraska athletics. Nebraska isn't adding hockey. In the end, I don't see why they wouldn't allow those schools in. It's pretty easy for them to claim that those 2 schools are part of the school system of current B1G universities.
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1 minute ago, Blackheart said:
Yeah,..and there will still a ton of empty seats at the Friday night game. How pissed off are the Minny fans about being in the B1G for hockey?
Those tickets are sold. Pretty much all tickets have been the last few years. People have tickets and don't show up for whatever reason. It's stupid because prices stay high since the tickets are "sold". That's why Minnesota started selling $10 standing room tickets the week of the games towards the end of last season. So people that wanted to go could buy them and use the seats
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1 minute ago, cowboys5xsbs said:
See this is debatable, the only reason they would come knocking on UND's door is because they believe we will move the needle for the conference and bring in more ticket sales and eyeballs for the away games. I mean look at the Minnesota game it was probably their biggest regular season game of the year.
It was. And it was definitely the best atmosphere of the year. Surprisingly I think PSU was #2. UND is a big draw in the college hockey world. The hockey schools know that and want them in.
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2016-2017 College Hockey (Non UND Hockey)
in Men's Hockey
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Kerr got injured Feb 10, so he ended up missing 14 games. He was also one of their best defensive d-men and was on the PP. If you look at points per game he was quite a bit higher than Myllari and Autio. He only ended up 2 points behind them in 13/14 less games played.