Big Green

The schedule is about perfect. You need a couple cupcakes to both pad your record and get the 2nd and 3rd string players experience. We will have a bunch of quality games during the conference season. In FCS football you can't have more than 1 N/C loss and expect to go far in the Playoffs. Having a FBS team on the schedule we need to win all the other N/C games before the Conference season starts. Its important to get a top 4 seed IMO.

This would be my biggest complaint about the sport. The other stuff people complain about I often time wonder if they have seen some of the sports we watch in the US. Nice thing about the World Cup is basically every country plays Soccer, so it is truly a world cup. In all the other sports there are like a handful of teams that play at a high level.

Very odd on their part. Not even like we are using the Portal and NIL to get these guys. Do they not know that the goal is be bring guys in that are going to win you a National Championship.

Pretty sure he played in Chicago before and after the HS Season. Much easier choice for him living in the TC Metro playing AA hockey in MN. Much better competition then most kids are getting.

I get the feeling these recruiting violations are happening all over the place at other schools, but they are not self reporting. Oh well. I'm not too upset that we were trying to push the envelope. Better be on our best behavior now since we are under probation.

Dumb rule changes except #2. 1. Game is meant to be played with the stick. Its not hand ball. If you are going to allow hand passes just allow it anywhere on the ice. Seems like most rules are to generate more scoring, but this one is meant to limit the scoring. 3. Love the strategy of when to take the time out. This one makes no sense. Seems odd you can't take the TO when you really need it. 4. Seems odd for just the Women's game. Also seems like a player safety issue. No reason to be swinging your stick above the shoulders. As far as the Trapezoid for Goaltenders. I like that is copies what the NHL does, but still think it is dumb. Why are we taking the ability for Goaltenders to play the puck? It adds to the excitement of the game when a goalie play the puck and the team is attaching again right away.

What is it with this board? Seems like posters are planning on players leaving all the time, some before they even step on campus.

Its hard to tell what he is thinking, but different people value different things. Seems to me like he loves coaching college kids and living and Denver. NHL coaching you either need to uproot your family and move, or leave the family. Probably doesn't want to do either. Can always try to coach in the NHL once the kids are graduated.

I think the answer would be to sell separate tickets for the 2 Thursday sessions and the ability's to purchase tickets for only when your team is playing. heck you could sell those tickets Months ahead of time. Set aside 2K tickets for each of the 4 teams that make the frozen four. Tickets would be billed and assigned after your team makes the frozen four and after they make the championship game.

For the heck of it I went on the College Hockey news site and changed all the OT Wins to Ties to see what would have been different. Only 2 changes. Dartmouth and Providence would have flipped. Providence moving up to 6 and Dartmouth down to 7. The other one is much more significate. Augustana would be in the tournament at 14 instead of UConn. So you could either argue it would not change much, or kept a team out that would have been in.

Please no 5X5 OT. They have already played 60 minutes of 5x5 and the game is tied. Either leave as it is or call it a tie after 60 minutes and each team gets a point. OT in the payoffs is different, as it is win or go home. My preference would be leave it the way it is. 3x3 is fun. You have a lot more open ice, I love the strategy of it, and most of the time the game ends before the shoot out. Maybe change the shoot out to have a defender start on the far blue line to chase the shooter. That would prevent the shooter from slowly skating in.

The Conference season has been a disappointment. After the Non-conference season I expected them to do much better in the conference. Crazy that they set the record for wins in a season, but are going to finish last in the conference. I had no Idea the conference was the 11 best in the country, that is pretty impressive for a bunch of northern team. At least they took 2 of 3 from NDSU. Looks like a bunch of young talent and something to build on.

Boeaer, N Scmaltz, and Blake Sanderson and Stecher Dell? No Idea if he dressed

Maybe I'm just overly Optimistic, but I fully expected them to compete for a National Championship. With the Portal and facilities we can rebuild/reload very fast. IMO we had the talent last year, but the chemistry was off. That was fixed with new coaching hire and a couple players no longer on the team. One of the best team in the last Decade (2020) came after a disappointing season. I guess I'm surprised so many are surprised about the season. Had we fallen so far that a Frozen four appearance is that much of a surprise?

We will see how the Spitfires do attendance wise this year. IMO even though there is not much to do in GF in the Summer, residents don't care. Once Friday Afternoon rolls around they are all off to the lake. The town is dead on the weekends.