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City should put pickleball in there.

Link?

Perhaps the hockey team could benefit from a gm to help the program get a better handle on recruiting and nil. Huge player pool now with the CHL players becoming eligible.

Anyone know what the plan is for Ray Richards if the underpass goes in as currently (I think) planned? There is going to be a road going through two or three holes and the course will need to redone to remain operational. The underpass caused the P3 building with housing and a Top Golf-like operation to get put on hold. Has anyone heard anything yet about what the University is thinking?

100% agree. It's too confusing and it doesn't need to be. A programs win/loss record means essentially nothing because there is so much weighting for home/away/ot wins/regulation wins. I'm fine with home and away, but the fraction of a win for OT is kind of stupid - if a team only gets a fraction of a win because 3vs3 isn't real hockey, then play real hockey in OT. 4 vs 4 is a happy medium. If anything, I'd like to see a 3vs3 win just count for a full win. It sucks that when a game goes into OT it can already feel like a pairwise loss, depending on the opponent.

Looks like UND put out a feeler for a P3 project in the NW corner of campus, near the old Dunder. Goal and Background Information "The following background information is intended to help respondents understand the needs of the UND. The University of North Dakota (“UND” or “University”) seeks interest in the development of university land, either under a long-term ground lease or through a direct land purchase from UND. The Development Site (“3A”) is located on 6th Avenue North on the south side of the street between North 42nd Street and the vacated State Street, one block west of Stanford Rd. The 3A Development Site is approximately twenty acres. The 3A Site will either be one large development parcel or could be broken out into smaller individual parcels upon consultation with and approval by UND Leadership. A Defined “phased” approach to development will be considered. Approximately half of 3A is vacant and ready for development, while the remainder currently has five existing multi-family residential apartment buildings (see Figure 1). With interest, a subsequent request will be released with greater detail obtained following the results of this request."

Agreed on getting rid of shootouts. I'm a fan of 4x4 for ten minutes, and even a goal isn't scored it will still take less time than 5 min plus shootout. With 4x4, make OT worth the full amount of a win instead of the 2/3rds like it is currently with 3x3. Make a win mean something again. 3x3 is awful with all the regrouping that's done. If 3x3 remains, call a penalty if a team regroups back past either center ice, or the blue line back into their own D zone. I think I recall Chaves saying on his podcast a year or two ago that he was in favor of 4x4 which was good to hear.

FYI, the non conference Desert Hockey Classic games are on NCHC.TV for those who have it. Cornell plays UMass starting in a few minutes.

Not sure where to put this, but this auction for Alex's Lemonade Stand has a signed Belquist jersey and mini helmet. Figured someone may be interested and its for a good cause.

Was the pairwise formula changed this past offseason? I can't figure out how UND is so low and LIU is so high?

Depends on the player, but plenty in the NAHL land scholarships. https://www.nahl.com/player-advancement/college/

Jamestown could be listed along with those schools, no?

They have been supporting the club program but there was a recent public fallout with the university, similar to what we saw here, so thats a good question.

Who cares.. they dont.

Same. The estimates are based on an algorithim which uses 100% historical data. It doesnt appear that they incorporated projections for things like industry growth or university growth into their population estimates.