Benny Baker

It’s hard to pass the character and fitness test and become a licensed attorney when you have a criminal record for theft.

Any one have Purple Cows winning their regional? Mankato has not lost since January. Goalie’s save percentage is .945% and his worst performance this season was 3 goals (5 times). 32 other games allowing just 0, 1, or 2 goals.

Sad reality is that UND has been GUARANTEED home regional games every other year for the past decade. This season. Again in 2027. And 2028. Too bad they don’t take advantage…

If you would have told me before the game that Dell would let in 1 goal, and the boys would hang 40 shots on Michigan, I would have left Xcel, flown to Vegas, and bet my life savings on the Sioux …

You mean the guy that made it to every NCAA tournament?! Lol. Wow, how far this program has fallen.

FWIW, I believe the 4th line (29, 20, and 27) were on the ice for the game tying and game winning goals last night.

UND’s weak offensive performance against Omaha’s porous defense is even more confounding when you consider that 10 of UND’s 12 forwards tonight are NHL draft picks.

Winning in expected goals (xG) but losing in actual goals means you have a team that’s failing to execute as expected.

You’re right. I’m wrong. UND hockey, athletics, and its NIL collective have been crushing it as of late. All is well folks. Sorry for any false alarm.

So you agree, then? After all, it was UofM’s independent NIL program—Dinkytown Athletes—that was literally first to announce Jimmy Snuggerud’s return by tweeting he’s “coming back for another year with @DTAthletes”. I must have missed the 1889’s collective tweet about Jackson Blake returning this season. I saw you later added a comment about UofM’s comms and foreign students. I have to wonder the same then about all of UND’s similar degrees and the Russians and Chinese we’ve trained as pilots.

NIL deals haven’t existed for decades; but rather, less than four years. I know I’ve seen Minnesota’s hockey team in a national championship game during that timeframe.

You’re right. It is apples and oranges. But just like UND doesn’t have the resources for those types of buyouts, it doesn’t have the resources to compete in the NIL arena with schools like Minnesota either.

Wonder how long would Berry would survive at a school like Mankato, Bemidji, etc. where he wouldn’t be set up with the resources and history of UND?

Hak is done with coaching college and has reservations about UND’s ability to compete in the NIL landscape.

This is like Schlossman-speak promoting UND women’s hockey because they have European Olympians. Some fans might measure UND hockey success because the “NHL loves how UND develops players” for them? (For free and on the public dime!) Others measure UND hockey success by how UND competes against other college hockey teams and whether UND competes for a national title.

Well, I would think so. Junior hockey is usually 20 and under.

Blake was USHL Player of the Year in 1994.

That’s my fear. 2026: Penrose; 0 NCAA wins; but extension 2027: miss NCAAs 2028: make NCAAs, but no wins 2029: Penrose; 0 NCAA wins; extension again 2030: repeat ….

The 2010-2012 era.

Hey, can we not drag the good name of Ohio State hockey down to the level of UND’s?!? The Buckeyes were playing in the frozen four back in 2018. (OSU also won another NCAA game in 2023 too). Good grief, this program has gone off the rails ….

No kidding. Lest we also forget, Jake Brandt pull tabs; TJ Oshie elevator suspension (hey, when you gotta go, you gotta go); the entire Toews/Oshie/Bina underage drinking and then opening up the cop car door at Judy's bonanza; Bochenski's felony forgery (before he even got to campus); I mean the list really does go on with this cultured squad of hockey brethren.

That might be a fair assessment, though, to be honest. "Close to being good" implies that they were not yet a good team, and certainly not great. At 18-17-2, the 2018-2019 team was pretty damn average. "You are what your record says you are." -- Bill Parcells.

Correct. UND missed one regional from 1997-2017. If they can’t make a Fargo regional in 2019, 2023, and 2025, then the AD needs to be the second person fired immediately after the head hockey coach. I’ll continue to say it, if Brad doesn’t make a regional final this season, then he doesn’t need an 11th season behind the bench.

Yes. Perfect example of how every team has luck in the playoffs. BU capitalized on it in 2017. Unfortunately, when Duluth and Notre Dame’s first game winning goals were waived off in 2021 and 2022, unlike BU, UND failed to capitalize.