Benny Baker
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57 minutes ago, tnt said:
He actually put up decent offensive numbers with 5 goals, 11 assists and had a much better +/- than the rest of the defense with a +9.
Dare I say Brent Johnson put up decent offensive numbers (1-5–6) in only 13 games and had the third highest +\- of any defenseman this year for UND.
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3 hours ago, SIOUXELEVENS said:
So what will that say to recuits if we have nhl draft picks enter the portal, not a job look.
I agree it’s not the result I want, and it’s already happened with Blaisdell.
But FWIW, Chris Wilkie, Wade Murphy, and Mike Cichy all transferred out of UND when you still had to sit a season.
Brett Bruneteau transferred, but I believe he had graduated.
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Berry has squandered the opportunities of the 2017, 2019, 2021, and 2023 frickin’ Fargo, North Dakota regionals.
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6 hours ago, fightingsioux4life said:
I will not be there this year. I am going to a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert at U.S. Bank Stadium in April with my gf and I just cannot justify making two trips to the Twin Cities in that short of time (relationship has to come first, I am no fool). I will be back next year however. Everybody who is there have fun.
But what do you when the Sioux play the evening of April 8th for the national championship at the same time RHCP take the stage?!?!
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4 hours ago, johnsowe said:If UND wins the NCHC playoffs how many games into the NCAA does Berry need to win to close this thread?
Get out of Fargo.
Imagine being told after the first regional in Fargo that UND would host again in 2017, 2019, 2021, and 2023 but only manage to win ONE game?
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13 minutes ago, ND_Texan said:
Okay, call it what it is, a rumor. Johnson is a Texas kid and down here in Texas the rumor is that he hasn't fully recovered from the shoulder injury he suffered in Sioux Falls. Admittedly, seems like something like that would be confirmable. Who knows.
Good to know. Hate to say it, but I’d rather it be an injury issue than regression in play or character issues.
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38 minutes ago, stoneySIOUX said:
Started as one and then fell out of favor throughout those 13 games. Why would they keep him around the team if he had an off ice issue?
Don’t disagree that he fell out of favor, obviously.
Why keep him around if it was an off ice issue? The same reason they kept TJ Oshie, Jonathan Toews, Robbie Bina, Matt Greene, and countless other players with off ice issues around and recruited players like Brandon Bochenski—they’re good at hockey.
Not every discipline issue requires a Matt Frattin, Mitchell Miller, or Luke Voltin type response.
But we only recruit “character” players anyway.
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Just now, stoneySIOUX said:
Solid fixture? Started the season top 4, playing 2nd PP unit. Slowly lost minutes and lost PP. Continued to turnover the puck consistently and pulled himself out of play. You could quite literally see the reason he was falling out of favor. All of that said, I'm just telling you what I heard from multiple people. Again, believe what you want.
Correct, solid fixture. 13 of 15 games.
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10 hours ago, stoneySIOUX said:
I've been told several times by multiple people that it's not an off ice issue. He just has not shown the ability to play defense and is at the bottom of the depth chart. Apparently he's still working hard and is being a solid teammate.
Believe what you want, but sometimes the most obvious answer is the right one.
He went from a solid fixture in the lineup to never playing again. That tells me the most obvious answer is an off ice issue.
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https://www.uscho.com/stats/player/mid,34065/Brent-Johnson/
#6 played 13 of 15 games from Oct 7-Dec 3. Hasnt had a whiff of ice time since.
Clearly this was not a performance issue, but some sort of off ice incident that occurred on or around December 3, 2022 or led up to it.
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The “French Connection”: Martin St Louis and Eric Perrin made ‘96 Vermont’s team one of the forgotten best.
Born in Burlington to boot, Ryan St Louis must really have wanted to forge his own path. But yes, I too wonder if he doesn’t end up back home.
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1 hour ago, The Sicatoka said:Public Questions:
Why did UND not acquire the trademark after the April review (noted in UND press release last week) found it was available? Yes, UND had primary rights but why not lock it down completely.
Agree.
For example, UND recently trademarked the 1950/60s logo with the "UND" arch above the two-crossing hockey sticks. UND already had primary rights to that logo but they made the recent decision to trademark it, nonetheless.
Why did they take a different course of action with NODAK?
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27 minutes ago, Walsh Hall said:
As a respected and wise jurist frequently said, bringing a claim for an appearance of conflict of interest is beyond sophomoric. There is either a conflict or there isn’t a conflict.
Jurist? Interesting.
Right after independence and integrity, avoiding the “appearance of impropriety”, not just a conflict of interest, is literally the second canon of judicial ethics.
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23 minutes ago, SKondrashkin said:
Well of course. All of this is an entangled web of legal intricacies. But that doesn't nullify the gist of the problem. WTF is Berry's daughter doing registering NODAK; at a time when the NODAK jerseys were set to make a lot of money? And with the assistance of Tarek Howard?
Even if UND has found no legal impropriety, questions still need to be answered. Furthermore, if UND had sole rights to the trademark, why even negotiate with Nodak LLC?
Like a previous poster said, I'm not in the "Fire Berry Crowd", but, man, Berry has some splainin' to do. At least for transparency's sake.
Yeah, I’ll find common ground on the transparency aspect. No one seems to want or be able to answer the obvious question: why did the coach’s daughter trademark NODAK in the first place?
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4 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:
I get your point, but please reconcile how a third place vote-getter is the answer.
Perhaps because "it became clear that NODAK was an idea that the hockey community latches on to", at least, according to the University's own President.
“There was a global pandemic happening in April 2020, so that may have influenced things,” said Armacost. “Going back to our understanding of trademark law, we were the senior users of NODAK, which gives us legal protection. At that point, NODAK was still an experiment. When we sold out of the first 450 NODAK jerseys shortly afterwards, it became clear that NODAK was an idea that the hockey community latches on to. We now have that trademark registered as a consequence of negotiations with NODAK LLC.”
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27 minutes ago, SKondrashkin said:
But this is where it gets potentially nefarious. Trademark registration applicants must declare what goods and services the word/trademark is used in conjunction with. NODAK LLC's was for apparel, clothing, etc; basically anything you can find at the Sioux Shop. WTF?
Or Nodak LLC would have been infringing on SRBND LLC's North Dakota registered tradename or, at a minimum, its geographical use of the Nodak trademark on green, black, white clothing apparel in North Dakota anyway: https://www.facebook.com/nodakclothing/
It takes a lot of IP litigation to actually narrow down the owners of trademarks and tradenames when there are competing interests.
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17 minutes ago, SKondrashkin said:
But, UND also owns the NODAK 'moniker' because they were the first to use it. HOWEVER, because they didn't register it, their usage rights are restricted to the geographic area they do business. Registering a trademark ensures national rights.
Way too much nuance to make a blanket statement that registering a trademark ensures national rights. That is why there is so much IP litigation to resolve these disputes.
What is the geographic area that UND does business in? If I am UND's attorney, my argument would be that we're a national university, have students from all 50 states and internationally, and we even wore that Nodak jersey in the state of Nevada. At a minimum, we're certainly a regional school encompassing Minnesota where Nodak LLC is registered.
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Just now, siouxkid12 said:
I wouldn't doubt that people would switch over.
However, with this PC climate we have I HIGHLY doubt any new sports franchise would adopt a native american nickname.
RIP old Portland Winterhawks logo
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4 minutes ago, Shawn-O said:
If the WHL expanded to Grand Forks and the franchise adopted "Fighting Sioux", half the UND hockey season ticket base would be like "peace, out".
Not only that, but also that playing Major Juniors, not the NCAA, is the appropriate path to the NHL.
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7 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:
If NODAK LLC "acknowledged the University's existing rights in the NODAK mark as the senior user", why'd they waste their time and money taking a junior or inferior position? What's to gain from that?
Who is "they"? Do you have some inside knowledge that there are multiple owners of Nodak LLC?
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37 minutes ago, AlphaMikeFoxtrot said:
Port follows up with patting himself on the back and more questions that paint a far more nefarious picture than what likely happened.
It's clickbait garbage.
Headline misrepresents that UND "now owns trademark" while article concedes "[Nodak] LLC has expressly acknowledged the University's existing rights in the NODAK mark as the senior user." UND owned it all along, even according to the LLC that registered the trademark.
Registration of a trademark doesn't necessarily mean ownership. If I registered (recorded) a Warranty Deed in Ward County today claiming to own Rob Port's house, does that mean I am automatically the owner?
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10 minutes ago, ChrisUND1 said:
You can barely see them here but it gives you a point of reference for when they were used. Not sure about how many years.
Thanks!
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1 minute ago, ChrisUND1 said:
I was just going to post a pic. I remember these from when I was younger.
Do you know what seasons they wore these?
I've seen these jerseys too on eBay and what not, but don't ever recall seeing a UND player wear one.
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Agree. NCAA tournament-bound Ohio State worked out well for its current leading scorer, Freshman Stephen Halliday.