Mariucci
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Their "lifting it" from the state nickname.
Good luck finding any decent name that hasn't been taken, especially if you are going to include high schools.
Which is why Flickertails should've been given more consideration IMO. I think it would've been really cool if your school went back to it's original nickname although I know I'm in the tiny minority with this opinion.
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So you're saying they're like the "anti Gophers" when it comes to scheduling?
Yep, nothing like stacking your non-conference schedule with cupckaes like BC, Notre Dame, UMD, Mankato, and SCSU.
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Gee S>B put your jealousy on hold a minute. We played Del. State on one of our GameDays so UNI with a loss is no big deal. Our game with UM is the first game of the year and I imagine most college FB fans will be watching.
Sorry to interupt this entertaining thread but this post confused me. I'm assuming UM is Montana? And you seriously believe "most college fb fans will be watching?"
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Alabama and Ole Miss play on the 19th. Could be pretty hard to compete with that.
And don't forget the Gophers play Kent State that day as well which may be too tempting for Gameday to pass up.
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I dont think the goal happens had our boys not thought the period was over
I agree with you but playing poorly isn't a fluke.
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Grimaldi deserves most of the blame. He loses the face-off and then didn't take out the trailing Holl.
I'm getting tired of people saying it was such a fluky goal when in reality it was a very typical hockey goal. What we just saw in Boston is a fluke goal. Rau won the face-off cleanly, no fluke there. Skjei is first to the puck and makes a nice play by chipping it ahead off the boards to Holl. Holl immediately rushes up the ice and gets it to Rau who's eventual shot was blocked and it came to Holl. I'm assuming this is the part you guys say is a fluke, the fact that the puck found Holl. But watch it again. It's not like the puck just found Holl's stick, in fact he made a great play by playing it off his skate to his stick in order to get a shot off as quickly as he could. It was a very slick play by him. Shots are blocked or deflected and bounce to open players all the time in every single game so I'm not sure how that constitutes a fluke. They won the face-off, got up the ice quickly, and managed to get 2 shots off. The end result of the play was made due to a series of good plays leading up to it.
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Oh yes, ... keep the name, have to have "post season" uniforms that are never seen on the playing surface in Grand Forks in any sport, and keep getting the "Marco Hunt" treatment by the NCAA.
Oh yes, ... fabulous idea.
Folks need to read and understand my signature:
The NCAA, the hyper-retentive, hyper-detail-checking group, that micromanages every detail of every event, that made Scheel's Arena in Fargo put "NCAA" stickers over the "Dakota Magic Casino" logos on the cup holders at the seats, did not put Marco Hunt on the ice with UND in Boston by mistake.
The NCAA knew exactly what and why they were doing it. They knew UND pushed for Marco Hunt to be removed from the NCHC approved officials list. They knew Marco Hunt wasn't happy about it. So what did the NCAA do? They put Marco Hunt on the ice with UND as the game official for a national semifinal.
That was no mistake.
That was a message from the NCAA to the UND saying pick a nickname so we don't have to keep hearing the "S" word, or you'll keep getting "the Marco Hunt treatment" from us.
Conspiratorial? Sure. But the NCAA doesn't make "mistakes" like that in championships. They send messages.
You sound like Republicans in Texas who are somehow convinced the Feds are coming after them. If you think rationally you would see that your theory is insane.
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Honest question. Is Flickertails being considered at all? It's better than most of the other options I've heard and has history with the school. I honestly don't think it's a bad nickname although I'm sure I'm in the minority.
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and he's only 29 years old....
I'm assuming this was a joke as he's 47. But he looks at least 10 years older than he really is if not more.
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I'm not sure there is a direct correlation.
According to the USCHO stats, Lucia has had seven recruiting classes with 8 or more freshmen in it (last year's team had 8).
1999-00: 8 freshmen, 20-19-2, missed the NCAAs
2001-02: 9 freshmen, 32-8-4, NCAA champions
2004-05: 9 freshmen, 28-15-1, Lost in NCAA semis
2006-07: 9 freshmen, 31-10-3, Lost in NCAA qtrs
2008-09: 11 freshmen, 17-13-7, missed NCAAs
2010-11: 10 freshmen, 16-14-6, missed NCAAs
2013-14: 8 freshmen, 28-7-6, lost in NCAA final
It's not clockwork but there is a trend in some of the years.
The team that was going for the 3peat returned most but they got off to a horrible start and never really clicked. I realize they ended up being a #1 seed but that team never reached it's potential(4th place in WCHA) and didn't even make the FF. Then they lost Riddle, Koalska, Vanek, Ballard(4 top scorers), and G. Potulny and the next season they were a #1 seed again with MUCH less talent and made the FF(Columbus). The team that lost to HC and 2 lossses in the Final Five lost R. Potulny, Kessel, Irman, Goligoski, etc but the next years team had the Erik Johnson and Okposos freshman class won the Final Five and were within 1 goal of the FF.
After going to the Frozen Four in Tampa pretty much the entire team returned including Haula and Bjugstad which was somewhat surprising. They never clicked like the previous year and lost to #4 seed Yale. But then of course the huge freshman class of Kloos, Cammaratta, Fasching, etc came in and had one of the best regular seasons in years and went to the Championship game. Everyone returned once again and you saw those results this past season.
Sorry if I hijacked the thread. But I won't be surprised if next years team has a better vibe and better work eithic.
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Yep just my gut feeling. Certainly are spots to fill.Just a hunch, or what? I see a lot of holes and not a prospect crops as good as 2013-14.
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They wanted to clean house over there.
The better Gopher teams are typically the ones where they have a large freshman class. That's why they were so good last year(2013-2014) after losing Schmidt, Alt, Haula, Bjugstad, and Budish the year before. For some reason when the Gophers return most of the team they tend to under perform. It's like they forget how hard they had to work the prior year to get where they did. This past season is a perfect example of this. A large freshman class, especially when some play a prominent role seems to be a nice infusion of not just talent but players who are very motivated to proves themselves. Next years team won't be as talented but they will have a better record and season than last year.
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Come on guys don't be so short sighted. There's lliterally not a single program in the WCHA that will have more success than Minnesota, Michigan, or Wisconsin over the next years, not one. Heck I bet Penn State has a better chance at long term success than every team in the WCHA. Maybe Mankato can sustain this recent success with Hastings, maybe. But generally it's a conference made up entirely of average to bad programs who are good once every ten years. This past year they were a good conference but it was clearly an anomaly.
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Why would they care about the name? How does the name make them more money. Please explain.
The Big Ten can outbid the NCHC or the WCHA with ease. Plus this is a Big Ten market. Nobody in the cities has even heard of the NCHC much less the tiny schools that make it up.
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The X would rather host whichever event makes them more moeny, pediod. If Dora on Ice bring the bank they'll book it. Names don't matter AT ALL. You're overestimating the Big 10.
You're just dead wrong. You could not be more wrong if you tried.
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And since the gophers are guaranteed to make it (wow big 10 you suck) the X knows they'll get a decent crowd every year they are there.
Just one short season ago it was better then the NCHC. This is one year, don't be so short sighted. And let's not forget your season last year was ended by a Big Ten team.
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If the NCHC consistently outdraws the Final Five and the B1G tournement in the X, you don't need to oubid the B1G. Hypothetically, the X will see that the Frozen Faceoff can generate much more revenue than either of those tournaments and they will not sign new contracts with the other leagues, and will propose a contract to have the NCHC Frozen Faceoff at the X.
You're naive. The Twin Cities is a Big Ten market. You're also underestimating the Big Ten brand. If you think the X would rather host something called the NCHC over the Big Ten you're nuts. The Big Ten can triple a bid from the NCHC if they wanted. And for the first ever Big Ten hockey tournament the attendance wasn't bad and it will only get better.
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While it has probably already been noted somewhere else in these pages, the Target Center is going to prove to just be a flyover for the NCHC. Once the X's contract with the WCHA expires, likely soon, the NCHC will have the financial firepower to outbid the WCHA for the Xcel Center. NCHC goes to Saint Paul, the WCHA plays at the Target Center, and the PIG10, in its Minnesota years, will play in whatever local television studio is willing to provide a sheet of ice and room for thirty or forty seats, a few cameras, and a table and background for the PIG10 Network talking heads, who are largely clueless on the game of hockey, to do their blathering between commercials promoting the PIG10's other sports and products.
Bitter much?
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Congratulations
The Porter wrap around didn't lead to a title but UND fans still love that moment. .6 will live forever.
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Losing to the #15 overall seed in a tournament that you expect to perform in on an annual basis is still way more significant than winning a game on a lucky one-in-a-million shot (this is the ONLY Frozen Four loss I will contribute to an "unlucky" bounce) with .6 seconds left in regulation. Even if it was 9 years ago.
The difference is that .6 directly involved the Gophers beating UND while Holy Cross did not.
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I have to agree. There was really nothing to be gained by winning those two games. I wonder if there was a big importance put on getting through the weekend with no more injuries and no suspensions? I can't help but think that this may have been by design, "playing a little possum" if you like. Wouldn't you expect big hits and stupid penalties as the frustration built?
Incredible.
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Just held the top scoring team in the nation to 2 goals and have given up a total of 4 goals in the last 4 games. Wilcox has completely regained his form of last year as well.Really? I don't see it. They are still not very good defensively. Stay out of the box and they are very, very beatable.
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Pathetic embarrassing crowd. I don't care that hockey is new to the conference they should still be able to market an event better than this. On a side note, Wilcox just played the best game of his career.
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LOL! You can't claim national championships when the conference wasn't even in existence! Here's how I view the conference national championships race since the conference shake-up:
ECAC: 1
Everyone else: 0
I saw a B10 football ad a few years ago that advertised X number of national championships in football. That number increased by quite a few in one single off-season thanks not to Ohio State, but Nebraska. LOL!
That's absurd. And I never said the BIG won 23 titles. The BIG has teams who have won 23 NCAA titles. The NCHC has teams who have won 17 NCAA titles. That better for you?
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Exactly, get it straight!