Mariucci

I agree with most of whats being said here. UND and Minnesota are the two best teams in the league next year. The team that finishes first will probably be the one with the fewest injuries to top players.

They gave up less goals per game last season than UND did and UND lost Blood while the gophers lost no one. Both teams will have a strong D corp though next year no question.

True, but there's not a better D corp in the country than what the Gophers have next year which will help the goaltending. Return all 8 on the roster and have two blue chippers coming in. Last years defense(GAA) was one of the best in the nation and that was in spite of Patterson having the nations 50th best save percentage.

He's from Canada but he's an American citizen and was the captain of the 1968 US Olympic hockey team.

Yep and Im one of em. The more college players on the Wild roster the better as far as Im concerned.

That loss sucked. And I didnt mean Parise didnt accomplish anything at UND, that didnt come out right. He was easily one of the best players in the nation those two years. But no recruit that the Gophers have lost in the past stung like Parise choosing UND, none. So watching Parise win an NCAA title for UND would have been too much salt in the open wound and maybe would have been to much to forgive for the average Gopher fan.

Had Parise accomplished anything at UND while he was there it would be tougher for Gopher fans to cheer for him. For obvious reasons Gopher fans look back at those couple years with fondness, not bitterness.

Its not even close to the same thing. Being white is an advantage in this country whether you admit it or not.

In 2009 Forbes ranked Minneapolis "America's safest city."

Is Grimaldi elegible for ROY? If he is I think he's almost a lock to win that award.

His post went right over your head. You have one Div 1 sport, hockey. And no, I dont count football as Div 1 when its in a lower divison. BTW, Notre Dame has always had a solid basketball program going back to the seventies and FSU is actually quite good at basketball now as well.

Glenn Beck is a raging racist lunatic.

In my 36 years of living in the Twin Cities, not once have I ever felt unsafe in downtown mpls. The area around the Target Center is as safe as it gets, I have no idea why you think otherwise. You sound like a country bumpkin who's afraid to go to the big city.

Yeah cause so many Final Fives have been played at Mariucci.

The ticket prices were ridiculous, it kept a lot of fans away.

Thats because the U makes bids and the area is a hotbed for college hockey. Does not mean in any way that the NCAA favors the U.

We do?

Those rankings are also assuming Bjugstad returns which I still think is less than 50/50. But returning all 8 D-men on the roster and two blue chip recruits should help the goaltending situation but obviously it's still a big question mark heading into the season.

Anyone here have a theory why UND has developed great NHL forwards(Parise, Toews, Oshie, Stafford) over the last ten years or so but not D-men. Is Greene the only UND defenseman who plays regularly in the NHL or am I missing someone? Not meant as a flame post at all, just seems odd especially considering the fact that UND typically has a strong D-core.

You would know.

What a ridiculous statement. The NCAA is against Native Americans? The NCAA is against schools using them as a mascots thats all. You know what's racist? A bunch of white people in North Dakota taking the most discriminated group of people in our nations history and turning them into your schools mascot.

Kind of like how conservatives went crazy about The Da Vinci Code, another work of fiction?

How about an all Gopher Olympic D Corp of Johnson, Leopold, Martin, Ballard, Goligoski, and Leddy?

I LOVE posts like these, just love em.

Gophers were at Bemidji in 2000 I believe, maybe 2001.