scpa0305
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I seen it! Fighting Sioux hockey bombed the set of ESPNs gameday in the Bison city......,
Loved it
Saw
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Gersich with a nice game last night....G, 2 A's.
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Grant Potulny will be a head coaching candidate at North Dakota at some point in the not so distant future. Consider him a modern day Dean Blais you fricken rubes. Oh, and Mariucci is right.
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In all honesty, if soccer hasn't passed hockey yet, it's gotta be DAMN close to passing it. Especially the US National Team. For cripes sakes, the Seattle Sounders sell out the Seahawks stadium.
True....it definitely is very close if you include the entire country.
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So, UND has more fans than Columbus? Care to substantiate that claim?
I'd guess you're probably wrong. And that isn't meant to be disrespectful to UND. I bet they have more fans than UMN as well. It's an NHL franchise in a pretty big market.
have you ever been to a small market hockey game? It honestly reminded me of a MN Swarm game....they have all these side show activities between every whistle simply to keep the fans somewhat interested....because lord knows they know nothing about the game being played. I honestly don't call them 'real' fans.
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I see no facts to substantiate anything you said. I know this isn't the most scientific approach to measuring interest (the non-casual variety), but it's certainly more than you offered.
There are currently 40 people browsing the Bluejackets board on HFBoards and 64 people browsing the Wild board. Hardly a substantial difference. Are you suggesting the majority of people who attend Wild games are just there for the social experience?
I have a job that pays....I can't sit patrolling random boards all day long. I do know that the Und following alone (real fans) are night and day more than the blue jackets (the biggest joke in the NHL)
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I don't even know how to reply to such a bizarre statement like this. In fact I can't, it's just too dumb,
Brush up on your hockey knowledge....your top recruit just decommited.
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You're missing the point. They average 14,000+ fans at games. UND averages 14,000+ fans at games. Ohio is a bigger market and likely to have far more casual fans.
It's nothing personal, nor any type of shot at UND, but fact is OSU is a bigger national brand. And yes, that even matters for hockey (even if less than other sports).
I would bet top dollar a UND vs UM outdoor game, nationally televised, would draw over double the tv viewers than an OSU vs UM game. Half the "attendance" at blue jackets games are simply there for social entertainment reasons not because of their dire passion for blue jacket hockey. I also would bet that a small % of those blue jacket fans are die hard buckeye hockey fans. The state is much bigger that is the obvious (and only) reason for more USA hockey members.
The only potential viewers that will watch a nationally televised college hockey game are college hockey fans. Plain and simple; sorry fellow hockey fans our sport is 4th in the food chain and soccer is catching up fast. So who has the best college hockey fanbase...we do.
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Mariucci you are forgetting something....those people who aren't going to watch hockey anyway will still not watch a UM game vs OSU (including OSU fans) it's like lacross to them.
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Corban with a shorty last night against Ottawa!
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I can't figure out how to post pictures from my phone but the new NHL nets are pretty cool. They are a lot narrower to me....or at least something is up with them.
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I have been hearing from my family that their D is pretty shabby but this RB is running wild on them. What gives? He must be the only one they need to stop.
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Green jersey is just flat out ugly. Their green jerseys used to be great.
Is that jungle green? Where is out Sioux (Kelly) green? Also, there is definitely something missing in the middle.
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Two teams that would have probably beat UND like the red-headed stepchildren that they are. If your only hope at beating NDSU is the "miracle" game, shows how different the programs are.
Dokay now....you are pepping up an FCS team are you not? Lets get real here.
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When he played against the Sioux at the Ralph last year, he didn't look out of place at all.
Ditto....he'll be pretty raw but is a great player. Monitor is minutes, ease him in, and don't put him in a spot to fail. Give the kid confidence and he'll be an awesome sophomore and junior.
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Another year, another refresher:
Getter. Setter. Shooter.
A player can be any combination of these and multiple. I don't mind if there are two scorers on one line...but at least one must be able to dish the pill.
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Oh sure, thanks.
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The 2013/14 Stats page has each recruit listed with their current team and league.
Which "2013/14 stats page"?
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I knew I would get raked over the hot coals for expressing any opinions that don't follow the "ducky and bunny" field manual. I will stand by these comments until I am proven otherwise by our teams. I will gladly eat crow if our teams prove my pessimism wrong.
I think a lot of what you said is true. I am only going to comment on hockey because that is where my passion lies....I love und but also have to get back to work. We have always pulled in top notch recruits/players....the game has simply changed for Americans. Kids are playing hockey everywhere and the college game is getting deeper...in essence more teams have depth. Also we lose players but not at a rate greater than many other teams....everyone loses players evey year (go check the gophs or goons most recent article). We are just going through a rough patch....last years team just didn't play up to expectations, plain and simple. Better luck this year.
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Playing center at the next level is hard...even Toews didn't play center much as a frosh.
Tambellini and Johnson can get spelled by Mark Mac playing pivot early in the year.
I think we're crazy if we split up Rocco and Cags or Mark Mac and Parks
To me, Tambellini and Murphy round out those top two lines-
Third line has Johnson, OD, and St. Clair written all over it, if OD can get his game back
Energy will have Pattyn and Rodwell and then a dog fight for that final winger- Gaarder certainly has heart, and Mitch Mac can skate...Chyzyk has some scoring upside...then there's the new guys...
After Simpson and Schmaltz, I don't have a clue at who will play on D two nights per weekend. I think it will be a rotation early.
Just a question....but why Rocco and Cags?
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Not much room for creativity when we don't really have a logo. Take away the M, and what do you have? Ugly colors
Haha bam!!!
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Bigger in that OSU was ranked one spot higher than K-State and EWU isn't as good as NDSU sure. Hard thing early in the year to figure out how good some of these teams are.
A.) Sagarin stats are for one game scenarios I believe. Of course NDSU couldn't handle an SEC schedule. Even Alabama couldn't if you only gave them 63 scholarships. Could NDSU play with the lower SEC schools? Probably a few of them. Mel Kiper seems to think so anyway.
There was no flukey luck in beating K-State. NDSU shut down their running game...NDSU ran the ball effectively. That is how football games are won.
If Alabama only had 63 scholarships they would still drop 80 on NDSU. If you take away the turnovers (which you can't do) the bison lose. Kstate had like 8 returning starters and it was the first game of the year. That was obviously in NDSUs favor. Which lower schools are you talking about? They might have a close game with Kentucky but every other team crushes them quick. This sucks because I was pumped watching that win but all this crazy talk about them competing in the SEC is insane.
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I don't think NDSU would do well in the SEC but I don't think they would be in last place at the end of the year. The most impressive thing to me about the K State win is that they controlled the game and for the most part were the more physical team. It wasn't a fluke that they won that game, they deserved and earned that win. Preseason rankings really don't mean a lot but it wouldn't surprise me if K State ends up in the top 25 by the end of the season.
Dead last...or second to last with maybe one conference win if they got lucky and beat Kentucky....it would also have to be the first or second game if the season.
UND 2013-14 season
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They'll be a good team....like always. Go check their draft picks out.