GDPritch

I'm a big fan of UND and I ain't against bashing them at all but one can play your game all day and you can spin it any way you want but the Sioux kicked Montana, plain and simple.

No matter what happens next week, it better be Rudy's last week. I'm a UND diehard football fan/supporter but I was close to leaving yesterday's game by mid 3rd quarter, the offensive play calling (I get it, there's injuries, but that don't excuse all of it) was rotten.

Ditto. I was literally floored Mia didn't pull goalie on pp for 6-4 advantage. Very strange.

Uneasy feeling now gone!

As well as UND has played, I'm starting to get an uneasy feeling about this game.

Wow, the guys a jerk. He's hooked on tripping others, man.

Unless the Wild get home ice thru the playoffs (which of course they can't), this team can't win a Stanley Cup. While very good at home, they are merely average or so on the road. ON the road they play with less confidence, skill, and energy.

I get ya.

What a shame, much too young. Any clue as to the cause or not determined/not released at this time? RIP

Well, of course not...but they didn't. And had they snuck into the tourney it's not a given by any means they would have won two straight, which rarely happened following Christmas (heck, I don't think we beat any avg/mediocre teams two straight).

Huh? She had to be like 2nd on the team (per game, was out several with injury) I would think for minutes played so not sure that's true.

$70 total both days/2 seats?

Sure, they played St Cloud and Denver tough but they also had a had a nasty habit of normally playing to the level of the team they played, whether it be Union, Bemidji, Miami, CC, etc. I suppose you could translate that to UND being an average hockey team this season.

Luapsided and NoiceinsideMhyHead, your both said it very well.

Class/cool, certainly not--agree. But on another matter, "MI smoked UND"??? They were very fortunate they beat the Sioux but "smoked", WTH were you smoking at the game??? I was at that semi-final game, UND was a VERY, VERY GOOD team that season and should of won their 8th natty (for you St Clown fans that's a national title in case you don't know) that season. The Soiux dominated Mich in the semi-final, out-shooting them like 40-20 and hitting 2 pipes but it was just one of those games (quite common in hockey) where you shake your head and say WTF when it's over.

Yah, and like the first time in 15 years we don't make the NCAA tourney. You gotta make the tourney in order to win a natty.

I'm an East Sider so no axe to grind on this topic but a GF bud of mine (his kids went to Red River) mentioned yesterday UND lately seems to go after just Central guys but not RR players and the RR players have gone elsewhere and are having some success. Any merit to this statement or just rivalry pettiness?

If it comes down to that, Jones can score (no pun intended) so keep him. Hopefully both can stay though.

Well, that's just an assumption but if you don't even make it to the NCAA tourney then it's 100% given you don't hang a banner.

They should look into putting ice in Alerus Center so we could bid that for regional (the next step is then making it).

I ain't very optimistic at all about next season's team (offense specifically) if Wolannin and Gersich depart leave early, our offense will leave a lot to be desired unless a few of this year's freshmen step it up and our other non-senior (this season) forwards step up their goal scoring/finishing skills. Our Fin, Norwegian, EGF'r, and Roseau lad score goals at about the same rate as some defensive defensemen.

I've always said if I was told I had 10 minutes to live I would want to be at a televised close basketball game cus with all the called and media timeouts it takes an eternity. My God coaches, let them play.

Man, that just blows my mind. As good as men's hoops is at S Dak St (#12 seed in NCAA tourney) and they barely average 1/4 (all games) of what UND averages attendance-wise for ice hockey. Wow, speaks volumes about UND hockey support/fan base in GF area.

I AGREE, I SAW IT AND ON FIRST VIEW I SHOUTED "KICKING MOTION, NO GOAL". LIKE YOU SAID, DU PLAYER DIDN'T EVEN CELEBRATE IT WAS SO OBVIOUS. NO WONDER CC COACH WAS SO PISSED, WOW.

No offense (no pun intended) but he's only an Olympian forward cus he plays for Norway (think Jamaican bobsled team and Eddie the Eagle for England).