GDPritch

Tampa Bay I think?

What?! That wasn't Haks at the helm with that talented squad?! Blow me away man! Know what, blame the new Ralph. I might be wrong, but believe the ftbl team won it's first natty in 2001 in its first year in the Al (or was that the 2nd year?) but Sioux hockey aint' won a natty since 2000, a year before (I think?) it moved into the new Ralph. Ironic.

A few more facts please. DU ain't won one for like 10 yrs (and in 05 we' toally beat them/blame one and done), Goofs for like 12 yrs, UMD even you gotta admit won one 4 yrs ago on a spirited/fortunate run (WTF have they done otherwise???). Agree, enuff of that talk.

Oh, I got it figured out guy. If a ref doesn't make a call in order not to "effect the outcome of the game" on an incident like that, then he's effected the outcome of the game by not making the call. Terrible unofficial protocol/"rule" in hockey.

Hey, bring in Mike Eaves! He won a natty in 06 believe but is usually bad every 3 or 4 years and historically bad this past season. We dont' care, we just want a natyy! Can't make it up.

I hope you're right nhockey30.

I want to support you on that statement but when was the last time we had freshmen get big point totals? It just doesn't happen at UND anymore. Why?

Not that I disagree but we seem to have been saying that now for the last 15 years (and that includes part of the Blias era you Haks bashers). Bad karma, no doubt, but for a decade and a half.....

A damn crosscheck to the neck and not 5 minutes. Blame Hakstol, it's his fault. Can't make it up.

Agree. Blimey, get a life handsome rob.

Agree. I know it's the natty and final game win or lose but maybe 2 or 3 min early I think.

I've actually come to the conclusion, based on his great coaching during the reg season and getting the team to the ncaa tourney, that Haks would be a better pro coach than a college coach. It simply suits his coaching style, expertise,.....

Agree, we don't seem to get those players anymore. Cags, Parks and McMillian (like R Duncan) are nice college players but certainly are not going to be notable NHL players--unlike Parise, Toews, B Nelson, Oshie, Stafford,.....

Agree. W/o Zane we're not here this year. Upper classmen forwards need to put pucks in net, such as Cags, Parks, etc and that aint' happening. Is that poor performance or poor recruiting on Haks part...?

I'm convinced even though the east teams don't play more like NHL teams they seem to get more high-end, skill talent anymore. How else do you explain how their freshmen can rack up respectable point totals (and as young freshmen) yet the high end skill players we seem to get anymore have played juniors and don't seem to start racking up points until soph or jr years (with a few exceptions) even after scoring lots of pts in juniors prior to playing at UND?

Used to be.

I respectfully disagree. At least w/o a new nickname/logo we can't possibly offend one person...can we?!

Gotta agree, spot on. I'm very frustrated that Hak ain't won at least 1 natty but at the same time I'll defend his success year after year and challenge anyone to name a coach to bring in who might possibly get better results (and that ain't just winning a natty) if we fire him Hak. I honestly can't think of one.

I'll just post this in ref to Hak's coaching performance over the past 11 seasons (since it was written LAST season I updated it to reflect for the past 11 seasons), written by Dave Berger. I thought he stated the case in support of Hak very well. Obviously if your only focus is on winning a national title (go ahead and get Eaves to coach us then but he's not my choice) then we could argue 'til we're blue in the face. "Aside from BC, ND, and Min, no other school has earned more than 2 Frozen Four bids in the past 11 years , and Dave Hakstol has done it 7 times. Yes, I understand that Jerry York (BC) has also brought his team to 6 Frozen Fours in that time span, and has won 3 in the past 11 years (2008, 2010, 2012), but no one is saying that Dave Hakstol is a better coach than Jerry York (at least, they won’t until he wins a national title or two). But does that make him second-best in the country? Third? Any time someone brings up the idea of “firing Hak”, my question is “and who’s your replacement?” In other words, it had better be good, because Hakstol has been excellent."

Agree on your point about Omaha's young team and in F4 just two games from a Natty; no, youth ain't always an impediment to success come spring. A writer out of Madison a month ago following a Badger's asst coaches outburst at their fans (frustration with the Badger's historically bad season) praised UND in fact for winning the conf title and advancing in the NCAAs back several seasons ago with generally an under classmen dominated team. The asst coach was trying to fault the fans in Wis for not understanding what they (coaches) were doing and said they were having a bad season cus they lost a ton of seniors and had early departures (true). However, the writer challenged that assessment and gave examples of other teams that didn't necessarily have to accept challenging for a natty one season with an older team and then totally fall off the radar (Wis) the next season.

Why were farmers who settled in the Great Plains called sodbusters?CancelSave '' already exists. Would you like to merge '' into it? Ahh, Badlands from Darkness on the Edge of Town album (late 70s), arguably Springsteen's finest. I'm starting to like both Badlanders and Sodbusters, they're both growing on me and seem to fit the criteria put out for selecting a new name. CancelMERGE

So, with 4 games remaining I believe is the Wild guaranteed a spot in the play-offs or mathematically is there still a chance (albeit, remote?) they could miss out? I know they have their last 3 games on the road vs good teams so should there be any anxiety?

Agree stoneySIOUX. As a Big10 hoops power, he's had talent at Mich State just like admittedly Hak has had at UND. Both coache's admittedly have had seasons with lesser talent than in some others and that's when they've shown their mettle and carried the team further than most anticipated/expecte.

River Cats?