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You and I have very different Bison fan friends. I must be lucky and have the colossal douches of the fan base.

I don't under value him at all. He comes back, and I feel as though we're nearly guaranteed another trip to the Frozen Four, and banner 9. For someone whose knock against him coming in was that he would take shifts off and didn't care for defense, our coaching staff got rid of all of that.

Yeah, that's kind of what I was getting at.

That BU recruit class scares me. Hopefully they take 3 years to gel.

It stands to cost him millions if he signs this season. That's why the Kings are pushing so hard. He signs now he gets an entry level two way contract. He waits until after next season and signs with the Kings or goes free agent route, it's a one way contract worth significantly more. I'd heard he was leaning towards staying, also what I believe to be a very reliable source, but when a guy is 50-50 on something you and I are technically reliable sources. As is a coin flip.

I sure hope not.

Touché. Well played sir.

How's this for sacrilegious, I don't think Blais is that good of a coach. His success at UND was off the backs of his assistants. Since leaving UND he's made the Frozen Four once, playoffs twice, no conference championships, no conference tournament championships, and most importantly no natties.

I literally. Can. Not. Fathom. Why this discussion continues to come up? I swear, Hakstol had to have slept with half the sisters and mothers on this board. It starts with the people that can't celebrate a national championship without taking some sort of dig at him. Then it devolves into the posters whose glasses are so green tinted they can't acknowledge the mere idea that UND didn't field the absolute best team in college hockey every year for the last sixteen years. I firmly believe that Hakstol probably did blow it in the DOT years, that team was much too talented. Outside of that, I don't believe he likely did anything himself to lose any of those games, by either his coaching or his philosophy. In fact, a few of those teams I saw in the tournament, and make the Frozen Four, had no business being there. Maybe it's my two hours of sleep, but this thread makes me nauseas, and makes my head hurt.

In Benny's defense, it did seem like it. I was having a hard time understanding how you couldn't grasp using video for a one time thing over mass marketing it for profit either.

Yes to all of it. I'm not on the board, but I would have to feel inclined that these discussions are taking place.

If the seniors, Stecher, and Thompson are the extent of our losses this year, maybe Luke, I like our possibilities for next year. Could be a pretty special year.

Living in Jamestown, and being a graduate back when it was Jamestown College, the growth the campus has seen, and the number of buildings that have sprung up, definitely leads me to believe something is up for the future. I can't see them developing this to stay at the ACHA level. However, the hockey facilities themselves need a vast improvement in order to make that kind of jump, in my opinion. I hope they do it, it would be fun to have a place to take the kids for some higher level play, outside High School hockey.

I've seen this used before. What I'd like to know though is this number of viewers for hockey, or households? When a Bison fan threw this at me before, I looked into it because I had a hard time believing it, and it turned out that comment hockey was reported by number of households, which equates to about a 2.4 multiple if you compare household to viewership. This could have changed, but if it hasn't, that puts the hockey national championship around a 1.3M rating. Not a lot of difference.

Who'd be the most surprising if he stayed? That's your answer.

It blows my mind how people forgot that we needed a miracle to even be in the tournament that year, let alone get to the Frozen Four. Then on top of it, we gave the season long #1 team in the country a serious run for their money. With them only beating us off a fluke goal with .6 remaining.

As awesome as that would be, no.

I've heard there's a surprising chance at what we believed to be an unlikely third senior.

I'd say Gage keeps his "C". Outside that, it will all depend on who stays and goes.

You must not have many friends from the area. My FB is flooded daily with Bison bs.

I may have dreamed it, but I thought Gage has said he's coming back. P.S- I'm dead serious about possibly dreaming it.

Just watched it. Not gonna lie, I think I have something in my eye.

I was 95% certain Stecher would come back. That's not a good percentage to use.

Because there's no relation.

Tell me about it.