Search for a New Head Coach

[90siouxfan]

  On 3/27/2025 at 2:11 AM, yzerman19 said:

only reason this would ever happen is if you are happy with program results and firing a head for issues unrelated to the on ice product

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Perhaps off ice issues were more than we know.

[siouxkid12]

  On 3/27/2025 at 2:07 AM, ksixpack said:

Can somebody please explain the love for Chyzyk and Smaby?  I don’t get it…one is the GM for Waterloo and one is the coach for Waterloo. Neither of them have ever won anything as coach or GM. Is it because you loved the way they played at UND?  They don’t have the pedigree to be mentioned in the same breath as any number of folks that have applied for this job. If you want pedigree look to someone that has won at the USHL level, college level, and pro level…there is a few that have and are applying for this job…these two haven’t won anything yet…they are very young and their time may come but please, let’s wait for them to earn the right to be considered for this position.

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You have no idea who has applied for this job, none of us do. so just sit here and guess like the rest of us couches gm’s.

Also, Hakstol never won anything and by your “standards” he never should have been considered for the job.

So calm down and let us all pretend like we have a say in the matter.

[Langster019]

  On 3/27/2025 at 2:40 AM, siouxkid12 said:

You have no idea who has applied for this job, none of us do. so just sit here and guess like the rest of us couches gm’s.

Also, Hakstol never won anything and by your “standards” he never should have been considered for the job.

So calm down and let us all pretend like we have a say in the matter.

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Pretend? It’s our decision. 🤪

[Cratter]

  On 3/26/2025 at 4:33 PM, AlphaMikeFoxtrot said:

Simpson rents a place at Empire townhouses per internet sleuthing.

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He lives in a nice house with his family on Belmont.

[farce poobah]

  On 3/27/2025 at 12:57 AM, yzerman19 said:

By the way, I pay homage...as a child I LOVED the farce...it was as much fun to watch you guys as it was the game as a little kid in 1981

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Thank you!  High praise indeed.   

We had more fun than should have been legal.  (Well actually, some of it wasn't. shshsh)  We started small and green, and along the way I got to hang with some amazing people.

May the Farce be with you.

[dden3]

  On 3/27/2025 at 2:30 AM, 90siouxfan said:

Perhaps off ice issues were more than we know.

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Is it possible that Bubs, Chaves and Armacost were not in agreement on an extension of his contract?  He was going into the last year of his deal. 

[SIOUXFAN97]

  On 3/27/2025 at 2:43 AM, Langster019 said:

Pretend? It’s our decision. 🤪

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so geauxsious's poll isn't law?

[GeauxSioux]

  On 3/27/2025 at 1:00 AM, yzerman19 said:

kermit, dead gophers and badgers, the old barn with a smoke filled concourse...my dad had a secret parking spot on University ave we used to run to the rink in the freezing cold...

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I will never forget the dead badger swinging out of the rafters in front of the press box. 

[ksixpack]

  On 3/27/2025 at 2:40 AM, siouxkid12 said:

You have no idea who has applied for this job, none of us do. so just sit here and guess like the rest of us couches gm’s.

Also, Hakstol never won anything and by your “standards” he never should have been considered for the job.

So calm down and let us all pretend like we have a say in the matter.

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We are firing guys because they haven’t won at the NCAA level in 9 years (Championship) and 2 years (league) and some on here are throwing out names of guys that are wet behind the ears and have never won even a league title at the Jr level. All because they are former UND guys.  How about we stop with the UND bias and think big picture, whether it be head coach or assistant.

[tnt]

  On 3/27/2025 at 3:01 AM, ksixpack said:

We are firing guys because they haven’t won at the NCAA level in 9 years (Championship) and 2 years (league) and some on here are throwing out names of guys that are wet behind the ears and have never won even a league title at the Jr level. All because they are former UND guys.  How about we stop with the UND bias and think big picture, whether it be head coach or assistant.

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Not saying either are the answer, but what were Gino and David Carle’s credentials?

[Esoteric]

  On 3/26/2025 at 11:13 PM, Vegas_Sioux said:

And clearing customs since that’s how gfk can call itself an intl airport. 

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GFK is one of the world’s busy airports.

[burd]

  On 3/27/2025 at 3:51 AM, Esoteric said:

GFK is one of the world’s busy airports.

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Facts?

[Tignutts]

so are we getting an announcement on who's been hired tomorrow?

[Greenbayguy87]

Apps are closing.  Guessing there will be one name.  Don’t know who, but the vetting should be done.  Seems consensus is CDJ.

[Vegas_Sioux]

  On 3/27/2025 at 4:01 AM, burd said:

Facts?

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GFK has been ranked as 12th busiest airport in the country. Right now they are 20th. 

[Rebel_Sioux]

  On 3/27/2025 at 6:58 AM, Vegas_Sioux said:

GFK has been ranked as 12th busiest airport in the country. Right now they are 20th. 

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It's mostly due to the student pilots. 

[burd]

  On 3/27/2025 at 10:50 AM, Rebel_Sioux said:

It's mostly due to the student pilots. 

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Yeah; precious few commercial airlines taking passengers in and out.  

[Oxbow6]

4 articles in the Fargo Forum sports section on NCAA hockey.  Not one about UND playing in the regional at Scheels today. That's why a new HC will be named soon.

[yzerman19]

Got my facts on the 1980ish parking deal.  There was a street/alley that ran behind the house facing University Park where my dad had lived in the basement during school.  On a map it looks like it runs between 2nd and University, parallel to them.   The older owner of the property had remained my dad's friend and allowed him to park on the backside of the place for hockey games.  I think it was technically illegal, like kinda on the shoulder or perpendicular onto a tiny driveway into a shed or rear garage small structure, or something like that.  But there had been a permission given and the owner wasn't going to report him and the police weren't going to bother an unreported parking violation on a back street that wasn't obstructing traffic during a 2 hourish window.  We also parked legally in the driveway off University from time to time when the owner was out of town.  

Funny, looking at the map, it felt like we were running miles as a 5/6 year old...it was probably less than 1/2 mile away.  It was cold though, I remember that well!!!

[1972]

  On 3/27/2025 at 11:20 AM, Oxbow6 said:

4 articles in the Fargo Forum sports section on NCAA hockey.  Not one about UND playing in the regional at Scheels today. That's why a new HC will be named soon.

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multiple faliures to get to a local regional...not sure how anyone was surprised by the termination.

[1972]

  On 3/27/2025 at 12:31 PM, yzerman19 said:

Got my facts on the 1980ish parking deal.  There was a street/alley that ran behind the house facing University Park where my dad had lived in the basement during school.  On a map it looks like it runs between 2nd and University, parallel to them.   The older owner of the property had remained my dad's friend and allowed him to park on the backside of the place for hockey games.  I think it was technically illegal, like kinda on the shoulder or perpendicular onto a tiny driveway into a shed or rear garage small structure, or something like that.  But there had been a permission given and the owner wasn't going to report him and the police weren't going to bother an unreported parking violation on a back street that wasn't obstructing traffic during a 2 hourish window.  We also parked legally in the driveway off University from time to time when the owner was out of town.  

Funny, looking at the map, it felt like we were running miles as a 5/6 year old...it was probably less than 1/2 mile away.  It was cold though, I remember that well!!!

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until we got a parking pass at the new ralph, we parked in the columbia court area..it was a pretty good trek in cold weather

[yzerman19]

I remember the first time I brought my then girlfriend now wife to a UND game.  She had never been in -25 ambient temps with a wind coming across the prairie...she was pretty funny.  I told her there's cold, then there's Grand Forks in January cold.

[Godsmack]

  On 3/27/2025 at 12:37 PM, yzerman19 said:

I remember the first time I brought my then girlfriend now wife to a UND game.  She had never been in -25 ambient temps with a wind coming across the prairie...she was pretty funny.  I told her there's cold, then there's Grand Forks in January cold.

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Truth!

My now wife came up to the Forks with me when we first started dating during the 2013/2014 season. We were playing Omaha. Wife born and raised in the Springs so it’s not as if she wasn’t used to cold winter weather but man, she was funny-we’re walking out of the Ralph after one of the games and it must’ve been about 20 below before the wind chill, it was so freaking cold and she turns to me as we’re trekking to our ice box of a frozen car and says, “If we ever get married, don’t even think about moving up here!” -We’re still in negotiations on that! It might happen one day! 

[Siouxphan27]

  On 3/27/2025 at 6:58 AM, Vegas_Sioux said:

GFK has been ranked as 12th busiest airport in the country. Right now they are 20th. 

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Is this a pairwise ranking?

[Godsmack]

Just wrapped up episode 80 of Alive in Five with Gage Ausmus and Jordan Schmaltz. They are all in on Dane Jackson being the next coach and they say the boys in the locker room feel the same way.