The Battle for the Imaginary Cup - NMU vs. Michigan Tech, 12/18/09 and 1/12/10

[Shirtless Guy]

Re: The Battle for the Imaginary Cup - NMU vs. Michigan Tech, 12/18/09 and 1/12/10

Who's buying the plane tickets for those? Then for bus rental too?

You have some wonderful excuses...suck it up travel....Would you rather ride a bus to Omaha than see the east coast? You're so narrow-minded. Hockey fans want to see variety. I want an excuse to go to some games out east. I am still frustrated i didn't make the trip out to Vermont when I had the chance to see the huskies...

[huskyfan]

Re: The Battle for the Imaginary Cup - NMU vs. Michigan Tech, 12/18/09 and 1/12/10

I'd like to see Tech play Ferris and Western. Maybe Miami, Ohio State, Bowling Green. And Air Force. that'd be a great road trip!!

[bigblue_dl]

Re: The Battle for the Imaginary Cup - NMU vs. Michigan Tech, 12/18/09 and 1/12/10

Who's buying the plane tickets for those? Then for bus rental too? Besides, I really don't see any of those schools being much of a draw at the Berry. We can trade trips with Bemidji far less expensively than the boys out east.

Tech flew to Vermont, I'm sure they can fly to New York. See, this is what happens when you play in a legit league, that actually gives a decent cut of the conference tourney checks to its member institutions, instead of buy liquor at the Olympia room.

[Jon]

Re: The Battle for the Imaginary Cup - NMU vs. Michigan Tech, 12/18/09 and 1/12/10

East coast teams don't travel further than 2 hour bus trips. Their players need to be in bed with their teddy bears by midnight.

That explains those nightmarish hallucinations of watching PC play in Orono.

[Dirty]

Re: The Battle for the Imaginary Cup - NMU vs. Michigan Tech, 12/18/09 and 1/12/10

Tech flew to Vermont, I'm sure they can fly to New York. See, this is what happens when you play in a legit league, that actually gives a decent cut of the conference tourney checks to its member institutions, instead of buy liquor at the Olympia room.

Meh, I'd want to be drunk too if I had to watch that garbage pile of a tournament.

[bigblue_dl]

Re: The Battle for the Imaginary Cup - NMU vs. Michigan Tech, 12/18/09 and 1/12/10

Meh, I'd want to be drunk too if I had to watch that garbage pile of a tournament.

Fitting that the garbage pile of a tournament is in the biggest ****hole of an arena I've ever seen, in the biggest turd of a city in the country.

[crazytechfan]

Re: The Battle for the Imaginary Cup - NMU vs. Michigan Tech, 12/18/09 and 1/12/10

When we lose do I get to drink it?

Unfortunately, if we lose this game I can't really effectively drink away my sorrows. We have our first broomball game later that night, plus I have class the day after this game too. I pray next year they find a better way to schedule the Tech/Northern series.

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Very crappy timing for the broomball game. PB reminded me of that this morning.

[nmupiccdiva]

Re: The Battle for the Imaginary Cup - NMU vs. Michigan Tech, 12/18/09 and 1/12/10

Tech and NMU could always do a trip to New York and play Clarkson and St. Lawrence, one each night. They're like 20 miles apart. Then Clarkson and St. Lawrence could come to the Yoop and do the same.

Actually there are several pairs that this could work with. Yale-Quinnipiac, RPI-#26, etc.

I like this idea a lot!

[NMU8405]

Re: The Battle for the Imaginary Cup - NMU vs. Michigan Tech, 12/18/09 and 1/12/10

I'd like to see Tech play Ferris and Western. Maybe Miami, Ohio State, Bowling Green. And Air Force. that'd be a great road trip!!

Very few of those teams would want to play Tech :P Stick with AIC for nc games.

[Shirtless Guy]

Re: The Battle for the Imaginary Cup - NMU vs. Michigan Tech, 12/18/09 and 1/12/10

Very few of those teams would want to play Tech :P Stick with AIC for nc games.

Very few of them want to play NMU...too bad most of them have to...

[aparch]

Re: The Battle for the Imaginary Cup - NMU vs. Michigan Tech, 12/18/09 and 1/12/10

You have some wonderful excuses...suck it up travel....Would you rather ride a bus to Omaha than see the east coast? You're so narrow-minded. Hockey fans want to see variety. I want an excuse to go to some games out east. I am still frustrated i didn't make the trip out to Vermont when I had the chance to see the huskies...

I'd like to see Tech play Ferris and Western. Maybe Miami, Ohio State, Bowling Green. And Air Force. that'd be a great road trip!!

Plenty of teams right in your own backyard SG, you don't need to be spending "The Institution's" limited budgets gallivanting around the Eastern Seaboard.

[NMU8405]

Re: The Battle for the Imaginary Cup - NMU vs. Michigan Tech, 12/18/09 and 1/12/10

Very few of them want to play NMU...too bad most of them have to...

Not denying this statement at all.

[NMU8405]

Re: The Battle for the Imaginary Cup - NMU vs. Michigan Tech, 12/18/09 and 1/12/10

You have some wonderful excuses...suck it up travel....Would you rather ride a bus to Omaha than see the east coast? You're so narrow-minded. Hockey fans want to see variety. I want an excuse to go to some games out east. I am still frustrated i didn't make the trip out to Vermont when I had the chance to see the huskies...

Its only Vermont. Ive been there many times and you are not missing much. Its a magical land (with or without chemical influence) where cows outnumber people, and maple syrup runs through the riverbeds. Though, it is much better than that dump of a neighbor to its east.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Re: The Battle for the Imaginary Cup - NMU vs. Michigan Tech, 12/18/09 and 1/12/10

Plenty of teams right in your own backyard SG, you don't need to be spending "The Institution's" limited budgets gallivanting around the Eastern Seaboard.

No one is suggesting we gallivant around the east every season. A couple of trips per decade would suffice.

I see getting the non-Yooper CCHA schools to reciprocate a home series as unlikely. They probably wouldn't want to make two or three trips to the UP in the same season, and already whine about trips to Marquette as is.

[crazypotatoes]

Re: The Battle for the Imaginary Cup - NMU vs. Michigan Tech, 12/18/09 and 1/12/10

No one is suggesting we gallivant around the east every season. A couple of trips per decade would suffice.

I see getting the non-Yooper CCHA schools to reciprocate a home series as unlikely. They probably wouldn't want to make two or three trips to the UP in the same season, and already whine about trips to Marquette as is.

But we're already going to be doing Europe trips (apparently) a couple times per decade?

I agree though, I think seeing Michigan/Michigan State at JMSIA every once in a while would be sweet, but there's no way they'd go for it.