WCHA 2018 Off-Season: Nobody's Walking Out On This Old-Fashioned Hockey Conference

[gfmorris]

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If a new president worries you, keep an eye on how MTU's new president (started this month) handles Tech's hockey team down the road. We hired him away from LSU which I hear is the "Hockey Hotbed of the Gulf Region". (Well at least that's what Gary Bettman says but he said the same thing about Atlanta, Miami and Phoenix.) Maybe the new Huskies president will see the tiny amount we spend on our D-I team and will increase our ice hockey budget 20x so we can get more on par with what he was spending on LSU football? That would be nice...

Ryan J

I don't think that Susan's predecessor looked to kill the program. Also, what you'll see with someone moving from football to hockey country doesn't really equate to what happens with a President coming to the weird outpost of hockey in football country. Combine that with a Board of Trustees for the system that may impanel the new guy with a mandate to kill our program, and ...

Don't doubt that it could happen. Ask UAB football.

GFM

[JohnsonsJerseys]

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UAH President Bob Altenkirch will retire at the end of the academic year... His predecessor may have been a hockey proponent, but he was terrible for the University as a whole. Bob the Builder has done a fantastic job with the breadth and depth of the school. And yeah, this makes me a little bit worried about our hockey program. I'm not very worried, but we go from a known quantity to an unknown one.
GFM

If a new president worries you, keep an eye on how MTU's new president (started this month) handles Tech's hockey team down the road. We hired him away from LSU which I hear is the "Hockey Hotbed of the Gulf Region". (Well at least that's what Gary Bettman says but he said the same thing about Atlanta, Miami and Phoenix.) Maybe the new Huskies president will see the tiny amount we spend on our D-I team and will increase our ice hockey budget 20x so we can get more on par with what he was spending on LSU football? That would be nice...

Ryan J

[gfmorris]

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You know, sometimes I think that UAH may rival BGSU for being the student body least likely to be missing for deer season. (This isn't a bad thing; my family is all over rural Dixie.)

UAH President Bob Altenkirch will retire at the end of the academic year, which makes me sad on a lot of levels. His predecessor may have been a hockey proponent, but he was terrible for the University as a whole. Bob the Builder has done a fantastic job with the breadth and depth of the school.

And yeah, this makes me a little bit worried about our hockey program. I'm not very worried, but we go from a known quantity to an unknown one.

GFM

[huskyfan]

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way different.

[Suze]

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Not trying to one-up myself but they also killed a baby seal about a month ago, village life is different. One snowstorm or a couple of more missed flights from Ravn and I would be forced to live off the land.

Killing for subsistence is different.

[AKSWF]

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Not trying to one-up myself but they also killed a baby seal about a month ago, village life is different. One snowstorm or a couple of more missed flights from Ravn and I would be forced to live off the land.

[Suze]

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oh! hunting belugas! I'm not anti hunting in anyway shape or form. And one less grizzly ok with me. They are higher on the food chain than we are. but the belugas! saw them in Hudson Bay and they were such fun. followed our little zodiac and when we stopped they swam right up to the boat and poked their heads out of the water. to me they are one of nature's most beautiful creature. that's something I don't think I could ever kill.
well, the belugas and about 500 other animals!!

You and me both. I love eating moose, and hubby does hunt, but I don't think I could shoot and kill one unless my survival depended on it. Too much of an animal lover at heart.

[huskyfan]

Re: WCHA 2018 Off-Season: Nobody's Walking Out On This Old-Fashioned Hockey Conferenc

oh! hunting belugas! I'm not anti hunting in anyway shape or form. And one less grizzly ok with me. They are higher on the food chain than we are. but the belugas! saw them in Hudson Bay and they were such fun. followed our little zodiac and when we stopped they swam right up to the boat and poked their heads out of the water. to me they are one of nature's most beautiful creature. that's something I don't think I could ever kill.
well, the belugas and about 500 other animals!!

[huskyfan]

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Girdwood is about a 45 minute drive down Turnigan Arm, near Mt Alyeska. There’s a cool new brewery in Girdwood and you can take the tram/gondola up the the bar/restaurant at the top. Pretty incredible time.

this sounds like a must do.

[AKSWF]

what are you doing there?

Cleaning up chemical waste. Glycol was leaking from it's line and inginted Zappit 73. Suprised the whole building didn't burn down.

[Shirtless Guy]

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It took a lot just to able to type that. I think it’s easier that PJ’s was torn down.

That statement was like a giant brick being removed from my chest. I warn just about anyone going to Alaska to not go there...EVER.

[Jimjamesak]

Thanks. I just puked a bit in my mouth.

After that experience I was so terrified of the concept of "natural women" that I couldn’t watch NatGeo for 3 months.

It took a lot just to able to type that. I think it’s easier that PJ’s was torn down.

[Shirtless Guy]

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Brooks sounds good right about now, as I currently sit in Point Lay, a village of 200 people. Majorioty of the town went beluga hunting these past couple days. Took a picture of a small blonde grizzly they shot a couple weeks ago. Played basketball with some kids with a cloud of mosquitoes annonying us every step. Good thing I brought extra food as Ravn Airlines cancelles flights left and right, but arrive just to take off without mentioning hey there is an extra seat you could've used.

Diatribe done.

what are you doing there?

[AKSWF]

With the way these city-dwellers brag about surviving, you'd think all of Alaska was like the Brooks Range.

Brooks sounds good right about now, as I currently sit in Point Lay, a village of 200 people. Majorioty of the town went beluga hunting these past couple days. Took a picture of a small blonde grizzly they shot a couple weeks ago. Played basketball with some kids with a cloud of mosquitoes annonying us every step. Good thing I brought extra food as Ravn Airlines cancelles flights left and right, but arrive just to take off without mentioning hey there is an extra seat you could've used.

Diatribe done.

[bigblue_dl]

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Isn’t that where we ended up at PJ’s with Donald?

Thanks. I just puked a bit in my mouth.

After that experience I was so terrified of the concept of "natural women" that I couldn’t watch NatGeo for 3 months.