NCAA Hockey - 2023/24 **Insert Witty Tagline**

[aparch]

Just watched my team give up three goals in three minutes and eleven seconds to ASU.

Hand me the bottle of Whistlepig please.

[Slap Shot]

Look at the old Gopher rosters...particularly the Brooks era, and then come back and we can discuss. Heck, even look at the Woog era. DeBus was about 37 before he left.

I'd be very interested in seeing a roster comparison from that era to validate this claim, especially since the U traditionally with with mostly MN kids and players going to juniors was not as prevalent then. Also the other knock on UND was going with Canadians as much as anything.



Anyway has North Dakota gone back to the portal yet?

[RaceBoarder]

Just watched my team give up three goals in three minutes and eleven seconds to ASU.

Hand me the bottle of Whistlepig please.

I just woke up to see that. That will break your mental fortitude down in a jiffy if it keeps happening.

[Fighting Sioux 23]

I'd be very interested in seeing a roster comparison from that era to validate this claim, especially since the U traditionally with with mostly MN kids and players going to juniors was not as prevalent then. Also the other knock on UND was going with Canadians as much as anything.

I did a comparison back maybe 15-20 years ago (back in the day of multiple threads needed for a Gophers-Sioux series), and age wise (I didn't look at nationality, as that is just a stupid argument) it wasn't all that different than it is even today. The bigger schools tended to be slightly younger overall than the smaller schools. But everyone had the occasional 22-year old sophomore (typically, turning 22 at the end of the college hockey season). It wasn't just the smaller schools.

Also, FWIW, the Gophers bigger beef on this issue (at least historically) was with Denver. The Gopher-faithful just blindly (and hypocritically) applied the same argument to North Dakota when UND regained the edge in the rivalry in the early-80s.

[dxmnkd316]

Denver's freshmen were renting cars most years.

[Fighting Sioux 23]

North Dakota defeats Minnesota, 2-1, to get the split.

Script flipped from last night. Hawks outclassed the Gophers, but stellar goaltending kept it "close." Could have easily been 8-1 with the number of chances UND had. Oh well.

On to Minnesota State.

[St. Clown]

SCSU just lost 5-2 to Squarebanks. At home. That just shouldn’t happen.

[Slap Shot]

Like I said I'd love to see the actual rosters to validate the age difference wasn't that glaring, and the "nationality" thing was more fun fan rivalry smack talk than anything serious.

[Fighting Sioux 23]

Like I said I'd love to see the actual rosters to validate the age difference wasn't that glaring, and the "nationality" thing was more fun fan rivalry smack talk than anything serious.

If the information was readily available ~15 years ago, I'm sure it is still readily available (if not more so) today. Have a blast! Although, you'll probably be disappointed. ; )

Two quick examples:

1986-1987

North Dakota average age: 20 years 4 months
Minnesota average age: 19 years 10 months

1978-1979

North Dakota average age: 20 years 0 months
Minnesota average age: 19 years 9 months

[Slap Shot]

From HockeyDB in 86-87 there were 14 players on Minnesota that were 18 and 19 as well as 4 that were 22 or older, for ND it was 8 and 6 respectively. I didn't care to dig any deeper and anyway those days are over.

UND played the better game on Saturday, and the Gophers didn't really wake up until the 3rd and didn't give themselves enough of a chance to tie the game.

[Fighting Sioux 23]

From HockeyDB in 86-87 there were 14 players on Minnesota that were 18 and 19 as well as 4 that were 22 or older, for ND it was 8 and 6 respectively. I didn't care to dig any deeper and anyway those days are over.

Which probably accounts for why North Dakota's average age was about 6 months older than Minnesota that season. As I said originally, the difference then isn't all that different than the difference now (North Dakota is about 5 months older than Minnesota this season). The bigger schools tended to be slightly younger than the smaller schools.

UND played the better game on Saturday, and the Gophers didn't really wake up until the 3rd and didn't give themselves enough of a chance to tie the game.

Yeah, it was really just a complete 180 from Friday when Minnesota outplayed North Dakota, but goaltending kept it tight. A split was probably the "correct" result in relation to how the teams played over the entirety of the weekend.

Anyway, good luck to the Gophers the rest of the way, unless we happen to meet again in March/April. : )

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

That was a good weekend. A split on the road against a top 5 team while missing the two captains (one of whom is your best dman).

the fact that the refs, twice, couldn’t identify which player committed a supposed infraction was hilarious

now side eying the wisco games this week. Thursday and Friday with 8pm starts

[Jimjamesak]

UAA is perfectly .500. A win, a loss, an OT win and an OT loss. Part of me hopes for a .500 season but I don't want to get carried away...

[state of hockey]

Gophers look like dog crap two games in a row.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Hah we were SO bad

on another note, it’s more fun when Wisconsin isn’t a terrible basement dwelling team

Also how much fun is Hastings having when he doesn’t have to bore everyone to death with the trap