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The Beginning of new hockey leagues

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cF[Authentic] said:
All praise UND, the savior of college hockey!
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And, get this quote from Gwozdecky: "What a great opportunity they have to be able to be atop their conferences, to be able to win championships and get to the national tournament. I think it’s a great opportunity, and a great year for college hockey that we’re about to embark on.”

Thanks for the pat on the head. Now, please go tend to your semi-pro team and enough of the condescending comments please Gwoz.

Hopefully he gets a pay raise for the outstanding job of being the architect of the NCHC and can graduate from Men's Wearhouse to Gianni Vironi suits.

I think most of us can live with the shake-up. It's comments like this that we can do without.
 
Montelena said:
And, get this quote from Gwozdecky: "What a great opportunity they have to be able to be atop their conferences, to be able to win championships and get to the national tournament. I think it’s a great opportunity, and a great year for college hockey that we’re about to embark on.”

Thanks for the pat on the head. Now, please go tend to your semi-pro team and enough of the condescending comments please Gwoz.

Hopefully he gets a pay raise for the outstanding job of being the architect of the NCHC and can graduate from Men's Wearhouse to Gianni Vironi suits.

I think most of us can live with the shake-up. It's comments like this that we can do without.
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Exactly.
I think most of us have gotten over the fact this is happening but don't patronize us with the "this is a good thing" crap.
No one knows what this means for any of the teams involved.
I am so sick of fans of this new league telling the schools left behind by this that we should somehow thank them and all the while allow them to be complete *****s about it.
 
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Montelena said:
And, get this quote from Gwozdecky: "What a great opportunity they have to be able to be atop their conferences, to be able to win championships and get to the national tournament. I think it’s a great opportunity, and a great year for college hockey that we’re about to embark on.”
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Such a great opportunity that we can probably expect an announcement that DU has decided to stick with the WCHA instead, right? Right???

I love how the BHHC schools see being with the big boys as an advantage, but don't see being stuck with the little boys as a disadvantage. Two sides of the same coin, there, Gwoz.
 
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The Sicatoka said:
No, but they're presumably getting a spot in the WCHA that UND opened up for them.

UND created opportunity for college hockey expansion.
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The Sicatoka said:
No, no. The WCHA meeting in April voted to pursue Notre Dame and Miami for those two vacancies. That was a status-quo, no expansion manuver.

UND created opportunity for college hockey expansion.
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Here's your halo. (or sign if you prefer)
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
UMD didn't get the memo, I'm afraid.

Come to think of it, Minot State and Winona State (or whomever else you'd need to get to six teams) didn't get it either.
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bronconick said:
You underestimate Jim Delany's power. He threatens Congress on a regular basis. If he was in charge of your school, not only would you have the Sioux name for all time, you'd be permitted to have a warrior in full regalia stab someone at center ice and use their blood to draw the red line.
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That would be pretty cool to see actually.
 
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darker98 said:
Grand Forks was smart enough to build a dike system. That will never happen again. Keep dreaming though.
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Minot thought they had the dikes in place so that they would never flood again too. Mother Nature has this nasty habit of biting us in the *** just when we think we've gotten her tamed. The real answer to flood control is locating in the right spots geologically, not relying on dikes.
Shirtless Guy said:
Right now it is, but its not spring right now.
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There actually are some places around Grand Forks and Fargo where you can build and be out of the flooding. But those cities are quite low and those areas are harder to find. Its actually not hard at all to stay out of the floodplain in Minot, but the floodplain was the first part of the city to be developed and therefore forms the heart of the city. This is a common problem in many cities around the world.
Dude Love said:
Were you shocked when every city along the river flooded for the 80th year in a row?
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Learn some geography. Minot is not on the same river that Grand Forks is, and hasn't seen a big flood in many years. :rolleyes:
 
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ecbrevik said:
Minot thought they had the dikes in place so that they would never flood again too. Mother Nature has this nasty habit of biting us in the *** just when we think we've gotten her tamed. The real answer to flood control is locating in the right spots geologically, not relying on dikes.
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The problem that Minot is learning is that the higher you build those dikes the less small floods you have to deal with but when it does flood its 1000 times worse than probably the last flood. Channelizing the flow between a dike system can create a lot of problems when something doesn't go as planned...
 
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Shirtless Guy said:
The problem that Minot is learning is that the higher you build those dikes the less small floods you have to deal with but when it does flood its 1000 times worse than probably the last flood. Channelizing the flow between a dike system can create a lot of problems when something doesn't go as planned...
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Bingo! We keep convincing ourselves that if we build the dikes high enough and thick enough the flooding will stop. In most cases, it would be less expensive and more effective over the long term to relocate things, sometimes by a little as a few hundred feet.
 
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The Sicatoka said:
Here's some perspective and history:
http://www.ncaa.com/news/icehockey-men/2011-07-15/new-hockey-league-may-be-best
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Your Gwozdecky quote left out the important part, here it is;
In those days, you had your tremendously strong programs, Denver being one of them. Back in those days, there were certain programs that struggled to be able to win, and if you didn’t bring your ‘A’ game on a specific night, if you were one of the top teams in the league, you still had a pretty good chance to win. Not so much anymore.
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So apparently George is tired of losing to bottom tier teams in the WCHA when they don't bring their 'A' game. The formation of the NCHC is a return to the days of tremdously strong programs and programs that struggle to be able to win.

The big difference I see between when UM, MSU, ND and MTU went to the CCHA and this NCHC, is that they weren't leaving for like minded schools or because they thought it was a better conference. But rather it made sense geographically. Same could be said of when Hockey East was formed. They were already split east and west, and Ivy. Even today the B1G schools left because the conference made them. And that was because of the B1G network/money!! I don't see any money coming from the NCHC. College hockey will work on the B1G network because it's veiwing area overlaps the college hockey map. Versus is a national cable network. People down south and out west are not going to watch college hockey.
 
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Wol4ine said:
Your Gwozdecky quote left out the important part, here it is;
So apparently George is tired of losing to bottom tier teams in the WCHA when they don't bring their 'A' game. The formation of the NCHC is a return to the days of tremdously strong programs and programs that struggle to be able to win.

The big difference I see between when UM, MSU, ND and MTU went to the CCHA and this NCHC, is that they weren't leaving for like minded schools or because they thought it was a better conference. But rather it made sense geographically. Same could be said of when Hockey East was formed. They were already split east and west, and Ivy. Even today the B1G schools left because the conference made them. And that was because of the B1G network/money!! I don't see any money coming from the NCHC. College hockey will work on the B1G network because it's veiwing area overlaps the college hockey map. Versus is a national cable network. People down south and out west are not going to watch college hockey.
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UM, MSU, ND and MTU left for geography and to help the CCHA increase the profile of the other league....and as far as that quote...everything makes sense now. Gwoz pushed this because he hated losing to a 4 win team in Michigan Tech...
 
The more I think about it, the more I think something else might be afoot here. Clearly, the NCHA would want Norte Dame, but that's almost too much to wish for I think. I almost wonder if the schools know if there's another school out west, that's big enough that with there brand name is big enough that any league would want them. Having some knowledge about a school that's been fairly quiet about their fundraising efforts would be a huge ace in the hole. It's too late for this year for a school like UBC to announce that they're crossing the border and joining NCAA D2, which in turn would allow them to go D1 in hockey.
 
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bigmrg74 said:
The more I think about it, the more I think something else might be afoot here. Clearly, the NCHA would want Norte Dame, but that's almost too much to wish for I think. I almost wonder if the schools know if there's another school out west, that's big enough that with there brand name is big enough that any league would want them. Having some knowledge about a school that's been fairly quiet about their fundraising efforts would be a huge ace in the hole. It's too late for this year for a school like UBC to announce that they're crossing the border and joining NCAA D2, which in turn would allow them to go D1 in hockey.
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UB who?
 
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