Re: The UND Discussion Thread - We Miss Chay
Just when I think I have the perfect amount of hatred for the Sue that a-hole Schlossman pulls this stunt?? how in the he11 do I root against this team this weekend after reading this?
Sioux men's hockey team is doing it for Chay Genoway
GRAND FORKS – It was mid-February and the University of North Dakota men’s hockey team had just been swept at home for the first time in more than three years. The Sioux were under .500 in league play, seemingly bound for a bottom-five Western Collegiate Hockey Association finish for the first time in eight years.
By: Brad E. Schlossman / Forum Communications Co., INFORUM
GRAND FORKS – It was mid-February and the University of North Dakota men’s hockey team had just been swept at home for the first time in more than three years. The Sioux were under .500 in league play, seemingly bound for a bottom-five Western Collegiate Hockey Association finish for the first time in eight years.
Looming was a road series against No. 4 St. Cloud State – the team that altered the course of UND’s season back in November.
That’s when SCSU forward Aaron Marvin drove UND captain Chay Genoway’s head into the boards with a forearm, causing the league’s most dynamic player to crumple to the ice.
Genoway suffered a concussion and the side effects have lingered for four months. He has struggled with day-to-day activities: going to class, reading, looking at a computer screen and watching his team practice. Genoway has yet to play another game.
UND’s fortunes tumbled. After starting the season 7-1-1 with Genoway, the team went
6-9-4 in the next 19 games without the captain.
That’s when the rematch against St. Cloud State arrived.
Speaking at the team’s weekly media day, noted jokester Brad Malone stood in front of five cameras, void of his normal smile, and delivered a serious statement.
“It has come to the point now where we have to start doing everything for Chay,” he said.
What happened next?
The Sioux handed St. Cloud State its worst loss in 14 years, an 8-1 thrashing where the scoreboard was just as brutal as the physical pounding that UND put on the Huskies.
Then, the Sioux became the first UND team since 1999 to sweep a series in Colorado College’s World Arena.
After that, they became the first team in 26 years to end rival Minnesota’s season before the Ides of March.
The ride continued last weekend when UND became the second team in WCHA history to win the Final Five after having to play in a Thursday night quarterfinal game.
When it came time to hand out the Broadmoor Trophy on Saturday night, it was no surprise how the Sioux reacted. Alternate captains Chris VandeVelde and Darcy Zajac refused to accept the trophy. Instead, they found Genoway, started chanting his game and forced him to take the trophy from the commissioner.
“That was the highlight of the weekend,” tournament MVP Evan Trupp said.
UND begins play in the NCAA tournament on Saturday with a first-round matchup against Yale (4 p.m. in Worcester, Mass.), with a 12-1 record in the last 13 games.
That squad had strikingly similar characteristics to this team. It watched one of its locker room favorites, Robbie Bina, suffer a broken neck on an illegal hit from behind into the boards during the WCHA Final Five. The team was furious and took it personally, vowing to play for Bina.
The next week, the Sioux went out to Worcester, Mass., for the NCAA regional and tossed aside Boston University and Boston College to advance to the Frozen Four.
That team eventually played for the national championship.
“There’s no question that was a real rallying cry for that team,” UND coach Dave Hakstol said. “Guys played hard for him.”
Just when I think I have the perfect amount of hatred for the Sue that a-hole Schlossman pulls this stunt?? how in the he11 do I root against this team this weekend after reading this?
Sioux men's hockey team is doing it for Chay Genoway
GRAND FORKS – It was mid-February and the University of North Dakota men’s hockey team had just been swept at home for the first time in more than three years. The Sioux were under .500 in league play, seemingly bound for a bottom-five Western Collegiate Hockey Association finish for the first time in eight years.
By: Brad E. Schlossman / Forum Communications Co., INFORUM
GRAND FORKS – It was mid-February and the University of North Dakota men’s hockey team had just been swept at home for the first time in more than three years. The Sioux were under .500 in league play, seemingly bound for a bottom-five Western Collegiate Hockey Association finish for the first time in eight years.
Looming was a road series against No. 4 St. Cloud State – the team that altered the course of UND’s season back in November.
That’s when SCSU forward Aaron Marvin drove UND captain Chay Genoway’s head into the boards with a forearm, causing the league’s most dynamic player to crumple to the ice.
Genoway suffered a concussion and the side effects have lingered for four months. He has struggled with day-to-day activities: going to class, reading, looking at a computer screen and watching his team practice. Genoway has yet to play another game.
UND’s fortunes tumbled. After starting the season 7-1-1 with Genoway, the team went
6-9-4 in the next 19 games without the captain.
That’s when the rematch against St. Cloud State arrived.
Speaking at the team’s weekly media day, noted jokester Brad Malone stood in front of five cameras, void of his normal smile, and delivered a serious statement.
“It has come to the point now where we have to start doing everything for Chay,” he said.
What happened next?
The Sioux handed St. Cloud State its worst loss in 14 years, an 8-1 thrashing where the scoreboard was just as brutal as the physical pounding that UND put on the Huskies.
Then, the Sioux became the first UND team since 1999 to sweep a series in Colorado College’s World Arena.
After that, they became the first team in 26 years to end rival Minnesota’s season before the Ides of March.
The ride continued last weekend when UND became the second team in WCHA history to win the Final Five after having to play in a Thursday night quarterfinal game.
When it came time to hand out the Broadmoor Trophy on Saturday night, it was no surprise how the Sioux reacted. Alternate captains Chris VandeVelde and Darcy Zajac refused to accept the trophy. Instead, they found Genoway, started chanting his game and forced him to take the trophy from the commissioner.
“That was the highlight of the weekend,” tournament MVP Evan Trupp said.
UND begins play in the NCAA tournament on Saturday with a first-round matchup against Yale (4 p.m. in Worcester, Mass.), with a 12-1 record in the last 13 games.
That squad had strikingly similar characteristics to this team. It watched one of its locker room favorites, Robbie Bina, suffer a broken neck on an illegal hit from behind into the boards during the WCHA Final Five. The team was furious and took it personally, vowing to play for Bina.
The next week, the Sioux went out to Worcester, Mass., for the NCAA regional and tossed aside Boston University and Boston College to advance to the Frozen Four.
That team eventually played for the national championship.
“There’s no question that was a real rallying cry for that team,” UND coach Dave Hakstol said. “Guys played hard for him.”
