Woohoo....it's finally here

Hockey season is here again and since Goon has been harassing me about posting, I suppose I should get around to it.

I spent Friday night with hockey overload, as it should be, watching 3 to 4 games at a time at the local pub. It was a good time to see some of our UND Fighting Sioux hockey alumni playing in the pros. Porter and Oshie playing for St. Louis. Toews for Chicago. Stafford for Buffalo. Parise and Zajac for New Jersey. A bit disappointing to not be able to see our rookies score their first points as pros, but that'll happen.

UND also had a disappointing weekend, but they're young. Not that it's an excuse but they also have very high expectations. Also, I've been a bit curious how they would fair when Hakstol finally got to his own recruiting class. Even though he's been successful the past four seasons, he really needs to perform or I think he may be out soon. I've always questioned his coaching style. He seems to rarely show any emotion and I think that somewhat rubs off on the players. Last year it they didn't appear to make much effort until they were behind in the game.

Well anyway...

I'm hoping to get more time to blog this year, but since school is in full swing again....we'll see. I'm also working to get started with a bit of an alumni tracker, so people can check in on how our boys in the pros are doing. Obviously, it'd start with UND first and then may morph into more of a WCHA list. We'll see how that goes since I'm not sure how much time I'll have.

That's it for now....stay tuned.