UND Hockey: Saturday Afternoon links

Here's a few things that you might be interested in before tonight's game.

No TV tonight. Webcast is available to UND Insider subscribers. Stream is also available as bonus game for our iPhone, Android app users.
— North Dakota MHockey (@UNDMHockey) October 19, 2013

Fans, we will have the @UNDMHockey game streaming live against #1 Miami tonight!!! #GetOutTheBrooms #GoUND
— Ground Round-GF ND (@GFGroundRound) October 19, 2013

@vobenomics Opponents that use the same web provider as we do (NeuLion) will typically share those games with us.
— North Dakota MHockey (@UNDMHockey) October 19, 2013

Minnesota Wild are snake bitten http://t.co/ey8byc50f0
— Hockey Wilderness (@hockeywildernes) October 19, 2013

UND goalie Zane Gothberg is smoking hot dating back to last season.

In his last 13 appearances dating back to Feb. 1, Zane Gothberg has lost just once and owns a 1.88 GAA and .940 SV% during that stretch.
— North Dakota MHockey (@UNDMHockey) October 19, 2013

And people think attendance is bad at UND football games... pic.twitter.com/fl1ySgkUjD
— Schlossman (@SchlossmanGF) October 19, 2013

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Joey Holka check on Dillon Simpson

Back by popular demand. I apologize about the quality of this video, it was taken with my iPhone. This is the hit that SCSU forward Joey Holka put on UND defenseman Dillon Simpson at the 16:56 mark of the second period of Saturday night's game, Holka was given a 2 minute minor. This is one of these hits that are right on the line, it could be a five minute major but after reviewing the hit a few times, I am not so sure. What do you think?

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WCHA Unveils All-New Mobile Website

http://www.wcha.com/mobile
MADISON, Wis. – The Western Collegiate Hockey Association today announced an all-new mobile website that includes significant updates and upgrades to the previous platform.

The WCHA’s men’s and women’s mobile site, which has been launched at the same url as before (www.wcha.com/mobile) now includes more visually appealing pages, a better navigation system and improved mobile box scores among other changes. The pages can be viewed on a regular web browser, but are optimized for mobile browsers.

“We couldn’t be more pleased to announce this all-new WCHA mobile website to our followers across the country and around the world,” said Commissioner Bruce McLeod and Associate Commissioner Sara Martin. “The WCHA has presented a significant number of improvements to WCHA.com over the past few seasons and now with this newest mobile development the men’s and women’s leagues will be at the forefront of providing quick access to all the latest scores, box scores, game stories, statistics and press releases with an easier-to-use, more appealing platform.”

The many upgrades for 2012-13 that can now be found at www.wcha.com/mobile include the following:

    •    More visually appealing league and member team home pages with images included to promote the top stories.

    •    Better navigation system including easy links to each member team's home page from a menu at top of each page.

    •    Individual mobile player statistics pages that are accessible from team and league stats pages, press releases and game stories.

    •    Improved mobile press release presentation that now includes images and the ability for people to share via social media.

    •    Improved mobile game story presentation with images now included and the ability for embedding potential video. Mobile game stories can also now be shared via social media.

    •    Significant changes to mobile box scores with the addition of all game data, including all player and team stats. Previous box scores were all text-based. The new version uses an “accordion” format for accessing different game stats categories. These mobile box scores will also be the basis for the live box scores for the coming 2012-13 season and beyond.

WCHA.com, the official website of the 61-year-old Western Collegiate Hockey Association, includes TheWCHAShop.com as the league’s on-line merchandise store and WCHA.com/mobile. They are joint ventures of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and SportDesigns.com, featuring a statistical partnership with CollegeHockeyStats.net.

Remembering former Wild Enforcer Derek Boogaard.

Yesterday morning I woke up at my hunting shack to find a depressing email on my iPhone from the Whistler; telling me that the former Minnesota Wild enforcer the "Boogeyman" Derek Boogaard had died in his Minneapolis apartment. Cause of death unknown at this time, pending the results of a autopsy from the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office... The Boogaard family is going to donate Derek's brain to science.  I don't want to speculate what caused Derek's death and I would actually urge others to not jump to conclusions like some have before we know the truth.


This was Derek Boogaard's last NHL goal which game against the Washington Capitals back in November of 2010. Incidentally that goal by the Boogeyman had broke a long goalless streak going back to January 7th of  2006, that goal broke a 234 game goalless streak.
 
Boogaard's last NHL game was on December 9th, 2010 against the Ottawa Senators where Boogaard sustained a concussion in a fight with Matt Carkner. Boogaard would never play again do to post concussion syndrome.

In closing I would like to express my deepest sympathy to the Boogaard family and may Derek Boogaard rest in peace. Personally, this is a sad day for me because I admire the enforcers in the NHL and I like what Boogaard brought to the ice for the five years that he played for the Minnesota Wild. Boogey might have been a tough guy but he played by the hockey code and was not a dirty player and he played the game straight up and you didn’t see him head hunting like some of the agitators around the NHL today.From everything that I have heard and read Derek was an awesome selfless person that gave back to the communities that he lived in.