UND 2nd in USA Today Poll

October 27, 2014

	Team	(First Place Votes)	Record	Points	Last Poll
1	Minnesota	(50)	4- 0-0	509	1
2	North Dakota		4- 1-0	446	3
3	Union		5-1-0	429	2
4	Colgate		5- 1-0	421	4
5	Boston College		3- 1-0	374	6
6	Boston University		3- 0-0	295	11
7	St. Cloud State		2- 2-0	294	9
8	Providence		1- 2-1	254	7
9	Massachusetts-Lowell		1- 2-1	218	8
10	Miami		4- 2-0	187	10
11	Denver		3- 1-0	142	13
12	Minnesota State		4- 2-0	134	12
13	Michigan		2-3-0	89	17
14	Vermont		4-0-0	86	NR
15	Ferris State		2-3-0	60	7
Others receiving votes: Michigan Tech 29, Alaska 23, Notre Dame 23, Cornell 22, Robert Morris 13, New Hampshire 1, Quinnipiac 7, Ohio State 6, Nebraska-Omaha 6, Minnesota Duluth 5, Bowling Green 2, Northern Michigan 2, St. Lawrence 1.

UND 3rd in UCHO Poll

October 27, 2014

	Team	(First Place Votes)	Record	Points	Last Poll
1	Minnesota	(50)	4- 0-0	1000	1
2	Union		5- 1-0	901	2
3	North Dakota		4- 1-1	900	3
4	Colgate		5- 1-0	870	4
5	Boston College		3- 1-0	788	6
6	Boston University		3- 0-0	637	12
7	St. Cloud State		2- 2-0	628	9
8	Massachusetts-Lowell		3- 1-1	601	7
9	Providence		1- 2-1	587	5
10	Miami		4- 2-0	503	10
11	Denver		3- 1-0	422	11
12	Minnesota State		4- 2-0	404	13
13	Vermont		4- 0-0	352	17
14	Ferris State		2- 3-0	338	8
15	Michigan		2- 3-0	285	14
16	Alaska		5- 1-0	254	16
17	Michigan Tech		4- 0-0	218	NR
18	Cornell		0- 0-0	137	18
19	Minnesota-Duluth		3- 3-0	128	19
20	Notre Dame		4- 2-0	80	NR
Others receiving votes: Robert Morris 79, Nebraska-Omaha 76, Bowling Green 65, Quinnipiac 59, Northern Michigan 56, Alaska-Anchorage 34, Merrimack 33, New Hampshire 20, Ohio State 15, St. Lawrence 9, Dartmouth 8, Harvard 6, Yale 3, Mercyhurst 2, Bentley 1, Penn State 1.

NCAA HOCKEY: Tickets for the 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Hokcey Regional Go on Sale

INDIANAPOLIS---Tickets for all four sites of the 2015 Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Regionals go on sale Tuesday, Oct. 28. The West regional will go on sale at 11 a.m. local time, while the other three regionals will go on sale at 10 a.m. local time. The tickets, being sold as three-game packages, may be purchased online at www.NCAA.com/FrozenFour or through each venue’s ticket office.

The Northeast Regional at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, N.H., (hosted by the University of New Hampshire) and the West Regional at Scheels Arena in Fargo, N.D., (hosted by the University of North Dakota) will be held March 27-28. One regional will have start times of 2 and 5:30 p.m. Eastern, March 27 with a regional final game time of 5:30 p.m. Eastern, March 28. The start times for the other regional will be 4:30 and 8 p.m. Eastern, March 27, while the regional final is scheduled for 9 p.m. Eastern, March 28.

The East Regional at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center in Providence, R.I., (hosted by Brown University) and the Midwest Regional at the Compton Family Ice Arena in South Bend, Ind., (hosted by the University of Notre Dame) will be played March 28-29. Game times for one regional will be 3 and 6:30 p.m. Eastern, March 28, with the regional final being played at 5 p.m. Eastern, March 29. The other regional will play at 4 and 7:30 p.m. Eastern, March 28, with the regional championship at 7:30 p.m. Eastern, March 29.

If any of the aforementioned host institutions are selected to participate in the 2015 NCAA Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Championship, they will be assigned to their host site. The times and ESPN platform for each regional will be announced on the selection show, which will air Noon Eastern, March 22 on ESPNU. Times and ESPN networks for all regional contests are subject to change.

Toronto Star: Junior hockey players deserve to be paid decently: Editorial

This subject has been coming to a head in the Canada. I have been following the story a little and frankly this same argument has come up from time-to-time in college sports.

The NCAA has talked about giving their athletes stipends as well. Obviously, that's not a weekly check, but some college are going to hand out a lot more money than $35.00-120.00 a week.

Toronto Star Editorial -- Still, CHL President David Branch argues the players “are amateur student athletes” who are paid an allowance and are eligible for university and college scholarships for their participation in a hockey program.

Really? A hockey “program”?

This isn’t cub camp. The reality is that these are young people (typically 16 to 20 years old) being taken advantage of by an organization that is the main funnel of talent for the enormously wealthy National Hockey League. (The average NHL team was worth $413 million in 2013, according to Forbes.)

Asking the players to work for $35 to $120 per week is like asking managers to work for free until they make the corner office. Their hard work on the way up earns the NHL its profits down the road — never mind the revenues the CHL earns immediately.

Even the promised scholarships are a point of dispute. The claim suggests the conditions to receive one are so onerous that the CHL pays out scholarships for only four players a year, totalling $30,000. The CHL disputes that. It says the Ontario Hockey League alone paid out $2 million in scholarship funding last year.

Loose Pucks an CHL blog is taking issue with the Toronto Star article.

Fact check cont'd: Between Ryerson & York there are almost 16 players on CHL scholarships. Then there is the rest of CIS.
— Loosepucks.com (@loosepucks) October 26, 2014

(Video) Zane McIntyre's 10-Bell Save

I thought the goaltending was pretty good this weekend. Defensively, UND was also pretty good all weekend long. UND has only given up two even strength goals since the season opener against Bemidji State.

UND allowed 3 even-strength goals in the season-opener, has allowed 2 even-strength goals in the five games since.
— Brad E. Schlossman (@SchlossmanGF) October 26, 2014

Highlights of North Dakota's 2-2 tie with Providence on Satur... http://t.co/i7USlaRNv5
— North Dakota MHockey (@UNDMHockey) October 26, 2014

Oshie Check on Carcillo (Video)

Check out this hit by former Fighting Sioux forward T.J. Oshie blows up Daniel Carcillo aka " Car Bomb"with a clean, hard hip checks. Ouch! Carcillo would live the ice with a hyper extended knee.