OT- Philadelphia Flyers hire Dave Hakstol
Who wants a coach who got them to 7 Frozen Fours in 11 years!
I don't think you realize how annoyed their fans really are with him that he has that many Frozen Fours and zero titles.
I personally wished he stayed. UND losing in the national semifinals all the time was funny.
A few boneheads on your twitter feed don't make the fanbase annoyed and glad he's gone.
Try SiouxSports and USCHO.
I know when I want factual, level headed information I go to a message board.
North Dakota hockey fans are the equivalent of Kentucky basketball fans or Ohio State football fans. They think their program is God's gift to earth and they should win the title every year. Wouldnt surprise me at all if a significant portion of their fanbase saw this as a good thing for their program
Yeah and you're perfectly content with only 2 titles that Red won over his 3 decades here?
Pretty lame compared to that other guy at BC if you ask me.
The Flyers were said to have been pushing to the forefront of the Mike Babcock sweepstakes just a week ago. This news makes me happy.
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Herb Brooks left St. Cloud for the NHL in 87. Badger Bob Johnson left Wisconsin for Calgary in 82.
Those are the only two I can think of in recent history.
Edi: According to Twitter there have only been 4. Hakstol, Johnson, Brooks and Ned Harkness, who went to the Wings from Cornell in the 70's.
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Also, this won't affect Michigan's HC position because they're going to promote from within. Either a current or former UND assistant.
One thing to look out for is recruiting. UND has been hauling in recruits on another level; Andrew Peski, Grant Mismash, Matej Tomek, Brock Boeser. They even came to Michigan and grabbed Collin Adams from Honeybaked. It will be interesting to see if they can hang on to everyone.
Happened about a month and a half ago but Brandon Kaleniecki is the new coach of Detroit Catholic Central.
I'm sure a section of the North Dakota fanbase is yelling GOOD RIDDANCE because they always choked, but be careful what you wish for NoDak. He made a ton of frozen fours.
Wouldnt surprise me a ton if they took a step back after this (it's hard to be much better)
NoDak hired Hakstol's assistant, Brad Berry, as their new coach.