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SoDakHawk
| Favorite team: | Iowa  |
| Location: | South Dakota |
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| Registered on: | 6/3/2014 |
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re: Target pays $110 million to terminate its lease in Minneapolis after months of protests
Posted by SoDakHawk on 2/27/26 at 6:56 am to SouthEasternKaiju
Target has a massive corporate headquarters they built in Brooklyn Park off of 610 a few years back. These idiots just gave them the excuse to move everything permanently out of downtown Minneapolis.
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That lovely anti-trust exemption comes with pesky strings attached to it.
re: Will the NHL see significant ratings boosts?
Posted by SoDakHawk on 2/25/26 at 4:26 pm to holdmuh keystonelite
It's called hockey hair or having "flow"...and it's freaking cool.
re: Trump feeds the hockey team!
Posted by SoDakHawk on 2/25/26 at 1:01 pm to PsychTiger
NHL has 8 games on the schedule tonight and full slates of games ramping up into the weekend. A lot of these players needed to get back to their teams. I understand why some couldn't attend
re: Braves to launch exclusive television network
Posted by SoDakHawk on 2/25/26 at 8:32 am to Nutriaitch
Cubs own Marquee
re: Will the NHL see significant ratings boosts?
Posted by SoDakHawk on 2/24/26 at 12:30 pm to RelicBatches86
The NHL dropped NBC for ESPN/TNT. They have way more exposure now with Games on TNT, ESPN, and ABC along with every game on ESPN+.
4pt FG. Why reward a team that is inept on offense and can't move the ball down the field with more points?
If anything, short FG's should be worth more to award the team for achieving good field position.
If anything, short FG's should be worth more to award the team for achieving good field position.
re: America's Most Dangerous College Campuses
Posted by SoDakHawk on 2/23/26 at 8:22 pm to holdmuh keystonelite
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Iowa with all the white fans and hospital kids is surprising.
Iowa City is not dangerous at all. Don't know how they make the list, which makes this list suspect.
Follow the Minnesota Wild.
Quinn Hughes
Brock Faber
Matt Boldy
Kirill Kaprizov
Joel Eriksson Ek
Etc.
Wild are good, stacked, and fun to watch. American from the State of Hockey, and that's a bonus because the production and intermission and post game stuff is top notch and has a local flavor to it, so they have all sorts of stuff on the youth, high school, and college scene in Minnesota.
Quinn Hughes
Brock Faber
Matt Boldy
Kirill Kaprizov
Joel Eriksson Ek
Etc.
Wild are good, stacked, and fun to watch. American from the State of Hockey, and that's a bonus because the production and intermission and post game stuff is top notch and has a local flavor to it, so they have all sorts of stuff on the youth, high school, and college scene in Minnesota.
re: 3 on 3 Hockey is ridiculously fun to watch
Posted by SoDakHawk on 2/23/26 at 10:57 am to NaturalBeam
How so? Canada had McDavid, MacKinnon, Celebrini. The Canadians had a clear advantage in personnel in the 3v3 format. They complain now, but didn't complain when they won in the same format in the semis. I have a feeling if they won yesterday they wouldn't be complaining either.
It's sour grapes from Canada. They knew the format going into the Games .
It's sour grapes from Canada. They knew the format going into the Games .
re: Is the high cost to play hockey the reason it isn't as popular?
Posted by SoDakHawk on 2/23/26 at 10:50 am to TooFyeToFly
In the Upper Midwest the sport is more popular and more accessible. Generally speaking, if a town has a population of at least 10,000 the city will have a community based ice rink as a part of the parks & rec dept.
This community support keeps costs down. Our local ice averages $180 per hour with off peak times as low as $80 per hour. Compare that to California or Dallas where ice costs can run $500-600 per hour.
Season fees for a regional travel team will run a couple thousand. Now that sounds expensive, but it's in line with USSSA baseball fees, club volleyball, travel soccer, etc. Bottom line is youth sports these days costs money.
There are city leagues for hockey in larger cities that are much cheaper than playing travel hockey. I know of city leagues in KC, Omaha, Des Moines, Sioux Falls, MSP, Fargo, etc.
Reading this thread, it's clear that hockey is more expensive in the South mainly due to a lack of supply of affordable ice.
In areas where the rinks are community based costs can be contained and participation kept affordable. In areas where rinks are privately owned costs can be prohibitive.
This community support keeps costs down. Our local ice averages $180 per hour with off peak times as low as $80 per hour. Compare that to California or Dallas where ice costs can run $500-600 per hour.
Season fees for a regional travel team will run a couple thousand. Now that sounds expensive, but it's in line with USSSA baseball fees, club volleyball, travel soccer, etc. Bottom line is youth sports these days costs money.
There are city leagues for hockey in larger cities that are much cheaper than playing travel hockey. I know of city leagues in KC, Omaha, Des Moines, Sioux Falls, MSP, Fargo, etc.
Reading this thread, it's clear that hockey is more expensive in the South mainly due to a lack of supply of affordable ice.
In areas where the rinks are community based costs can be contained and participation kept affordable. In areas where rinks are privately owned costs can be prohibitive.
Our ice costs are much cheaper up here, admittedly. Don't compare AAA hockey costs as the norm, that's the extreme high end.
It costs as much for my daughter to play club volleyball on a regional travel team (upper Midwest) as it does for my boy to play hockey. Several grand a year for each.
All youth travel sports are expensive these days.
It costs as much for my daughter to play club volleyball on a regional travel team (upper Midwest) as it does for my boy to play hockey. Several grand a year for each.
All youth travel sports are expensive these days.
Wow. It's getting dusty in here. Dang.
I hated on these Canadian guys for 3 periods and OT. I'm so glad we won. Now maybe Hockey Canada will respect USA Hockey a little more.
I'm now done hating on the Canadian players. There's some good dudes on that team.
There could only be one winner
Glad it was the USA.
I'm now done hating on the Canadian players. There's some good dudes on that team.
There could only be one winner
Glad it was the USA.
re: Do they have any adult hockey leagues
Posted by SoDakHawk on 2/22/26 at 10:09 am to nicholastiger
Sign your kids up to play hockey today. It's the greatest youth sport.
High stick that drew blood. 4 minutes.
re: TEAM USA WINS GOLD | USA 2 Canada 1 FINAL/OT | Gold Medal Game | Olympic Hockey
Posted by SoDakHawk on 2/22/26 at 7:21 am to WestCoastAg
Flyyyyy Freeeee Biiiird, Yeaahhh!!!!
This game is going to be an insane heavyweight tilt.
re: Questions about coverage during the entire Games
Posted by SoDakHawk on 2/21/26 at 7:51 pm to Big Scrub TX
Coverage was awesome, if you had Peacock. Curling was on CNBC and USA. Hockey was on USA. The sports they highlighted Team USA were on NBC, like figure skating, or alpine skiing.
On Peacock you could find every single thing. From left to right they had Gold Zone, Coverage from Milan, then each individual sport that was coming up live next. Then you could go into each individual sport and watch any replay plus search for upcoming events live complete with medal ceremonies that you need to stick around for as they just show a live arena shot until they come back for the ceremony.
I've gone back and watched several alpine skiing, cross country, and biathlon events I missed but wanted to watch.
All you have to do is try a little and everything is available to watch.
On Peacock you could find every single thing. From left to right they had Gold Zone, Coverage from Milan, then each individual sport that was coming up live next. Then you could go into each individual sport and watch any replay plus search for upcoming events live complete with medal ceremonies that you need to stick around for as they just show a live arena shot until they come back for the ceremony.
I've gone back and watched several alpine skiing, cross country, and biathlon events I missed but wanted to watch.
All you have to do is try a little and everything is available to watch.
Spent much of the day at a Mite hockey tournament. Asked one of the parents what time they play tomorrow. Answer was "we ALL have a 7AM game time".
To say the emotions across the USA Hockey community is at a fever pitch is an understatement.
To say the emotions across the USA Hockey community is at a fever pitch is an understatement.
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