>INCH: A to Hj
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His favorite was a trip to the Kohl Center, where Hjelle watched “thousands of fans barking at Al the whole game” and thought how awesome it would be to be on the ice.
>OMFG
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Just get your you-know-what together and hire Ciskie. It’s not hard. Andrew Carroll wants you to do it. And you must do what he wants.
Oh, in other news,
UMD hockey and football have a new radio home: AM 1490 The Fan.>Skate-by-Numbers
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1 Kenny Reiter
2 Brady Lamb
3 Chase Ryan
4 Evan Oberg
5 Trent Palm (quit being #54, which is good. This isn’t football!!)
6 Scott Kishel
7 Drew Akins
8 Drew Olson (okay, grouping the Drews together is good)
10 Dan DeLisle
11 Kyle Schmidt
12 Jack Connolly (Is Chris keeping the same number, too?)
13 Travis Oleksuk
14 Keegan Flaherty
19 Rob Bordson (Switching it up from #15)
21 Cody Danberg
22 Mike Connolly
23 Jordan Fulton
24 Mike Montgomery
26 Chad Huttel
27 David Grun (Excellent choice staying with #27, David! Be ready to score me a birthday goal!)
28 Wade Bergman
30 Brady Hjelle
37 Justin Fontaine
Stealth (no numbers yet)
Jake Hendrickson
Dylan Olsen
Mike Seidel (Pick #15!! Pick #15!!! It’s the hottie number!)
Ultra Stealth (not on roster yet)
Aaron Crandall
Sneaky (still on the roster)
Evan Oberg
>The Trilogy
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aka part 1 of 3 of UMD’s 2008-2009 highlight videos. It’s AWESOME… but such a tease! You can also “fan” UMD Hockey while you’re at it.
>Logistics
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1. PB&HjT info will be posted, as it comes available, in its own little section. It will also be on Facebook, but if you’re not a Facebooker it’s a way to get the new info as it comes along.
2. I’m on Twitter now. It’s gross and childish, but I promise you it is not going to be a rundown of my life. During the season, I’ll be able to post snippets of news and also game information.
3. I updated the links to delete some dormant ones and to update some new ones.
4. I have typhoid, but shot a buffalo, rested three days at Soda Springs, and traded 2 sets of clothing for 1 wagon tongue, so I’m doing ok.
>This Shirt is Bananas
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Well, from the atelier of the hottest fashion house in Minneapolis, here’s the design.
T-shirt front:
T-shirt back:
>B-A-N-A-N-A-S
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Where are you going to be? Oh, you already know where you’re going to be, of course. At the DECC. Duh. It’s UMD’s season opener. Time for our 3rd Annual Tie With Lake Superior State. Or maybe a win????
But.
What will you be wearing??? Scary thought, I know. What if that horrible nightmare where you go out in public is realized??? How awful. Especially for the rest of us.
Of course, you know you can count on your Girl Friday, RWD, to come through. I work tirelessly for you. At this moment there are about 300 other things I should be doing, including but not limited to studying, sleeping, concentrating on the Star Trek: TNG episode on TV, or packing things away for the RWD headquarters move on Saturday. But no, you folks are my highest priority.
Anyway, to avoid public nudity, consider a PEANUT BUTTER HJELLE TIME!!!! t-shirt. These t-shirts are exclusively available through the
eponymous Facebook group or by letting me know you want one. If you’re not sure what it looks like, the group photo will give you a pretty good idea. You can also view the image on Photobucket. If you get the red X, that means too many people have viewed it. Trust me, you won’t get the red X.The t-shirts have not been priced yet, but please believe me, they are not a for-profit endeavor and they will be cheap. Joining the Facebook group is the best way to get information on pricing and availability. Then you won’t run up my stat counter checking in to see if they’ve been ordered yet.
This is a chance for UMD fans to support the team and rally behind our new goalie, but it’s also a time for UMD fans to rebuild some of the camaraderie that might have been lost in recent years. This is by no means limited to students (remember, I’m not a UMD student) or Penalty Box posters, so don’t think you’re too old/obscure/good to participate. It might also help if you reviewed some of the PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME YouTube videos to be prepared for the cheers (this is a multimedia event!!!) and dance moves.
>Blowing Sunshine
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Remember, if one expects a team to lose and they do, one’s expectations have been met. It’s a pretty hollow victory; who wants to thump their chest and say “See? I was right, they do suck!” But it’s a pretty safe bet. If they win, then great!!! But if they lose, then one doesn’t risk looking “stupid.” (This is the same reason why people never ask questions in classes or at meetings, and why many are no fun: they don’t want to look stupid. Whereas I’ve made a second career out of it.) It’s why people invest in t-bills: little ventured, little gained. And then we’ve got folks who want to win big, like me. I know I can lose big, and I know that people think I’m either an idiot or on hallucinogenic drugs (or both!!!), but that’s fine. I’m hoping my positive attitude will spread like herpes through the Northern Michigan Pep Band. Fun times!
I know there’s not a lot of empirical data to suggest UMD will finish anywhere near first place. I fully expect DU to win the league and I imagine the coaches’ poll will reflect that. I’m a genius prognosticator, I know. I just get so mad at the folks who want to complain about the coaching, or moan about our departures or rail against the “outrageous” spending on our coach’s salary (he’s a bargain, folks. A bargain. I’ll show it mathematically some day.) At the end of the day, being a Bulldog fan is a choice. An insane choice, yes, because they drive us crazy, but we can walk away. Unlike with our families, for example, where even when your mom joins Facebook and cluelessly blunders her way through the site, or your dad calls you to tell you about major road construction AFTER YOU ARE ALREADY STUCK IN IT and then calls back to tell you what shortcut to take AFTER YOU HAVE ALREADY MIRACULOUSLY FIGURED IT OUT ON YOUR OWN, you have to love them anyway. This is a major theme within the collective unconscious, I know. Karl Jung wrote about it extensively.
We can walk away at any time. It’s not easy. Minnesota sports fans suffer a lot. We cheer for underdogs. (This is a kind of sick obsession with me. Here is a partial list of underdogs I have championed: Greg Gagne*, Tommy Kramer, Henry Blanco, and Mike Curry. So you can take this for what it’s worth.) But seriously, folks. Or, as serious as we can get around here. It’s more fun to think positively about the season in July, months before practice even starts, when zero games have been played. We are all on the same side here, and it would be nice if we were on the same side as our team, for crying out loud.
So, as Beard says, “Let’s support the team and enjoy not being from Wisconsin.” (It’s T.S. for Larry R. and Bruce.)
>File Under: Obvious
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As much as I love seeing your sweet smiling faces, I’d prefer it not be in the form of a mug shot. Stay out of trouble this summer. And during the season. And always.
Sincerely,
Runninwiththedogs
>Lilies of the Field
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Each day that you do not sign with a WHL team is like a bouquet of flowers appearing on my desk. Some days are like daisies, others like carnations. Today, since learning that John Moore has defected
Thank you,
Runninwiththedogs
Runnin' With the Dogs 
