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  • #46
    Re: The UP

    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
    I don't see the big deal? Driving on what I assume is snow packed on top of black ice is always fun, but something you're also going to run into anywhere north of 43 degrees.
    It's not, really, if you can read signs, but this is what's frustrating for people who don't and are unfamiliar. You can end up on a bridge north when you wanted to go east (or west), if you're in the wrong lane.
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    • #47
      Originally posted by Kepler View Post
      I don't see the big deal? Driving on what I assume is snow packed on top of black ice is always fun, but something you're also going to run into anywhere north of 43 degrees.
      That shows the loop in question, but it takes you on quite a time lapse around Houghton/Hancock.

      Here is the exact abortion Brent refences.

      For those incapable of reading big green signs, finding the lane you need to go where can cause you to loop around. What you can't see is the elevation changes between the one way closest to the canal and the one way going the other direction.

      It's a half-*ssed-roundabout that is on a slant like a Tilt-a-Wirl.
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      • #48
        Re: The UP

        Originally posted by manurespreader View Post
        Gee I thought you lost to a wcha team this year. Must be dreaming I guess. Never mind.

        Cornell played UAH I believe last year, so they are already familiar with the WCHA.
        Yup, we split the season series with Mankato State. Hastings always has his teams ready to give SCSU fits, even when it says SCSU should wipe the floor with them on paper. And then you add in a goalie who was letting his sieve show on Hockey Day MN, and it was all over for that night.
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        • #49
          Re: The UP

          Originally posted by geezer View Post
          if you're in the wrong lane.
          I think I have located the issue here...
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          • #50
            Re: The UP

            Advice #1: Don't listen to the ill-informed St. Cloud fan. Tech has been quite good for the last 4 years or so, 3 NCAA appearances in 4 years. NMU was down, but last year they had a very good team, and should be good again. Both Tech and NMU are primed to be really **** good over the next several years, which should re-ignite a very good rivalry (the WCHA championship game already did a good job of starting that last year). You'll see some good hockey over two games between Cornell and NMU, but the thing you will notice more is, the fans in Marquette and Houghton are probably the most knowledgeable hockey fans around. You don't get the casual know-nothing fans in UP. People know their ****.
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            • #51
              Re: The UP

              Originally posted by bigblue_dl View Post
              Advice #1: Don't listen to the ill-informed St. Cloud fan. Tech has been quite good for the last 4 years or so, 3 NCAA appearances in 4 years. NMU was down, but last year they had a very good team, and should be good again. Both Tech and NMU are primed to be really **** good over the next several years, which should re-ignite a very good rivalry (the WCHA championship game already did a good job of starting that last year). You'll see some good hockey over two games between Cornell and NMU, but the thing you will notice more is, the fans in Marquette and Houghton are probably the most knowledgeable hockey fans around. You don't get the casual know-nothing fans in UP. People know their ****.
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              • #52
                Re: The UP

                Originally posted by bigblue_dl View Post
                Advice #1: Don't listen to the ill-informed St. Cloud fan. Tech has been quite good for the last 4 years or so, 3 NCAA appearances in 4 years. NMU was down, but last year they had a very good team, and should be good again. Both Tech and NMU are primed to be really **** good over the next several years, which should re-ignite a very good rivalry (the WCHA championship game already did a good job of starting that last year). You'll see some good hockey over two games between Cornell and NMU, but the thing you will notice more is, the fans in Marquette and Houghton are probably the most knowledgeable hockey fans around. You don't get the casual know-nothing fans in UP. People know their ****.
                Nah, you'll get plenty of idjuts, but most of them will be students. The townies and old farts know their stuff, though.

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                • #53
                  Re: The UP

                  Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
                  Nah, you'll get plenty of idjuts, but most of them will be students. The townies and old farts know their stuff, though.
                  Townies are always way, way better fans than students. They've seen much more hockey and they aren't consumed by their iPacifiers.
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                  • #54
                    Re: The UP

                    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                    Townies are always way, way better fans than students. They've seen much more hockey, and they aren't consumed by their iPacifiers.
                    Grew up playing a lot of hockey in small Manitoba towns. Cold air wood rinks with wide bleachers made for standing. There were always a lot of oldish men at those games, too many to all be fathers or uncles. If there was a hockey game to watch, they were there.

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                    • #55
                      Re: The UP

                      Originally posted by burd View Post
                      Cold air wood rinks with wide bleachers made for standing.
                      Baldur, Manitoba:

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                      • #56
                        Re: The UP

                        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                        Baldur, Manitoba:

                        That's it. Cold air wood rinks have a wonderful smell.

                        Unless they're full of Minnesotans.

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                        • #57
                          Re: The UP

                          Originally posted by burd View Post
                          That's it. Cold air wood rinks have a wonderful smell.

                          Unless they're full of Minnesotans.
                          Or it's overtime and you're near the benches.
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                          • #58
                            Re: The UP

                            Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
                            Nah, you'll get plenty of idjuts, but most of them will be students. The townies and old farts know their stuff, though.
                            Yeah, should have been more clear, I was talking about the locals, not the students. I didn't figure Kepler would be out there doing Jager bombs with MQT's loosest co-eds (....that's all of them), chatting about NMU's power play schemes.
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                            • #59
                              Re: The UP

                              Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                              I'm actually fairly excited to go (I like cold and barren), but almost as much for the social element as the hockey.
                              How many times did you replace, "experiment" with, "element" before hitting submit? Come on admit it!

                              Also Brent will post in this- [edit] never mind just saw it
                              Last edited by Slap Shot; 06-07-2018, 04:16 PM.

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                              • #60
                                Originally posted by bigblue_dl View Post
                                Yeah, should have been more clear, I was talking about the locals, not the students. I didn't figure Kepler would be out there doing Jager bombs with MQT's loosest co-eds (....that's all of them), chatting about NMU's power play schemes.
                                Always thought this was a bit of an exaggeration, watched Campus PD one time, realized it was not.
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