UND announced additional suspensions stemming from the team party last Saturday.
Sophomores Connor Gaarder, Andrew Panzarella and Stephane Pattyn have been suspended for the Oct. 20 game against Alaska Fairbanks.
UND also will suspend Brendan O’Donnell for the Oct. 19 game and it added one game to Danny Kristo’s suspension for violating athletic department policy that’s unrelated to the party.
In all, UND will be without Kristo, Corban Knight, Andrew MacWilliam, Carter Rowney and Brendan O’Donnell for the season opener. It will be without Gaarder, Panzarella, Pattyn and Kristo for the second game.
Four players are expected to be cited for underage drinking on Monday due to the party.
UND will play the opening game with just 17 skaters, assuming there are no injuries in the next month.
So are we signing up so Red River players for the Alaska trip? This just keeps getting worse.
Good lesson in accountability.
I wonder when were gonna hear about the gopher suspensions for their team party where their top freshman tore his acl, I highly doubt that party consisted of fruit punch, chips and dip and chutes and ladders
The top freshman is out for the season due to his injury from falling down at the party. Many others were intoxicated at the gopher party. I hear they got a good talking to, however.
I don’t know why it’s being said he’s their top freshman. Please, the kid was probably 4th liner, if not a healthy scratch.
What did Kristo do now? …It is getting harder by the day for those who have recently boasted of his leadership skills…
I am sick of Kristos act. He gets nailed again and is shown the door this fan won’t miss him.
@Bradley…. Agreed. It is a PRIVELIGE to play for the Sioux…. Not a right. It’s not hard to fallow rules. I don’t care if you are a hockey player…. Think before you do!! I know right now these players are kicking themselves for this. If you don’t wanna get caught… DONT DO IT.
Spelling clearly optional for you. GED for life!!
Really it was a party let’s not make it more then it was. They didn’t opening a cop car door to let two players out or a team captain getting a dui on a team fishing trip. Relax already
And Kristo seems to be involved in every situation that comes up. It seems to me the guy thinks he is king and he can do whatever the hell he pleases to do. He can grow up anyday now but I will not be holding my breath.
How about we trust this is being dealt with appropriately & not look at situations taking place in Fargo or Minneapolis. Clearly what took place was inappropriate & there is no excuse considering their status on campus, in GF or in the state of ND. No excuses, these boys know what type of spectacle they are living in and need to act accordingly. Even if those of us didn’t have consequences for similar actions either then or now.
If Hak thought someone didn’t belong he wouldnt think twice about dismissing them, as he’s shown before. We don’t know what all happened but the players are being taught a valuable lesson on how to represent themselves off the ice. I would guess that come late in the season when it’s time to make that last push this team will do it as one unit and some of these ramifications could really help in that team building/ everyone being accountable for their job mentality that we’ve grown to love as Sioux fans. Go Sioux!
Dear Brian Faison,
Keep up the good work in driving the hockey program into the ground. Your work hasn’t gone unnoticed.
Warmest Regards,
Your Biggest Fan
Explain this without referring to the nickname situation …
Dear Brian Faison,
Keep up the good work in driving the hockey program into the ground. Your work hasn’t gone unnoticed.
Warmest Regards,
Your Biggest Fan
I can’t believe I’m not alone being against Brian Faison, Thank You! He has also screwed thousands of UND fans from seeing any of the upcoming hockey season. Cableone in Fargo has still not signed on for the Midcon UND sports package. Brad tells me “don’t worry, it’ll be on Fox College Sports. Well so far I’ve “missed every televised football game and according to the published October 6th. program guide, UND hockey is nowhere to be seen. Guess they don’t want to televise exhibition games along with football. From seeing everything, we’ve gone to seeing nothing. Thanks so much for this Mr. Faison. You sold out for a couple of dollars and threw your local realiable coverage and national coverage under the bus.
Wayne, you obviously don’t understand the TV stuff. I’ve tried hard to explain this many times. Midco broadcasted UND games last year, too. CableOne decided to pick them up. This year, CableOne has not yet decided to pick them up. This has nothing to do with the new deal signed with Midco. It has everything to do with a decision by CableOne. CableOne can pay to pick them up exactly like it did last year. The hockey games will be on Fox College Sports, just as they were last year. Fox College Sports decided not to broadcast football this year. Again, this has NOTHING to do with the Midco deal.
Brad,
I don’t know if you fully understand the TV stuff either. For the past 11 years or so WDAZ had the rights to broadcast the games and they just paid MIDCO to air it on their network, while negotating a deal with other cable providers such as CABLEONE and allowing it to air of FTA. Now that MIDCO has the rights to broadcast the games they cut out FTA and raised the rates with CABLEONE. Now is that UND’s problem that MIDCO is raising the rates? No but they will have to live with it if games don’t reach as far as they used to.
I have heard they are offering CableOne the same deal as last year.
Brad, if I recall the exact wording was “basically the same”. That leaves a lot of room for changes. The real problem is no information to the consumers. Emails are not returned, phone calls are not answered, and newspaper stories are not replied to. It seems nobody will come forward and explain what is going on. I even talked to a city commissioner in charge of the cable franchise and he told me he’d have them contact me. That hasn’t happened either. And now as I mentioned earlier, no game showing in the FCS guide for Oct. 6 scares the heck out of me.
Don’t they usually show up about Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday of Game Week? I can ask again, if you wish.
You don’t have to do that Brad, let’s just see if the game appears in the guide. Stuff is usually there weeks in advance but maybe they’ll change it. There’s not much we can do if they don’t want to televise exhibition games. Guess that’s what I don’t like. Somebody purchasing the rights to a package, then dictating what they want to show and don’t want to show. I know there’ll be a lot of folks disappointed if they don’t.
Yeah, let’s blame the AD….easy to do…why don’t you blame the young men who should know better….it’s obvious you don’t know any better. Place the blame on the right set of shoulders Sioux Dat Nation……
I’ve been reading all of your gripes and all I can say is deal with it. These guys are the kings of gf and are going to do what they want. They all have other options other than playing for the Sioux. I remember oshie,toews,bina,frattin,Finley, etc etc getting in trouble with the law. It didn’t start with these guys and it won’t end with them. If it were me I would be doing it even more hard core. Live it up fellas ! You only live once!
Hak getting out in front of this is one of the smartest moves he can make. They reported the suspensions and “other punishments” before the story even came out. It is similar to the MLB players who dealt with the steroids thing. Several players said yup i did it and im sorry. The story pretty much died right there. Much like this one is. On the other hand you have guys like Clemens who denied and fought and all the other stuff… their stories are still going on. Much like NDSU. Deal with it however you are going to deal with it and move on. Hak is no idiot.
Enough with the comparisons to NDSU! I don’t give two damns about whats going on at that ho dump uni…
Enough of the “see how much better we discipline are students mentality,” I am sick of it. Nobody cares years or even months down the road how great the suspensions were that you handed out. And it is not going to improve their character any, they are still going to drink, if the only law they break is drinking underage then let them play. And don’t tell me little kids will learn from this and the right message needs to be sent, they just want to see the guys play hockey and enjoy life at UND like the rest of us. Make them pay in other ways, you don’t have to make the fans pay the price of watching a dessimated team. I do think the team should be a little smarter than to get caught though, there are ways to avoid the stupid cops busting up a good time. Or drive to Canada and drink legally it’s not that far.
This is getting ridiculous. This is an overreaction by everyone involved: the media, the AD, Hak, the fans. There was a party by college kids in which half of them were of age, half weren’t. News flash: this goes on at every college campus across the nation including athletes of all sports and non athletes. All it is doing is dragging our reputation at UND through the mud (we made front page of USCHO for a college party!). The punishments don’t even come close to matching the crime, and as this drags out and continues to pop up in the news, our reputation sinks lower and lower for something as common as jaywalking. Can we get off our high horses and realize this was a “mistake” that 90% of college kids now and forever have made?
Not exactly leading by example for the Captains. But take your lumps, and lets move on.
For the vast majority of college hockey players hockey is a fleeting moment of their lives. However, it is an opportunity to learn how to be successful in other aspects of life. Every management guru will tell you that a large part of success is built on discipline and mature behavior. I also realize that partying is a part of the college experience; I am not pretending that it isn’t. But, in this case it wasn’t just a party, it was a violation of team rules. A significant distinction! If you want to be a leader, then you best start acting like one! The team leaders failed in this regard, big time! The AD and coaches did however step up and demonstrate what leadership looks like- appropiately so. We saw what such tough love did for Mr. Frattin, let’s hope we don’t have to go there again!
I think Brad Schlossman is doing a good job.
It would appear that the boys need to regain their focus…
What’s the chances anybody loses their “A” due to this?
They had a party. It got out of hand. Some players made bad decisions. Normal growing pains. Accept the consequences, learn from your mistake and move on.
Dont make a mountain out of a molehill……
Time to but the Jersey on and put all this behind the team. Learn from your mistakes and play some Sioux Hockey. I am so looking foward to see this team on the ice. Hey at least no goalie’s got suspended something to be positive about.
It is good to see a school dicipline its athletes no mater who they are unlike NDSU who has decided that their football players get a free pass for the season when they commited election fraud even though they kicked antother player off the team citing code of conduct. I guess fraud isn’t against the code of conduct.
“Nothing to see here folks; move along”. Seriously, this has been blown WAY out of proportion by the same worm mindset that led to the changing of the Sioux name. Haters/detractors need to start following badminton (and other such manly endeavors); hockey is NOT a sport for timid boys…..
Do college students party/drink alcohol? Yes. Do under age college students party/drink alcohol? Yes. Is this a mature and responsible decision to do so? No, especially when one is an athlete representing a university as a student/athlete, regardless if the student/athlete is of legal drinking age or not. Those student/athletes who are of legal drinking age, should abstain from drinking alcohol as this would set a good example for those student/athletes whom are not of legal drinking age. How about the men’s hockey team spend less time partying, spend more time: studying/earning a college degree; focus on developing into mature, responsible, law abiding young men and student/athletes who represent their respective families, the University of North Dakota, and the Grand Forks community with great pride, honor, integrity, and class.
I think the hems of your skirt are ruffled, Alice…….