Hell has frozen over in Duluth baby!

That was an unbelievably good game. And for a guy who's heart was broken by Bowling Green way, way back, this is sweet.

+1 Rollergirl and especially +1 Teal, me too, Bowling Green stung for awhile, nice to finally get the win.

So, the News Tribune has put out a special edition on the Bulldogs' win. Just curious: Did they do that any of the many times the UMD women's hockey team won the national championship?

@bluenewt: I can give you several reason why they didn't.  Women's hockey is not a big deal outside of ex-Chancellor Martin's agenda and the militant left wing of the UMD athletic department.  The women's hockey program is funded on the backs of the men's hockey ticket sales (and possibly the football team these days).  Obviously, you've never been to a women's hockey game, because if you had you wouldn't be asking this question.  Why would the DNT print a special edition for a hockey program that only draws a few hundred fans (mostly parents and girlfriends/boyfriends) to a home playoff game?  And, to call the women's version of the game "hockey" doesn't do justice to the sport considering there is no checking allowed in the female version.  

Of course, Ms. Miller gets paid more than Coach Sandelin.....by golly, that's not equal pay!  I thought we were supposed to pay everyone the same for doing the same job!

In a nutshell, very few people care about women's hockey.

I'm aware, TimK.  Title IX is a joke.  Instead of spending millions of dollars on athletic programs that do very little to enhance the collegiate experience of the student body and community, why not just give away scholarships to men and women and save us the expense of creating a new sport that very, very few people care about?  Women's hockey is about as exciting as watching paint dry underwater.

Collegiate sports can serve a useful purpose.  Unfortunately, that purpose goes bye-bye when the sport cannot fiscally support itself.

Go back to Russia, spooman.

Women's hockey is fun to watch--agreed.

And, I've taught many women hockey players at UMD who were smart and engaged. Male hockey players, not so much.

why does spoo hate america and our freedoms?

I question your opinions on the enjoyability of women's hockey for one reason: attendance.  I've been to one period of one women's hockey game, and I'll never go back.  Boring.  You'll find a higher quality of hockey at the bantam youth level.

Any University that receives public money is required to offer equal sporting opportunities for female athletes.  I have no clue how that translates to a local newspaper.  The simple fact is less people are interested in women's hockey.  The opportunity for women to play collegiate sports can and should be mandated by law.  The interest of sports fans cannot be mandated, and I always find it amusing when women's sports fans act like it can or at least ought to be.  Not enjoying women's hockey doesn't make you sexist any more than not watching Cricket makes you anti-Pakistani.  The same thing happens every year around this time regarding Sports Illustrated's coverage of NCAA basketball.  Someone inevitably writes in lamenting the fact that more pages are devoted to the men's game.  SI and the DNT are all about selling their product.  In order to do so, they are certainly allowed to cover whichever sport garners the most interest.  For the record I think Spooman went way to negative on women's hockey, but it doesn't change the fact that the DNT has nothing to apologize for in this instance.

NCAA Title IX resource:  http://bit.ly/hRyTZH

Should explain when you'll get those tickets.