UND -- North Dakota Fighting Hawks Take National Hockey Championship -- April 10, 2016

UND Fighting Sioux or Fighting Hawks or whatever win 8th National Hockey championship. A big "thank you" for the readers alerting me to this. I would have completely missed it ... for another hour or so....

Inforum is reporting:

TAMPA, Fla. -- The wait is over.

At long last, North Dakota is the King of College Hockey again.

UND emphatically won its eighth national championship -- and first since 2000 -- by dominating Quinnipiac 5-1 in front of 19,358 in Amalie Arena, washing away 15 years of heartbreak in the NCAA tournament.

Chants of "Let's go Sioux" and "Sioux forever" rang out from the crowd as the frustration of coming so close so many times in the national tournament finally turned to elation.
When the buzzer sounded, the coaching staff -- led by rookie head coach Brad Berry -- embraced on the bench as the players stormed the crease occupied by Cam Johnson.

They put on their championship shirts and hats and cut down the nets as the fans decked in green and white roared in the stands.

"I can't even put it into words," senior forward Bryn Chyzyk said. "It's all you want to do for this program because you love it so much. For my last game in this sweater, to hoist a national championship, it's amazing. I'll remember this day forever."

UND's CBS Line, which had dominated all year long served up one last grand finale, scoring three of UND's five goals.

Much more at the link.

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A Note for the Granddaughters

This has nothing to do with the Bakken or North Dakota but it's too good of a story not to post/link. Over at the Boston Globe:

It was past midnight, and all was quiet inside Robsham Theater, a sprawling performance space at Boston College.

Fred Vautour sponged down sinks, scrubbed toilets, and polished mirrors. Pushing a yellow cart loaded with a mop, broom, and cleaning supplies, he moved on to the hallway, where he swept up paper scraps and cleaned the large windows looking onto the campus. In the distance, the Gothic towers of Gasson Hall and Bapst Library faded into the dark sky. In a little more than 12 hours, Elizabeth Warren was coming to speak on economic inequality.

For the last 15 years of his long working life, Vautour, 62, has performed his painstaking rounds on the graveyard shift at Robsham Theater as if they were a calling. And, in a sense, they are.

Next month, his youngest child will collect her nursing degree from BC, and Vautour’s triumph will be complete: The night-shift custodian will have put all five of his children — Amy, John, Michael, Thomas, and Alicia — through Boston College.

Vautour said he never could have afforded a college education for five children on his salary of $60,000 a year. His wife, Debra, was a homemaker who now works the front desk at the Waltham Senior Center.

But because Vautour is a BC employee, all five children were able to attend the college tuition-free, which knocked about $51,000 off of BC’s $66,000 annual price tag. After scholarships, Vautour said, each child’s college education cost him about $3,000 per year.

I wonder how much Elizabeth Warren was paid for coming to speak? Or if she mentioned the salary she earned teaching at Harvard?

Well, since you asked:

Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law School professor and consumer advocate challenging Republican Senator Scott Brown, took home more than $700,000 in compensation from teaching and consulting fees over a two-year period from 2010 to 2011, according to her most recent financial disclosure form.

Over that same period, she was collecting a six-figure salary for two consecutive federal government appointments.

She earned about $165,300 from September 2010 through August 2011 as a special adviser to President Obama, setting up the consumer protection agency she helped establish.

Before that, she collected a total of $192,722 for leading the congressional panel that oversaw the US bank bailout. That government salary covered a period that began before her latest disclosure report, spanning from November 2008 through September 2010.

She's found her niche. Vautour has found his. There will be a special spot in heaven for him. I don't know about Pocahontas.