All-time wins against the Other
Minnesota: 145
North Dakota: 130
Advantage Minnesota: So says math.
WCHA Regular Season Titles
Minnesota: 13 (most recent 2012)
North Dakota: 15 (2011)
Advantage Minnesota: In this case, recency trumps quantity.
WCHA Tournament Titles
Minnesota: 14 (most recent 2007)
North Dakota: 11 (most recent 2012)
Advantage Minnesota: In this case it does not.
NCAA Tournament Appearances
Minnesota: 33
North Dakota: 27
Advantage Minnesota: More is better.
Frozen Four Appearances
Minnesota: 20
North Dakota: 19
Advantage Minnesota: Ditto
Natty Titles
Minnesota: 5 (last two in 2002 and 2003)
North Dakota: 7 (last one in 2000)
Advantage North Dakota: Hang on, we can correct this...
Natty Titles under current coach
Minnesota: Don Lucia- 2 (2002 and 2003)
North Dakota: Dave Hakstol-0 (zero and zilch)
Advantage Minneota: Much better.
Natty Ice
Minnesota: Only at frat parties
North Dakota: The official-and probably only- beer of Grand Forks
Advantage Minnesota: That is if you like good beer. If you like Natty ice- then you must be from Grand Forks.
Nickname
Minnesota: Golden Gophers
North Dakota: Funny story, but they no longer have one
Advantage Minnesota: Hahahaha
Top Recruits
Minnesota: sometimes leave for the NHL after only a year or two
North Dakota: sometimes leave for juniors before they ever get on campus
Advantage Minnesota: I mean, have you been to Grand Forks? Can't blame Seth Jones, Miles Koules, Stefan Matteau etc...
Class
Minnesota: Something players attend.
North Dakota: None.
Advantage Minnesota: GPL sums it up like this:
Canadians
Minnesota: The Enemy
North Dakota: Please come play for us! Please!
Advantage Minnesota- That is, unless you have no morals or soul and you're fine being a traitor in order to win hockey games
Mighty Mites
Minnesota: 5'7 Kyle Rau
North Dakota: 5'6 Rocco Grimaldi
Advantage Minnesota: In just two more games played Rau's 13-12-25 trumps Grimaldi's 7-10-17
Trolling
Minnesota: Done in one of our 10,000 lakes for bass or trout
North Dakota: Done on various Gopher hockey websites and message boards
Advantage Minnesota: I mean, have you been to Grand Forks?
Things to do when not watching hockey
Minnesota: playing hockey, fishing, hunting, enjoying the North Woods and great outdoors, watching our four professional teams (five if you count the T-Wolves), eating at all the great restaurants and bars around the Twin Cities, visiting museums, zoos etc
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North Dakota: trolling Gopher hockey websites and message boards
Advantage Minnesota: I mean, have you been to Grand Forks?!?
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Left the WCHA because...
Minnesota: Benevolent Overlord of the B1G Jim Delaney made them
North Dakota: Minnesota did it, so they had to too
Advantage Minnesota: Look, it sucks the WCHA will cease to exist after this season (or at least in terms of being a relevant college hockey conference), and yes, Minnesota and Wisconsin are responsible for getting the ball rolling because the B1G demanded it. But their exit shouldn't have killed the conference: It still had 10 schools remaining, and if they wanted 12, Miami OH and Western Michigan could have gotten them right back there and they would have been just fine. But instead, UND and the five others decided they needed to break away so that they could divide what little TV revenue they'd be able to scrape together by eight schools instead of 10 or 12. Now yes, even a UND education will tell you there'll be more to go around for 8 schools than 10 or 12, but how much more? Last I checked, getting a little more of not much is still not much. Minnesota and Sconnie were forced to go because their money-making juggernaut of a conference wanted to add more content to their money-making juggernaut network. The NCHC? You can't tell me they're much better off than had they just added Miami and WMU to the WCHA. But hey, UND and its fans can still say THEY weren't the ones to break up the conference even though they really were.