 The Beavers men's hockey team looks for its fifth straight season opening win tomorrow as they host their rivals North Dakota. A lot of questions will be answered tomorrow. Who will get the start net? How will the nine newcomers mesh with the veterans? The one thing is for sure a game against North Dakota will be tough, physical and come right down to the wire as nine of the past 15 meetings have been decided by one goal or less. To me they're the same North Dakota team. They're deep. They've got good speed. They play hard. They're very tough to play against and again I just think again you know their identity and we just have to make sure that you know we're ready to respond on Friday because it's just gonna be a hard-fought weekend. Tradition never graduates and they have a tremendous tradition like we do and so you know I think the main thing is is we just got out of work and we just got to come ready pretty much to go to war with them. The building's gonna be packed. Everyone knows that. It's always sold out against North Dakota. I mean the atmosphere for your own opener is just it's amazing. Season opener for both teams so a good test to start off the season. Yeah what a way to start it off huh? Yeah definitely play one of your biggest rivals. Should be a big crowd and a good atmosphere. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.