The Sicatoka

The way that article is written, is that new DI subdivision football only or for all sports in those five conferences?

Just a Fargoner. And your name for the City of Grand Forks may well be interpreted by some as carrying some sort of cultural insensitivity or cultural bias. May you not only meet them, but have to sit through their 8-hour "Diversity and You" seminar to be re-educated. Closing thought: What if everyone here "accidentally" misspelled the name of the city home to NDSU by reversing the 'r' and the 'g'? We'd get rightly lit up. Rationalizing it as an "alternative name" wouldn't make it any better much less right. So, quite simply John, it's cute, accepted behavior at Bisonville; here, grow up.

Giving up three goals in two minutes to blow a two-goal home lead? The sound you just heard was the Columbus Blue Jacket tent folding up.

Cooke had the knee out -- willful intent.

Dan Cole and Gerbschmidt have talked over each other at times. I don't believe it's Dan Cole. I was listening to an interview on Bumper-to-Bumper one time and Dan Barreiro was interviewing a buddy of his who writes for one of the Chicago fishwrappers. They basically let it slip that that guy (name escapes me) does the Gerbschmidt voice.

The sun rose in the east this morning too.

Precisely.

Clearly willful. He should sit, just as Lucic and Perry should have. But, because it doesn't involve impact to the head, it'll be ignored by the League. And then one day a spear will rupture a spleen or lacerate a kidney or cause some other internal injury and then the League will (over-) react.

I did not know Bob's serves breakfast.

gfhockey: Which one are you?

And remember: the head of the previous regime was an offensive lineman. How he could let that happen is unfathomable.

Football is won on the line of scrimmage. I'm just glad to see a head coach that seems to understand, acknowledge, and address this; however, addressing it will take some time.

Giving up 7 unanswered after holding a 2 goal lead? sLAKers.

Masterfully played. Well done.

And he will sit, just as Lucic should have for willingly doing something dangerous.

Approve? No, you didn't; but, you rationalized it almost as well as Lucic. They aren't making space. They are doing cheap, dirty, dangerous things on the ice and should face consequences. A $5000 fine isn't consequences. Suspended two or three games (or the rest of the series) without pay, that's consequences.

I said broken JUNK. Not a typo, not jaw. 65Red can explain. And you *did* say that Lucic breaking (slashing) someone's junk is OK because he was just "making space".

When you have an obvious issue (Rocco's case: height), you'd better have something that more than makes up for it, like a devastating shot or blinding speed or world-class skating skills if you want to move up a level.

Creating space? Seriously? How? By having everyone else in the infirmary with broken junk? How about skating to make space. The "space making" cheap shots will only stop when they are too costly. They can only be too costly one of two ways: eye for an eye, or, major + match penalties plus no-pay-multi-game suspensions.

If I had the orange arm bands in the next game I'd tell both benches that 65 Red gets one, ... one ..., nasty shot on Lucic, no penalty. I'd tell the same thing to Benn in the ANA/DAL series. Take a cheap shot, you're guaranteed to get it in kind.

Uh, that is the Trucker Special. I just do not want to hear about "exploits" with lot lizards.

I stand by my previous post: In retrospect, it would've probably been easier for all involved. What they have now is an epic cluster.

There isn't much going on around any construction site in the region. The ground is frozen still.

Slow day at the monastery/convent?

That's interesting. I used to joke that Dean Blais would never recruit the best player from any team; but, he'd recruit the second best player on every team. Why? That guy is used to having to work his tail off just to get noticed. And we know how that guy is going to react to adversity (namely, work harder).