The Sicatoka

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).

"Um, he's sick. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious." -- Simone

Temps in the teens or lower this morning. Snow tonight more likely than not. Well ... at least we're not sandbagging.

HEY! Didn't you get the memo! Penalties are *not* enforced against anyone wearing this jersey!

Goldie tried to skate with them and failed. Goldie never tried to dictate tempo via puck possession. If it would have been UND/Union, UND would have tried to dictate tempo; however, I give them a one-in-five at best shot of achieving it against that Union team.

Cry-u-mob.

Given the hard losses (seniors: Simpson, Mitch MacMillan, Rodwell, Saunders) plus Tambellinin that's 1G, 1D, and 3F. I'd say your assessment is spot on as it would put the roster to 15F, 8D, and 3G. The wildcard would be a premature departure (say Sanderson); but that's why you have a pipeline and are constantly evaluating the recruits to know who could step in.

Well, the frustration must be up. They pulled the daily double: The #1 team in the nation loses the championship game to an ECAC team ... in both mens and womens.

7 > 5 > 0.6

I think you missed a key sentence (bolded); and, a getter is the guy who goes to the wall in the offensive zone and always seems to come away with the puck and is getting it to the setter while the shooter is finding that open space.

I bounced this notion out there in the past. The whole Kingsley/Strong/Huddleston campaign tells me all the more that it would be a whole lot of fun. "We're more focused, more precise. We're always one step ahead. With a certain style, an eye for detail. And we're obsessed by power." Everyone else likes to cast us as the bad guy; why not embrace the villainy? Get Jaguar to sponsor University of North Dakota Athletics and we wear their logo on the playing surface, in front of the television cameras. The NCAA can have their Buick sponsorship.

Disrespect my captain, my team? Motivation.

For those of you not watching for the details, when did this year's lines start to work? Pattyn, Rocco, Johnson. MacMillan, Caggiula, Parks. Rodwell, Gaarder, O'Donnell. Getter, Setter, Shooter. Now, admittedly you have to be a little of each, and play open ice is a different story; but, in the zone Rocco, Cags, and Gaarder are setup men; Johnson, Parks, and O'D are guys you want shooting, and in-zone General, Mac, and Rodwell are monsters on the boards who come away with the puck. Getter, Setter, Shooter. Early season next year I suspect you'll won't see a freshman line but will see them mixed on other lines until they learn the systems and their defensive responsibilities.

DaveK: The word that you're forgetting is "targeting." Rupp could've destroyed Oshie without leading toward, i.e. targeting, the head: open-ice hip check or drop that shoulder into the chest. And yes, speed was involved, but Rupp lined him up and still went high. <-- Targeting. Rupp should've been "offered the opportunity to discuss it further" with Reeves.