The Sicatoka

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.

So now what? NARF!!!

Simmer's not an All-American? Nary a whisper of Zane either? Just more disrespect to you guys. (And I know you guys are reading this.) Put it in the collective team craw. Let it grind away at you all summer. Then, ... come next season ... Make them pay ... All. Next. Season.

I fixed your typos in there.

Sanderson has played five games over two seasons. Historically, guys with those numbers (except for goalies) don't have junior seasons. That would open up a slot for one more forward. <Speculate here>

There's loaded. Then there's loaded and angry. I don't like to mess with the latter.

We lose a back-up goalie, a third line wing, a fifth line wing, and a very, very good defenseman.

This loss hurts, but less than missing the tournament would have hurt after that late-season run.

To all those thinking this is utter disappointment: What if Ohio State had won that fateful OT game?

I guess I need to see that to believe it.

We lose a back-up goalie, a third line wing, a fifth line wing, and a very, very good defenseman. If that's the extent of it, we've gained the ultimate team motivation.

That banner didn't use the banned word. It didn't say WHO took the moniker. <cough> NCAA <cough> So the issue is ... Someone needs to clue that sorority onto THEFIRE.ORG website. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education loves to take on cases like this.

And there's a team award also: The national team leader in "Missed Nets with the Opponent Goalie off the Ice in a Season" is presented the No Moniker Award.

I think you meant to say the NCHC had more tournament qualifiers.

The national leader in "Shots on Glass in a Season" is presented the Kozek Award. The national leader in "Shots off the Pipe in a Season" is presented the Notermann Award.

Well played.

In Volley's theory, the Sun Belt doesn't invite "the Big Sky"; however, they invite Montana, Montana State, North Dakota, Portland State, Sac State, (other?), each individually, but yet en masse. That would meet the Section 20 requirements.