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MayPort did not have their ice system running this past year, thus had to depend on cold weather (of which there was little). Their junior gold club team was "weak", but, with lots of kids in the program, and the ice system running by this fall, they should improve in a few years. As far as entering the HS ranks, none of the smaller schools have had much of an impact on the HS leagues (Williston, Hazen). Although an occasional good player comes out of the west, the hockey hot bed still lies in GF, as it no doubt always will. I think ND HS hockey was generally down this past year, evidenced by players normally in the JG ranks making the HS teams. As a result, the JG program was overall weaker than it has been for many years as well. Teams that used to be at the top of the JG ranks (Crosby, Minot), now struggle to get enough kids to have a team. With Minot's new arena, they'll be back in a few years, but small towns like Crosby, Rugby, etc, will likely be without hockey in a few years. As far as future Sioux, I don't think we're going to see many coming from ND, except for those few that are good enough to make their way through the junior ranks. The best coaching beginning in the younger age groups still resides in GF.

Although that (325) is the season ticket price for the general public, one also has to become a "Sioux Booster" club member. Depending on the section where the reserved seat is located, that adds varying amounts to the total cost.

Generally lots of students tickets available starting on Thursday before weekend series ,except for Wisco and the Gophs. Also often season ticket holders selling seats for individual games on the REA site.

Yes, Schmidt did do the UND/BC game; surprised that it seemed that a referee outside the conference of either team this year was chosen, while last year a WCHA ref did the game. Thought there was more that could have been called this year than last, but that's beside the point. Schmidt certainly could have boxed Gionta and Orpik several times last year for punches, elbows to the head. But at least he didn't screw up the game with a bunch of phantom calls.

Ducktober is reasonable. So are duck feathers in the yard. Dog hauled a pheasant foot into the house last week from the yard. Wonder how that got there??

I'm not much of supporter of any so-called Sioux fan that diss's other Sioux fans, no matter how outrageous they may get (including anyone on the uscho board). Don't agree with getting totally out of hand but I'll never jump into the thread ragging on the Sioux fan in order to please the opponent's fans (that goes especially for the gophs). If I ever see my "handle" in a goph fans post as a "reasonable" Sioux fan, I'll hurl on the spot Nice to see 'em get a title in a Sioux off year, but I'll dislike them as much as ever by next October.

No third place game; SSM is on their way home as Wisco, Pitt play for the title today. Scoring in the E. Mass game was as follows: Parise 2-1-3 Murray 1-2-3 Hirsch 0-1-1 SSM opened up a 2-0 lead against Wisco 3 minutes into the game, then were shut down as Wisco caught and beat them. Parise went pointless in his final SSM game (makes you wonder if Wisco put a good defensive checker on him for the game). The other points in the game: Porter

Haven't seen much yet since it's on tape, but did watch the last part of OT. Call on Schutte was fine, since he definitely stuck his leg out; pretty blatant. But not calling Hauser's butt end seconds into the PP was horrible. You've got to be willing to even it up when you make a call on one team. Not a good ending to a good game. Will see the rest tomorrow. Glad to see Leo and Pohl get one also. Major error by Pit, however, in not letting the teams decide it even strength when Hauser gave him an obvious chance.

For the most part really good guys that mistakenly played for the wrong team. No accounting for some people's taste, is there? Maine's Steve Kariya which beat LSSU in 1993 Wouldn't that have been Paul K.'s year? As far as the Potulny's, I went to school with their dad, and frequented a frat he belonged to; didn't belong myself, just had quite a few friends there. Wouldn't be suprised if Jay P gave that ultimatum; he was an athletic wannabe at UND, when he was a frosh, there were not enough BB players for a frosh team, so he joined as the frosh teams' 6th man. He seldom played, but when he did, the PA annoucer would introduce him as Jay "superstar" Potulny (tongue in cheek, of course, would guess he didn't like it much). He became known to all of us as Jay Superstar. Played some baseball also for a team short of players so he got a Sioux lettermen's jacket to wear around campus which I guess is what he wanted anyway. Was shocked he had kids good enough to play HS hockey in GF, much less play in the WCHA. Maybe his wife has a bit of athleticism, had to come from somewhere

SSM defeats Alaska 3-1 to advance to the 8 team single elimination round. http://www.faribault.com/sports/index5.shtml Parise 2-0 Murray 1-1 Hirsch 0-3 to add to jk's previous stats, after 3 games: Hirsch 3-6-9 Murray 3-5-8 Parise 2-7-9 Porter 1-3-4

Get the feeling it took quite an effort for you to behave yourself Must have been a bit easier being a fan of the national champions at a wedding full of, at the time, under-archievers. Can't fault your dad on Waibel, he plays fairly hard, but Ballard? He looks like he could be the future Goph hack, taking over from DeMarchie, although probably a bit more like Taffe - taking after the whistle cheap shots only when there's a safe place to hide if the opponent gets angry. I will remember the hit that Denver's MacKenzie put on him at the X in the final five, and hope that Andy or a teamate manages the same more than once next year.

Shoot, Now we won't all get to see if it's a former Goph that we didn't like much Wife's brother, or sister's hubby? Gotta be tough being a Sioux with a Goph in the family.

I lived in the same dorm (Walsh) where most of the scholarship hockey players lived at the time. Course it was the 70's, the Rube Bjorkman bad hockey era, and only a few of them cracked the NHL. The Sioux teams had little success, but I was at all the games anyway. Alan Hangsleban was probably the most notable player of that time. Not sure I'd have wanted to share the same hallways in the dorm with Archie in the early 80's. Always seemed like a bomb waiting to go off. All of us kind of thought of Frenchy's as our second home. Shocked to see on a recent trip to GF that the building is not even standing any more, although all the white former rental vehicles still fill the lot. Lots of hockey players and friend's "mugs" went down with those walls.

I agree; I think Leo deserved the award. Besides he's not one of the cheap gopher hacks I like to hate (Taffe, Demarchi, Hauser). Still hard to fathom what, in the process, kept Panzer from winning it. Still the only Sioux to win it (Hrkac) had to blow away the rest of college hockey with his stats.

I think most of the goph fans on the board were supporting Panzer. Didn't make it to the hobey site much this year, but voted for Leopold when there.

Greyeagle, Thanks for the other perspective. I didn't know the B10 rules you mentioned. As for Lucia's vote, I'm sure he'd say he voted "for" someone else, rather than "against" Panzer. However, after the way Panzer played against MN and CC (as well as other teams) in his four years as a Sioux, it would be hard to imagine that a vote for a player in another conference as being something other than a vote "against" Panzer. Certainly Lucia saw several in the loss column at both CC and UM, in no small part due to the play of Panzer.

Dagies, Here's the first question that would come to mind for a player from that era. What, exactly, happened that caused the NCAA committee to "not" select the Sioux for the 1983 post season? Rumours were an unpopular ND AD, as well as the very possible problem of sending the Sioux east to take the best eastern teams, at the time, out of the tourney. Can guarantee that if the Sioux had been selected and sent east, either Harvard or Providence would not have made the trip to the FF in Grand Forks that year. Wisco and UND were "way" above everyone else in college hockey that year. If you sense some bitterness over not seeing the Sioux in my one trip to a FF, you're correct.

Remember Dagies posting something previously about Porter. Is he a future Sioux?

Goon, I feel the same way you do, and I've always liked Maine since first seeing them in the P. Kariya days. The gophs have a multitude of fans that are hard to take, many have shown up with their success this year. I can discount Happy as a Minnie Moron, we all have 'em. That doesn't explain, however, why some of those seemingly more reasonable fans, (ie handy and sl) have become so full of themselves as the year went along. Also will not forgive Lucia, the Arrogant for his vote "against" Panzer for the Hobey. Can guarantee that he, unlike Sauer, will not lift a finger to support maintaining a WCHA with the small schools like UND, if/when the topic of a "BIG 10" or similar conference comes up again. He would be more than happy to dump the Sioux. Maybe by winning it Lucia can drop his "program envy" that apparently runs him right now.

Don't see how Minnie can lose as good as they are playing (defensively unlike any Gopher team I've ever seen, which goes back to the 70's). However, if Maine somehow keeps it close, the Hauser factor may rear its ugly head.

Have to agree. Although I'd like to see Maine win it, I didn't think the UNH/Maine teams looked real good in the first game. Ayers was the shakey goaltender of the day. And Minnesota looks too good to be beat right now. Will take a really good effort by Maine to keep it close and give themselves a chance.

Gophs played as good a defensive game as I've seen them play. The hoser, however, turned to mush at the end; he's lucky the clock ran out.

Failed to look at their age. Guess they are good sized 16 year olds.