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I think this is true...there was a period of time where that building was vacant before Topper's. Ugly's would've been early to mid-80s based on my recollection.

Wasn't it called Ugly's before it was Toppers? I remember getting the Ugly Burger and it had a licorice smiley face on it.

The only reason I got King Leo's was because my mom worked there when she was in HS and I remember her talking about it as a kid!

Was there a King Leo's on the BK property?

I know donuts are often brought up here, but anyone remember "The Donut Hole," I think where Starbucks is now on 13th and Washington? As a kid I always wanted one of their big donut cakes.

They're certainly great at digging themselves holes and then climbing out of them! They're "streaky great."

The Rangers are fast and they have world-class goaltending. They have a shot.

I didn't like it so much...I thought it tasted like the failed soda "Surge." Put me in the Bud Light Lime column for the Macro fruit beers. Summer Shandy and Sam's Summer Ale are others I enjoy. Nothing beats a Gin & Tonic for real summertime drinking!

Your fault for posting in the middle of Bruins talk!

If you think about it, both teams have a history of playing a hard-nosed and edgy game with plenty of skill involved. The teams' styles aren't as dissimilar as some may want to think. I think Lucic may have learned a thing or two from watching Prpich get even on Paukovitch...Just sayin'

Miami has been knocking on the door for quite a while.

It just seems like everyone is fighting the puck on the B's - especially the Krejci line. I have never seen Krejci play such a slow game...ever. Soderberg has been very impressive, and his line was the best on the ice last night.

Bridgewater's numbers against the blitz last season have been touted by many this morning.... something like 70% completions with 14 TDs and 1 INT. That's very "not Christian Ponder."

And when we have a game stolen from us, Schlossman can write that we ran into "another fracking hot goalie!"

I also don't like the game as much on the big sheet at the college level. There are too many missed passes and too much time is spent chasing the puck. The olympics are fine, but those are world-class hockey players.

Ha ha...yeah, that was me.

Paille is the one who got 2 for tripping at the end of the first OT. That hit was more questionable (close to knee on knee) than Bergeron's hip check.

Yes. I was wearing Boston AND Sioux gear during their game against the Bruins just prior to the Frozen Four. I was getting chirped constantly - almost completley for my Sioux hat. I like the Wild, but since I bleed kelly green first, the media and some of the fans really make it hard to buy in. The fact that there is a lot of coverage overlap on FSN for both the Gophers and the Wild makes it hard for me as a Sioux fan to listen to blind Gopher homerism one night, and then try to agree with their takes on the Wild the next. Maybe I just need to be better about separating the two? Go Bruins!

I liked the Thursday start of the Final Five also. In fact, we scheduled the extra night in Minneapolis this year just for fun! The NCHC could give the top 2 teams first-round byes, have the bottom six play best-of-three series, and then have a tourney format like the old Final Five with a single Thursday night play-in game.

Never meanin' no harm.

Yet this whole back-and-forth is about your "Spanglish?"

I think we witnessed steps in the right direction from this past season. Solid goaltending & mobile puck-moving D-men were the overriding theme this year. The work ethic was there. Everyone knows we were short on high-end forward talent, and I think the PP suffered because of it; but with a talented group of freshmen and a good group of senior forwards next year could be pretty good.

I agree...the Penguins don't have many options in goal. In addition to the poor decision to go out and play the puck on the tying goal, the OT winner was a softie. Columbus had the right game plan for a rattled goalie in OT - throw everything at the net.

Cooke gets 7 per NHL Player Safety on Twitter

No, they wouldn't have made it had OSU won...that's not what I was getting at. I'm more or less alluding to the point jdub27 also made. Had the results been the same, if the games had been played at different times we may not have perceived this team as "backing into" the playoffs. The PWR shook out as it did due to the entire body of work throughout the season. It didn't *only* come down to UW beating OSU for UND to make the tournament.