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And your post had zero to do with a frozen face off review. I enjoyed being in downtown Minneapolis for a change. St. Paul got to be quite stale after 13 years. The biggest issue was the target center. The seats were pitched well, but the glass warped the view of the ice. I will be moving higher up next year. The staff were a little too "aggressive" with their pat-downs and asking to see tickets when going to the seats. It was a bit annoying. The lack of closed-circuit TV in the concourse and a decent scoreboard made it feel "old," but hopefully that will be addressed when they update it as part of the Vikings Stadium finance package. That's still happening, right?

Ha ha...thought you were still stuck in Duluth! We'll be invading downtown Minneapolis tomorrow afternoon.

I've noticed this too. In particular, in OT vs. CC, they had iced the puck and Owens sent about 8 guys out to the faceoff dot. Confusion ensued, and it took about 30 seconds to get the puck dropped. I was screaming for a delay of game...I wish they would just drop the puck and assess a too many men penalty. I remember a time where they threatened to drop the puck within 15 seconds regardless...boy has that gone by the wayside.

Since this is not an NCAA sponsored event and not on a dry campus arena it does not have to be "dry." The X was not a dry venue, either.

^ YUP!

Because players just "get to play" with Bergeron? Clearly you haven't watched him in nearly every game this season. His start of the season wasn't good (and he was moved off the PB line), but once he got going there was a stretch where he carried this team for a good month earlier this season.

I really like both of those guys for obviously different reasons. Marchand has a way of firing his teammates up, both with his play and with his tongue; but with that comes an occasional backfire. Suter is just a pure player...you never see that guy chirping at anyone. Gotta respect a guy that ALWAYS lets his play do the talking.

8-4 in last 12 games...4-3 last 7...blah, blah. At this point, you're only as good as your next game not your last one (or 5, or 10...).

I had a pretty good experience this year with the UND sports webcasts. I used my laptop hard wired to my router and with HDMI to my TV. I streamed through Firefox and had no issues other than an occasional stutter. Pitcture was crisp with no pixelation. This past Sunday I started out using Chrome and started getting a blurry feed. I switched back to Firefox and had no issues the rest of the game. I think Neulion was pushing Chrome as the best browser, but I really had no issues with Firefox, and I found the performance to be better in my limited trial.

This is true for us, also. I've been away from Grand Forks since 1999 (Northwest Metro). We held onto our season tickets and drove 280 miles 1-way for every home series until having kids in 2006. Since 2006, we've been making a couple road trips a year instead of making the trek to GF, but we still get there for many of the the series over the holidays. Mankato, Duluth, St. Cloud, Madison, Omaha, Minneapolis, St. Paul, heck even a quick flight to Denver are all more accessible than Grand Forks for us. In all honesty I've enjoyed making road trips more than having the season tickets. Road games are so much fun to attend! If you've got the budget but can't get season tickets, by all means take in a couple road series!

From NCHC website: http://www.nchchockey.com/news_article/show/363893?referrer_id=878553

I hate to waste away a Sunday, but can we just fast-forward to 7PM please?

Considering any loss after tonight will be to a team lower in the PWR it may not bode well for our tourney chances.

I use it all the time...only to about a 20% success rate!

It's really not on him to motivate the boys at this point, though. They have to find it within themselves considering what's at stake. They played pretty hard last night, so I don't think motivation will be a problem. CONFIDENCE, more than anything, is what this team needs. One of my favorite expressions is "next goal wins." I think if we score first tonight we will score often.

By my count this team is now 0-3 in games where they have a chance to clinch something of significance. They've scored 4 goals in those games, with two of them at home against lower-ranked teams. They better find some goal scoring quick for the games that now matter.

I agree.

We're three points clear of the Pens. Good to have our "destiny" in our control (if one can truly control something that is destined to happen). As Badger Bob would say "a great day for hockey!"

Because our PWR is dependent on more than just our winning and losing.

Exactly...get all universities (or at least the western schools) to have a "gentlemen's agreement" to never bid with off-campus sites. Problem solved.

Ha, that goes without saying!

One would think it almost has to happen given the lack of bids for the 2015 regionals and consequential award to Compton Family Ice Arena. It would be funny if everyone just said "screw-it" to the neutral site policy and just submitted home arenas. What would the NCAA do then?

IIRC, that team was something like 13/13 combined on the PK against BU & BC.

He did one on with Katie Hale, or was I just imagining it? I seem to remember the phrase "we'll put this one behind us."

That's BS and excuses. "National Coverage" wasn't even on the radar when I was in school and our crowds rocked.