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I believe there's 2 to go.

I told my brother that working with kids doesn't give me grey hair, but watching Sioux hockey does. I don't even want to know what my pulse rate was throughout the game.

As a teacher, that's always the hardest part for me to see, even when my team wins. Kids don't always understand why their team didn't win, and have a tough time handling the loss.

EJ will be in a St. Louis game by Wednesday.

I'll give props to the Gophers though. They are dinged up and came out and played a great game. You could tell over the course of the game that we were a different team this week. Whether that's because of something we do, or dinged up Gophers, no one really knows. Sioux played great, but the Gophers put up a great game as well.

Woog being very generous with comments for North Dakota. Says BC is beatable by this North Dakota team. Thanks Wooger!

What? To the guy whose a lousy coach? Way to go Hak. Always have the boys playing when it counts.

Don't know if I've ever seen Dave that wild!

FROZEN FOUR, HERE WE COME!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRING ON BC!!!!!!!!!! Props to the Gophers. Played a heck of a game! Way to show up this weekend Chris Porter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Alright!!! Just about time for opening faceoff!!! Need a great start tonight, both offensively and defensively! Take it to them boys!!!!!!!

Only part of the way, the rest they had to swim.

TH reports that Goligoski has a "dinged up shoulder." Who knows what it is, now I've heard finger and shoulder.

It really did take a toll on their players, and they just haven't had time to recover from that draining tournament.

TH reporting that Finley gave Frazee a tap on the pads on his way off after warm-ups and Frazee went complaining to the officials.

tDon Comments: I wasn't surprised with yesterday's game. If you look at Air Force stats, they've played tough in all their games. Thing that was missing earlier in the year was goaltending, and they found that. We had to win it with grit in the 3rd period. When we protect the puck, play physical, and make simple plays, we play well. When we try to get fancy, we get ourselves in trouble. Crucial we don't get in the box. Obvious there PP is better than ours. Those 5 guys can move it around and they have the skill level to get it in tight and make plays. We have to be disciplined and try to keep their PP to around 4. Goaltending always so important this time of year. Crazy game last night, but I give Lamoreux credit. He shut the door later in the game. We have to match North Dakota's intensity. We can't allow them to score 4 or 5. Frazee earned the right to play last weekend. Disappointing that only one WCHA team in the Frozen Four. Positive is that one team for sure will make it. Whoever wins this game, the other team will be behind them.

Hak Pre-Game Comments: This time of year, it really is easy to put yesterday's game behind us. We looked at it, discussed a few things about it, and we're moving on. Phil mirrored our team. Michigan put us on our heels quite a bit. We were able to keep our composure, and put ourselves back into it. Phil made some mistakes, but got back into it. After a few key stops, he was the difference in the game. It's a heck of a match-up today. You don't get to pick your opponent. It's the same on both sides. One team will end their season today. Yes, it's Minnesota/North Dakota but bottom line is that it's about moving on and playing 10 days from now. Our PP unit scored key goals for us last week. The first unit has been solid all year. Last night, it was really the 2nd unit that made the plays. This isn't last Saturday's night performance, this is about tonight. I know Jonathan and his line will go out and work hard, as will every other line. Officiating, I don't even wonder about that. I thought yesterday's game was officiated well. Don't know if we'll have Dave Hanson again today. Goaltending is huge this time of year, regardless of the score. We put last week's game to rest last Monday. Our focus has to be a little bit better tonight. You know both teams will probably play their best games of the year tonight. We didn't feel like we did it a week ago. It's about getting it done tonight.

This game needs to hurry up and get over with, so we don't miss much of the Sioux/Gopher game!!!!! 3rd period just starting, and on average, it takes about 35 minutes for a period. I wasn't able to get the game on FSN yesterday. Told me it wasn't available in my area, the bums!!!

I don't know if you could say he blew it. The part he blew is insisting it was a goal, rather than just signaling that it's a goal on the ice and telling everyone that they were going to review it. Even with video replay, it was very close to being a goal.

Miami collapsing, BC up 2-0.

BC up, 1-0.

BC hasn't impressed me as much this weekend as last weekend. Don't know if they've just ran into tougher competition or they're off their game compared to a week ago. However, if we play BC, it's our turn to win! If that's the matchup, I'm sure BC will be more than understanding on that logic!

Winner of our region plays the winner of the BC/Miami game, so it's possible, and yes, it is a dream scenario, though I've watched both Miami games, and they're no slugs.

Bob Norton defending BC during intermission, saying ref made a good call not calling a penalty shot. Go figure.

BC/Miami scoreless after 1 period.

This is a really good game! Miami is going blow for blow with BC right now, and Miami should have received a penalty shot. Must have WCHA ref's in this game.