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Everyone's making this big deal about skating with us the first 10 minutes of a game. Did they not watch the game yesterday?

Great game thus far! Both teams flying! Sioux need to take the body more. Keep it up boys!

DOT line with a lot of chances, but nothing doing. 23 seconds left on the PP. Let's go 2nd PP unit!

The ironman killing the penalty by himself!!!!!!!!!!! Minnesota with Too Many Men penalty! Let's go Sioux!!!!!!!!!!

Sioux take a penalty, trying to recover on the odd man rush. Let's go PK!!!!! Need to stay out of the box boys!

Bouncing puck almost killed us.

We'll just have to bring the noise ourselves!!!!

So far, neither team appears to be much stronger than the other. Let's go Sioux!!!!!!

Nice kill. Let's go boys!

Sioux take a dumb penalty. Radke. Puck was well away from the play. Let's go PK!

2 1/2 minutes before the first whistle. Don't seem to have quite as much jump as yesterday, but we're still moving good.

Underway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO SIOUX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

North Dakota wearing GREEN tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Robbie's pre-game talk to the boys, "Shoot from the 175 foot mark boys!"

Mazacco on Frazee, "We've seen in World Tournaments that he can really step up in key games." Except against Canada!

FSN tracker calling us NDSU. Thugs!

Miscellaneous Lucia comments: After this weekend, I want to get a good feel on our goaltending. Didn't really want to deviate from what we've done throughout the year. Briggs played well last night, and we need to find out if Frazee will play well too. If you look at North Dakota's first half of the season, they had a lot of injuries. Had to play a freshman goaltender; some of the top lines were hurt. After Xmas, the top line is healthy. The other lines start to play. In the first half, they weren't really contributing, where now they're contributing. That's probably the key to their success in the 2nd half of the season. Not sure if we want to get caught in a track meet tonight with them. Didn't really victimize the defense last time, but rather the forwards. A lot of plays came off of forward turnovers. When we protect the puck, we can play with anyone. When we're careless with it, we're an easy team to play against. I'm sure the fans love it. Friday night they get one rival in Wisconsin. Saturday night, they get the other rival in North Dakota.

Not that I'm aware of.

Hak Pre-Game Comments: Bottom line, it's North Dakota vs Minnesota; enough said, let's play. I've been asked so many times about PWR. My plain answer is I could care less right now. We have a game to play tonight, and this is the one I'm focused on. We have an opportunity to defend our championship from last year. A tribute to the leadership in the locker room on getting the team focused in the locker room. I just want to see us come out, play hard, play with energy, and play our game. We've come out of the gates pretty well. Obviously, we'd like to do that tonight, but we need a good 60 minute performance. Can't make too much out of any one game, and you just need to play hard. Playing with speed and playing physical has been a big part of our success. We can't play a half step slow, especially against Minnesota. I've seen their last couple of games, and I expect a big hockey game out of them. I expect one heck of a contest. I don't think we can take the amount of penalties we took at Mariucci. We survived it there, but it's playoff time, and you can't do that. We want to have a heck of a start. I can't see anything but a heck of a hockey game.

North Dakota lines per Brad's blog: UND's lines 16 Ryan Duncan--9 Jonathan Toews--7 T.J. Oshie 20 Matt Watkins--29 Chris VandeVelde--24 Chris Porter 21 Erik Fabian--17 Rylan Kaip--10 Andrew Kozek 26 Kyle Radke--11 Darcy Zajac--14 Brad Miller 4 Taylor Chorney--22 Brian Lee 2 Joe Finley--28 Robbie Bina 6 Zach Jones--5 Chay Genoway 1 Phil Lamoureux 30 Aaron Walski

BC leads UNH, 1-0.

One hour out!!!!!! Pre-game starts in 30 minutes. GO SIOUX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Audio Link

Going to be tough for UNH to beat BC, with as well as BC played last night. After watching games last night, they're the only team that I would not feel comfortable meeting next weekend. Other than that, I think we can win if we play our game.

That's how it's been in the past, but I would not be surprised one bit to see the NCAA give them a bid for the sole reason of revenue.

Dartmouth and St. Lawrence tied at 3.