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Derrick Byfuglien

Production values on "Brad Miller Time" are improving, I see. Very much enjoy the insight into the team's personalities. Best line was Brad Miller's that he had moved to a different part of the training facility and was "checking out different types of guys." In fact, viewing this epi would have been the highlight of my week if I hadn't watched "Crank Yankers" on hulu last. That Spoonie Luv is a hoot!

See link for some measure of assurance that UND and NDSU will be rivals once more: http://www.grandforksherald.com/articles/i...ection=homepage

Boy, these developments with Conboy and Tropp give new meaning to "WTF?"

Oh, that's funny! Can you sync up the stroll cross-ice to these lines from "Stayin' Alive": Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man: no time to talk Music loud and women warm, I've been kicked around since I was born. And now it's all right. It's OK. And you may look the other way.

First rule of posting here: Know your audience. I was just dumbing it down.

Isn't the reason because no one win or loss happens in a vacuum, its impact on PWR is affected by other events outside that particular game or series. Kinda like the sex education caveat that you don't just sleep with Joe but, for exposure to STD and worse, with everyone Joe's slept with and everyone that those who slept with Joe slept with and so on and so on?

Very inventive. Refresh my memory. Didn't somebody do a study once about the impact of goalies wearing round logos on their sweaters? Something along the lines that the shooter in his haste "sees" the round logo on the goalie's chest as a "target" and aims for it, thus producing the nonproductive "logo killer" shot on goal?

Huh. This must be some really great satirical commentary on something but I don't know what. Who's supposed to be Col. Jessup in this scenario?

Oh, the Gwoz apologists, spinmeisters and misdirectionists are working overtime. As my mom would say, "Busier than a cat covering up [excrement] on a hot tin roof." Mom's very colloquial.

"Maybe" she's a little sensitive? I'm sorry the reporter was mistreated or intimidated by Sioux fans. But I don't think she should feel singled out. Any college hockey fan who's ever traveled to an away game can top these stories, easy. People behaving badly, it's everywhere. Yes, even in angelic Mad-town. And what the hell is does this mean: the DU players responded like champs? To what, exactly? Five consecutive DU power plays? Oh, the adversity!! And, if a hostile crowd is such a disadvantage to opposing players why do they all say they feed off the opposing crowd's negativity?

Oh, wouldn't that just be too, too poetic? Unfortunately, I cannot see that happening for the reasons I posted when Sic suggested a forfeit was within the realm of possibility for the delay of game George's stroll caused.

Way to step up, George! Sounds like he apologizes only for not knowing the ins and outs of the rules that apply when a coach is ejected from game at midway point. Next thing you know, he'll be sorry for not knowing what the meaning of "is" is. The nature of the infraction is important because I thought I read that the WCHA doesn't have a clear rule that covers communication with the bench after the coach is ejected. So, can the WCHA plead that its own lack of clarity excuses George's violation of the NCAA rule and that if any discipline is to be meted out it's the NCAA and not the conference that is responsible for imposing the discipline? Pass the buck much?

That's interesting. The suspension by DU isn't for acting like a spoiled child but for communicating with the team after the ejection. Is that supposed to be a face-saving explanation? Petulant child vs. "cheater"?

I'll PM you also with Al's phone number and you can ask him.

I will PM you with Al's contact info

To quote John McEnroe, "You cannot be serious!!" In looking to pin the blame on the Sioux and Anderson, the writer overlooks the other, more active constant in his pattern: Gwozdecky himself. Nobody "made" him act the way he acted on these occasions. He's a grown man who ought to take responsibility for his own behavior. Still waiting for the heartfelt apology.

No, no, no! The officials should have made sure that Gwoz went down the tunnel to the locker room or sent him off to the press box the minute they ejected him from the game. The cross-ice stalking should never have been allowed to happen. What part of "ejected" doesn't Gwoz understand?

Oh, hell, no! Well, WCHA, I am NOT satisfied. Where is George's statement of abject apology for acting like a 2-year-old and trying to be bigger than the game?

Obviously, regarding his circuitous route to the guest locker room, George was channeling his inner Rick Blaine, the hero/anti-hero of the classic "Casablanca." Viz.: Captain Renault: What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca? Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters. Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert. Rick: I was misinformed.

Thanks, Sic, for pointing me to rule 44a. That seems to cover the situation--persistent refusal to play--but the ref never went there since he didn't call even the least sanction authorized by that rule, "delay of game." I was at the game, at the far end from the team benches but on the bench side, so couldn't see all that went on. And the arena announcements of the penalties didn't specify that it was Gwoz who got the game misconduct. Did they even refer to the gamer as a bench penalty? I have since watched the game on tape which clarified it all. If Gwoz was gone before he stepped on the ice, why didn't the officials insist that he physically remove himself immediately? A retroactive forfeit would be political suicide for the supervisor of officials, tantamount to using the nuclear option, wouldn't you say? If the league pulls that trigger, that would make one hell of an argument for deterrence of such conduct in the future, however.

Sic said: OBSERVATION 2 "Curious George, the Dancing Dasher Monkey" (attribution unknown) should have cost his team a game. The minute his shoes hit the ice, officials with (again, politely) gonads would have forfeited Denver on the spot. __ Rule book citation, please, for use of the forfeit sanction. Not doubting, just asking. How much furor would have been caused in a game with such huge implications to assess a DU forfeit based on coach misconduct? Anyone taking odds on whether the league assesses further punishment on Gwoz for these antics? Is the dasher dance-cross-ice stalking of officials daily double worse than Hakstol's flying finger? Comparative proportionality suggests Gwoz should get a one or two game suspension for his performance. Refresh my recollection, did Dave's presti-digit-ation merit one or two games outside the building?

Props to Eids. Tonight, the boy became a man, kept us in the game, gave us a chance to win it. But we sure could have used some of those goals that came so easily last night. I couldn't believe Gwoz walked clear across the ice to challenge the officials. That's got to be a huge no-no and he deserved the boos of 11,000+ people when he did so. Not the sharpest tool in the shed, but a tool nonetheless.

I just rewound the tape I made (yeah, old school) of last night's game and am about to relive some damn fine hockey. It's going to be deja Sioux all over again.

Whoa nelly! I am all keyed up from this game. What a bunch of amazing goals scored by the Sioux tonight. Fins with 3 assists and a slapshot goal. Did not see that coming! Watty scoring on 1 of the 3 or 4 breakaways he had. Frats (wasn't it?) scoring on a 1-timer. Denver goalies just couldn't shut their "Pi-holes" against our 8-goal assault. 8 goals, 8 different skaters!! Keep it goin' boys and first place in the WCHA is yours.