Wilbur

First period killed SCSU. Three chances, three goals. Two teams playing some pretty good hockey. Should be a good championship game. I'll say Yale....3-2.

Saw Hartzell play for Sioux Falls against the Fargo Force at the first ever game at the then Urban Plains Center. (Force won 2-1) Game winning goal was scored by Luke Witkowski (Western Mich, just went pro), and the Force goaltender was SCSU's own Mike Lee. Believe Nate Condon scored a goal in that game too. Hartzell's dad was coaching Sioux Falls then. Thought he was pretty good then.

PS: Wish Gary Thorne was doing the play by play. Him or Doc....

Love Buccigross, but he needs to relax with the whole "Save by Hartzell" in the deep voice.

To quote the great Doug Woog, "Your goaltending has to be there."

I for one thought Ford Field was a tremendous idea......

This reminds me of UND-BC all too many times.....

Faragher looks awful. Just terrible.

Since I didn't even know there was such thing as a Jared Larson, I'm thinking gopher fans won't be overly concerned with that one. Even with some big losses I still think they win the big ten. Goalie back, have some experienced forwards back, and I think the recruiting class they have coming in is going to contribute right away. Plus they'll have three healthy Reillys. Which is way better than just two healthy Reillys.

Excited to see Keaton Thompson on campus. I think he'll have a tremendous career, and it will be nice to have North Dakota blood back on the team with him/LaDue/Johnson. I would expect to see LaDue and Thompson very involved in the power play. Although once you play for the Sioux you always have North Dakota blood. Or walk to class when its 60 below wind chill.....both will work.

Although I dislike Gwoz one cannot underscore what he did for the university of Denver. Question is antics all you want, question the personality, but the guy made Denver a hockey power in the country, and I'm not going to go out on a limb by saying that Denver probably now finishes on the bottom half of the new league.

Chris Fournier=Josh Siembida........

I'm taking your piss out of my Cheerios, because any team in the field could have won it this year, won't matter what the outcome is at the frozen four.

According to my dad, everyone played at Sacred Heart.... No, that was a Siembida to Quinnipiac after UND reference, where he lit the world on fire.

Hopefully checking is allowed in the new league. And for the love of God I hope diving is called in the Big Ten....

The order in which I would prefer a national championship go for the frozen four... 1. Yale-Not cheering for them, but it may make it easier on me if they win it all..... 2. SCSU-Come on.....think of the years of "gopher rejects" cheers. 3. Lowell-Wouldn't mind seeing them win it I guess. 4. Qunnipiac-Because Josh Siembida is a big reason that program is at where they're at.

Alright, its settled to me then: Top eight get home ice in best of three first round of playoffs. After the first round, you reseed with the top four getting home ice and play a super regional best of three to go to the frozen four. The NC$$ makes money, and attendance isn't a fricken disaster. Plus we don't have to wait two weeks for the frozen four. Semifinals Friday, and Championship Sunday afternoon or evening. Can't complain.

Why wasn't LaDue an option? He's older than Simpson?

Baseball does a regional, then a super regional. Why not hockey?

You mean to tell me Danny took time away from his academics? WHAT? Best of luck to Forbort. Will make for a pretty green defensive corps next year. But whats not to love about three freshman blue liners?

I think one trump card the NC$$ has is the availability of facilities if they were to award top seeds regionals. I'll use this example. Ohio State lights the Big Ten on fire next year, and gets to host a regional. Well....guess that regional isn't going to be in Columbus because the hockey lovers that they are in Columbus booked away their facility. Are you really going to play that regional in the practice rink? Hell, I had a great time watching Holy Cross (or Sacred Heart if you ask my dad) beat Minnesota. But had Minnesota won that game, and played UND at the Ralph it wouldn't have been fair to them, the #1 seed. (See UND-Mich 1998, MafiaMan invokes camera man incident). Obviously the answer isn't hosting a regional in St. Louis (See BC-Michigan-CC-UNO). I'm not sure what the answer is......

How dare you rip on a former Minot High School alum like myself!!! How dare you!!! We will see Morelli part 3 in a few years when his son Mason suits up for the Sioux.

That Saturday game was some of the best goaltending I've ever seen. I believe the BU goaltender's name was like Laroque or something like that. Boy was he good in what was an absolute bee hive of an atmosphere. Makes me miss the old ralph.

Played them in December at the Ralph. I was there.....won Friday 6-4, Saturday was 2-2 tie. I have no life for remembering this....

I see St. Cloud taking a step back next year. They've got some good young players, but you can't replace Hanowski/Leblanc/Likely Jensen. I think Miami is the favorite to win the league next year.