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Dirty play......in the pros there would have been a fight after that one. I've never seen Knight that completely ready to kill somebody.....wow. Odd man out in the lineup now is Drake. Going with the seasons on the line lineup got the team the lead and just gave Niagara no hope for the rest of the game. At the end they put Mark up with Knight and Kristo and rode them to the end. The mix matching continues.... My lines tomorrow: Knight-Kristo-Rocco Parks-Rowney-Mark Gaarder-Pattyn-St. Clair Fill in fourth unit forwards....Chyzyk, Drake, OD.

Just seemed disinterested to me. Guess its time to make himself some money in the pros.

I stand by my statement. Good goaltending in a hockey game is the greatest equalizer in all of sports where one team is absolutely dominating another.

I think these games show how evenly paired the teams in college hockey are. I knew Yale wouldn't get rolled by Minnesota, and I knew that UND-Niagara was basically a toss up type hockey game. Niagara has got a tremendous goaltender. And the great equalizer in all of sports is goaltending. I'm glad our guy was up to the task as well. And sadly, I'm cheering for Denver now.....

Thoughts: ~I'll never understand hockey.....ever.....OD goes from playing every third shift to not seeing the ice whatsoever in the third....wtf..... ~Zane was very good. Get pissy about the goal all you want, but I'll take that all year. ~Dillon Simpson.....just.....talk about a solid steady smart defenseman. Things are under control when he's on the ice. ~Need to keep Rocco up top......thats all I got. Three more wins......three more wins.....doesn't matter how they get them.

Empty net....

Simpson has to be on the ice here with Forbort......rotate out with Forbort.

Alright......watch the guy coming out of the box here....

Put the whistles away officials.....put them away.....although you can't make it that obvious.

Inconsistent. You can't let Pattyn get held and then call that. If you're going to be ticky tack be ticky tack the whole game.

My goodness.....completely different team with the different combos.....its unreal.....just a different team....

The day gopher hockey takes a back seat to basketball or football in Minnesota will be a sad day. Would love to hear a gopher fan chime in on this one.

I just think that moving your season's on the line playoffs to a facility that only holds 1,000 people with the knowledge that that would be enough to host the event speaks volumes. We all have our opinions. I just don't think Ohio State cares.

Moving their home playoffs to a facility that holds only 1,000 people doesn't prove anything? Ohio State doesn't give a rats rear end about hockey. UND adjusts their schedule, but still plays in their facility.

I saw Nate Schmidt do the same thing this year. Got hit and explodes into the boards head first. I give the guy a two minute boarding penalty. But because Seratorre explodes into the boards he draws a five.... And didn't miss a shift.....

Ohio State will just never care about hockey. Putting their home playoff series in their practice rink speaks volumes when they could have played in the Blue Jackets facility. I just looked up what was in their main rink that they got booted out for......the Ohio State girls basketball tournament.....

~Every team that wins a national championship has a player step up and score a big goal that isn't expected to contribute....ala Matt Henderson. ~Have to keep shifts going in Niagara's end. No easy outs. A lot of the time UND's weakside d has the green light to pinch when whoever they are playing rings the wall. Big Mac loves this freedom.....hopefully the rest of the guys on the blue line are aggressive. ~This cost them the game winning goal against CC. Rocco and Parks don't communicate as to who has the guy at the point, and it ends up in UND's net. One mistake like that now and your season is over with.

Believe so. I think they are trying to get away from Olympic sheets for NCAA play. Which is one reason why they went away from on site regionals.

Twice as many goals in two games as he's had all season. Thats 80% of his output to date. Matt Henderson=OD?

Just paged through BTN for the week and weekend. Seems like Women's LaCrosse must be having some sort of national tournament or something really important going on as well. Plus all sorts of coverages of press conferences for NCAA basketball tournaments. Two of their teams are in the NCAA hockey tournament. Could show a replay of the Minnesota-Wisconsin outdoor game? Nope. Well at least on Monday they'll have a Big Ten football recap.

I'm a big ten fan. Cheer for most of the schools in all sports....including gopher football when they are losing to I-AA schools from North Dakota. I just think that college hockey is such an afterthought to them with big picture sports like pumpkin ball and pigskin tossing always having the top priority. The big ten network lost my love when a few years ago I watched a game that I later found out was called in the studio.....no live reporting, interviews....anything....plus they murdered names all night. When I lost BTN on my cable package earlier this year I called and pay six extra bucks for the channel. But unfortunately it wasn't for the college hockey productions.....or lack there of them.

Eventually OD on the top line will make sense right? When they win the national championship it will all make sense.....

Hmmm....yup.......Ohio State.....had under a 1,000 folks show up for their final two playoff games at home against Ferris State. Didn't even play those games at the facility that they built specifically for hockey. (17,000 capacity). But hey, when they played Michigan there was 9,000 admiring fans in the stands. So when they played their biggest rival their building was only half full? So when Ohio State plays Penn State at the big ten tourney at the X the attendance will be? Not that the big ten will care because they'll have already made their money on basketball and football.

Just don't let my dad have the mic..... Would love that type of setting. Hoggsbreath 2014, controversial topics in college hockey. That would be a lot of fun.

If it isn't Rocco, Mark has proven he's fine up there as well. When the season is on the line with the bounce of the puck, they have to put their best foot forward. We saw the seasons on the line lineup for about five minutes on Thursday. Hopefully we see it again.