Wilbur

Blah.....I'll never understand officiating....how does Toews get a penalty for battling Suter for the puck....

I could definitely see the Wild taking a lead into the third period and then playing goose egg hockey. Chip it out, clog up lanes....circa Minnesota 2003.

Yzerman said it really well. I was a huge North Stars fan as a kid. I guess the Wild are my NHL team, but I hate the fact that I share the same professional hockey team with all those bleeding gold goopher fans. I wouldn't call myself a diehard, just want to see the local group do well. If they keep playing defensive zone coverage like they showed on the first Chicago goal today the season will be done soon.

I think its already been said. The Wild just don't have the depth. I think they thought they'd get more out of Granland this year, and I know Suter likes to play a lot of minutes, but in the end it just drags on him and by the end of a game he's just gassed. I think the foundation is there with guys like Zucker, Parise, Suter. Now add a blueliner or two to compliment Suter, and have more than one line that is an actual scoring threat. In the world of NHL playoff hockey line matching is huge. The funny thing about this series is that the Hawks are so deep up front that they don't care who the Parise line plays against. They're just basically worried about themselves.

Yuck.......talk about sloppy play.

Just seems impossible for the Wild to find a way to beat the Hawks. They're getting great goaltending, but I don't think they'll be able to create enough chances to get to Crawford. They need a stupid bounce goal here, if the Hawks get up 2-0 I don't think its in the cards for Minnesota tonight.

I think UND may have missed the boat on a young man who played for Minot in the NAHL. Big athletic kid who ended up signing with St. Lawrence university. Last name is Parks, could have had a two headed Parks monster on the team.

I tried to buy him a beer once......but the family man in him made us go the ice cream route. I still got a beer for me though.

I'm not sure what hockey law it is. But when one team hits the crossbar in overtime the other team automatically wins.

I'm going to keep beating a dead horse with Osiecki. If I was him I would question my school's commitment to hockey with playing a playoff series in essentially their practice facility or youth hockey rink. If it isn't football or men's basketball Ohio State doesn't care. A guy I worked with during college grew up in Ohio, huge Ohio State fan, was unaware they had a hockey team.

The North Stars last ever hockey game took place in Joe Louis Arena.......

The Vikings decide that its better to have a punter then a number of other far more talented athletes. A Punter instead of a Theo Riddick....yeah....stupid. I don't care if Kluwe is a giant douche who nobody likes. You can find a punter anywhere.

When I was at UND I was out at the bar after a big Friday night win against Denver. Saw like 3/4 of the team at an un-named downtown bar who had their fair share of drinks, a few of them getting a bit out of hand. Saturday night they got killed. Think they lost like 7-3 or something to that effect. Talk all you want about how its college, just being college kids. But it can have a negative effect. I've heard of some teams going the hotel route for home weekends. Has UND ever done that?

Could the North Stars just come out for the Wild in the third period?

Well, and add to that he had Nick Saban as a coach so you know he hasn't been coached at all.... Green Bay will win the division anyways. I think Lacy is a steal where they got him.

And the pack gets Lacy anyways. They just got better on offense....did they need to get better?

I'm happy overall with the picks. Had to get a kick returner, had to get a big body to play next to Kevin in the middle. I'm just terrified about the linebacker situation. Guess there is a lot of draft to go, but I was surprised that of the three picks not one was a linebacker.

Lacy is a dude. Absolute dude. If the Vikes didn't have AP I'd be screaming at them for passing on him. Watch the SEC championship and the national championship game and tell me he wasn't the best player on the field.

Either works, but I think #2 may take my heart a bit more.

Might be impossible to get the puck to the net with Trouba and Jensen together.

When I was a college student I went home every summer, and basically did nothing but work, drink, and softball. I had some friends that were on the UND football team that went home and basically lifted on their own with a team prescribed plan, but didn't get back to GF until fall ball started. Would like to see a united group stick in Grand Forks for the summer, and come August be well ahead of where they started last year.

Believe the only game that they lost when he scored a goal was his last game ever for North Dakota.

Hmmm....I wonder why they have so much success? Bohl does such a remarkable job of having such a united team. A former student of mine plays for him and just beams about him. They truly all play for the one greater cause than themselves. I'd like to see that become a policy for the UND football team as well. Part of you being on the football team is staying around with the group in the summer time to get better together.

I go over to GPL for a laugh. Although sadly this forum at time resembles gpukelive more than we'd like.

From the highlights as well saw some good poise from the QBs. Although it may be easy to have more poise when you know you're not going to get hit at all. Hanson looks so small on the video. Glad they've got a Grafton kid on the roster, but probably won't see the field with who is ahead of him.