Wilbur

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.

I could see Luke Johnson skating with Rocco. Central Scouting has him rated as an "A" skater. Last time I saw him play was when he was a freshman in high school at Central. And he was the best player on the ice on a team that was pretty loaded.

Which is why Karl will stay on as goaltending coach. We'll need him with just one guy back half the time.

I may be overqualified for that one..... A team from Alaska will never win a national championship. You talk about Circadian Rhythm screwing with your ability to play hockey.....

Thats going to be the big question mark next season. Who can skate with Rocco?

Just their mission statement because it follows his spiritual beliefs.

They had to come up with some type of excuse. I don't think it was a goal, but I don't buy the goalie getting knocked into the net.

Well according to some folks on here and GPL coaching NHL type talent should automatically lead to championships. So I think UND could do themselves a favor by canning the three current clowns and letting you and me run the show. Karl can stay on as the goaltending coach, because these guys are way way way better goalies than I ever dreamed of being. You wanna run forwards or d?

After this year, I'm ready to go back to the drawing board and have four lines of about equal strength and just roll them. Obviously whatever line Rocco is on will be the top unit, but I'm hopeful that the line combos are pretty well established come January. Another thing I'd like to see is keeping lines intact for power plays. That way lines aren't messed up for three shifts after we don't score on the powerplay. I think a big reason there was so little success on the powerplay was the fact that you had guys playing with different guys, then going back and playing with different guys even strength. This of course goes back to our horrible head coach......If they would just accept my resume, I'd be a great addition to the staff. I mean you'd have four great minds with an abundance of nhl, ahl, and college hockey coaching experience. Well, I played intramurals at UND, so that counts as college hockey experience in my book.

^That...... My biggest issue with the forecheck this year was dumping the puck and having zero pressure lead to an easy out. I can understand a line change leading to an easy out, but too many times the puck would get dumped in the wrong corner or F1 would take a horrible pursuit angle, and that just screwed everything up. If you want to watch a team that played a great forecheck see Yale vs. UND. They hemmed in our dmen, and their F1 was outstanding at forcing our dmen into a horrible decision (cough....Gleason). Half of that though was our dmen not giving up ringing the wall. Even when the weakside d pinched every time.....every time...

I think Rocco will be just fine. He'll work his rear end off at getting better, and lead the team in scoring next year. I think once he gets his first next year they'll come like grapes....in bunches.

Hockey stick turning into a snake......