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This year's team was a team without superstars and to be effective they needed to be able to roll 4 lines that could all contribute - offensively and defensively. Maybe they were no more banged up than any other team this time of year, but given their makeup, they had a thinner margin of error than most other teams making it to the NCAAs. Not an excuse, but one can understand the drop off in performance at the end of the year. The guy I feel the worst for is Mr. Ryan Duncan. Because of the way he conducted himself on and off the ice, played every game in his career at UND, stayed another 2 years after winning the Hobey, and other things too numerous to mention, he is my favorite all time Sioux player. Simply a great player and a great man. I really would have liked to see him leave with a ring.

I wasn't able to watch the game last night, but it seems that this is a pattern. The boys dig themselves into a hole early in the season, then come on like gangbusters in order to make the playoffs. During their late season runs, they have almost no margin for error, and I think by the time they reach the playoffs, they're so mentally exhausted that it's difficult to continue their winning ways. I think this is consistent with the BC losses - to be sure BC was a good opponent, but I really feel we didn't see the best of our boys in those games. I think it also is consistent with the Princeton and Bucky games in the regional last year - they won but didn't really look to be at the top of their game. Regardless, I will be there today rooting loudly for our boys, hoping for the best.

Nope, sorry, tickets no longer available. For future reference, children are allowed in the club seats.

South club lounge (end Sioux shoot at twice); 2 seats each night; "bar stool" (end of row) seating; bench side of the ice; great seats; free beverages until the drop of the puck, including all beers and any mixed drink that can be made with the spirit specially selected for the night; includes use of parking pass; in-seat drink service; free pre-packaged popcorn, chips, etc. and canned pop throughout the game (while it lasts - usually something left at the end of the game, I believe); another 2 standing room "seats" available @ $25 each/night (since the bar stool seats are the top row, all four in your party can be in immediate proximity of one another); $300 total for both for the series - will accept reasonable best offer; PM me if interested.

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Expand the women's equestrian program.

Geez - at least get the man's name right (McLown).

I am certainly not giving 'DAZ a pass - their hands are just as dirty - but just because 'DAZ made a poor decision, it doesn't mean the the Herald needed to jump into the cesspool with them. I would also contend that a local newscast does not have the "availability" (for lack of a better word) of a local newspaper, especially this day and age with newpapers having so much content online. Someone "hearing about it being in the Herald" will more likely find it to read for themselves than would someone "hearing about in being on 'DAZ" finding it to view for themselves. Online newspaper articles are generally better catalouged and thus easier to find than particular stories in local newscasts. At least that has been my experience anyway.

I think it possible (if not likely) that Jacobs has entirely overstated his "struggles". A person of class, conscience and integrity would recognize this as a private matter - apparently Jacobs' selling price for these qualities is a few extra papers sold. A man of Tom Clifford's caliber deserves better.

If the coaching staff wanted Breuss' skull pounded in, rest assured, it would have been - last night just wasn't the time or place.

I think Big Joe was clearly referencing a meeting in the indistinct future (beyond this year as the playoffs are pretty much off limits) - the "never gonna happen" is what I found to be curious.

Agree not a major, but if they had called it that way it wouldn't have surprised me and it would not have been the greatest miscarriage of justice of which WCHA officials would be guilty.

? Cap. Kaiper fought Breuss after his well publicized freshman concussion experience.

Olie and TH said after the game when reviewing it on tape that they thought it was a penalty. I thought live and definitely on replay that it was a penalty (CFB) - it was a "bang - bang" play so the only real question is was it intentional? If Bruess had been given the DQ he deserved last night, he wouldn't even have been on the ice tonight. Explain that to #3. Of course the on-ice officials, GShep and McLown will all sleep very well tonight - just as the clueless always do.

Why should the first two games be in Fargo? The last one was played in GF, so the next one should be in Fargo, but after that it should go back and forth. 'SU left the conference and the division - that is why the series stopped. The first few years would it have hurt UND's playoff chances and/or UND would have been at a competitive disadvantage due to scholarship differential. Now it is a disadvantage to 'SU's playoff chances. When boths teams are again full-fledged members of the same NCAA division, the series can (and maybe should) resume. Until then everyone should probably just calm down. At most what should be expected is an announcement that the series will resume as before once UND is playoff eligible. I really think this is to the advantage of both schools, but if they don't agree on this, so be it - don't renew the series - no big deal.

I'll bet your dad can beat up mine too.

Yeah and Geno and Whiskey Joe are completely blameless in this mess - keep dirinkin' that Kool Aid!

Unbelievable - you follow a monumentally moronic statement with another one. Quit while you are behind. You are apparently really quite full of yourself. I'm glad we don't live in a "world according to DaveK". Congrats - you have become the second poster to make my "ignore" list. Enough is enough.

The Kohl center is crap for hockey. When seated in sides of the upper level, beyond the first couple, three rows, your view of the near boards is nonexistent. Obviously designed for that diversion for those with overactive pituitary glands.

Did Donnie Hairpile hear what was said at Yost to MSU by Mich. fans? Was that caused by serving alcohol in the stands or cheap play on the ice? He bitches about his players not being protected by the officials when defending a cheap shot by one of his players on an opponent after a penalty is called on that opponent? And then he bitches about a cfb called on one of his players when the official erred on the side of caution (i.e protecting players)? Gee Donnie, pick just ONE story and stick with it. That said, anyone writing off UMN is awash in wishful thinking.

How 'bout we don't stoop to their level?

There are plenty of reasons for 'SU not to play the Sioux, but the name is not one of them. To contend otherwise is just stupid and cowardly.

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