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I agree with you totally on the Peltier/Trupp/Malone incident and this is the reason Hak got so pissed and gave the bird. Peltier cross-checks Trupp from behind into the boards and no penalty was called(keep in mind that Finley got one for cross-checking a Goofer into the boards as well as Duncan's play 7 seconds into the game in which Adam didn't hesitate to put his arm up). Trupp gets up and goes after Peltier who loses his helmet and manages to get on top of Trupp and starts throwing punches. Malone and Frattin come in to help out. Somehow out of that, the Gophers come out with a power-play. While I don't agree with Hak flipping the bird, I 100% agree and see why he was so pissed after that incident. Another case of fantastic reffing in the WCHA.

Anyone know for sure who this is and would be willing to tell us or do we have to wait and see? I figured the name would have slipt out sometime today.

What a great start to the 2010 recruiting class with him and Mattson. Anybody think he may have been the reason that we never made an offer to Schmidt? Nice to see we have D-man lined up for the future but I still would prefer to add 1 or 2 more for 08.

Anybody else surprised at where David Toews is at? I thought he would be much higher than that.

I just checked the guide for Dish Network and it shows that the friday night game will be played live at 7:00 on CSTV so if nothing changes there should be Sioux hockey on at my house.

I have to agree with you here as well. I like the idea of switching up the lines but I really like Kaip as a center. I wonder why Kaip isn't centering the line as I thought they liked Oshie on the wing. Who knows? I trust their decisions.

Anybody think there is a chance of a line of Duncan-Oshie-Genoway? I thought they played together last year when Toews was at the World Juniors when the team first started to get rolling. I'm not complaining about VandeVelde's play just wondering what everyone thinks and it would also make for more scoring depth throughout the lineup. Something like: Duncan-Oshie-Genoway Watkins-Kaip-Frattin Trupp-Vandevelde-Kozek Forney-Zajac-Malone

Since Hak wasn't around for the Coaches show this week maybe he wanted to see Schmidt first hand before offering him. Hopefully that's the reasoning behind him not being around. Exiled One may know if he was at the game or not. From everything I gather, it seems like a toss-up as to where Schmidt decides to go as I have heard from different people that CC was first on his list, then someone said UND was his dream school, then there was the article from sometime ago that Exiled One posted that stated he wanted to go to SCSU and now someone on another board claims that the Gophers are his first choice. Anyone have any clue?

I think if we list Schmidt as a wait and see type player we will miss out on him. From what I have gathered, CC, Minny and St. Cloud have all offered so far so I would think if we didn't offer this weekend that he would really have to want to be a Fighting Sioux to wait for an offer from us and turn down those other offers right now.

I gotta agree with everything you say here. I think both Kaip and Watkins had pretty decent weekends. I thought Trupp was probably our best forward friday night and I thought Watkins was our best on Saturday. He seemed to have by far the most jump out of any of the forwards. I believe Oshie was playing at somewhere between 50 and 60% this weekend. When he was going down to block some point shots on Saturday night, you could plainly see that he was having more and more trouble getting up. It was quite obvious he was hurting. I have seen all but a few MN games this year and I thought that was far and away their best weekend of hockey. They seemed to be a totally different team than the one I have seen in previous weeks. In previous weeks, I thought they were being outplayed by teams such as Michigan Tech and AA and in the case of the Michigan Tech series were lucky to get two points as opposed to this weekend were I believe that the Sioux were very lucky to get two points.

I know I've brought this up before but does anyone know anything new on the D situation for next year. I have seen a few names thrown around for next year but haven't heard anything recently. Are we still recruiting for next year or do we plan on bringing in both Gleason and Fienhage?

I agree with needing to pressure their young D core. After watching the Gophers the last few weeks, we need to get after them and also pressure them when we do have the puck as well. Take it right at them at full speed and see if they can handle the speed. They seemed to struggle with Denver and CC in that area. Especially pressure David Fischer who has seemed to struggle mightily with the puck and almost coughed it up numerous times on Saturday against Tech. He might be to Gopher fans what Brian Lee was to Sioux fans.

I was actually thinking that VV centering Toews and Gregoire would be my best guess as to being the top line.

The thing that jumps out at me when I look at that list excluding Oshie and Duncan is that I don't see a definite number one line like we've had the past few years. I think we will be able to roll 4 lines and it may be hard to tell the difference between who is the first and who is the fourth line. That sure would be a nice problem to have.

I gotta say after watching Minny play Mankato last weekend and AA this weekend that I would be quite amazed if those two teams don't finish 9 and 10 in the WCHA. Yeah I know AA beat Minny on Saturday but they might be one of the worst puck handling teams I have ever seen. I love watching the Goophies lose but that was just a bad hockey game to watch.

I think it would be ideal if we could get two defenders and keep Fienhage and Gleason as 09's. From what I've heard, Fienhage is quite raw and would benefit alot from playing a year in the USHL as would Gleason. If they don't, I think Gleason is the guy who would come in next year.

UNH swept CC a couple of weeks ago at UNH. They didn't split.

I don't know the rules but I highly doubt you would have to forfeit a game for dressing only one goalie. That just doesn't make any sense. I would bet you don't have to dress any goalies if you don't want to and play with six skaters the whole game.

Budish would be an 09 and not an 08 so he wouldn't be part of this class anyway. He would sure make our 09 class pretty damn good though.

I totally agree with this assessment. I specifically watched him on Saturday night given on TV but I didn't see anything special and I wouldn't have even noticed him if I wasn't looking for him.

Anyone with Dish Network the game tomorrow night should be on channel 451. Its a sports alternate channel and my guide showed it coming on at 7:00 tomorrow. Go get 4 points in Madtown boys!

I agree the addition of Budish would be two great classes of FORWARDS in a row but we could really use some D. I really hope we can get some top notch d-men shortly before they all start heading elsewhere.

If OHL is true he won't be coming back becuase he will have lost his college eligibility due to playing major junior.