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Before January 1 I said we needed to do the following to make the NCAAs: Split at CC (we did) Sweep UAA (we took 3 points) Sweep Bemidji (we did) Split at Minensota (we swept) Sweep Mankato Sweep Duluth Split at Denver Split at SCSU What we need to finish in 3rd place in the WCHA from the other teams is this and it very possible in my mind: This week: St. Cloud and CC split , Denver splits at Tech and we sweep: St. Cloud has 28 points, Denver has 28, CC has 27 and we have 24. Next week: Minnesota sweeps CC, St Cloud splits at Wisconsin and we sweep: We are now tied for third place with Denver with 28 points. The next week: We split with Denver, Minnesota sweeps St. Cloud, CC splits at Mankato. Denver, St. Cloud, and us are tied for second ahead of CC by one point. Last weekend: We split with St. Cloud, Denver and CC split. Three way tie for second place. We move ahead of St Cloud because of our 2-1-1 record against them. Then who knows about us and Denver. Hey it could happen. We could finish second. But you have to root for the Gopehrs the rest of the way

It's not only that we have so many home games before Christmas but this year is not a good year for us at all. Right now the only team in the bottom half of the league that we "get" to play against twice is Mankato. Unless of course you count Wisconsin there. We play one series with Minnesota and Denver and they are both away. In contrast Minnesota plays Tech twice, Mankato twice, and then they only play us and Denver once and both those series are in Minnesota. Let's just say a sweep this weekend is a must when you look at the remaining schedule.

SIOUX SWEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I fully agree with these sentiments. The reality is that we are spoiled with the Sioux making the Frozen Four 4 of the last 7 years. As a Sioux fan my expectations are high every year and I expect to be a contender for the league and NCAA crown each year. When we don't perform to those expectations we all complain but as a true Sioux fan you contineu to support the team no matter what. We can right this ship by doing the little things better. Let's start with this weekend. Get your butt to the game and cheer louder than you did last weekend.

This game once again showed that you can't constantly have one on one coverage on big fast receivers and hope to survive. Alexander was overmatched and had no help covering Fowler. I had hoped that our defensive scheme would have take this into consideration but I saw no proof of that. It's tough to stop the other team if you can't get to the quarterback and you can't cover their receivers. That first quarter we would have been better in a dime defense than our customary defense. Or at least thrown something different at them occasionally to hopefuly confuse them. The first quarter was not just that we couldn't stop them we also could not move the ball. With 15 yard punts compounding the problem I was worried that Grand Valley would get the ball on their own 20 yard line sooner or later. Our team looked shellshocked as I was. It just felt like we didn't represent ourselves well but at least we didn't mail it in and kept trying until the end.

After watching this game I thought Hakstol should pull a Brooks and after everyone leaves bring the team out to skate. This team obviously doesn't yet know the meaning of intensity. The goal was to improve on the Saturday night CC game and this team went backwards. The USA team may be talented but this is a game an elite college hockey program like UND is expected to dominate. They didn't. The defense didn't clear the puck, the forwards seldom helped on the defensive end, Lammy was screened twice by his own players, in general a poor performance that proved nothing except that they need to improve. Right now you have elite players like Toews and Oshie that don't seem to be able to score while looking great in spurts, you have a goalie that looks susceptible to high shots because he goes down too early, and you have a defense that hasn't really matured from last year. I don't have a clue if this team will struggle to hit .500 or will find their way and be a title contender. Right now it's looking like the former.

I just remember that Dave had a wicked slap shot

My wife has a 1999-2000 National Championship Hockey stick autographed by the entire 2000 North Dakota Championship team. What makes it more memorable for us is that we were in Providence to see it happen.

Talk about a stupid comment. Is there any other TV station that covers UND? Let's fire all of the general managers. The reality is that this game was at risk because of the holiday. The NCAA made it tougher for any station to do the game by delaying it by 1-2 days. Now we the fan suffer. I guess I'll just have to listen to the game on KFGO and then drive to the hockey game from Fargo afterwards. I'm hoping we win of course but also hoping USD beats Grand Valley! I'm tired of Grand Valley

I just called WDAZ. They said they made a bid for the game to the NCAA. They were just informed today that they had the rights to broadcast the game. However to broadcast the game they need to know by Monday afternoon at the latest to make the necessary arrangements to broadcast an away game. Net result is the NCAA didn't get back to them soon enough for them to arrange for a crew etc. to go to Omaha. I don't know what it takes to make the "necesssary arrangements" but I'll assume WDAZ tried to figure it out and because they knew so late they couldn't make it work. No matter what the fan loses.

I hated it. They couldn't move there sorry arses out of the way. How many times did the puck hit a ref this weekend? Gees.

Based upon how pathetic the team looked with Bellmore as QB last week Manke's injury scares me. The team doesn't look the same with Belmore and we need Manke healthy. I guess we'll see this weekend if Belmore can begin to make better decisions and get over the downer end of year he had last year.

Enjoyed the viedo. What group is sing the Saturday's All Right For Fighting song?

Line combos: Defense: Lee and Jones Chorney and Finley Radke and Bina Genoway pushing everyone. Forwards: Toews centering Duncan and Porter Oshie centering Spirko and Kozek Checking line is Kaip centering Fabian and Zajac Watkins centering Vandevelde and Miller There are so many combos that we could do especially if Zajac scores like he did in the BCHL and Martens and Miller improve and if Watkins and Kozek increase their scoring. Porter could get pushed down to the checking line if that happens.

Forwards: Seniors: Chris Porter 7 goals, 16 assists in 46 games Eric Fabian 6 goals, 11 assists in 37 games Juniors: Rylan Kaip 3 goals, 5 assists in 42 games Rastislav Spirko 11 goals, 20 assists in 39 games Sophomores: Ryan Duncan 16 goals, 20 assists in 46 games Andrew Kozek 7 goals, 6 assists in 46 games Ryan Martens 0 goals, 0 assists in 2 games Brad Miller 0 goals, 0 assists in 15 games TJ Oshie 24 goals, 21 assists in 44 games Jonathan Toews 22 goals, 17 assists in 42 games Matt Watkins 5 goals, 4 assists in 46 games Freshmen: Chris Vandevelde: He played for the Lincoln Stars in the USHL. Chris is 19 years old and is 6

In a couple posts I'll throw my two cents in: My take on the players who will be contributing next year for the Sioux starting in goal and defence: I expect Stafford to sign with Buffalo. The only thing that may stand in the way is Buffalo is so cheap that they may try to get him after the Aug 15 deadline so they can sign him for a lower bonus and only for 2 years. At that point Stafford could elect to become a free agent and test the waters there. In either case I don

My favorite quote from the article: "Look for Finley to remain at UND for a few seasons. "

That looks like a Michigan jersey to me.

My wife and I keep saying that what we wear has no bearing on the game. But then why the heck am I wearing the same clothes tonight that I wore last Friday when we beat Wisconsin? Everything has been cleaned of course.

Even though I hate to hear Bison fans say "I told you so" I'm guessing that UND will be Division I in all sports in the next 3-4 years. So we will also be playing the Minnesotas in college football. Do you think UND fpootball will be more popular than UND hockey at that point? I'd have to say an emphatic NO! The reality is that NDSU is a football college and UND is a hockey college. As far as the state of North Dakota is concerned, who knows? I'd have to say that because UND hockey is being broadcast throughout the state now, that the fan base for hockey is much larger than for NDSU football. So sorry Craig but NDSU football will not surpass UND hockey for a fan base in North Dakota in the near future.

I'd rather have the momentum. But I also rather play Holy Cross than Michigan. Minnesota should roll over Holy Cross and the UND/Michigan game will be a battle. With East refs the game may come down to special teams play. But here's saying that with Parise playing well it comes down to goaltending and we pull out the Friday game. Saturday? Who knows? Minnesota has the best power play in the nation. If we can play five on five we win. If we're in the box a lot... All year Minnesota has been winning on offense. Their defensemen pinch more than anyone I've seen and it wins them most games. This past weekend it didn't and with all of the odd man rushes Briggs and Frazee faced no wonder they lost. Let's beat Michigan and then we can worry about the Gophers.

When I was looking at the possible brackets before last weekend's Final Five I predicted we would get either Michigan on Boston College for our first game. I really didn't want to play either of those teams because they have seemed to be our nemesis in the past. Now that we have Michigan all I can say is at least it's not at the Yost! I'm afraid of Michigan but still think we can beat them. Michigan is super young too and the difference for them is their goaltending has been suspect and their young defensemen have been inconsistent. If we play like we have the past few weekends and don't put Michigan on a lot of pwer plays we can win this game. Michigan is 3rd in the ocuntry in team offense averaging 3.65 gpg but they give up over 3 gpg too. I'm not looking forward to a Saturday game. I'm just worried about Michigan.

What a stupid article!

I'm on the other side or the blue line side. So my seats are just on the right edge of the bench as you look at it from behind. . That damn guy who dresses up like a bunny for dance fever is at the bottom of the section to my right but close to the bench too.