Sioux_Hab-it

Duncan won the race to the rebound, I didn't see anything wrong.

Watkins needs to start getting his shots on net. That is about the fourth slapper that went wide tonight.

Kangas is not your typical Gopher sieve and no one was going to stop Gregoire's shot.

Trupp always seems to save his best performances for the Gophers.

Nothing to show for the 18 shots is disappointing.

Malone hooked down no call Now we get a call

Another Hextall gets under the skin of the Gophers. I want more. How was that offsetting

Trupp whiffed on a beautiful set up. Can't be missing too many of those.

When I lived in Colorado Springs we used to have alumni get togethers to watch the games against the Gophers so perhaps there are plenty of UND parties all over the US.

Hopefully someone at Siouxtra remembers to activate the links. The radio link still isn't available.

Corban Knight would be a great pick up as he was one of the top Midget AAA players in Western Canada. In fact I recall him being the MVP of the prestigious Mac Midget tournament. He could have gone the Major route but has obviously decided to go the NCAA route.

I have to comment before this thread is put to rest. Some of you need to realize that Canada's entire population is only the size of the state of New York and that most of that population has to endure a long dark cold winter due to our northern latitude. So what else would we excel at or be obsessed with? The water melon seed spitting comment is funny but heck we can't even grow them up here. Someone else comented about all of the NHL teams being in the USA. Do you think the state of New York could support six NHL teams? Canada does with only three cities that have over 2 million people and all six teams have sellouts on a regular basis. I see plenty of empty seats in those US rinks including Detroit. I don't like the booing from our crowds but they truly save it for the team's that they recognize as a threat and cheer for underdogs to upset those threats. They booed the Swedes all through yesterday's game so I hope some of you can take it as compliment to the perceived talent of your hockey players. Finally, I have frequently voiced my opinion regarding the differences between North American hockey and European hockey. Funny how brave some of the Swedes were knowing that the Canadians didn't want to get any major penalties. The flops by their goaltender were classic. The icing on the cake for me was the Swede who bit Hickey's hand during a scrum in front of the Canadian net. I just watching Ruutu, a Finn, bite the hand of Buffalo's Peters in tonights game. You can have European hockey if you want it. If forgot to add that moving the tournament to Phoenix or Florida wouldn't work. Both are full of Canadian retirees each and every winter.

I fear that all of the two year and done players are finally starting to catch up with the WCHA. This certainly appears to be a down year and I think that Denver and Minnesota are continuing to make this recruiting blunder. Denver especially has tons of talent inbound but if these players bolt before realizing their potential in college hockey where does it get you. I think things are looking bright for the Sioux for the next couple of years. While it is true that they don't have a Parise, Stafford, Toews or Oshie on this team they do have a solid and balanced freshman class, most of whom will likely stick around for their full four years. Add Cichy, Kristo and MacWilliams to this mix next year and I think this team will be ready to compete with anyone in the nation.

If Canada takes that many stupid penalties against the Swedes you will get your wish. The Russians made them pay on almost every PP and were it not for the heroics of Eberle the outcome of this game would have been different. The Russian D did a great job of keeping Tavares away from their net.

But Hextall is given the player of the game. Nice to see this type of leadership from a freshman.

Should be good as Genoway went in after the puck and was then knocked by the Beaver D. Very poor call on that one.

No kicking motion he merely turned his skate.

There are certainly others including one who was a Tier One Junior scoring sensation however since you persist one word "Upperclassman". The expectations are different.

He is an upperclassman so there are certain expectations regarding leadership and showing up to play each and every game. Otherwise the playing time might as well be given to a young player who may develop into a leader.

Gophers don't fight it is probably another one of their slappy face washes.

A Peluso and a Hextall, this is to be expected. Keep the pedal to to the metal and blow the Beavers out.

Another Peluso, will we see him dance with Hextall?

Good start, take their crowd out of it.

It won't be me either. He should be grateful to the coaches that he isn't watching

Are any of the players on the U-17 team still available. Emerson Etem and Nick Shore scored some nice goals for Team USA in their win over Slovakia today.