[Week 3 UND at the big SDSU]

We may have a workable link:

http://www.thefirstr...iego-state.html

My experiences with FirstRow have been very hit-or-miss. Hopefully, the stream will activate and remain functional.

[Frozen Four Roll Call]

These stars have been lining up for a long long time. I have been saying the same thing for a long long time. We corralled twenty tickets over a long long time.I really wish that I could help everyone get some seats. I done did my best to implore folks for a long long time to get their tickets early. "The Sioux are IN," I said. "Boys are on a mission. Done deal. Git 'em now." Many were called, only a few would listen.

Hopefully, the market will settle down for those who wait. It will, if people just sit back and stay quiet for awhile. Good things happen to those who wait.

We have been waiting ten years. Now is the time.

So, to the great City of Saint Paul, and to The X, in addition to the legions of Sioux fans from all parts of the world, will come the following,

the Good Lord willing:

• 
  
  
• My eighty-four year old parents who still do not miss any games at The Ralph.
  
• My brothers from Wisconsin and Colorado.
  
• My hockey-crazed Nephews from Valley City.
  
• My Iraqi War vet nephew from Moorhead.
  
• My daughter who has weathered many a painful Frozen Four with me in the last decade, and who has been
  surprised with a Ride Ticket Money to come home from a college far away to see her beloved Fighting Sioux win The Crown.
  
• My oldest son who will pop his head out from the basement for this Big Event.
  
• The Wood Doctor, Oxbow Bob from Columbus, Ohier, via Oxbow CC.
  
• JV and his bride.
  
• A father and son who have been settled in da suite.
• A single seat here and there for some lucky few.
  
• And, of course, NorthDakotaHockey. Wearing the beads, the #29 Cookowski, and my one-of-a-kind hat. Pounding the ice cream.
  
  

I have worked hard to upgrade us to some of the best seats in the house. Over the last six weeks, great hockey fans have sold us great hockey seats at a fair hockey price.

This Frozen Four is gonna be special. As, of course, are all Fighting Sioux hockey games when enjoyed with the blessings of family, food, friends, and friendly foes. Win or lose. Home or away. Upper deck or lower bowl. Blacks or whites. Fratt Party or a Trupp Trip. It's all one song. Stand Up and Cheer, Stand Up and Cheer for North Dakota . . . . Here come your Fighting Sioux!!!!

Travel safe. Pray for the flood waters to lie down and be tame. Don't be late. Skate To Eight.

I'll use my first post in 6+ years to point out that I will be going thanks to NorthDakotaHockey. Every Frozen Four that comes around, finding tickets is a nightmare for me as I require wheelchair accessible seating. The prospects for this year's edition looked the bleakest of all. But now I am taken care of and am able to watch the quest for #8.

The generousity of Sioux fans never ceases to amaze me. Thanks again, NDH!