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I accept the obstruction should be reduced in the WCHA. I laugh at the NHL teams who passed on Parise. The guy had shown himself on multiple occasions to be VERY near the best in the world in his draft class. If they used a small sample of games (playoff losses to UMD and Ferris) as a reason to drop his stock, they deserve the Zherdevs, Michaleks, Kostitsyns, Carters, Jessimans, Browns, Nilssons, and Berniers they got instead.

I agree. It's just not as fun without the Gophers. Nice to see UW get embarrassed. Does anyone out east recruit besides BC?

Careful now your starting to sound like an SCSU fan in the late '90s gloating about owning the Gophers, while forgetting your main objective.

I think the "U" could have had him this year if Lucia's contract was closer to ending. After next year Blais has way less motivation to leave UNO. His third year team at UNO will no doubt be poised to go deep in the NCAAs and he will have a LOT more invested there. This season he was away a bunch and easily could have been persuaded to come home.

I so voted YES!

Exactly. Most good college coaches don't get opportunities to make big money. If OSU is going to pay him big money, he has to take a look at the position.

Yep. This BC wouldn't have been a problem for the Sioux and most days I think Yale would have been either. Miami has some serious demons to exercise with BC as well, so who knows how that semi will go. I'm guessing BC beats them, and then lays down for the filthy Badgers. Just like in '06. Two guys that Lucia needed. Gilbert and McDonough.

One of the major differences is the officiating. The Sioux seem to do well when they play with their usual WCHA style and take their share of penalties. This game they didn't even attempt to intimidate Yale. It almost seemed like they just wanted to stay out of the box. After watching their superior play vs. the Gophers then at the Final Five, I was shocked at how they came out. Same thing the last couple of years.

He was ours first and your coach is fine. It's time for him to come home. This year is the year for the Gophers, he isn't going to dump Omaha after next season. They will be too good.

I'm pretty skeptical of a Lucia play. Frank was an independent contractor, the other guys they basically own. I'd be shocked if this was anything other than a cost saving move.

Exactly. This year the team was bad and you had game times and game days all over the map.

I placed my hex on UW instead of you guys this year. I think I have DU getting cooked by some smart kids. Their goalie just looked like a disaster last weekend, and I know bad goalies when I see them.

Man the Gophers must suck if Rick isn't even going to waste his venom on us. The thread is brilliant though. And I certainly would support firing Hak. That or just win the @#$%#@ tourney this year so your guys and staff can let a little complacency set it. This teasing you have been doing since '03-'04 is getting old.

Pretty cool. Time to ditch the Simmons picture. He doesn't really fit the post.

All he needs is respectable goaltending and you guys will beat BC. Same as most of the other years. I like UW, DU, UND and Miami. I true battle of the heavy weights. Similar to 2005. UW and DU got good draws, Miami and UND will have to battle it out, but should prevail.

Gerbe isn't going to show up either.

When I saw Michigan go up out of order, I was hoping for you and UW in St. Paul. Great draw for both UND and Michigan. Yale even though they finished 9th in PWR are ranked by other measures the 25th best team in the country. The BC game should be fun. Toss up, but it has to go your way at some point again.

I thought this joke was a lot more funny when it was about the Badgers in '07. Oh well, what comes around...

Guys the Gophers are full of grinders. Lack of skill is what the Gophers problem has been this year. A 1.5-2.5 lines of grinders is cool, but you have to have some skill as well. When your best skill guy likes to drift around the perimeter and bounce slapshots off the glass, your bound to have a season like the Gophers. This suspension is CRAP without and explanation. I want to know if he should have been tossed for that infraction and maybe a comment on the performance of Shep and Hunt. They seemed to have a big effect on both Game 2 and Game 3.

Great. The hit was worthy suspension, but not worthy of a game misconduct. Brilliant. Games two and three had serious problems with the refs that really shaped the outcome of each game. At least it was fair I guess.

No way. They don't have that many fans even if they all show up.

Semifinals look to be awesome if the Sioux advance. Tickets should be a bargain as well.

He was pushed, but extended his elbow to knock Kangas' helmet off. Should have been even up. Gophers are pathetic.

I'm pretty sure they get paid by the game.

I think we have six big gold banners at Mariucci. Five traditional NCAA titles and the 1940 team featuring our arena's namesake. While I think 7>5 is appropriate, I don't think our celebrating our only unbeaten/untied team in over 90 years should bother you johnny come latelies too much.