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The head scratcher for me was most of the Quinnipiac student section wearing Beat Yale shirts instead of Quinnipiac shirts.

How about you go down to sandbag central and volunteer to lay out those sandbags. Then you will see that those sandbags for the most part aren't used to protect individual homes. They are used to reinforce and raise dikes to protect entire neighborhoods, and city facilities, and public property, etc. Even though I don't live in Grand Forks, or Fargo, or any other community along the Red River, I and my sons have gone to Fargo to help fill and place sandbags. And not once were we working on an individual home or property. Please don't follow the Ed Schultz path of ignorance.

Yale may have squeaked into the NCAA tournament, but they were a better team than that. They lost five games in a row in February when the goalie (Malcolm) was injured. That lowered their regular season record and PWR score below a level at which their full team could play. Two of those five losses were to QU. Yale earned it and deserves respect. Yes, they got a lucky bounce for their first goal against the Sioux, but sometimes that is all it takes to light the momentum.

Yeah Bulldog Bulldog............I don't think that works

I hereby promise not to do that.

Maroon and gold with a Siouxsports.com moniker??

The Hobey Baker Award is awarded by the Hobey Baker Award Foundation, and not the NCAA.

I haven't had it since I was on the golf team as a high school senior. Well.....actually it might have been the rest of the team that really had it.

With whipped topping!

Is Minnesota losing another one? Jared Larson tweeted today thanking Gopher fans for the past three years and that it has been an honor to be a Gopher. He played in just four games this past season and did not score. He is a 6'2" 195 lb. forward that is listed as a sophomore. Maybe he is transferring somewhere else in an effort to get more playing time.

Sorry, not me. Now, Mrs. Siouxman, that is a different story.......

Are you kidding? You know what happened after Goldie harrassed a college professor and the professor smacked Goldie in the face? Goldie got sympathy and the professor was arrested. I played the part of the cool calm debonair Fighting Sioux fan. Besides, some other Sioux Fan was telling him like it is so I didn't have to.

We had one behind us at the Final Five who went on and on and on about how racist, derogatory, and inappropriate Fighting Sioux was. And he was very serious, not just trying to stir the pot. In his mind it was equivalent to the disgrace of having a team named the Washington Redskins in our nation's capital. He thought that is one of the most embarrassing things in the US.

Good. I am tired of watching him have fantastic saves against the Sioux.

And when you are unsuccessful at Nebraska, you join the Big 10.

You only need to wear a jacket to dance on the dasher.

I kind of like the idea of Gwoz going to Maine. He just might be able to give those BU/BC/Notre Dame teams some fits. Or is that the politically incorrect NCAA attitude?

Earlier this year I would have said Gaudreau is a lock to win it. He seemed to fade late in the year relative to the first part of the season. I now think Hartzell will win it because of his numbers and Qunnipiac's spot in the FF.

Recent Gopher history with goalies indicates that this will be Wilcox's best year and he will begin to tail off until replaced by some flash freshman his senior year.

I thought that they were supposedly loaded this year.

You should probably give UAA a shot first as a stepping stone to bigger and better....well, ok, as a stepping stone to other things.

I heard from a highly unreliable source that John Hill is available.

Can I assume that you also: 1) Never went to class or did any homework. You just showed up for the final test and accomplished exactly what you invested. 2) You never read a book. You only turn to the last two pages just in time to read the ending. 3) if ever invited on a Canada fishing trip you would show up at the border as the group was coming home, just to claim your share of the catch. 4) You don't date, but plan to show up for your wedding and get introduced to your bride. 5) When it comes to having kids, you won't participate in the conception, but show up at the hospital just in time for labor. Please take the above as tongue-in-cheek. I have season hockey tickets and drive two hours each way for every home game. I traveled to St. Cloud, Omaha, Mankato, St. Paul for the entire Final Five, and to Grand Rapids for the regional. Along the way I witnessed a group of young men gaining experience and sharing a dream. I met many new people and gained some friends. I witnessed hundreds of Sioux fans surround the team and cheer them on as the team left the field at TD Ameritrade Park (and had a three day trip turn into five days). I saw beaming little kids walking out of Van Andel arena in Grand Rapids carrying a Fighting Sioux hockey stick handed to them by a player after the loss to Yale. I saw the end of the WCHA Final Five tournament as we know it. I participated in the Hoggsbreath Siouxsports.com brunch as I have every year. I saw Tate Maris get playing time in a non-exhibition game. I got to hear the team introduced as the North Dakota University Fighting Sioux in Grand Rapids over the weekend. And along the way I got to watch my favorite sport, college hockey. And I can hardly wait for next season to start. I cannot even imagine having gone through the past decade without experiencing the DOT line, Mike Prpich, Ratislav Spirko, Evan Trupp, the 6-3 victory over the Gophers in last year's Final Five, and many other players and events associated with Fighting Sioux hockey. We all have different expectations on how we do the journey. I like my method as much as you like yours.

After watching the regional in person, I was impressed with Yale. They are not a bad team. The most notable thing is that the whole team totally bought into complete sacrifice for the team. There were at least four or five times in the MN game where a Yale player crawled to the bench after blocking a shot. One was thrashing around on the floor in the bench area for about 10 minutes in absolute agony. Yet he finally pushed the trainer away and got back on the bench and then onto the ice. They did absolutely everything they could to prevent shots from getting to the net. Yale is fast, and they play very good positional hockey. Do not underestimate them. MN looked physically huge compared to Yale, but Yale players never backed down. Bjugstad got knocked off the puck several times. A number of Gopher players got rocked by solid checks, and so did some Sioux players. Sioux players failed to execute. Rowney had a point blank shot in the slot in the third period. It was an opportunity where a goal needed to be scored, but he shot it into the glove. Grimaldi made numerous blind passes to where no Sioux player was present, and Yale took off down the ice. Gleason turned over the puck numerous times against both Niagara and Yale by waiting too long to make the pass and then got it blocked. MacMillan took two not very smart penalties in the third. He put himself into position to take the penalty, which is what happened. The Sioux players simply failed to execute, and made poor decisions with Yale's in your face skating ability. The Sioux controlled the first 10 minutes or so of the game, and then Yale stepped it up. They took control of the game until the last half of the second period. The Sioux mounted serious pressure and created opportunities, but just could not finish late in the second and into the third. Saunders played a great game in goal.

Really??? I assume you watched the game on TV? Hockey is the one game where you cannot see the big picture on TV. I was there. There were quite a few times when the defenseman went deep along the sideboards to pinch and the wing curled out to the point. I was surprised to see how many times it happened.