Siouxman

What a night. Gophers, Pioneers, Badgers all lose, Sioux win! Just 7 points separate the top 8 teams in the WCHA.

Don't be too happy. Gophers had over 80 minutes in penalties tonight. Sacchetti and Stoa took CFB majors at the same time. I am sure there was at least one Sioux fan in the crowd so we are to blame. By the way, Mavs only had 60+ minutes.

Everyone needs to watch the video again. There is no way you can infer intent to injure by Boe on Barribal. Even the Gopher homies state that Barribal turned. That is one of the unfortunate side effects on the effort to crack down on CFB. Players now intentionally turn their back to try to draw the CFB penalty. And there is no way you can infer that is what Barriball did either. I do not have a problem with Shack standing up for his teammate, but with the way in which he did it. He needs to do it face to face. And Shack clearly should have backed off rather than beat Boe's head into the ice. While we can blame the poor officiating (and they deserve it), the league for failure to take corrective action against players, coaches, and officials (and they deserve it), and the players themselves (and some of them deserve it), there might be the possibility that the fans take some of the blame as well. All you have to do is read the posts about lack of toughness, failure to stand up for or defend your teammate, etc. on blogs as well as the comment section in the Red Star. The players have to read at least some of it and at some point it has to have an effect on them mentally. It could change the way that they respond in the heat of battle, when emotions are high and frustation has set in. Just something to think about here. There is plenty of blame to go around, most of it on players and officials. It will be interesting to see what happens. In an ideal world, Lucia should step up and take some punitive action. And the WCHA should step up and take punitive action, even if it is the same action Lucia takes. That is far better than the bland "we concur with whatever" announcement. And then the league needs to work to get the officiating where it should be. Since Christmas the WCHA officials have swallowed their whistles and that has degraded the game.

Wow! I bet if you are a teacher your class analogies must be pretty entertaining.

Well, both Achmed and TwitWeed require some phlegm in the throat.

To "have" owned, you mean you no longer own??

You sig line is appropriate: Speed Kills - The WCHA would like to quickly kill this one. This issue though is a little more serious than walking out on the ice. That is subjective. Intentionally disobeying the rules is something else.

After thinking about this a little, Gwoz is pure BS. There is no way any coach who has been ejected from a game can think that it is ok to communicate and coach with the team. Either he is truly an idiot, or he chose to violate the rule. I am inclined to think #2, and for that the consequences should be severe. After all, the guy is an author on hockey!

http://www.uscho.com/news/college-hockey/i...Suspension.html According to the USCHO article he has apologized for not knowing the rules. Seems to me someone who doesn't know the rules should not be whining and complaining to the refs all weekend long; or maybe that does explain his whining. And yes, I wonder if the NCAA is considering whether the game should be forfeit. Most likely a very long shot, but otherwise what is the penalty for violating the rules?

You better have specific evidence to back it up. You need a little more than opinion, feelings, etc. and they don't count for much in a court of law. You need the evidence to terminate for cause. Of course, you can simply pay him his salary and avoid the lawsuit deal, just not let him coach.

I wholeheartedly agree. Mario cost the team a power play in the first with a stupid penalty. He was countinuously outmuscled for the puck all game long. Also, Malone played a little close to the edge, and actually over it a couple of times, late in the game. The officials let him get away with it, but he was a potential liability after teh Gwoz antics caused the officiating to tilt against the Sioux. Malone did have a some positive spots in the game, but I believe that it was wise by the coaching staff to not use them late in the game. Kozek was greatly missed, both his speed and physicality.

It is the same situation as a two-man advantage. If the team on the power play scores, it wipes out the first penalty that created the power play. The second penalty remains in effect. So in this case, Duncan was already in the box so his penalty created the power play and is the penalty wiped out. The Marto delayed penalty remains in effect and he went into the box. If Duncan had not been in the box, the Marto penalty would have been waived off. The goal can only erase one penalty, and that is the first one. Marto served a full two minutes.

I believe that Denver psyched themselves right out of this game. Their focus was on trying to play tough to avoid being intimidated. For some reason they think that means taking cheap shots after the whistle, instead of solid checks and muscling players off the puck. The Sioux behavior was impeccable, until the mugging of VV late in the third when Denver abandoned all pretense of trying to play hockey. Denver continually did the cheap stuff after the whistle, and the Sioux just didn't react. Meanwhile Denver drew penalties and the Sioux scored. Finley, Kozek, Blood, Hextall, and the boys simply threw heavy, but clean, checks and pushed Denver off the puck. I don't know if any of this started with the coach, or was just the players. If it was just the players, the Gwoz has to be fuming big time. No wonder he did the dasher dance. As Keikla would say, he was dancing in the skank section. Saturday night should be fun again. I just hope that the Sioux players again keep their head and skate away with the sweep.

Hooboy, a movie comes to mind, like "DUMB and DUMBER! The commenters on the blog seem to have difficulty expressing their true feelings. NOT!

Is that better or worse than "goons?"

Red or Green?

I just wonder if they have considered mono. I had it at about the same age as Lucia, and it knocked me down for quite a while. The symptoms are close to the ones that I had, which were not the usual mono symptoms. Whatever it is, I hope it gets resolved.

Yup, that's where we were after the Friday night game last year.

The Gophers are not that big. They have 5 players 200 lbs or bigger (Stoa, Flynn, Schack, Fischer, and Scott). The Sioux have 10 players 200 lb. or bigger. Most of the Gopher team is in the 185-190 lb range. The Sioux also have more smaller players than the Gophers. When you look at their roster, it looks like the majority of the team is the same size. I am proud that Jones stood up for Trupp. I am not happy about the manner in which he "lost it" though. To me that was over the edge. From the good perspective though, I hope every other team the Sioux play this year watched that video of Jones. It should certainly send a message and give them pause to think before they try a cheap shot. Tasmanian Devil might be a good nickname for Jones. I am just hoping that this team remembers how they played against the Gophers and carry it forward. This was the team I saw against CC in the Friday night game in Colorado Springs, and then that team disappeared. Maybe Hakstol had them sandbagging just for the Gophers!

Its not that bad. Mr. and Mrs. Siouxman made the trip last year, about 8 hours from Fergus Falls. However, it was also the end of October, and they hadn't started getting their average 240 inches of snow yet. We did find lots of Sioux fans there, including some who drove up from Chicago.

Stoa came out for warmups but mostly just glided around. He is hurt somewhere.

I don't care who you, that thar is funny!

Hextall is a reincarnation of Prpich, only with a scoring touch. Its a good thing Sioux-cia is in Alaska, or she would be stalking Hextall.

The Sioux team that showed up Friday night is the same one we saw beat CC on Friday night in Colorado College. The Sioux played fantastic that night and it was only a spectacular game by Bachmann that kept that one to a 3-1 Sioux victory. The question is where has that Sioux team been for the past two months? Great game against the Gophers. I had an uneasy feeling going into the game, but the Sioux played well. If history is any indicator, expect the Gophers to get dirt cheap on Saturday night and plenty of scrums and penalties to result.

Wow. I've watched parts of the previous three Canada games and was very impressed. After one period of this game I have lost all respect for this Canada team. The cheap and dangerous tactics of the Canadian players are a disgrace to the game of hockey. The late hits well after the whistle, the sucker punch at the bench, the checking from behind, and the shot to the back of the head after the whistle late in the period are just too much. The refs had better step in and control this thing or it will be a free-for-all. The checking from behind incident could have crippled him for life, and he gets a lousy two minutes. The sucker punch didn't even draw a penalty. I love physical hockey, but this Canada team and its tactics are crap.