RedFrog

I'm at the games this weekend and will be posting them when I get home, either Sunday night or Monday.

Amen. Worst thing was having someone stand up and leave in the middle of a Sioux rush to our end of the ice. I have never left a game before the final horn. I actually wish I knew they were putting the Minn/Minn St. game on the jumbo tron tonight, I'd have stuck around to watch it. NOBODY better leave early tomorrow, after we dispatch of Tech, we have to enjoy the stick salute and more importantly send off our seniors.

How big was the shut-out tonight for solidifying Phils spot in the Hobey Hattrick? I know that facing 14 shots did not improve his save percentage much (only .01%), but his goals against average is down to a 1.61. He is currently leading in GAA and is tied for the national lead in Save % and shut-outs. While I agree that the Hobey is Porter's to lose, I think Phil has a great chance to make the hattrick, and that in itself would be GREAT considering the goalie position was our biggest questionmark at the beginning of the year. Keep it up JPL!!

Don't forget the most important one: UND - 4 Tech - 0

I'm starting it out with Kaip

WELCOME TO GAME #5 OF SIOUX SURVIVOR!! RULES: Anyone can enter. Only 1 entry per person Each night the Sioux play, you are allowed to select 1 Sioux player you think will score a goal. Your player must score or you are eliminated from the competition. If your player scores a goal, you will move on to the next night the Sioux play. You will again select 1 Sioux player you think will score a goal, HOWEVER, you may not select the player you used in the previous round(s) as you can only use each player 1 time, and 1 time only. Again, if your player does not score a goal, you are eliminated. If your player does score a goal, you will again move on to the next night the Sioux play. Last one standing is the SURVIVOR! ***You MUST post your selection by replying to this thread.*** All selections must be in 1/2 hour prior to game time(ex. game time 737p, picks must be in by 700p). We will be using this boards clock as the official clock. If you qualify but miss a game, you are automatically ELIMINATED from the game. If all people are eliminated in the same night, all players that were eligible for that game will carry over to the next Sioux game as thought all their players scored the previous night. You are allowed to post "if I make it" picks for a weekend series. For example: Sioux play Fri/Sat. You can make your picks for both games, please post these in the same post. Once your selection is made, you can NOT change it. Be aware of who is dressing and who is not, it is YOUR responsibility to find out! All first round picks must be submitted by 130p central time Sunday, Mar. 2nd. Siouxsports.com will be used for all official stats and time keeping. AZSioux has agreed to put up a 5 game DVD title set for the winner! THANX AZSIOUX!! Past winners: Game #1: Nodakvindy (79 entries) Game #2: NorthDakotaHockey (84 entries) Game #3: Ray77 (124 entries) Game #4: soSIOUXme (80 entries) PICKS MUST BE POSTED BY 6:30pm CENTRAL TIME Saturday, March 15th. Picks for Round 1: 1RedFrog - Kaip 2Siouxfan inDenver - VandeVelde 3richthorpe - Kozek 4patatoe - Chorney 5Sioux-cia - Oshie 6Brasco - Kozek 7dagies - Chorney 8Sundog - Oshie 9stickboy1956 - Watkins 10LetsGoSioux! - Duncan 11HaksHomey - Duncan 12AZSioux - Kozek 13PersianGulfSioux - VandVelde 14urstillamelvin - Bina 15GUsioux - Kozek 16Siouxman - VandeVelde 17Fetch - Finley 18Budwmn - Duncan 1982SiouxGuy - VandeVelde 20zgglmtv - Kaip 21hky - Kaip 22keikla - Kozek 23SiouxFlyer - Duncan 24nodak hockey fanatic - Oshie 25Sioux-Hockey-Fan - Duncan 26Sioux Forever - Oshie 27Sioux17 - VandeVelde 28Nodak sioux - Kaip 29GrBrown - Duncan 30sprig - Genoway 31denbo1 - Miller 32Brainerd Sioux - Frattin 33SIOUXELEVENS - Genoway 34seeboys - VandeVelde 35Esoxpirate - Oshie 36Sioux Hab-it - VandeVelde 37HeidiSioux62 - VandeVelde 38UND85 - Duncan 39siouxguyinstpaul - Frattin 40Watchout for Flying Pucks - Oshie 41Upper Deck - Kozek 42Washburn Sioux - VandeVelde 43SiouxSax - Kozek 44GFND - Kozek 45andrea6977 - Genoway 46Windsor - Kozek 47nodakvindy - Genoway 487>4 - Jones 49driscol - Duncan 50SiouxCrious1 - Duncan 51siouxguyinFF - Martens 52FSSD - Oshie 53franchise - Oshie 54Morley - Kozek 55Rhino7 - Oshie 56Trunk Monkey - Kaip 57sioux fever - Kozek 58Sioux fan in gf - Kozek 59sioux canada - Oshie 60Oxbow6 - VandeVelde 61BIGSIOUX - VandeVelde 62hoser - Finley 63schmidtdoggydog - VandeVelde 64Common Man - Marto 65siouxforeverbaby - Duncan 66txsioux - Kozek 67It's more fun than Drunk - VandeVelde 68Old Time Hockey - VandeVelde 69Stack - Kozek 70WiSioux - Genoway 71t speaker31 - Kozek 72Reformed Gphr Fan - VandeVelde 73MikeyPat15 - Oshie 74Dr Siouxs - Watkins 75jimdahl - Finley 76wickedsiouxfan - Oshie 77deansteg - Kozek 78draftsman74 - Watkins 79 80 Picks by player: *These numbers are not official Kaip - 5 Oshie - 12 Duncan - 9 Kozek - 16 Genoway - 5 VandeVelde - 15 Chorney - 2 Watkins - 3 Bina - 1 Finley - 3 Miller - 1 Frattin - 2 Jones - 1 Martens - 1 Marto - 1

CONGRATULATIONS TO soSIOUXme!! You are the winner of Game #4 of Sioux Survivor. Get together with AZSioux to claim your prize!!

Picks for Round 4: 38soSiouxme - Vande Velde Kaip Oshie Duncan 52LeftyZL - Kozek Kaip Duncan Watkins Good Luck to both of you!!

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When I pull the goals from the games, I'll look for this, but they don't tend to show crowd shots during intermissions. If I find it, I'll let you know.

CC over AAU in 2 UND over MTU in 2 DU over UMD in 3 UM over MSUM in 3 UW over SCSU in 3 Colorado College over Alaska Anchorage - 2 games (not even close in either game) UND over Michigan Tech - 2 games (1st game will be a 3 OT thriller!) UM-Duluth over Denver - 3 games (2 OT games are split while Duluth wins 1 in regulation) Mankato over Minnesota - 2 games (Minnesota forgets how to score again and Kangas gets pulled) St. Cloud over Wisconsin - 3 games (this one is tuff to pick, but I think the 3rd game may still be going on when the F5 starts on Thursday )

As pointed out (but missed?) in a post earlier in this thread. I'd have to go with Vande Velde(14g 15a) as being the most improved from last year. Kozek sure has been solid for us this year, especially after being moved to the top line. Vande has consistently been a contributor this year regardless of where he's been, and this last weekend, his line w/ Kaip and Watkins was the best on the ice for either team. Now, if your just going on most improved within the current season, then you can bring up the Martens/Kozek debate.

Actually, the way the Pairwise works, is by comparing your team (The Sioux) against all other teams under consideration(TUC)(Top 25 of RPI). The way they compare them is by awarding points in 4 statistical categories: 1. RPI - higher RPI wins 1 comparison point 2. TUC - higher win percentage against TUC's wins 1 comparison point. Both teams must have at least 10 games played against TUC's for this comparison to be used(see Miami) 3. COp - higher win percentage against common opponents for the 2 teams being compared wins 1 comparison point. 4. H2H - Head to head, each team receives 1 point for a win against the team they are being compared against. Now, to determine where you sit in the Pairwise, they add up how many total comparisons each team wins and rank them from most comparison wins to least. 1t Colorado College 23 1t Michigan 23 3 New Hampshire 22 4t North Dakota 21 4t Miami 21 6 Denver 19 7 Clarkson 17 8t Boston College 16 8t St. Cloud State 16 10 Michigan State 15 11 Minnesota State 13 12 Minnesota 12 13 Wisconsin 11 14t Boston University 10 14t Minnesota-Duluth 10 16t Notre Dame 8 16t Vermont 8 16t Harvard 8 19 Massachusetts 6 20t Providence 5 20t Princeton 5 22t Quinnipiac 4 22t Michigan Tech 4 24 Cornell 2 25 Northeastern 1 The number you see to the right of the team is how many comparison's they have won versus the other 24 TUC's. Currently the Sioux are winning 21 of 24 possible comparisons. They are losing comparisons to Michigan, Colorado College and New Hampshire. Everyone else on the list, the Sioux are winning the comparison. If you go the comparison chart on USCHO you can see each comparison individually to see how close each team is with each other, or what teams need to do to flip comparisons versus other teams. Jim also has a good chart to view the comparisons. Here is the Sioux comparison chart. Let's take a look at one of the Sioux comparisons - We'll use the Miami comparison, whom the Sioux are currently tied for 4th with. und vs mu .5866 1 RPI 0 .5808 19-8-4 .6774 0 TUC 0 .7222 6-2-1 2-1-2 .6000 0 COp 1 1.000 3-0-0 0-0-0 0 H2H 0 0-0-0 1 TOT 1 [/codebox] Now, as you see, each team wins 1 comparison point, thus making the comparison between these 2 teams a tie. The Sioux win the tie breaker as the higher RPI is used to break ties. You'll see that Miami only has a 6-2-1 record versus TUC's, that's only 9 games, therefore that category is thrown out and no comparison points are awarded. Miami plays Bowling Green this coming weekend, and they are not a TUC, so we'll have to wait another week to see if Miami will hit the 10 game mark. Now lets look at the COp for the 2 teams. The common opponents each team played are Michigan State and St. Cloud State. The Sioux went 1-0 vs Mich. St. and 1-1-2 vs SCSU, whereas, Miami went 2-0 vs Mich. St. and 1-0 vs SCSU. There is little chance we can flip this category after this last weekends splits vs SCSU. I hope this all helps explain a little bit how the PWR works. It's all about winning the comparisons.

Picked this up off of someone elses signature. Not sure if it's really TJ, but looks like him.

Make sure you find room for it in your sig.

I replied. Edit: I now have tickets. Thank you to all of those who offered! GO SIOUX!!

Since neither of you had your player score, you both move on as though both your players had scored. 38soSiouxme - Vande Velde Kaip Oshie 52LeftyZL - Kozek Kaip Duncan Picks must be posted by 700p central on Friday, March 14th. Failure to submit your pick on time will result in your ELIMINATION! GOOD LUCK!!

^UPDATE^ I'm still looking for tickets.

Then there were 2! Picks must be submitted by 6:30p central time tomorrow. Failure to post your picks results in automatic ELIMINATION!! 38soSiouxme - Vande Velde Kaip Oshie 52LeftyZL - Kozek Kaip Duncan GOOD LUCK!

Sioux start the OT by coasting...no jump in their step.

Looks like it was Dan Boyle, at least according to the box score.

Sorry, you didn't qualify for the 2nd round.

Picks for round 2 must be posted by 7:00 pm central time on Friday, March 7th. Failure to have your picks posted on time will result in automatic ELIMINATION!! Picks for Round 2: 1Gopherguy33 - Kozek Vande Velde 2AZSioux - Vande Velde Duncan 6undbison - Kozek Oshie (Vande Velde) 13808287 - Kozek Watkins 16PersianGulfSioux - Vande Velde Duncan 20Capitals23 - Kozek Oshie 22Sioux forever - Kozek Oshie 33stickboy1956 - Kozek Oshie 34Air Force One - Vande Velde Kozek 37draftsman74 - Kozek Watkins 38soSiouxme - Vande Velde Kaip 46Snake - Kozek Oshie 47FSSD - Vande Velde Bina 48Budwmn - Kozek Oshie 49Siouxmama - Kozek Oshie 52LeftyZL - Kozek Kaip 55Sioux Hockey Fan - Vande Velde Oshie 5682Siouxguy - Kozek Duncan 57Ray77 - Kozek Duncan 63Sparky - Kozek Vande Velde 69richthorpe - Vande Velde Kozek 70siouxzy - Kozek Duncan (Vande Velde) 71BIGSIOUX - Vande Velde Duncan 73Stack - Kozek Duncan 74siouxaholic - Vande Velde Kozek 76txsioux - Kozek Chorney 80Dr. Sioux - Kozek Oshie Picks by Player: Kozek - 3 Duncan - 7 Chorney - 1 Oshie - 9 Watkins - 2 Kaip - 2 Vande Velde - 1 Bina - 1

Sorry denbo, this is the 2nd round already, you missed out on the 1st round. Sorry aleah, this is the 2nd round already, you missed out on the 1st round. Sorry Camas Hawk, this is the 2nd round already, you missed out on the 1st round.

Considering the injuries, what is the possibility of seeing Radke back on the blue-line? I know that Hak has shown confidence in both the freshman, enough so to put them on the ice together at times this year. Just throwing it out there as another possibility. If you do put him back at D, who do you bring off the bench to replace him at forward? I'm going to assume that Miller gets Trupp's spot, therefore I'm thinking that Davidson would replace Radke as the physical presence Davidson could bring would be more suited to the role he would be filling. Just a thought.