Blackheart

Used to make the trip down to Mettlers...ummm, Mankato every year. Sometimes there was even a hockey game in town. Started going in early 2000s, our group would make a whole day of it. A little dinner, a few beers, some optional entertainment near the arena and Sioux hockey! Watched Parise and Bochenski really light the Mavs up one year. I think UND scored 10 goals. The arena was probably 60-40 Mankato to Sioux fans because they were not very good. They had a couple decent teams in that era and one year they managed to hook and hold their way to a sweep or a win and a tie and boy were the rubes out in full force. We had a dad and his grade-school son in our group get challenged to a fight in the men's room between periods as they waited their turn to "go"; that was nice. We also had the Superfan in front of us who screamed "five" for every penalty called on UND. After leaving the WCHA those trips were done with until UND played a non-conference game there in October 2019. Went to the Saturday game and was convinced I had seen the two best college hockey teams in the country that year. There wasn't an inch of open ice out there. The atmosphere was great, even with the stupid Ole cheer.

The Balls?

It would be nice to get a couple guys back for the weekend...

As Ralphie Wiggum would say, "that's un-possible".

Not showing up on local Comcast channel in Twin Cities.

Well, plus next year when he comes back.

Thank you, Judge Dreadful!

What are you basing that on? I'm trying to trust the science.

Miss the Woog on the call.

And Tyler Kleven will get a suspension to boot.

Maybe...what I do know is that it was ugly.

Yeah, it was no Greg Gard/Juwan Howard handshake though.

Looked like a normal hockey play to me.

Not true Mafia...Mariucci counts the players on the bench as paid spectators.

That’s a bold strategy Cotton; let’s see if it pays off.

Yeah, the announcers were very puzzled why UMD’s leading goal scorer was not on the ice at the end when the goalie was pulled for an extra attacker.

Seemed like they were officiating the score and not the game.

Ann Arbor is a whore.

He's a surgeon, right?

Geoff Paukovich holding on line one...

Hmmm...

I believe it's dripping with sarcasm...

It's with 2:11 remaining in the second...I rewound it to watch it again. Right behind the net.

Bus will be delayed while they look for Frisch's balls after being cup-checked by Biondi.

Better stop off at the Pepper and pick up some more Grindaz...