Blackheart

Not as good offensively as Michaud....

Pete Bain is a life-saver! I moved to the Twin Cities almost 30 years ago and it was not an easy thing to see Sioux hockey on the local media unless they were in town playing the Gophers. Anyway, this guy (Mr Bain) comes on the SiouxSports site around 2005 and says he can hook you up for all the Sioux home games for the price of a dish and a receiver...something called FTA (Free to air) signal and all you needed was the proper equipment and be pointed at the correct satellite. Long story short, I got the UND home games in the comfort of my own living room for about 10 years until the NCHC came into existence. Anyway, during the time I was getting the games, I met some interesting people while trying to upgrade my satellite system. One gal who delivered a larger dish to me was a former UND student around the same time I was in Grand Forks. She was telling me how her and her friends would throw Gofers onto the ice after goals...I asked her how the heck she got them into the arena since they searched everyone when they came in. She said they would walk over to the Old Ralph on Thursday afternoons and tape dead gophers underneath the seats and then on Friday they would rush in to claim those seats. Now thats dedication!!

Heard something like that as well.

Ok Mafia, I got one for you. Attended the Friday game in Forks against Goldy Gofer in the late 90's and once again our Sioux were trailing by a couple going into the third period. I remember Wooger was coaching for Minny because between the 2nd and 3rd period me and two other guys switched seats so we could sit right behind the Gofer bench. As usual, UND made a big push in the third and tied the game. The old Ralph was rocking so Woog calls his timeout. It is complete bedlam as the Gofers huddle up and the two guys with me, who shall remain nameless (to protect the guilty), start getting on Woog. By the end of the timeout, the entire Gofer bench is looking at us in the stands, including Woog. I'm not sure he got to pass on any pearls of wisdom to his players as they were too busy watching the crazy UND fans harassing them and their coach. "You're not in Red Wing anymore Johnny (Pohl)!" Of course the Sioux scored the next goal to win the game. Good times!

This doesn't qualify as best but it's certainly one I'll never forget. Was in Grand Forks for a weekend in winter of 1982?-ish. Stayed at my Uncle's place and he surprised me with tickets to that night's game. UND vs Bucky, this was going to be my first game ever at the Ralph. Was so pumped up for it; the band and atmosphere was electric. Game started a little rough for the Sioux as Sconny scored early but I kept telling myself that UND would come back and win. Well that didn't happen...finally when the score got to be around 8-0 my Uncle said let's get the hell out of here. The final was 9-0 and UW won the next night as well. I believe that weekend was referred to as the "Grand Forks Massacre" in Sunday's Herald. Quite a start to my career as a Sioux fan.

The Dave Hakstol 'timeout' game? That was nice but I'll take the 2000 Championship over BC as more exciting...best part of that game was that I was in Providence to see them do it.

Are Mankato, Cornell, BC, DU, or UMD gonna have their version of the '20 shirts? They all had just as good a shot at winning the title. Yes, we were #1 in Pairwise but how has that played out in the tournament the past few years? We were #1 in faceoffs last year; I didn't see any Sioux fans walking around in their '19 shirts this season.

Why would you list the other national championship years? Are we claiming that we would have won the title had they played the games? Just seems wrong.

Thanks Farce. This is all that pops into my head after reading your post... "And most recently of all, a "Roman Toga Party" was held from which we have received more than two dozen reports of individual acts of perversion SO profound and disgusting that decorum prohibits listing them here." - Doug Neidermeyer

Hrkac Circus 1986-87...the whole year.

1982 against Sconnie...Cary Eades, a water bottle and North Dakota has done it again!

Recently...a 9-3 curbstomping of those sissies from Minnesota.

Gambling’s not allowed at Bushwood sir...and I never slice!

I’ll take Guch!

This^^^^

I think they would have been a tough out this year. Would have loved a Frozen 4 matchup with them.

Pretty interesting...Maybe we can hang a banner if UND wins the computer simulated tournament. It could say “2020 Computer Simulation Champs” and have it all written in binary code.

No...just no. Banners are for winning on the ice; not for being #1 in some ranking.

This is hockey...no tourney, no title!

Yeah, but it leaves a little wiggle room just in case.

How about the best player on a top team gets it?

This! I mean how many banners would St Clown have if all you needed to win the title was to be #1 in Pairwise or the tourneys top seed?

Funny...Not as bad as going around and touching all your teammates and their stuff on purpose then finding out you actually have the virus. #rudygobert

Shut it down...can’t they take the day off?

Maybe Gabinet was butt-hurt over the cross check in the second game between UND-UNO...pretty sure the Omaha guy was the instigator on that play and Pinto just finished it...Pinto paid the price for the retaliation but apparently Gabinet wants to get the last word.