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Work hard, get rewarded....Let's bury these guys

Parks!!!!!

They appeared to play energetically that period & were all standing on the bench when not on the ice....

Plus, SCSU played about 3.5 periods yesterday & aren't as deep as UND...

Good physical play by UND....

Panzarella!!!

Well, if anyone searches for #creamed they'll land on siouxsports.com.

"Saucy Rossy"? Thanks, John, you add another dimension to this game.

I wonder what Coleman's thinking right now. Maybe that playing dirty has its consequences & it's not the right way to play hockey?

Wow, Miami with an empty net with over 11 minutes remaining.

I thought I had eaten some tainted tofu & was hallucinating, but you're right, the difference in speed during both games was night & day. I don't think that speed differential was due to nerves...

From what I've seen the past couple of days, UND is going to have to earn their 8th championship. That means no 10-minute lapses in the second period, no passengers, a lot of blocked shots, playing smart blah blah blah & wanting it more than their opponents. That championship trophy won't be placed at their feet, both the players and the coaches will have to want it more than their opponents.

Better a 2-goal lead than 2-goal deficit.

Blais taking Omaha to Nattyville..Would be surreal for UND to face them in the final.

At least Duluth is leaving everything on the ice.

Looks like Miami misses Coleman & Barber big time; bad time to go without a couple of 20-goal scorers. But hey, they won the conference playoff championship this year so they have at least that banner.

If you're going to make an early exit, wouldn't hurt to at least make a whimper. Tech impressed me as being much more talented than Mankato...

Great, a double dose of Buccigross and Melrose. If I have a shot of whiskey every time he says "twisted wrister!", I'll have alcohol poisoning before the 1st intermission.

Mankato about to flame out like one of Elton John's Candles in the Wind...sad way to go against a glorified D3 team...

Perhaps, but we don't know what they're thinking. What we do know by their actions is that they aren't dominating like a #1 overall should against a team that's ranked last in the tournament. IOW, wouldn't mind ND playing them should we get that far.

I'm not quite grasping Mankato's overall #1 ranking. It's like watching the consolation game of the SD h.s. hockey tournament.

And we're starting to witness a blowout of BC.

I think the other leagues are starting to realize on day 2 of the tourney about just how talented & competitive the NCHC is. Prospective recruits are taking note, as well. The reason I think that the NCHC will almost always have a more talented up-down conference than the B1G is that most of the B1G schools have other sports that they place much more importance on than hockey; namely football & basketball with hockey being somewhat of an afterthought at most of those schools.

I thought the same thing when comparing it to the BC-Denver game.

Denver's playing with as much urgency & pace as any team I've seen this year.