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The ironic part is that Duluth needs us to beat Omaha to give them a better chance at home ice for the playoffs, and a game without our best defenseman hurts a little in that regard.

Like I said before, nothing out of the ordinary for a 5 minute major, but since it happened at the end they feel they need to give him something. If that is the case, then why does Neil Pionk get off with nothing for his 10 minute misconduct for verbal abuse of an official. How about some consistency.

Yeah, I don't disagree that it should be 5, but most majors don't result in suspensions. If the thinking is he didn't have to serve any time on an end of game foul, then neither did Pionk with his 10 minute unsportsmanlike after the game on Friday.

I think since BC has a winning record against Denver this year and we have split, it probably helped BC more.

Add to that the fact that 3 guys hadn't had game conditioning for about a month, and then have to deal with a second night in high altitude after a fast paced game on Friday. They are excuses, but sometimes facts like those are a little harder to overcome against a really good team like Denver.

Tim Hennessey said that Chyzk said when they had him in studio the other day that they didn't think Denver was good. I can see a freshman making that mistake of underestimating a fellow NCHC team, but not a senior. You don't win it all by underestimating anyone. They have actually done a pretty good job this year of not falling into that line of thinking, especially with the number of freshmen they have. Hopefully this sticks with them through the tournament season.

They had really nice tickets the first year of the Ralph as well, but maybe they figured it wasn't worth it for something that gets discarded anyway. What I wish they would do again is have the commemorative beverage cups with old hockey players on them. At least you got something to hold on to for that expensive pop. In fact I was much more apt to buy a pop because of the souvenir cup.

So now the reason that UND has great attendance while Minnesota's is pathetic according to some on GPL is that there is nothing else to do in Grand Forks and our team has been good this year. Seems like our attendance has been constant even when Hakstol's teams almost always hovered around .500 the first half. So now the people in the "State of Hockey" with a huge Metro population to draw from need to make lame excuses to explain their poor attendance. Maybe the reason so many people in small town Minnesota go to hockey games is because they have nothing else to do, so maybe they aren't actually the "State of Hockey" after all, maybe they are just bored. The only problem with their logic is that you look at all of the Sioux fans in the Denver area that go to the UND games in Denver. Can't use the "nothing else to do" logic there. Maybe it is just time to admit that UND seems to have more fans that care about hockey than Minnesota. Sure, part of that has to do with them being sick of the Big Ten predicament, but weren't they the ones that were saying UND needs Minnesota, while Minnesota would be just fine. Guarantee you that next year when we play them it will be the biggest series since we played them last time, and tickets will be hard to find.

So you can honestly say a game which all the media and analysts says was a great game is the worst you have seen. Either you haven't seen many games, or that was meant to troll, which I can't respect.

I get what you are saying, 48 years old and a game in which the Sioux outshot a good Denver team means we truly are spoiled. Another way we know we are blessed as Sioux fans is that we haven't heard from you in a long time, but nice you could stop by after a loss.

Some people can realize that college players aren't going to be perfect. Do you rip your kids as much for poor performance?

This is the Sioux Sports I know. Down by a goal to a good team and the sky is falling.

Yeah, there do seem to be oddities in the Pairwise at times that seem baffling, but most of the time they seem to wash out by tournament time. By the last weekend before the regionals teams pretty much know whether they are in or out, or what they need to do to get in.

I give St. Clair a pass because of his work ethic, and leadership, and I have heard the coaches speak often about Simonson bringing the same intangibles, that is why I believe he will be in the lineup on Friday.

With that criteria, then St. Clair sits. Simonson has 2 assists in the last 3 games, one big one to give us the lead at Western on Saturday. Sanderson has been playing well too, but hasn't put up points since the 1st game vs. CC. Gornall also scored against CC, so you have a lot of guys deserving of playing, but my guess is Simonson plays on Friday. Sanderson could fill Olson's spot, depending on what kind of game they think they need to win on Friday.

Doesn't help that a lot of so-called leaders have created an atmosphere that whenever police are involved there is a "guilty until proven innocent" philosophy.

That's all the sport of college hockey needs is a team that has shown a win at all costs history in other sports. Don't want college hockey to have a mentality "If you're not cheating, you're not trying", which in turn leaves the programs that follow the rules at a disadvantage. Don't want it to be like college football where a guy that verbally commits early is still a big question mark on signing day.

Ethan Johnson of TRF scores 4 goals in the third against EGF to overcome a 2-0 deficit. Will someone lock him up before he plays junior hockey?

WDAZ Xtra is going to have the CC vs. Denver game next Thursday.

Do they still have the games too close together where you don't really have time in between games to have a sit-down meal at a nearby restaurant?

Thus the wink! Same can be said of Sports Illustrated, and does anybody really believe in a curse?

The question is can we buck "the Schlossman curse". We had the article on the poor state of Wisconsin hockey then they beat us, the article on Cam Johnson and he became human the game following it, and now we had an article on UND the Road Warriors ... Figure if we can win on Friday, we are good to go.

Yes, the seed doesn't matter much because you are probably going to get CC or Western either way and some line change benefits if the two end up playing at Target Center. However, I don't think anybody on UND wants to have the Penrose Cup reside anywhere but the Ralph, especially not with a school that was so outspoken against the former nickname.

Yeah, it just didn't use the words regardless of schedule being balanced like it did in 3rd tiebreak. I read it "other teams" not "other teams tied" initially. Like I said before, can't let it come down to a tiebreak, but everyone else is fighting for something like home ice or something too!

http://www.nchchockey.com/page/show/878714-tie-breakers If we lose two more games than St. Cloud from here on out, it looks like it would be goal differential with the rest of the league, since we didn't play St. Cloud here. Assume St. Cloud would have that advantage too, due to how they blew Western out of the water every game. UND can't let it come to that, as who wants to share the cup with the Huskies.