mikejm

IMO this is the biggest series of the year for the Sioux and (obviously) sets the table for the endgame. A sweep puts them in the driver's seat for the Cup, first round home ice and all that. Losing two to the Pios might a deal-breaker. Denver is skilled everywhere on the ice, scores well and defends excellently. Big, big test for the home team. I'm all about risk vs. reward; this is a high-risk series, with a huge, huge payoff if the Sioux can get a sweep.

I had hoped that Vandy would be dominant this year; he has all the skills and tools.

Wow. That's quite a roster. Some serious talent.

Oh man, you ARE old... (Of drinking age since 1973)

Once again a more talented and faster team is taken completely off its game by the "slow-down". Hak's teams need to figure out an escape path from clutch-and-grab hocey.

Boy pretty hard to feel good about that.

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um, guys...

I don't know if anyone else heard, or even if this is a proper place to post this tidbit, but on PA's show this morning Kevin Gorg said that after watching last weekend's thrashing of the Gophers, the team that really scares him right now is the Sioux. He was quite effusive in his praise, and made reference to championship form. It actually brought tears to my eyes.

waa waa waa Roman's turning into a real crybaby.

^Awfully. Painfully. Stunningly. Unbelievably.

I have but one word for you: Ben Blood

: brain fart :

Another tidbit from Fargo Sioux Boosters Tuesday: Dane Jackson made reference to a comment about UofM starting to cherry pick the prime recruits from northern Minnesota at the expense of UND. He said he'd specifically heard that Mike Lee, the Roseau goalie who was just named to the USHL All-Star team, and who is headed to play for the Gophers, was a sure sign that UND had lost its allure to northern MN high schoolers. Jackson said that UND looked at Lee, but once they had Brad Eidsness' commitment in hand the coaches "knew we had our Number 1 goaltender". Not meant to be a knock on Mike Lee, merely to point out the confidence Hak et al had in Eidsness before he set foot on campus.

Poor guy just doesn't realize he'll never be an NHL defenseman.

IIRC coaches can't comment at all on a recruit, nor one who has "verballed". Only after a national letter of intent is signed can official comments be made.

When it comes right down to it, and there are lots of people here and elsewhere who will attest to this I don't know nothin'

Yeah. I tried to grab Jackson after the luncheon but he scooted out of there pretty fast.

Jackson was pretty coy about the whole deal. It sounded to me like they didn't mind so much that the fourth one got away.

I kinda like the ring of that. How would that go on a sweatshirt? Maybe too long a word for a cap.

Dane said at Fargo Sioux Boosters that they had four kids in last weekend for visits. Two verballed on the spot, one went home and called back to verbal. He, obviously, didn't say who. He said Cary and Hak asked why the kid who left without committing didn't verbal while in Grand Forks. Jackson said the kid promised his mother he wouldn't commit without talking to her.

Only one tough road series left. Two toughies at home. Time to make some hay.

Guy I grew up with turned out to like the spankings...

Floaters: the bane of mankind...