mikejm

Finley has made enormous strides (no pun intended), but he still has a tendency to rely on his reach and sometimes gets burned as evidenced in Final Five and Frozen Four. He is still a kid. I expect him to have a rockstar year. I also hope he lays more than a few people out this season, too.

Judy's?

You make smoking sound so... romantic.

Hey! Anybody else heard? Taylor Chorney's signing with the Oilers! I'm really happy for him.

^ How can you come here and post logic? Aren't you embarrassed with yourself?

This reminds me of one of the funniest things I've ever witnessed. I was to meet a property owner to look at an apartment complex. When I rang the bell, and the door opened, an obviously-inebriated dude was standing there, with a super-sized go-cup in one hand and a burning cigarette in the other. I said, "Hi, I'm mikejm," and stuck out my hand to shake. He looked at my hand, then stuck his cigarette in his mouth and started to reach out with his (recently vacated) left hand. As he realized it was the "wrong" hand I could see the confusion in his eyes. Stopping halfway to the handshake, he switched his go-cup from his right hand to his left, and then, rather than reaching out to shake hands, he grabbed the cigarette out of his mouth again, this time with his right hand. Then he (honest to gawd) stuck the cig back in his mouth, switched the go-cup to the right hand and reached with his left again to shake my hand! He went back and forth a couple of times more. Finally he just nodded at me and said, "Yeah. Good to meet you."

I don't think you have to go all the way to Bismarck to find a dislike for Fargo.

Sounds as though he would've fit right in at The Ralph Well, if he also included over-priced beer, it would be a match made in heaven.

^I love when people make guarantees.

I'm as happy as anyone that these players are coming back, but I'll have to see the contract offers before I believe anyone "turned down the money" in doing so.

I think a lot of the momentum to pass the total ban came from Minnesota's ban awhile ago; bars in Moorhead were already smoke-free, so taking Fargo's to the same standard wasn't that much of a stretch.

As I said, the kid's 15. This situation points out the two things bedeviling college hockey today as it attempts to continue to attract high-end talent: 1. Major Junior will always be a "threat" to college hockey. Canadian kids are hard-wired to go that route, and it is only a select few

Some might say Blais did a time or two. Clarke's antics certainly appear to be manipulative, and perhaps in bad faith. But, as several others have already pointed out, he's a 15-year-old kid. 'Nuff said.

I am really tired of off-season. And it isn't even June yet! (I think that's a double!)

I think I was there once. The coffee sucked.

So what about this CHL vs. college hockey thing?

Hockey anyone?

So, in other words, he's the newest candidate for Official SiouxSports Whipping Boy?

I guess you'll have to put me down in the "Final Five is not meaningful" list also. Don't get me wrong; the F5 is a phenomenal atmosphere. I've told many people that going to the F5 is like a religious pilgrimage; every college hockey fan should be required to do it at least once in their life. And I cheer when the Sioux win the F5. But if they lose, I am not more bummed out than after any other loss. But to compare it to an NCAA championship

Wow. This would've saved a lot of ass-kickings had it been in effect when I was a student.

I think this would be a quite small number.

I prefer to think of them as the U.S.S.R. of college hockey.

^Yeah, that is an interesting take on the situation. One aspect of the deal, though, that I read someplace and haven't found confirmation for, is that the maximum salary the self-proclaimed free agent can garner from a club other than the one which drafted him is considerably less than the $850K or whatever the current draft class gets. So the free agent can go wherever he wants to, just at far less money. The Coyotes can offer Wheeler a maximum signing bonus of $885,000 while the most any other team can offer is $255,000. I think the author means "salary" not bonus. It is an interesting read.

May I keep this quotation as proof that on occasion I get one correct?

^Jeeze Sioux-cia, you're being kind of like Robert Conrad. You know, "go ahead and knock the battery off my shoulder. I dare you."