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Wild game. Exlak stood on his head, our guys couldn't get the puck in and cycled all night. Techies played the game like a National Championship and we didn't. The Sioux turned it on in the end of the game, but the Techies still had enough gas in the tank and skated up and down the ice with them and had a goalie that was playing like 2 men in the net. Our guys just didn't seem to gel all night. If I saw it once, I saw it 10 times - 2 of our guys bumping into one another while they were bringing the puck up ice or in the corners or behind the net. Just not something we're used to seeing from a veteran Sioux team. Rather have the #1 ranking/undefeated monkey off our back. Doesn't mean anything this time of the year anyway and it takes the pressure off the guys and Lammy. Come back tomorrow night and start playing like they played in the last 5 minutes and it will be a much better game.

Final face off, Radke took a stick to everyone but the waterboy. Looked a little too cheap for our guys. I really hate when he does crap like that.

That does it, empty net goal. s&!t!!

PUCK LAYING ON THE LINE!! Sioux CANNOT get it past this guy. Exlax playing like TWO men in net!! Sioux are going to need a penalty AND an empty net to get one past this guy. Wild end to end hockey, never seen this in a game against Tech in 20 years of watching Sioux hockey.

Sioux look like they are on a power play, all over the tech engineering students.

exlax standin on his head, several shots in front and Sioux come away with nothing.

O.K. we're even. Oshie just HAMMERED a tech engineering student and NO CALL. Put the marble in the other pocket.

Miller completely raped!! NO CALL!!!

Lammy screened about 17 different ways, never saw the puck. Tech beat the hell out of us to keep in our zone. Bad time for the mid period let down. Let's go Sioux! Pop 'em right back!!

Ha! Great minds think alike!! I'll buy ya a beer!!

Watkins on a mini break away and shoots it into the teslack's chest. DAM IT!!

Sioux are out with a head of steam! They're pop 2 quick ones in right now!

Why does the camera guy keep showing the scoreboard when it's already in the upper left corner? take the stupid clock out.

I'm watching in Minneapolis on Fox Sports North. If you try the cstv website they may be broadcasting it free on their site. CC just scored on the PP to tie it up! Caught the goofs napping on a line change and came in 2 on none. Game is really picking up now, end to end action.

I've had problems with it jumping in and out. At 6 - 2 I gave up and went to the goofs CC game. The Luciapet has been pissing and moaning all night. Pretty worried about getting swept in Colorado.

1 - 0 Goofs over CC. Pretty sweet skating away backhand flip by Wheeler off a rebound.

Anyone else notice that the phrase, "we were fortunate that..." came up a lot in the post game interviews from Hak, TH and Lammy? Although it wasn't the quite the game we would like to see, it ended the right way. And I think that's a good sign. Last year at this time we probably would have dumped this game or maybe ended up with a tie. A good sign of a maturing hockey team, even when you play like $hit, you have the depth and character to come out with a win. The really great part of this game is the off lines scoring goals EARLY in the season. It was great to have Vandevelde turn it on at the end of last year, but it's really great to see Trupp, Watkins, Miller, etc. getting on the board early in the season. And althought Frattin didn't score, that kid's got skills, he played a really solid 2 way game. Get a case of Pepto and some adult diapers and get the guys back to G.F. Great character win. Lammy a man amoungst boys out there!

Anyone heard for sure if the Saturday night game will be on the CSTV webcast? I didn't see it on their TV schedule. And if I remember right, last year the Comcast Cable website out of Boston was broadcasting the games for free. Anybody found anything with them? Thanks for the help!!

Senser's is always really great about putting them up if you give them the sattelite dish configuration. I ordered the CSTV package last year, well worth the $3.50, so I will watch the Friday night game at home. I'd call the Senser's folks and check with them. Along with the usual locations there is now a new Senser's in the west suburbs in Plymouth. Give them a call at: 763-559-1990. It's located off of Highway 55 and 24, west of interstate 494, south side of the road. The seating configuration isn't as good as the others, but it's about a 8 minute drive from my house so I'm willing to make the sacrifice. Let us know what you come up with.

I'm not sure if this has been talked about yet this year, but if it has I missed it and have not read reference to what I will call for now, our "Band of Brothers". The group of Juniors that made a pact with one another to come back home for 1 more season because they have unfinished business - a National Championship. Last years D.O.T. line name was pure genious, hell, even the booger and mozako called them the D.O.T. line during the broadcasts of the games. I think it would be great for the members of this board to come up with a name that is fitting of the committment that these young men made to our school, to each other and to the legacy of Fighting Sioux Hockey. A D.O.T. type of name might not work because you don't want to leave anyone out and you would never want to minimize any contribution by a player large or small. That said, we all know it's basically Oshie, Duncan, Chorney and Finley that made the pact. So what do you think loyal supports and key plunkers of the greatest sports website in internet history? What name will the siouxsports.com faithful come up with that will make national news and media coverage?? From our basements and office cubicles to the sports world. I'll start off with the topic title "College Hockey's Band of Brothers" or "The Fighting Sioux Band of Brothers". Both are a little wordy and some might see it as a slight to those war vets, but after watching and reading about these young men, I think the comparison is fair and they are of the same quality and fibre of men.

I completely agree with AZSIOUX, he is a major loss to that line and to the goofs. Even though hirsch had his problems off ice, you can look at the stat sheets and see Okposo's goals completely fall of the face of the earth once hirsch wasn't there to feed him those amazing passes. Okposo was still a great WCHA player last year, no doubt about it, but his WCHA MVP chances went out the door with hirsch (not that he really had a chance against Duncs, but one has to make the point). One guy can make a difference, especially on a young team like the goofs. We'll never really know with stoa because this injury was so early in the season. And, yes, the goofs have the depth to put a guy up there to score some goals and feed the other 2 guys, but it just won't be the same. Watching WCHA hockey (or college hockey in general) evolve over the last 10 or 15 years one thing keeps coming to mind for me is that experience is the common bond on championship teams. With kids coming in from all over and leaving after a year or two for the big show, the more time they spend playing together and under the rules of the league, the better the chances your team has to win a National Championship. And if you have a group like our guys (we need a name for the group of juniors that came back this year) who commit to their team, their school and each other - well, you are bound to make history. Like winning an 8th National Championship, ANOTHER Hobey Baker winner and a half dozen All Americans from your team. All in all, just another year in books if you play hockey for the Fighting Sioux from North Dakota.

Looks like the Goofer Nation will need to do some re-shuffling on their top line before they even play a WCHA game. Stoa went down with a season ending knee injury on Saturday night. Hate to see a kid on any team with that kind of major set back. I went to the Friday night game against RPI (the ticket was free and it was college hockey) he looked good on that top line. He had developed a Blake Wheeler style of play in front of the net, worked well with Okposo. Hope he makes a solid recovery. The link: http://www.startribune.com/gophers/story/1486461.html

And, I'm assuming you will be able to watch it on the naked lady machine (your computer hooked up to the internet) with the "new and IMPROVED" webcast. I'll believe that when I see it, or should I say, IF I see it. How many times in the past did a guy (or gal) get all excited for the big game, grab a barley pop (or 8) sit down at the computer, log on and....there's no f'in picture!! I really, REALLY hope they have all of the bugs worked out this season. It was ok as a freebie last year, it better be worth the $$$ this season. Sorry for the rant.