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No, TJ was not lipping off. Simply tried to say Hey! And I WAS THERE cheering my ass off with all of the US fans, we did get together and scream at the top of our lungs. And the old ralph was not hostile. I was a student at the time and we cheered for our team LOUDLY and PROUDLY. As for the student section, they are a small number of idiots that sometimes you don't even hear what they are saying. I'm talking about an arena full of 16,000 Canadian fans screaming and swearing at not only your team but you as well. I had people screaming in my ear sitting right behind me. It's a tragedy to compare our little student section to this mayhem! "UND can only WISH to have a house full of die-hard fans like the Canadians are! " - SiouxMeNow" This statement is by far the most idiotic statement ever posted. No way on earth would I attend a Sioux game again if our fans behaved like the fans in Vancouver!! Shame on you, I should "sioux you now"!

I wasn't trying to totally come down on Toews, but from great sources, he wouldn't talk to any of the Sioux players. Imagine how it felt to be in that tournament and get booed everytime you touch the puck or someone nearly hits you? I know for a fact that several of the players felt it was bush league for Toews to ignore them all week. Team Canada is for 2 weeks, Fighting sioux hockey is a band of brothers for years. I still like Toews but think that it is immaturity for him to not come up with something better than, "I just didn't want to give him the time of day". All I'm saying. Or maybe I'm having trouble shaking the abuse from Canadians! I'll feel better after we sweep Minnesota!

I went to the WJC tourney these last few weeks and was EXTREMELY disappointed in the audience (I won't say fans because "fans" do not act like this!) While those of you who enjoyed the WJC last year, myself included, there was an obvious presence of Canadian fans cheering for opposing US teams. Intensify that by 100 and that was Vancouver. While it's good to have a rivalry, it was over the top this year. I wore my USA jersey to all games and occaisonally got spit at, swore at and objects of unknown origin were also thrown at me. Chants saying, US Sucks, US a-holes, overrated (we may have deserved that one) and other signs and sayings I can't/won't say over internet. While I was waving the flag after a USA victory, I actually had two canadians come in front and behind me and wave the Canadian flags to drown out mine! NOTE: No canadian team was even playing that night! How ridiculous was this! After all the BS, I still cheered on Toews, as he's obviously a home town kid now. However, I was very disappointed to see Toews buying into the BS with his comments on playing against his teamates, especially Oshie. I'll try and post the article. I'm not sure if this has already been up here, but here it is anyways. http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/sp...da7c7f7cd3d&p=2 The best part of the tourney (for me) was a sign displayed in one of the suites of American (and obviously UND parents) saying: "Univ of North Dakota Fighting Sioux is NOT hostile and abusive!". If the NCAA really wants to see hostile and abusive they should have went to this tournament. Unfortunately these poor hockey parents were continually flipped off and swore at during the games! GO FIGHTING SIOUX AGAINST THOSE PESKY GOPHERS!!!