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OK, call me crazy. Among NHL scorers through 12/1/09, which school has the alumni with the greatest points so far this season: (A) North Dakota State (B) UND Answer: Trick question. It's a tie. NDSU (Bottineau) Dustin Penner and UND Zach Parise with 30 points each. Strange but true. http://www.nhl.com/ice/playerstats.htm#?navid=nav-sts-indiv

It was a masterpiece of misdirection. It happened right in front of me, and I still barely saw it. Trupp crossed behind the net, and he passed it in the same motion as if he were stickhandling. All the Zeroes followed him, and when he passed it back to Malone, the net was wide open and Malone could have pushed it in with a dustpan. Trupp has been on a roll...

Other stats from NHL.com ... former Sioux in the top 30 of various stats: Goals: Parise 13 (11th) Assists: Parise 15 (18th), Zajac 14 (26th) Points: Parise 28 (7th) Shots: Parise 99 (2nd), Blake 74 (23rd) Faceoffs: Toews 60.1% (4th) Johnson 56.4% (10th) * (Toews at almost 80% on the powerplay!) Hits: Greene 79 (4th) Blocked Shots: Greene 54 (12th) Giveaways: nobody (trick question) Takeaways: Blake 25 (4th) Penalties: nobody (obviously goons) Shootouts: Toews 3-3 (4th), Parise 2-4 (18th)

Another reinforcement of how good the WCHA was during the decade - NHL Plus-Minus leaders through 11/25/09 - 5 of the top 9 : (Source: NHL.com) 1. Matt Carle, PHI (Denver) +18 2. Zach Parise, NJD (UND) +17 3. Chris Pronger, PHI +13 3t. Brent Seabrook, CHI +13 5t. Duncan Keith, CHI +12 5t. Travis Zajac, NJD (UND) +12 5t. Jonathon Toews, CHI (UND) +12 9. Alex Goligoski, PIT, (MN) +11 3 of the top 7 are former Sioux. And the top 3 forwards in the NHL are former Sioux. Not too shabby.

He'll be seeing more rubber than a two-bit ...

I kinda like "Beep the Huskies" ...

NCAA-wide, there's a push on to protect visiting teams. One of the reasons that Security has gotten stiff is because the students are behind the visitors bench. Its time for UND to change that, and put the student section behind the Fighting Sioux bench. That should allow some loosening of standards ... ================== Pretty clearly, this is not one thing, but a whole raft of things. Someone has got to start things moving in the right direction ... someone in position of influence at the U.

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We've been ALL OVER them the last few minutes but can't get one behind the Tech goalie. 1:45 left in period 1.

In the recruiting wars, its one more tick-mark in the UND column...

I agree, except for the secretly part ...

Badgers up 3-0 in Mankato, late in the first period. No ole ole ole ole yet.

Game Disqualifications

Marto might be the next Genoway before Gleason becomes the next Genoway.

North Dakotans are honest, humble, respect their neighbors, thoughtful stewards of the land, and live the golden rule. Chapman is none of those. The sooner he's gone, the better. And I hope the SBOHE and the NDSU Foundation get a full accounting and reimbursement for all his unethical activities. That money is needed, NOW, for real students and employees. North Dakotans deserve better.

Pretty good Friday followed by a crappy Saturday: Denver, CC, UAA, St Cloud losing. UND, MSU the only wins.

Merrimack is already 1 goal ahead of last nights pace ...

UNI 21 NDSU 10, halftime at the KleinsasserDome

The NDSU - UNI game is on Fox Sports North in the Twin Cities (Comcast channel 28 in Fridley).

Inspired. Simply inspired.

Saturday: Kristo

That's the exact opposite of how I feel about the makeup of UND's hockey team. We've had some outstanding players come in from all over, and as far as I'm concerned they are all welcome in the House that Ralph Built.

Coyotes beat Pittsburgh, go to 3-0. http://www.nhl.com/ice/recap.htm?id=2009020033 I guess all they needed was a decent coach.

57% New Sioux Jersey, 43% Old Sioux Jersey http://thehockeynews.com/pages/puck_poll.html