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I wish we were playing Minnesota in October this year.

BC lost on purpose so they could play Minnesota tomorrow.

My broadcast (of hockey anyway) has been good. No interrupts.

Only days after winning gold in Lake Placid. In between, my buddies and I ran into him at the Red Pepper. It was a Natural Hat Trick.

I'll check my archives. If I still have it, it would be VHS.

The Oshie can score without even shooting.

I wouldn't apologize to anyone for continuing to play the game with 1:08 left. Put another way, if the Sioux just take a knee on 4th down, the game is not over. WWU might very well have scored, gotten the onside, and scored again. Its only "running up the score" when the game is out of reach, and when the opponent is not competitive. This was no hapless opponent we were playing. WWU is a pretty good team that hung up 42 points on us.

Hmmm.... who to root for, who to root for... If you can get the Public Address announcer to refer to them as North Dakota Agricultural College, I would make it worth his while ...

A gopher fan.... I can smell them around here ...

Chris Porter seeing some ice time with St Louis tonight ... 12 shifts, couple hits, didn't figure in the scoring.

The first Mariucci sellout? Not Wisconsin, but North Dakota.

THAT whole place is hostile and abusive.

Ryan Duncan CAN find The Spot, even in a pool.

I was born in Northwood, and have a lot of relatives and friends living there. Thankfully, for an EF3 or EF4 tornado, loss of life and injuries seem to be about as good as can be feared for a storm of that magnitude. Saw some pix of a family house and the really annoying thing is that mud blew into everything. Water dries up, trees can be chainsawed but mud has to be scraped off ... long process. Once they open up the town, and for a while now, there will be need for cleanup help. Maybe Wednesday?

David Toews joins the Fighting Sioux in 2008 http://www.grandforksherald.com/articles/i...;section=Sports

I'll bet money they do a throwback for the 2008-2009 season, which is the 50th anniversary of the first National Championship for UND hockey. Might make a little less likely for this season...

When Dave Hakstol goes to a little league game, NOBODY, and I mean NOBODY, yells at the umpires.

General Zod kneels before Joe Finley.

More CCHA draftees (26) than WCHA (25). More top-end talent moving their way (esp Notre Dame)? or is it the CCHA style of play (more grind it than WCHA) ...? or just that they have 12 teams vs 10?

All the NHL GM's are a lot stupider than they were last year, the year before, and the year before the year before.

Wanna see how fast Oshie can skate around the rink? [0.1 second pause] Wanna see it again?

So, Ottawa will be looking to add goons to their team. That's good news for next year's Sioux ...

If you go to the BC-NE weekend, I would highly recommend renting a car and cruising up north (VT, NH, ME) for a fall leaf tour. It is stunningly beautiful up there that time of year.