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I only saw it once, in person. It was a blur. Lot of great stories from that weekend. One of the great things about the trip to Detroit was spending a couple games at The Olympia; I was sure Gordie Howe and the Production Line were gonna come out and smash us around the concourse. Of course, the atmosphere wasn't the same as for a Red Wings game - 6k vs. 16K+.

I don't want to put a damper on a good idea for a thread. I do want to remind everyone to abide by NCAA recruiting rules: http://fightingsioux.xosn.com/ViewArticle....p;ATCLID=736194

We should have a Bus Trip thread. I just hope they got a good breakfast. Its the most important meal of the day.

Hey, I agree. If someone said we could end the season today and get Miami in the first round and (probably) UNH in the second, I'd take it in a heartbeat.

Then we sweep the Huskies on Saturday and Sunday. OK, to follow the original question, I've not heard of a weather postponement for a WCHA game. It must be in the rulebook somewhere. Can anyone remember one?

Campion will just keep racking us up for 2-minute delay of game minors until we get there.

In the interest of piling on the Hobey Baker stats, in the last 10 WCHA games, Duncan has 13 goals on 28 shots. That's a 46.4% scoring percentage. On other words, goalies have been saving just 54% of Duncan's shots. (Vs. say 91% for the league as a whole.) (PS: I checked my figures about 6 times since I was sure its a typo. I think I got it right, but if someone finds I'm wrong, please correct me.)

But ... they are presenting the DQ Cup after the first period Friday. (And presumably a banner-raising ceremony shortly thereafter! J/K SCSU fans.) With any luck, the Huskies will be distracted by blizzards inside and outside.

Well we got a little help tonight. NE 4, BU 2, final. Still unlikely that we can catch BU, but you never know.

In a game involving a team ranked near us in the standings, NE leads BU 2-1 in the second. Webcast (yes I'm bored):http://ne.cn8.tv/shared/video/cn8NE-winmedia.asx

Sounds like something that a crazy goaltender might have picked up in high school, playing for a team with a Native American nickname.

The game was CC and I think their coach was Jeff Sauer. (He was pretty new then.)

Bingo! Correct. Just the one game in 1984, 1-2 in overtime. It made for a long drive home Saturday night and Sunday (especially considering the title game went on and on and on ... )

It's not OUR fault!

I'll do some of the easy ones: Lundbohm, David and Brian Panzer, Jeff and Jay Hoogsteen, Kevin and David Ulmer, Jason and Jeff Toews, Jonathan and [sorry, wishful thinking]

Sorry, we've never played St Cloud in the Dance.

Which current WCHA school have the Sioux played but never beaten in the NCAA tournament?

Rats. How about a hint - older?

great question - how about Nakonechny, Krmpotich, and Palmiscno. It was because "U keant spell their names!" (Ukrainians...)

You are correct. I was looking thru the tiebreaker with the BADgers, which we'd lose and be seeded 7th for the WCHA playoffs.

[whispering] Don't look now but the Sioux PK is 17 for their last 17. Sign that goaltending is healthy (and hot) and positional play is improving. Moving like a unit very well indeed.

We can still finish 7th, in an extreme scenario: Sioux lose both, UW sweeps, Tech sweeps, CC gets 3/4 points. We need one win to clinch home ice. (Less than that brings the other guys back in the race.)

The other good news for the Sioux is that the games are road games. Plus our winning % is good on big ice this year.

The biggest reason not to is what you said - it works in Premier League because there's relatively consistent personnel from year to year. (And more teams, so the schedules change less.) The alternatives just aren't very palatable. Nobody will voluntarily just leave the WCHA. Forcing BSU out of D1 hockey, and denying their entrance into the WCHA would do just that (and slamming the door on any future teams out west) are not good for the game either. The trick is to bring teams into the WCHA without sacrificing traditional rivalries...

Let's create 2 leagues of 6 teams each. (The current 10 in the WCHA plus Bemidji and UNO.) Put the top 6 in one league and the bottom 6 in the other league. Inter-conference scheduling means everyone will get home games (3x each in the top league and 2x each vs the other league, for a total of 27). Win the bottom league and you get promoted to the top league. Finish last in the top league and you get demoted to the bottom league. Like football in Europe. For UND, MN, it would mean the same # games against "top" rivals (in a 4-year cycle, we'd get 12 against MN either way). By creating a second league, we create a second autobid. This means teams like Mankato, Tech, and UAA get an improved shot at making the Big Dance. Which is why they would sign up for this scheme. Blast away....