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Agree entirely with what's said above. One OTHER thing that should be addressed is the "fall down" phenomenon, whereby good checks become penalties if the other guy falls down, where a hook is only a hook if the other guy falls down, where its only interference if the other guy falls down, etc ad nauseum. By calling bogus penalties on good hard body checks, we lose another important aspect of real hockey.

Compared to Friday, we did a much better job clearing out the traffic in front of Phil, only a couple times were there guys camped out whacking at rebounds. Some of that was good coverage in front, but mostly we had better pressure in our defensive zone, and didn't let UAA get set up with traffic in front of Phil. Lamoureaux with a couple great saves while the outcome was in doubt, include two quick in succession right after our 3rd goal. He was sharp, and [knock on wood] looks healthy. The other big deal tonight was the PK. 7 powerplays, 5 shots, no goals. (We do need to take fewer silly penalties ....) Very good signs for the upcoming stretch run, including the feistiness. When we play physically, we play well. (Or maybe when we're playing well, we play physically.) Either way, that edge is what was missing the first 15 games. Good to see it coming out.

I thought Toews played really f^%$ing good. But seriously, that line could just as well have had 6 goals, for all the great chances. Not only is TJ snake-bit to a ridiculous degree, the whole team continues to be snakebited. On UAA's first goal, Genoway is half-step behind his guy, he takes a golf whack at it and it goes in. On their second goal, Porter should just have hauled the guy down - - UAA could have gone 30 minutes on the powerplay tonight and not scored (watch them get 3 on the pp tomorrow). On the third goal, its Lamoureaux save, Lammy save, Lammy save, goal. Lee covers a guy that Chorney was checking, someone's open, and bam four whacks later its in the net. Very frustrating to watch, again. The worst part is we played a da#$ good game. We played with fire, I can remember many nice body checks - from the shortest guy Duncan on his first shift, to big Joe. Kaip-Fabian-Radke were terrific in wearing out UAA's defense. Hit, pokecheck, hit, pokecheck, hit. In one sequence where UAA was on the breakout all three guys hit three different puck carriers within a 5 second span. It was great. Love it. Porter-Watkins were very good on the PK, but Porter and Miller were on the ice for all three UAA goals. (Watkins for two.) Porter with a great check on the showboat goalie (Lawson wears #52, he must have always wanted to be a linebacker) Vandevelde laid out a guy behind the UAA net with a nice hit. Chorney was excellent tonight, including a nice diving pokecheck to stifle a breakaway chance. The radio guys had Lammy as #2 star, with several terrific saves, and I think he deserved it. No bad goals tonight, and some very good saves. ===================================== For tomorrow, look to see some fresh legs in the lineup. I hope Kaip-Radke-Fabian start again, they earned it. I wouldn't mind seeing Miller go onto the line with Toews and Duncan as a way to maybe get things jump started. We need a win tomorrow, or the odds of making the NCAA's just keep getting longer. ... time is running out.

I'm just hoping he stays under control.

Its a baseball thread, since Brad Radke is having another good game for the Sioux tonight. Still 2-1.

Wild going to shootout. [insert Toews reference here]

Will you settle for 1-0?

Thanks for the CC radio links!

Can someone in live earshot give us updates? Please? Especially if we score?

"Sioux playing an outstanding game and trail 1-0." Story of the season so far. It just has to turn sometime. Hope its soon enough for us to get into the NCAAs.

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Final from St Cloud: 4-2 St Cloud State, for their 11th in a row. And in case you think the Sioux are having troubles, UAA has NEVER WON in St Cloud - 0-25-2 all time.

Bochenski SCORES!!!! Oh It was for the Blackhawks. Still 0-1. UAA and St Cloud 2-2 halfway thru 3rd, Rodents 3-1 after two at Mankato.

Didn't take TSN long to get the headline up: "Toews Wins It For Canada" http://www.tsn.ca/ Count me among those who are really happy for him, and very proud that he's chosen to play collegiate hockey at UND.

If Canada goes on to win, the outstanding performance by Jonathan Toews will go down in the books as one of the tournament's great games. Maybe the best ever shootout performance?

Couple nice vids featuring today's Sioux hero, Jonathan Toews. He does a very nice interview; impressive as usual. http://www.tsn.ca/canadian_hockey/ (I'm sure the addresses will change later on) And Pierre McGuire "Toews steps up for Canada" http://www.tsn.ca/canadian_hockey/news_sto...canadian_hockey "One of the reasons that I love Jonathan Toews so much is the fact that he's the ultimate competitor. He can win face-offs - like he did in the first period Wednesday against Team USA in a 5-on-3 situation. He can score goals

Based on national rankings, the Sioux are the underdog. Which probably hasn't been the case against Dartmouth since the '70's.

I got a Flickertails sweatshirt from Myles Brand.

Hey at least USA broke Canada's shutout streak, which was at 3.5 games before today.

Looked intentional to me. (Not smart play by EJ.)

... and Blake had 10 SOG in the game .... http://scores.espn.go.com/nhl/boxscore?gameId=261226012

An update, with some good news. http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=2699737 Get well soon, Phil.

It was clear as a bell on the webcast, but I don't think we can say definitively WHO said it. It may have been fans we heard, b/c I'm pretty sure there were voices from the stands with adjectives for the ref too ....

Let's see, what else to cheer up a Dogs fan. I remember Mark Pavelich beating UND in 1979 with a behind the back pass on a 2 on 1 (we were all like "did he just do what I thought he did?")... and Curt Giles scoring with 3 seconds left at the DECC in 1978. And there's that overtime win over UND at the 1984 Frozen Four semifinal. I have to go eat and drink, explode my stomach, and watch a cRummy movie. It seems to be the trend, and misery loves company.

Yeah, agree. He also gave some rationale for pulling Grieco, which was to boost the team which he noted had sagged after giving up goals, without using a TO.