farce poobah

Not perfect. But good.

Poehling takes a stupid penalty. Pressure does that to your opppnent.

UND with great pressure so far. 200 foot effort.

Jones! 1-0

In the biggest conference game of the season at The John, Minnesota has a dreaded two goal lead vs Wisconsin. The 4,000 in attendance are in a frenzied state of excitement. Well .... NOT. Game on FSN Plus

Western Michigan with the dreaded two goal lead. vs Denver. CC with the even worse three goal lead vs Miami.

Combination of expect the unexpected, and a team that has played up to its opponents. I'm assuming also that Nick Jones plays healthy, as he's been key to us having the puck a lot. We need to not take needless penalties, and we need to get good goaltending. I don't see us scoring more than 2, but I can see us limiting their chances. And yeah, I'm wearing green colored glasses.

Nice stat from Brad's preview today: St Cloud is 14-0-0 on Olympic Ice. On smaller rinks? Only 3-3-2. We got this. UND 2-1 and 2-1.

Watching the Wild game during Hockey Day in Minnesota, a celebration of hockey in Minnesota, and up comes the graphic of Career NHL Goals By Minnesota Born Player: 1. Zach Parise 2. Dave Christian ... so yeah, the two best went to UND.

Kudos to Mismash on that 3rd goal. Got the loose puck on the draw back to the D and then set a good screen in front of Weninger.

"There's a fine line between wrong and visionary. Unfortunately, you have to be visionary to see it." - Sheldon Cooper

Extra punishment in Bemidji. Overtime at -17F temperatures. "Who wants it more" has never been more true. Edit: not sure they didn't move it inside...

Cole Smith showing some jets on the breakaway. Reminds me of Chris Porter at times - great on his skates, reads plays well, doesn't score a lot. I hope he gets a shot in pro hockey, maybe able to build the scoring tools.

If we want to get home ice for the first round of NCHC playoffs, a sweep at WMU may be what we need. They are on a roll. (But the top three are even farther away.)

Watching St Cloud at UMD, and listening to the UMD announcers on the broadcast. I thought they were ridiculous homers when UND played there, but now listening again in a game I have no rooting interest, I'm even more convinced. SCSU op 3-2 early 3rd period.

"always"

Brad Schlossman's article on that team today was also really good. Those guys were real warriors.

I would be okay with a fight in the handshake line.

Upset watch on NBCSN Golden Gophers 4 Golden Domers 1, 2 minutes left.

Upset watch out east: BC 3, Providence 2. 7 minutes left.

Yes indeed. But to be fair, there were a couple really soft calls against his team too. Let's hope she doesn't ask Berry if any of UND's junior class will ever score...

Michigan State with a comeback win vs Ohio State. Four goals in the final 6:05 of regulation, then a GWG in 2nd OT. One upset in the Big Ten tonight, and another in the making where Gophers lead Penn State 1-0 after 1. Game on ESPNU.

I'd predict its Dallas vs Washington. (Cowboys-Redskins history plus Ovechkin ...)

Saw his name in a Yale article and had to check to see its the same guy ... now an assistant coach there. Who'da thunk it?

I'm enjoying a few minutes of the Great Lakes Invitational championship game featuring the two WCHA schools: Michigan Tech vs Lake Superior St. As has happened in a lot of tournaments lately, the Big Ten schools played for the consolation.