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Your last chance to get enough alcohol in you to dull the pain of another defeat in Grand Forks.

Watched a whole bunch of different sports on the computer yesterday. ESPN3 was great. Foxsports was great. Pluto is consistently bad, and last night was unwatchable.

I like the question, but would suggest rephrasing it. I'll hang up and listen to your comments.

Thanks for posting! Nice to know what George Gwozdecky is really up to.

Yup!

After multiple late soft goals, I can feel a victory within reach. Plus, its Wisconsin, a place with so many late Badger heroics.

Wow what a great sequence of play from the 2:30 mark until 1:00. 90 seconds where the puck is 160 feet from Thome. Well done Simonson especially. Yeah, I got a little misty eyed.

If we can hang on and play well these last five minutes, it will be a sign of strong progress. Still 3-2 4:30 to go.

NHL.com has an excellent post game interview with him, where he talks about playing with a heavy heart. https://www.nhl.com/avalanche/video/grimaldi-postgame-oct-28/t-277437098/c-54009503

I See the game as available via BTN2Go. https://www.btn2go.com/schedule?day=2017-11-03 Depending on your cable package, it may be part of what you've already bought. (I'm Comcast Xfinity and Big Easy hockey has been available already.)

I vote for an NHL size rink too. But if they go down to 3500 seats, they will need a lot more subsidies (alumni $ or student $) to afford the NCHC membership!

Just a few seconds of a feed from the low camera makes me REALLY APPRECIATE the nosebleed section camera.

The hit that was called for a CC penalty was very close to being contact to the head. Hard to tell on low def, wide angle cameras under dark lighting. Of course "it looked clean" to the CC announcer.

BC is especially vulnerable ... if they have to travel more than 50 miles.

I agree. To name just one bit of disgusting unsportsmanship by the Rodents, the embellishment when there's lower body contact and their guy responds by holding his face while he lies on the ice ... is simply insulting to all of hockey. That should be embellishment, every time.

One way to define a rivalry game is "which one you want the most". Here in 2017, the ones I want the most are actually vs Denver. ---------------------------------------- From a Pairwise standpoint, more like how a coach might view it, the 4 games vs Wisconsin and Minnesota will go a very long way to determine NCAA/Pairwise rankings. Arguably the most important 4 games of the regular season.

Las Vegas season opener tonight. They are introducing Real Heroes (firefighters, paramedics, police who served on 1 October) alongside the players. Well done, Vegas. Well done.

Anything less is ... um ... something. Underexceptable. No. Nonexceptional. Dang, no. Intersectional. Argh. UNACCEPTABLE!

For the first time in ... oh, FOREVER, I find myself admiring the UAA coach and thinking "he's got it together".

Both Gersich and me.

I like our strategy here .... give them the insurmountable lead QUICKLY, so we have more time for the inconceivable comeback.

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ESPN3 has the UND - Ole Miss match ... now 14-14 in the 5th.

If it were me ... I would go for the better hockey series. Sightseeing is hard to recommend because so much is personal preference. What do you love to do? From Denver, I might just drive up into the mountains on Saturday morning and have breakfast in Breckenridge or Frisco. In Colorado Springs, Garden of the Gods is a great place to spend a couple hours walking in an other worldly setting; the Olympic Training Center is something different and interesting, the Pikes Peak Railway is also something you just don't get to see in the flatlands. If your schedule allows it, add a day or two.

Seems like there should be some way to have the NCHC at the X and the Summit League tournament at Target Center.