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Thank you for affirming that I AM an internet expert.

I hope you understand that was all in fun.

I'm still hopeful that Denver's poor power rankings are indicative of a team that's still vulnerable, despite the sweep at Bucky. I will be surprised if Goldy get's swept this weekend, and think Bucky and Goldy will be 1-2 in the end, with UND, CC and Denver fighting for 3-5. MN sweeping CC was a sure benefit for our boys, IMO. Hopefully the team is focused on what Hak said last night and worrying only about 4 points this weekend and leaving the "what-if" to us internet experts.

I think this guy's got some good suggestions about songs to play and the timing of them, etc. I don't agree with the idea that if you sell beer = drunk and disorderly students. This guy's tone is confrontational, not helpful. I read here about a student who had a sign saying something like "Mr. Buning, I'm drunk but not disorderly" and reportedly Buning came over and shook the kid's hand. Looks like there's room here for common ground if people don't get their panties in a bunch right away.

Welcome, Danny.

You can wait until morning? My dog just piddled on the carpet. Time to get her outside and to bed. Thanks PCM!!!!

I think the safer route with Drew has been to assume he would be gone after this year. Would be great to have him back another year, but it's probably not worth hoping for.

Keep 'em comin'

Let me set up the scene. Jones gathers the puck in the left corner behind the Sioux goal. He throws it up the left wall where Spirko tips it out to Zajac who is building speed from the face off dot. Zajac and Oshie explode out of the zone. Peltier is skating backwards and has plenty of room to stay in front of Zajac. Irmen is racing to stick with Oshie, and doing a pretty good job of it. Oshie is breaking down on Frazee's left, and Zajac on the right. Peltier kind of stays in the middle, not taking Zajac straight on. Maybe he thought Oshie would beat Irmen, and he appears to be protecting the pass, rather than taking the puck carrier. They cross the offensive zone blue line and Zajac lets go a ripper from just outside the dots. At this point Oshie and Irmen are both converging on the goal, Irmen between Oshie and Zajac. Irmen turns his back toward Oshie as Zajac shoots, and Oshie converges with Irmen. It was legal, as it was just body bumping and both players were positioning for a rebound. However, Oshie's momentum knocked Irmen forward and as you remember he went sprawling into Frazee and straight into the net. The snapshot pretty much tells the story from here. Special thanks to my friend jv for snapping this image out of his DVD recording of the game and to Sprig for making it possible to post it here. As for me, this is my desktop at work.

I suppose the Sioux wouldn't have gotten the Fabian shorty if there hadn't been a penalty. But I'd sure like to see how this game would have gone had the Sioux scored the goal to cut the deficit to 1. Like you said, they were being outplayed, but would that have provided a boost? Cutting the deficit, then having MN explode right back with 2 really had to take the wind out of the Sioux.

Yes, but don't stop him from looking things up on his own.

Thank you. I thought I checked him.

Yikes. This kid could be good. He's only 16, but 7th on SA's roster in scoring. Ben Winnett [Rookie] '89 F 46games 14-20-34 6' 170# Right shooting forward. Near as I could tell he's the leading '89 in the BCHL with 34 points. The next closest has 29.

Duh! Ducks, not gophers.....

But I don't know if they played on the same line as much early on, did they?

I don't agree. I think this team has been there for each other all year. I think this boiled over into a bigger issue because of how Mankato plays, and because the Mankato players on the ice wanted to play it up a little. The Sioux stepped up to the challenge quite well, IMO.

Best thing on OLN is Tred Barta. Love that guy!

fixed your post. Here's your example. Apparently any reference to American Indians or their artifacts, or any depiction of same is negative. Well, that's a nice shot at the American Indians you're trying to "help".

Maybe Siouxtatoo42 = Scott Zelkin

Siouxtatoo42 seems to know.

You know, I've always thought there's got to be some kids out there who, if they believe in the coach, really gravitate to "you have a chance to be a key part of putting this program on the map". And for them that might be more meaningful than going to the big-time, yearly championship contenders. I have no idea what went in to his decision, but there could be lots of reasons.

And if the US institutes a military draft those replacement players can go in for them too? I don't think so....

I can say I wish I had a tape of this game to review. I don't know what Finley did either, but I think someone posted here in the last couple of days that he took a couple of punches at someone. I didn't see it on camera myself. I only used the word "proper" in the assumption that that would be the mechanism for Shepard to make a change. As for Rankin, I must be wrong but I was thinking he wasn't given a DQ at all. That led me to be more confused because I thought Sparky was fighting with Rankin and didn't understand why Sparky got a DQ and Rankin didn't. I figured he must have fought with someone else. Now it makes more sense. Yeah, I could see him DQ'ing Oshie too, though I don't think punches were thrown in that case, it was certainly a more robust wrestling match and probably would have escalated had they not been seperated.

Good luck to Ryan, one of my favorite Sioux players.

Yes, I doubt there was anything more than either Zelkin admitting he got the # wrong or Shepard changing it to the proper player. It's one thing to overrule a violation given by the ref on the ice. It's another to make sure that a game suspension is assigned to the proper player.