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My dream scenario would have the Sioux beating MN and then Denver to win #8. However, right now MN scares me. Well, they always scare me. Looks like Briggs found his groove, and MN can always score. We'll see if they get by Cornell tomorrow but I bet they do. Personally, I'm glad the boys will have some time to heal. Maybe Prp can be back at full strength, and all the bruises the boys suffered from blocking shots will be healed up, in addition to Greene's elbow, etc.

Wow. What a performance. Farce Poobah, it is INCUMBENT upon you to caution the team NOT to take any penalties in the Frozen Four. Me too! I feel great for Canady. I thought Greene's first penalty was weak. But thought pretty much every call on the Sioux was deserved. After a while, things started to even up. The charging the goalie call on BU was bogus. Andy was lucky he didn't knock Parise out of the game. The ref caught the BU player hanging onto Marvin's? stick and gave him the holding penalty instead of Marvin the tripping penalty. Great call. People might be upset with Thorne and Clement but what I heard tonite were things like: 1. How aggressive the Sioux are 2. How big and tough the Sioux are 3. How good a defense the Sioux play 4. How good a coach the Sioux have 5. And I heard Clement complain about all the calls against the Sioux in the first period. He just wanted them to be let to play hockey. 6. How impressed they were to see the Sioux laying down to block shots with the game in hand. I heard little to complain about. I was very afraid the Sioux were going to run out of gas in the 3rd period. Our top guys were playing special teams all of the first 2 periods. The Horsemen and the Red Peppers barely got on the ice. And I think it started to show part way through the 3rd. Considering it was their 5th game in 10 days it would be no surprise. I was surprised to see Fylling and Marvin did not get much time down the stretch. Seemed Prpich was rotated onto the Horsemen's line. Was also surprised to see Radke play some early in the game. Why was that? Not that I'm complaining. Seemed like he got a shift and that was about it. Geez, I've never been so impressed with our defensemen as I have been this weekend. "

Eaves was pretty quiet. Wonder if he was still hurting. Personally, I'm not too hip on meeting MN in the semis. They scare me at all times. Will the Frozen Four be on the frozen ocean? Or NHL ice?

Let's just say that if this was the draft, I'd be here all 4 years!!!! BTW, NOT a great showing by the guys who run hockey websites...

I think the rule is if you play in a MJ game you lose 1 season of eligibility plus 1 game for every MJ game you played. If I remember Genoway sat 1 year plus 3 games?

We miss you, Brady. Get well quickly (or at least in 6 months!).

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Great game. I had to watch it on tape. Didn't know the outcome beforehand. Boston U did a great job of hassling the Sioux players trying to bring up the puck. Sioux just fantastic cycling, and taking advantage of their opportunities. Maybe all but one. How did Porter NOT get that shot off faster?? Such a great game by many players on the team. Hard to single anyone out. Was fun to hear the game called by Thorne and Clement. Hopefully the Sioux will have a chance to have them call more than one more game....

Yes, I remember it!

Wondering if everybody saw my key to the game?

I think that was his point. I think he was saying that Paukovich, in this regard, may not be different than many other hockey players who would do the same thing, but we don't find out about it publicly. I didn't see any excuse-making for Paukovich in that post. Only a "those who throw stones...."

If WPoS was pointing at the Ferris game he picked a poor example. No way was that for sure. I think Ferris was probably the favorite. However, I took him to mean the Niagra game. Yes, that one surprised most people.

Thanks. I deleted my post then. This new info would seem to warrant his placement on the team.

Right, wrong or in between, it will still be sweet when our boys knock off Denver in the title game.

It started for me with the Friday night game in St. Cloud. The Horsemen seemed to be on a mission. Canady always plays hard, but you could sense something when that line was on the ice. Massen was smacking people and the whole line was effective. I've got to say, at the Final Five, any time that line came on the ice we knew the Sioux were in good shape for that shift. Amazing confidence swing. What could this line have done playing the whole season like this!!

Oh all right........ Hey, that was pretty good! Great article, PCM! How can you NOT root for these guys?

Looks like both teams put up the same number of shots and give up about the same. The Sioux have a slight advantage in PP efficiency and in PK. Parise has better overall numbers but Curry can have outstanding games (3 shutouts in 11 games) so is capable of blanking teams. Looking at the how many guys on each team are scoring threats, and looking at scoring efficiency, I'd say the Sioux have the advantage offensively. KEY TO TONITE'S GAME What Farce Poobah said: Stay out of the box.

Last 11 games: Who's Hot? FIGHTING SIOUX: Spirko = 6-5-11 Fuher = 4-6-10 Genoway = 6-3-9 McMahon = 3-6-9 Zajac = 3-6-9 Fabian = 3-4-7 Murray = 2-5-7* *Not playing this weekend The big goal scorers are Spirko and Genoway with 6 over the last 11 games. Fuher with 4, and Fabian, Zajac and McMahon with 3. No one else has more than 2. The set-up guys are McMahon, Bina, Murray, Spirko, Fuher, Zajac, Fabian, Massen, Stafford with 4 or more assists. Sioux will be without Murray and Bina this weekend, and very possibly Prpich. If Prpich is out, the Sioux will be missing 4-10-14 points from the last 11 games. TERRIERS: McConnell = 4-3-7 Bourque = 4-3-7 Van Der Gulik = 4-3-7 Ewing = 2-4-6 MacArther = 2-4-6 Miller = 1-4-5 Not aware who will be out of the Terrier lineup this weekend. The big goal scorers are McConnell, Bourque, and Van der Gulik. No one else has more than 2 goals in the last 11 games. The set-up guys are Miller, MacArther, and Ewing each with 4 assists. Sioux have 12 players with 2 or more goals over the last 11 games. Terriers have 6 players with 2 or more goals over the last 11 games.

Last 11 games: Shots For: Fighting Sioux = 326 = 29.6 avg Terriers = 314 = 28.5 avg Goals For: Fighting Sioux = 39 = 3.55 Terriers = 25 = 2.27 Scoring Efficiency: Fighting Sioux = 39/326 = score on 12% of shots Terriers = 25/314 = score on 8% of shots Shots Against: Fighting Sioux = 292 = 26.5 avg Terriers = 293 = 26.6 avg Goals Against: Fighting Sioux = 22 = 2 avg Terriers = 23 = 2.09 avg Scoring DEficiency: Fighting Sioux = 22/292 = opponents score on 7.5% of shots Terriers = 23/293 = opponents score on 7.8% of shots

Last 11 games: Overall Records: Fighting Sioux 7-2-2 (AA, WI, SCSU, UMD, Denver, MN) Terriers 6-3-2 (NE, UMass, UNH, Providence) Goalie Records: Parise = 7-0-2 25.5 shots/game, .935%, 1.67GA, 1 shutout Curry = 6-3-2 26.6 shots/game, .925%, 2.09GA, 3 shutouts Power Play: Fighting Sioux = 11-54 = 20.4% Terriers = 8-49 = 16.3% Penalty Kill: Fighting Sioux = 49-54 = 90.7% Terriers = 40-47 = 85.1%

Great quote by Andy Schneider. He's always good for something... PCM, thanks for the post. You're speaking for me too. That's exactly how I've felt about the year, and the end of the year to this point. The coaches, staff, and players have really battled through difficulties and have put something special together. I have a feeling it won't end tonite, though it could. I felt as good about the Final Five this year as if the boys had won the championship game. I'm proud of the team, and I'm proud to be a fan of THE FIGHTING SIOUX!

If PCM isn't proud enough to shill his own article I'm not going to read it.

What a terribly written story. Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't Hirsch reported to be at yesterday's (Wed's) practice? And this story was posted yesterday? It appears to be using USHR's story as it's source. I'm wondering if this USCHO story has everything straight...My understanding was that the USHR story said he was hospitalized this weekend or early this week. Then it appeared that he was at practice yesterday, which would mean he's OUT of the hospital (if he was ever IN it). I'm thinking this USCHO article might be a little behind.

Like I said above, I think BC is probably the favored team. They have had a better year, though the Sioux have been coming on. BC appears that they will get their most important players back (Gionta, Eaves) whereas the Sioux will still be without Murray, and maybe Prpich. So yes, I think BC is the favorite. The Sioux have really played well down the stretch and right now, in a one-and-done game I believe they CAN beat anyone, because they have solid D and goaltending. Speaking of goaltending. JP Parise is a sieve. However, Jordan Parise is currently the #1 guy. If he can continue the solid play of the last many games, the Sioux have a chance in every game, even with a hamstrung offense.