dagies

Sioux give up a 2 on 1 and Zajac catches up and help neutralize it. Parise makes the save.

I always forget the name of the guy on the 'cast with Tim but he's saying Parise looks sharp tonite. Schneider taking exception to another Beaver who's a little too aggressive with Parise.

Fuher starts another shorthander effort just shy and forces Bemidji to take a penalty. Prp draws the penalty. They are talking how Prp's mind was not in the game last night but tonite is way different and he's playing great.

Parise makes a save, Schneider clears the puck and penalty is over. Immediately Porter takes a cross check. We're back on the kill for 2 more minutes. Come on, fellas.

Beavers forced to ice the puck with 27 seconds left in the penalty kill. This might be one of those 5 minute penalties where, once you kill it, you take over the game. Go boys!

Stafford and Zajac work another shorthanded effort. No luck.

Another great shorthand effort Fylling and Spirko and Sedevie makes a great save on Spirko. Keep it up, guys!

Zajac dekes the goalie again shorthanded and posted it! What number is he wearing? 26?

I've fooled another one!

kr, good stuff. (Yes, the OT loss on 2001 and the WCHA Final Five loss that same year are still among my favorite Sioux games). I don't agree that the team DIDN'T play with heart and pride last night. From what I saw on TV, they looked like they were busting it. Did they do everything right? No. But you can play with heart and desire and not do everything right. Hopefully those aspects of their game will yet come together, and then this team will be excellent. I stayed at Senser's watching the game last night because, even though we were down 3 goals, I felt like the guys were really working. And when they continue to put out the effort and not quit, you never know what will happen. There have been games where I feel the team gave up (one was a loss at the DECC about 3 years ago?) but last night I felt like they were working all night long. Yes, I expected better results than the tie, but considering how things had gone the first 2 periods in the end I was happy. I only hope they can build on the 3rd period tonite. I don't think I'm going to get to watch the game tonite, but I really wish I could. I'm expecting good things again.

Someone else mentioned this but to add to my 13 points above, I don't think Lammy had his best game. He appeared to be struggling to control the puck a few different times, and left some nice rebounds. The first goal was one I think he wishes he had back. The pass came from behind the goal to right out in front. Lammy had the post covered and his stick out to block any pass that would come from the back of the goal past the post to the crease area. Unfortunately, the puck slipped underneath his stick. Before Lammy could react the lone Bemidji player slipped it through Lammy's five hole. Whether he should have had that hole closed I don't know. The second goal was a juicy rebound that did happen to find an open Bemidji player.

Redwing, yes Zajac beat him clean. The goalie was sliding over hoping to block the bottom of the goal with his leg pad. It's all he could do in desperation. Zajac only needed another inch of height on his backhander and he had a TON of goal to shoot into. The puck just clipped the top of the pad and deflected into the crossbar instead. It was a great move by Zajac.

My thoughts after watching the game on TV. 1. I disagree with those that say the Sioux played with no heart tonite. I thought they busted their butts all night long. 2. I believe the call on Schneider near the end of the game was a good call. I qualify it this way, had the roles been reversed, I would have been bitching that Bemidji wasn't called. It was a crosscheck and the guy was about 2-3 feet from the boards and took a header into them. Gotta call that in my opinion. 3. Still having some trouble keeping our cool. Canady took a penalty he shouldn't have. Smaby and Prpich ended in the box together. Gotta figure out when the game is more important than "face", guys. Win the game, save a lot of face. Push and punch when you are frustrated....lose a game. 4. What's up with guys making passing motions but the puck sits on the ice motionless? Maybe it's the ice but it seemed to me this happened more often to the Sioux than it did to Bemidji. 5. They created some good scoring chances, but not enough. I'm not buying the "bounces" complaint, or "hot goalie" complaint. The guys missed a few great opportunities but every team does. You have to create enough chances where you bury a certain percentage of them, and enough chances to score enough to win the game. They didn't create enough. 6. I thought they did a pretty decent job of crashing the net, just couldn't corral a rebound. I felt they had quite a few guys in front, but the rebounds were going every which way but where they could get a stick on them. You might call those bounces, but I say had they created more chances, they'd have got those bounces. 7. I believe we have difficulty creating chances because we don't seem to know what to do with the puck IN OUR OWN ZONE. Criminy, it seemed like we had no idea what to do with the puck or how to get it out of our zone. What a mess that looked all night. 8. They didn't do a good job of controlling play in the offensive zone. We'd get a rush, a chance, and Bemidji would clear it out or run it out. Very little continuity. 9. Lammy. PLEASE don't play the puck anymore. Sheesh. In fact, don't leave the crease. Holy smokes. 10. They work hard but create little the first 2 periods. Whether Bemidji when into the prevent or the Sioux just got their wheels under them I don't know but the 3rd period was a lot more fun to watch. They controlled the puck better in the offensive zone, and had much better luck transitioning from the defensive zone. HOWEVER, as soon as we tie the game what happens? Bemidji is all over our goal. What the heck? 11. Could they actually scare someone in OT once? Seems like almost every OT period I watch the Sioux are getting it handed to them. This one was no different. 12. I didn't catch the number, someone said it was Zajac, who put the backhander into the crossbar. That one really sucked, as he totally beat the goalie, but didn't quite get enough lift on the puck. It appeared from the replay that it bounced off the top edge of the goalie's leg pad and caromed high into the crossbar. That was a beautiful play otherwise. 13. Genoway had a great game after a slow start I thought. He really helped create some chances. Fylling seemed to do very very well when I saw him out there too. Spirko....what can I say. He might be my favorite player to watch around the puck. He just find it, or it finds him, even in a crowd. That guy is GOOD. Porter also had a strong game, made some good plays and played hard. Well, you're all bored by now, so I'll finish here.

Watched at Senser's in Bloomington. Thanks Joe! Pretty decent reception, at times it was pixallated.

Thanks for the info, popeye. Can you spare some spinach? We'd like to see Rylan back in the green soon.

Good question. Fortunately, unless I run to Senser's to watch the game I could at least fall back on another good game (MN and Duluth). I'd prefer to listen to Hennessey and watch the 'Dogs.

Maybe he was used too much and now he's tired.

I wonder what the % said for the Tech-MN series last weekend.

I read the recap of the on-line chat from last wed featuring Todd Milewski, the WCHA guys on USCHO. He was asked how he thought the Final Five would turn out, and while he had to come up with an answer right on the spot, it was interesting that the Sioux were not a team he picked to be there. Time to start quieting the doubters. Like Hak said on his radio program. We can take care of our own problems by winning. Sioux sweep this weekend. I like a team that is backed into the corner a little bit. We've got a bare bones roster, and we can't afford to lose. I say McMahon will have a good weekend.

All I know is what I've read here...that he's been suffering post-concussion symptoms or something along those lines. But the weird part is that they don't seem to know when he was concussed.

I hope I'm wrong but this Kaip injury makes me very worried for him, as well as his hockey career. He's been suffering these symptoms for an awfully long time.

doesnotcomputedoesnotcomputedoesnotcomputedoesnotcomputedoesnotcomputedoesnotcom pute

Considering that MN could be duking it out with Denver for 3rd/4th place, he'd probably rather have Hakstol look into the future and decide that the Denver series would be a better series to sit Greene for the most effective punishment.

great