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Congratulations Brian! They better not have picked him just to sit him on the bench.

I watched a fair amount of MN and CC on Saturday (pre-MN goal scoring surge). What a fun hockey game to watch. 2 very talented teams that could move the puck. That's what hockey should be like.

39 shots on goal. You can't blame scoring only 1 goal on the refs or the loss on our goaltender. You gotta get the puck in the net. Despite the what we think of the officials we were apparently able to get the puck on net. Just didn't get it in the goal. The Herald story says Parise didn't see either goal. Not sure how you can blame him for that. Parise had a 90.9 saves% for the game. That's acceptable, even if it isn't stellar.

You can't lose to AA at home.

3 stars: 3rd star Rory McMahon GWG and 7 SOG. 2nd star Lawson for AA 1st star Murray 1 assist and electric play all night

Career high 4. Sorry.

Gophers are rated #1 in the nation. Sioux have the points to be the #1 team in the WCHA race. However, we've also played more games than most of the other league teams so that's basically meaningless too.

Here's the sequence. Massen gets the puck to center ice, shoots at the open net and misses. Prpich comes down and from around center ice shoots and hits the pipe. He chases the puck down in the corner and Tim says "in frustration" throws the puck at the net and........ Gilchrist kicks it in his own net!!!! Sioux 4-2!

Canady breaks in hard to the net but can't convert.

I've been able to listen very little. Can anyone give the line combos tonite?

Wow, you're way ahead of my internet feed!

Come on boys. Looks like we dominated the second (didn't get to listen much, packing up my bird chasing gear). Let's get back on track here in the 3rd and put this team away. This one goal lead, and AA buzzing around is getting me nervous.

Bina with a crushing hit at mid-ice. Hennessey and Lotus gushing. Lawson makes a great save but Kaip also in the crease. Sounds like the Sioux are picking it up. Let's keep it going.

Better activate Murray....

Who's the color guy with Hennessey?

You almost pity AA with all the stuff that's happened to them over the past few years. I mean, when a sign falls from the rafters and knocks one of your players out of the game, it's just not your decade. Who knows what we'll get from AA. They've swept Duluth (which may or may not be saying much, and beat MN early in the year. They have a freshman goalie with a .915 save %. They put up 2.5-3 goals per game. If we aren't aggressive and put up some shots this smells like a team that could steal one. They do give up an average of 34 shots per game so if we work hard we should have our chances. It's no big stretch to say our fate is in our own hands this weekend. We should be able to enter 4 points on the ledger.

Lucia was just mixed up. We are The Fighting Sioux you know.

Crap. Good luck to you David.

Do I understand this right? Kozek is second in the BCHL in ppg and he's not even been on the top line until last night?

Ok, I take it back. Feel better?

It's hard for him to control his multiple personalities

That's great. Always nice to see Sioux recruits who can score. Kozek is actually second in the BCHL scoring race with 1.7 p/g. The leader has 1.9 but he's also a couple years older. Duncan is tied with several at 1.6 p/g, so is right up there. Watkins still in the top 20 at 1.2 p/g. For some comparison, last year Zajac finished tied for first in the BCHL regular season with a 1.9 p/g average. Over 59 games he had 43 goals and 69 assists for 112 points. Last year the leading goal scorers in the BCHL scored 53, 54 and 62 goals. The rest of the scoring leaders were in the 40's and 30's in goals scored. So the 50's is a level apart from the crowd. All these guys were 1-2 years older than Kozek at the same point. Kozek over 30 games has 28 goals and 23 assists for 51 points. Projects to roughly 100 points over the regular season, and about 55 goals. Looks like the kid can pot the puck.

People talk about east coast bias...this might be the major junior bias. As in Murray's situation last year, I don't think they like to pick kids that go to US colleges.

You're not the only one.

You know, a few weeks ago there was a thread called Rip Hak or something similar that was a farce. Methinks this one is too.