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Parise scores 4-0!!!!!!!!!! Murry to Bo to Parise. They said it was very pretty.

Roger Thomas talking about the fan conduct issue. Says the NCAA is big on this issue right now. Lots of national press exposure so they want to clean it up. Says our fans are good but at times have been over the line. Seems to be saying most of the fan behavior is great but a small percentage of it is over the line and gives a bad impression. Says UND is by far not the worst offenders in this situation. He just doesn't want UND to get hurt in getting regionals. Especially since we have the nickname issue already he wants to walk a fine line. Says there are other schools where they say they don't want to send their athletes into environments that are over the line. So wants to make sure UND isn't looked at in that manner. But wants to find a way to get the WHOLE arena up and cheering loud.

SCSU ties it up on a beautiful play 2-2 Second period all SCSU. 9-0 shots on goal.

Hennessey had some nice comments about Smaby's play the last several games. Lots of talk about how good Stafford has been playing now that he's on the 4th line. As good he's played all year...

Pucks been dropped!

Game starts soon

You see this in baseball at times. They are free agents this summer. What's the chance they might be back?

Dangit. http://www.startribune.com/stories/1330/4647709.html

Tommmiejo, it's part of your personality on this board. With others we might be critical. With you, it's character.

No, Lucia didn't name name but really, who was he talking about. Blais said something like Jake found a way to botch it. Lucia says his goalies exploded. Not much difference in my opinion. The only reason I brought this up was because some people were ripping on Blais for singling out Jake, but I don't see a lot of difference in how Lucia laid the losses on his goalies. He didn't put any of the blame on the rest of the team. Maybe they could have played a bit better defensively and not hung their tenders out to dry.....

Minnesota coach Don Lucia after his Gophers were swept at Denver University last weekend: "I have no issues with the way we played. Goaltending was an issue all weekend. It exploded on us." This is from Milewski's USCHO weekly WCHA column. I guess he's no different than Blais after all.

Then you should see us at the games.

I demand everyone do this.

Other than one or two idiots the gopher fans have been relatively quiet about our schedule this season. Still, that shouldn't stop us from ripping on them for it.

I agree with playing JPar for a game this weekend in case he is needed down the stretch. It would even be tempting to play Ziggy on Saturday if we win Friday and Duluth loses. Ziggy should get a game if possible.

Hey! "The Expert" is back! Good to hear from you Tommiejo!

Do not assume Ziggy made a mistake unless he himself tells you he did. He may be happy with this decision, even if he's not seeing tons of ice time. No way for us to know what it is that draws a player.

Al Gore won't even be able to fix it!

Granted your team didn't miss him last year but they could use someone like him this year.

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Sign suggestion: See you in a week! Bring your clubs.

WPOS, it's the type of thing that if the Goofs win the NCAA's becomes cool to talk about but I have to say when they tank the very next series it sure makes good fodder for the opposing fans. Risky, I would say.

Lots of good Sioux fans come from South Dakota. Or at least a couple of us. Welcome aboard!

Good point. In the 3rd we noticed that the Sioux were stopping half-way into the zone and sending one forward in deep. While I can see in theory that can work so far in the weekend they had success on the forecheck and keep the puck deep in the zone. I thought they could have put more pressure on the Dogs by staying with the aggressive forecheck. I'm no expert so maybe I was wrong with this impression but that's how it seemed to us.

Zajac was busy setting up Chucko's goals. I thought I read somewhere Greentree was going to Alaska Fairbanks but don't quote me on that. AF landed several top BCHL'ers but the discussion (on USCHO?) was that they may not be the best skaters which is why they weren't picked up by more prominent D1 schools. Take that for what it is worth because at the very best I'm repeating from memory information I read posted on a message board by people like most of us. So maybe I shouldn't even have typed it here........