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I agree with the concern as I thought of the same thing myself. On the other hand, if you are the Xcel, do you want people to be buying tickets to the tournament across town, or to the tournament at your facility. I would guess all 3 parties got together and said "this is a good marketing idea, in order to compete with the other tournament". And from a strictly business perspective I can see it makes some sense.

Ah, NDH. You are a treat. And I mean that with the greatest respect. MafiaMan, while I'd like to agree with you on 2001 I've watched that replay a couple of times since then and have been forced to accept the decision by the refs. Roche pushes the SCSU player into our goalie. The crux is whether it was hard enough to cause the interference and while that's debatable I'm fine with the call even though it cost the game. I had similar emotions as MafiaMan this weekend. No time to get into detail now...maybe later, but will be sorry to not see many familiar faces of people whose names I didn't even know, but for 2-3 days in March we were essentially friends. And this, people, is the benefit of getting a ticket package with the same seats every year. You fall into a little community of sorts....

That's ME! Not too many people wear the geometric logo anymore, so it's becoming unique. Plus, it's authentic so that's even better. Picked it up at the Gemini factory.

Same here. Green is the dominant Fighting Sioux (oops!) color so it's a green jersey for me

Oh great! We're playing Chronology now!

I don't think Hak loosened "the system" on Sunday. I think he told the guys to shoot the damn puck. Stop with the pretty plays and put rubber on net. Get to the greasy areas and clean up if the rebound is there. They just fired away. Hammer and Kober often commented about shots taken where on previous nights that would have been a pass. I think the team really wanted to win, and I think the coaches told them to quit trying to make SportCenter (i.e. quit trying to dunk the puck).

Yes, congratulations to the Women on a great season! Too bad this wasn't (or was it? ) the National Championship game. Great effort yesterday in almost knocking off the giant.

Congratulations on the win! I'm sure it feels good to crow about finishing as the #2 seed to the team your fans call "Jan Brady State".

Simpson from Grimaldi

Simpson

I've heard the same from a former Sioux player who won both. He even said it's harder to win the Broadmoor as well. The Final Five tournament, he said, was tougher than the National Championship because the teams you had to go through for the Final Five were tougher than the teams faced for the National Championship. This was prior to the new tournament process, so I think the Sioux had a 1st round regional bye at that time. And, it seems these days there is more parity near the top than there used to be (see #4 seeds knocking off #1 seeds which never used to happen).

For everyone criticizing the dump and chase, you should read the piece Russo wrote in the Star Tribune this morning with quotes from Zach Parise and Mikko Koivu addressing this exact thing. http://www.startribune.com/sports/wild/193156151.html

I agree. I thought O'Donnell looked pretty good last night. Too bad last night was a specialty team fest and the 4th line didn't get as many minutes as it could have.

Rowney

All the angst today. All the Sioux needed to do was make 1 more save, and have 1 of about 3 excellent scoring chances that usually go in, go in, and we're not having the same conversation. I'm optimistic for tonight.

I'm sorry you were mostly right last night but I hope that means you are also right tonight!

On the Webcast they are saying they can fix it but will be a 10 min delay starting the 2nd period

Schlossman just tweet that coolant appears to be coming up on the ice.

Pattyn seems spoiling for a fight the last few games. He may be willing to go with Turgeon but that's one big guy. I also am not big on pre-arranged fights so like the Sicatoka I hope the refs nip it in the bud. However, if they wanted to let Mersch and Pattyn go last week that would have been fine with me.

I felt the hit was ok as well. I certainly would have been pissed had it been a Sioux player called for 5 on a hit like that. Good effort by the Sioux overall.

Dave, I like it better when you predict Sioux sweeps.

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Can't we be bitter about that?

The stick thing was one of the big reasons I questioned if that was really hooking

I agree with this. Sometimes the dive is easy to see (the correct non-call on MacWilliam Saturday night) but sometimes it's got to be tough for the officials to pick out at game speed. I'd have no issues if the league reviewed every penalty and picked out the obvious dives. Then send a warning to that player and coach that the player was ruled to have taken a dive, and the on ice officials for the next week have been warned. If the on-ice officials deem the player to embellish, he'll receive a minor penalty for embellishment as well as a bench penalty will be called for unsportsmanlike conduct. 5x3 PP right there.