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She was, at least, good about fetching me things for a couple of days.

You'll live, but milk it for all it's worth with the missus.

No problemo.

I don't disagree with you. I'm just saying that all it takes is a few posts and that is what the anti's hook into and rally around. Unfortunately, those types of posts and comments can be found.

Fetch was correct as well. It's kind of a big thing in Canada.

Unfortunately, if you go through these forums, as well I'm sure the comment section of various articles, I'm pretty sure you'll find some people referring to Native American's in those terms. The majority of us don't, but all it takes a a couple of posts and there you are. It only took .5 seconds for Sioux hockey haters to brand Hakstol for a brief lapse in judgement. It's no different in this context.

AH! You beat me to a similar reply.

I just hope he gets back on the ice against MN this weekend.

I thought he had a very good wrist shot late in the 3rd.

I did not.

Looks like we definitely disagree! When you say cursing is something that affects others, I don't know how you can ignore those that see you flipping the bird and not say that's the same thing. Again, when you fly the bird you are cursing out that individual, saying "f you". If Hak says "f that" or "that's fing baloney" no one cares. But if he yells "f you Adam!" it's the same thing, except only Adam and the players here him (unless he's on tv). But when he flies the bird the whole arena can see it. So yes, to me, there's quite a difference.

Let's be honest. Letting the f-bomb fly is vulgar but letting the bird fly is an aggressive gesture toward someone else. There's a difference between cursing, and cursing someone out, and people often mistake the 2. The bird is more out of line, IMO.

Hextall is much smaller than Bickel. I doubt Bickel will be too worried about Hextall. Hextall gives up 3 inches and 20#.

nicksmom, we're pulling for all of you. I hope he's up for the trip for Denver. Good luck, Nick!

I know one who would disagree with you.

When I was working in sales my boss would tell me that it's great to have what appears to be a good working relationship with a client, but you never know if you really have a good relationship until something goes wrong. When something goes wrong, that's when you find out the quality of your relationship. Pretty much everyone had a lot of respect for Hakstol prior to this incident, and I think for all but a teeny minority that will continue after the fact because of how he has handled himself and the aftermath. Now, he does it again and that will start to get chipped away, but I don't think there are very many people concerned about that. I know I'm not.

I doubt that.

Of course they are different. The f-bombs fly back and forth between players, officials and coaches all the time. You don't fly the bird, especially to a ref. Everyone knows there's a line there.

I agree. I would have expected Kupchella to reiterate that Hakstol's action was out of line with how the university want sto represent itself, and to support the AD's decision to go with the suspension. Adding the additional spanking to Hak seemed like Kupchella needed a "Hey, I can lay down a heavy hand too" moment to show how tough he can be. Hakstol has been a first class representative of this university from all I can see, and Kupchella should have treated him as an adult, not a misbehaving child.

I heard that too, but Yttrium has posted that Wheeler said something in the line, not that Wheeler DID anything. I think the information Hak had was incorrect, but Wheeler obviously provoked the situation. The thing is, depending on what was said, was Finley right to pull him out of the line or not? We really don't know because we don't know the particulars.

I know one thing teams do to get shots is to pass across from point to point to get the open lane. I've noticed Chorney and Bina stand relatively close together this year when they are passing to each other, so it doesn't require a big shift from the defense to get in the lane. While I question whether that is being effective, I realize I don't know enough about PP systems to know what else they might be trying to accomplish, but from my seats I wonder if this is one reason why they are not getting a lot of shots from the point, anyway.

Hak was wrong. He needed to apologize and I have no problem with the suspension. I thought Kupchella was way overboard, however.

I don't see how the nickname issue is affecting this decision. Frankly, the publicity and "newsworthyness?" of the suspension will probably get more attention than the issue itself. So in a way the suspension is calling attention to the issue, I think. I was surprised that it was 2 games. I was expecting a game, but I would imagine this will keep the WCHA happy and the matter will be put to rest.