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There you go.

I know we all want to win the final game for once, but 7 FFs in 11 years? Amazing. This year is no different in that it will take some breaks to win out. But this team has one quality that increases the chances, IMO--they are a hard team to beat. There's a stubbornness about them. They haven't been mowing the opposition down this year, but they are just hard to put away. A dam fine quality in any line of work.

Spend your time thinking how to hit Eichel or any fast, skilled player and you will probably find yourself sitting in the box watching him score. The Sioux have shown good restraint this year, mostly, and I hope they keep that up. This time of year a dumb penalty could cost a banner. Though I agree with 357 that Eichel and his sisters need to understand the boards and corners will not be a comfortable place to hang out.

A lot of fans quit on this team last week, but they showed again that they never quit on themselves. What a bunch. Whether they will be able to contain BU is a question to be answered, but they have really proved their character once again.

Never count this group out. Something a LOT of posters did all week and every other chance they had after a loss.

That's good to hear. Amazing what good meds can do if you have the guts to begin with.

Depends on how much flu is on the ice for the Sioux

Maybe you just can't hear it over your own buzz.

Flu in the locker room is not good, but if I had to pick a Sioux team to gut it through sickness and injury, it's this bunch.

Do you see coded spy messages in the GF Herald?

Hennessey is saying the opposite--that they are lining up at the blue line forcing a dump. Not that he is always right.

Someone please tell Ole to stop the "yup" 'yeah" "yup' while Tim is calling the game.

Good thread title, gf. Go Sioux.

Kind of shoots that whole "survival of the fittest" thing, doesn't it?

Knowing gf, he's probably counting the two digits to the right of the decimal point.

There's another fiction. Nobody is saying Hak's coaching should not be criticized. But those who just keep coming with this simplistic, brain-dead "we want a banner" are not criticizing--they're just pouting.

Nothing at all wrong with manual labor, gf.

Well, guys like you obviously set easily obtained goals, so you will achieve them whether you learn to write or not.

You are talking a fiction. Nobody has said NCs don't matter. I would guess that all of us are eager for #8, for the players mostly. They are ones who are playing the game. It's just that some fans use a single banner as the only measure of success, even if they have nothing to say about the coaching itself.

We've GONE through this. Good thing you don't hold yourself to the same standards you hold hockey coaches to.

I have to say I never realized the Sioux fan base consisted of so many defeatists--BEFORE the games have been played. Not a typical NoDak trait that I can recall. Maybe we have a lot of converted gopher fans now.

I think there is truth to what you say, Yzerman.

Just be glad we don't have Blais running the show--his team collapsed down the stretch and couldn't even get his boys into the dance in Mpls. Sandelin was no better. We could go after Eaves. He's won a banner, so he's the kind of coach we need.

Sioux fans certainly can't complain about that regional

You have to like that from a Sioux perspective