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I don't know what kind of NCAA experience gfhockey has, but he wants a Natty real bad.

"The stars" are kids we were fortunate to have wear Sioux colors. Some of them stayed for one or two more years than they could have despite having people in their ear telling them that their life-long dream would could true if they would leave for the next level. And how many Gaarders and Generals left high school and the buddies they grew up playing with so they could play at the next level instead of helping their home high school win a championship? And why would it matter if "the stars" leave early, when we will replace them with the grinders you want to fill the roster with anyway?

A team with Gaarders & Generals is surely a good thing, but it is a whole he!! of a lot different than a team of Gaarders and Generals.

JS and NS worked well together when they shared the ice, but this might actually help Nick come into his own.

One thing we know: you can have a brain the size of a pea and know virtually nothing about the game of hockey and still complain endlessly that we have not won a title in X-number of years (or that we may not win one in the future). Understanding what exactly makes a coach effective at any level is more difficult, and I suppose how you analyze that depends on what you want from the game. Everyone involved seems to think Berry is a good coach. How he can manage a major D1 program is still an open question, but the players, at least, have certainly shown their confidence in him. You have to credit Hakstol for taking on a very difficult challenge that might leave him without a job 12 months from now. He's in a completely different game now--one that is very impatient with a short memory. And those who wanted him gone are in a good place too. Next year looks like it may be a very entertaining year. Can't wait.

Thank Parise you didn't ask, "Who do I send the invoice to?" We would have been right back in the wilderness.

All innies? Who'd know, other than gfhockey?

He's too short to see over the boards. And if he has a growth spurt during middle school, the only hockey knowledge he has to offer is to tell Berry he hasn't won a natty yet.

Good thing they aren't coached by Blais or Sandelin then, cause those teams just rolled over and puked it up this year.

Photos like you find on the inside cover and the first 50 or so pages of Fight On Sioux would really add historic cred you will need to capture the full age spectrum. And the older fans will have the dough to spend on memories they cherish.

And best of all, SPARKY is exercising the Slovakian Exception and returning for another year.

I don't think you hijacked the thread. You do bring some fair discussion to this site. Of course, you've got that gopher odor about you for which there is no cure but exorcism.

There's some sense to that. Sioux fans have seen in recent years how far hustle and a team-first mentality can get you.

I'll give you good, but better than Spirko?

That's true, but I'd be shocked to learn that would be the reason any player would choose LSSU over UMinn.

Maybe, but college provides much more practice time whereas MJ gives them games. The top tier talent guys figure they need less drill and more games. Pretty simplistic view, and I'm talking out of my arse, so we'll see if anyone calls me on it.

Resigning so he can spend more time with family is one thing, but so he can "focus on his real estate career?" I guess that career just took a back seat in his life after he began neglecting it in 2008.

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Makes zero sense.

And the kids who are accepted to the three service academies are pretty intensely vetted for character. Not a perfect evaluation system, obviously, but character kids.

For a guy who claims to be connected to the program, you sure have a hard time connecting to what you read. If you'd gone to college, you might have improved those comprehension issues.

Are these supposed to be "moments" or something like "events" or "stretches of time?" Comebacks against the gophers and title games aren't "moments." Trupp's carrying the puck is probably several moments stuck together. I wish they were all moments, but they aren't. All in the spirit of fun, Dave.

Trupp certainly gave us some memories. I'd have to include that brilliant diving back-check against Manitoba his freshman year. I knew we had something special in him when I saw that.

I have not seen very many games at the new Ralph, but I was travelling to north central North Dakota with my daughter during Thanksgiving break in 2002, and we stopped in GF to catch Friday's game. It was against Mankato, and there was a copy of Virg Foss' book "Fight on Sioux" on each seat, courtesy of Sioux Hockey. I think it was the first game after Ralph died. In fact, I think he died only a day or two before. The book was not a tribute, but it is full of pics and memories and was especially appropriate.