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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

I just hope the team is not as fragile as so many of the fans appear to be.

Ole is warming up the "yups."

A voice of reason among a lot of grocery store floor tantrums in front of the candy rack

JS may not be ready for the NHL, but he has been very good for UND.

No way he is ready to play D in the NHL

I should have used an emoticon, I guess. Almost everybody traps in some form or another.

Somewhere in Tioga, gfhockey's two-door cavalier is parked on the street in front of the one-bedroom apartment he shares with a truck driver from Glendive, while he's inside eating a Romo pizza and feeling his oats about a hockey game Blais would have won.

Strange thing is that this is the first time I've seen a trapping defense this year. A real innovative move by SCSU, something we have never thought to try. You just never know what you will see at these tournaments.

I didn't know the players had this many mothers.

It's easy to raise all these complaints about what others should be doing for us, of course. As long as all the screamers stay away from the celebration and if these boys do win a banner this year, it's all fair.

We need a ledge or bridge for Sioux fans who are prone to panic easily to quiet the wailing and gnashing of teeth around here.