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Close your eyes and cover your ears: we're coming to the last 60 seconds.

I know this is sacrilege, but I'm not going to be too broken up if the Sioux drop this game, as long as they keep the 1 seed.

Who won this tournament last year?

Who is Tim's color guy? Wish he'd stop the "yup" "yup" while Tim is talking.

Can't lose faceoffs on the pk against this team.

Hopefully Brodzinski doesn't drill any of our other players on these pps.

So true. Do you think our modern day players' offensive production can be fairly compared to Hrkac's 116 points and Bob Joyce's 52 goals in a single season? Or Greg Johnson's 272 points in a career?

I wonder if it's a difficult adjustment for those guys not to go down when they miss a putt

The Sioux had some real offensive firepower during the 89-91 years--G Johnson, Dixon Ward, Jeff McLean, Eisenhut, Bombadir. They just didn't have the whole roster, though, including goaltending

You have to think Blais will be fired before the tournament begins, with the way his team has collapsed down the stretch. Sandelin could be gone too. Maybe gfhockey can get them jobs running errands on the patch. I wonder if they know how to drive stick shifts.

See LJ keep his cool in that scrum in front of Zane. Attaboy Luke!

CC has good jump--as we knew they would

Who are you referring to?

Me too. If this were a best of 3 or 5 format, I'd want the weaker team first, but in this tournament random causes play such a role in determining outcomes that I don't really care who we play or on what order.

If any team is good enough to go deep, let's play them right away. No use putting it off.

Irregardless, he is one of our own.

Any word on NS? Might as well start this now.

Ok, so we can say "irregardless irregardless," but we should say "regardless because" rather than "regardless regardless?"

So it's ok to use irregardless irregardless?

I suppose as Sioux fans we tend to think each team has something special, and they are. But this team. Might be my favorite ever. They have delivered so many times out of some combination of desire, character, talent, luck, probably, and that typical Sioux loyalty to the program and each other. I hope they catch some breaks in the tourney and bring home a banner--for them, not for us fans. It's obvious how important it is to them, and they are the ones who are putting in the work and making the sacrifices every day since they arrived in GF. Whatever happens between now and mid-April, they have made me proud with what they have already shown.

Stick salute is one thing, the TCoS is ours and ours alone, though. Doing it after sweeps is the traditional part. The boys can stick salute after a tie or loss if they want to do that, it just wouldn't be a TCoS.

I really like Tim too. His color guy talks over him a little bit too much, but Tim does not leave a lot of room for color so I don't blame the guy. For many years before streaming coverage the Tims were my primary source for Sioux hockey.

Very impressive.

After seeing what he did at the face-off last weekend, I seriously wonder if he isn't just a little slow upstairs.

Perhaps. I just don't see JS being ready to perform his defensive responsibilities at the next level. I know they move up for development and more minutes, but he's often soft at this level.