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Blais woulda had them ready to play

USCHO has MS beating LSSU 4-1

The Sioux have definitely laid some eggs at the finish, but for years they have been exceptionally good down the stretch. They've built their reputation on that, whether it was accurate or not.

living near Madison for the past 23 years, I've usually tried to catch the Sioux games in town. Those were almost always packed, high energy games, and Badger fans loved the Sioux rivalry. A great college hockey venue that now sucks. Hard to believe.

Those are big deals for a young team: kill a major and a 5 on 3, then follow with a shorty

Good time for a major test for Johnson and the whole crew

I was on a college campus road trip with a daughter of mine in early April of 2007 and spent the night at a small motel at Amherst College. She and a friend went out to a movie and I stayed back to watch the best line in college hockey make BC eat some humble pie. Should have gone to the movie. .

Are Andy and Paul practicing law in the area?

Berry will not have won a natty all year long

He was kind of fun along side Hammer, but my god--a cliche' machine.

The Henny Youngman of Sioux fans.

I'm not sure age makes a difference with goalies. Nothing makes sense with goalies. They're aliens with alien minds and souls. I'm not sure they are even born like the rest of us. Take Wilbur, for instance . . .

Brings to mind another old timer, Bob Stiles.

This goes back closer to the beginning, but did Fido Purpur or Serge Gambucci spawn any coaches? Serge sure put out a lot players.

Fingers crossed, boys.

If we get him (and he and Jost show up) it'll be an exciting season, especially if Boeser stays.

This is kind of a risky position for you to take, gf, since on a personal level you appear never to have made the tourney. But a girl can dream, right?

Let the captains go out back for an honest-to-god pissing contest. Let's be men here.

Makes me a little nervous that Blais didn't want Jost. Or Boeser.

Great story. I'll bet his players would have loved to hear that one.

My daughter attended a hockey camp at the Ralph quite a few years ago when she was about 14 and pretty inexperienced. Hak and his boys were around a lot, though he had no official role. She had nothing but good things to say about him; he treated all the kids kindly and expressed interest in them when he was around them. She liked the way he played with his own kids at the rink. Of the men's players, her favorite was Pony Malone. She really did not know a lot about the players, but said Kozek didn't seem very interested in teaching kids hockey.

Spoken like a person who has no feel for the game itself whatsoever.

gfhockey was overheard at El Roco quoting Mathews as saying he would have come to UND for sure if Blais were still here.

Amazing you posted that tonight, Sodbuster. For the first time in forever, I went to youtube tonight and entered "Sioux overtime goals," just to get some midsummer hockey fix. The Trupp diving OTwinner against Minnie comes up and I'm jacked up for Sioux hockey again. Immediately after that, I come here and read that a new recruit is "Maybe an Evan Trupp type player?" That'll work.

We think the Sioux/Gopher rivalry is intense, you can imagine how the rivalry between Czechoslovakia and the USSR was after the Soviets invaded in 1968.