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1st line center, top pp and pk guy, top faceoff guy, and leading scorer is not easily replaced.
True, but, you know, with this group, if they can win #8 with Mark, they can win it without him. Resiliency has become their identity.
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When you're president of a major university, one of just 47 with both a medical and a law school, you're paid to make decisions and take the heat for them. You're not there to orchestrate committee memberships.
That seems awfully low, Sic. Must be a bunch of states with none, because many have two, and Cal alone has 5 or 6.
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I agree, how is that not called, it was the focus of everyone
When I saw him do that on a faceoff, my first thought was "I'd like to see this kid's ACT score."
LJ is a fine player who brings a lot to the team, but some guys just have a problem figuring some things out.
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I get what you're saying but I think this team is very talented. I actually think there may be just as many future NHL players on this team as there was on that 2010-2011 team.
That's a fair point. In goal and on D alone, we have some serious talent. I guess I fell into the trap of looking at the scorers, where we do have NS and Caggiula, among others. But this team wins with gritty play and hustle goals.
Most of the time.
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You're right about Johnson. He got away with one in the third when he cross checked a guy out of frustration at the faceoff dot. It was just a stupid reaction.
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I have always Loved Fighting Sioux Hockey - But have never felt this emotional about any team In over 35 yrs
When we had the DOT line, I think we all knew we were witnessing a rare combination of talent that might not come along again. With this team, we are witnessing a special blue collar character and togetherness than we may not see again for a while.
And has been mentioned before, even though they win through hard work and toughness, they have managed to do a good job of staying away from stupid in-your-face type penalties. They seem to get the balance, and that has to come from their leaders.
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No way the exposed part would be the knee cap. Unless his shin pads were too small I guess.
I think you are right--the knee cap injury doesn't make much sense. Easier to damage the tendon above the patella, I suppose.
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I saw today that Blais is like .500 overall in maybe 5 seasons at Neb-Omaha (although he did win 2 natties prior to that at UND), while Sanderlin is maybe the same overall or even less in 15 or so seasons at Duluth BUT he did grab the 1 natty in 2011 even though most recognize the Sioux were no doubt the best team in the land that season based upon a full season's sample (the true test). So, don't fire the UND Pres, instead fire Hakstol for his "mediocre" teams over the last 11 seasons and bring in Blais, Sanderlin, Eaves (he also got a natty in '06 I believe but not thinking he will this year, just a hunch),...whoever!
If you are a recent UND grad, they maybe Kelly's critics have a point about how our school is failing us.
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I was involved in the inner workins
Did they send you for donuts like they do out on the patch?
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Trust me when I say this is a Ferris Buehler 31 Flavors rumor...Mac w a fractured knee cap.
Real disappointed for him if that is truly the case.
If he got a fractured kneecap through a shin pad, that's one hell of a slapper. If he was down on his knees, though, it might have caught some exposed area above the hard part of his pad.
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To some fans, the only measure of success now is a banner. Hakstol has 11 straight 20-win seasons, and the next closest is York with 5. Yet some fans would ask for his head if he doesn't win the banner. We all want a banner, but that's pretty mindless thinking, and it gets to the players, you can be sure.
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This will sound like sacrilege and I can't defend it with any kind of logic, but I wouldn't mind seeing the boys drop a game they wanted between now and game one of the regionals.
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Think for a second how odd this conversation would have seemed just a few years ago--UND sharing first place votes with Mankato and Tech. With Michigan and Minnesota playing with the bubble and Maine and Wisconsin nowhere in sight.
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Well that's an oxymoron if I've ever heard one...solid fracture....is it solid or is it a fracture?
It's just way of describing a crack or partial fracture with no bone displacement or misalignment. Common enough term but I'm sure it's not clinical. But he took it above the knee, it's probably not a fracture.
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I think we'll see MAC again, maybe not next weekend. Took a big shot, Prob a deep contusion. He'll be back.
Deep contusion or solid fracture.
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This team is really playing good hockey. At every position.
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I'll make plasma donations and gfhockey has volunteered to donate sperm if that helps...
He's always been one to take things into his own hands.
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These guys can't close game
Thank god they're not coached by Blais: HIs teams can't win a game.
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Thanks for the memories boys- we fans appreciate the work you put in and the product you deliver. You will go out winners regardless of the outcome tonight or in April.
There's the thing. We appreciate and admire them for who they are and the way they have conducted themselves, not for what we will get from them. Sports fans tend to use clichés freely but act very selfish when it comes down to it.
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Almost looked like a pipe. So fast it's hard to tell. Great acrobatics.
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I think we have all criticized Hakstol on this site for one failing or another, but he and his staff deserve a lot of credit for molding this team (and for the judgment they showed in recruiting them in the first place). Gaarder's recruitment and development is an example of what Hak and his staff do as well as anybody, IMO. Now, hopefully they can put together a tournament run . . . .
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Minnesota's problem in recent years (not last year) when they've underperformed has been their tendency to quit, and they were doing it earlier this year. When I saw them down 3 with their back-up goalie in, I wondered how they would respond. This team might not be playing the top shelf in the pw, but it looks like it's starting to play up to its potential--and there is a lot of it. We all are afflicted with some degree of gopher hate, but they are becoming a team to be reckoned with.
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Balanced yes, distributed scoring is nice to see, but this team also has those "intangibles" working for them.
I refer mainly to the Seniors on this team and the experiences they bring forward, starting with their Freshman year, aka the "Year of 17". Those freshies logged way more ice time than any expected to that season. Parks, O'Donnell, Mattson and MacMillian were expected to see ice time, but Pattyn, Gaarder and Panzerella were called upon early and often throughout that season. Baptism by fire, and they learned how to persevere and win by relying on their teammates and chipping in with a goal when they could. This senior class, more than any in recent history, personifies to me the Fighting Sioux (ok, UND) spirit of never give up, hold your head high, and give it your all. Every one of them bleeds green and white, and I look forward to seeing them take their shot at a banner. They have been to the FF and sniffed the prize. I know they want it as badly as we fans do, if not more. I expect them to leave it all on the ice every game, and if they do that I really like their chances.
I really like this group. They're not the most talented team we have had in the last 10 years, but their intangibles make them a hard team to beat.
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A win Friday would make me feel a whole lot more optimistic about the weekend. If we do, I hope Hak tells them to loosen up and go after them Saturday. I know that is not the way he has been winning, but if we get to the FF, I think the boys need to see it as a chance to do something special rather than a challenge they must meet with discipline and focus. All that sounds like BS (or cliche'), but I think it is possibly true that a team can be a little too tight in big games, and they sometimes need to be taught how to go out there and just play with energy and believe good things will happen. I think that can be the difference between a very successful season and a successful tournament.
Again, that sounds like BS even to me.
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Ironic, because political speech is afforded more first amendment protection than non political speech in the school setting. Obviously, this is not the school room and there are other limitations on signage, etc.