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Rocco looked pretty good, as did the rest. Goalies look promising!
He looked great, though I noticed he did not win a lot of faceoffs.
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Bison really hustle on the forecheck.
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Looked like Rocco may have come up hurting late in the period. Hopefully he's fine, because he looked really sharp.
Had to leave to skype my daughter but saw Rocco go down into the sideboards then skate off from deep in the Dzone later in the first. Was hoping it wasn't a knee problem. Sounds like he was back out and skating full tilt?
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Saunders is huge in net. I'm excited to see the offensive fireworks with all these young players.
Imagine how he feels coming from a program where he was seeing 40+ pucks a game and most folks in the area could care less about hockey to starting the season in nets at the Ralph. I really hope it works out for him this year.
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Hell of a comeback for sure. I mean give credit where credit is due instead of some of these posters blaming the refs. Sioux are up by 2 with 10 to go it's time to put them away. Talent wise the 2 teams aren't even close but heart can take a team a long ways. With that said I would be surprised if the Sioux don't win by at least 4 today.
I thought there was a talent imbalance too, though the Mavs do have some good speed. I would also not be surprised to see a lopsided win today, but UND has a tendency to lose position, and wanting to take it to a team can aggravate that problem. Sioux need a couple early.
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Disappointing loss. Despite the fact that Mankato's coach was not there, yet they seemed to be the better passing team in the 3rd, and I'm not talking about PP time. That series against Wisconsin has to have helped them adjust to game conditions quicker. If you skate to a tie and a one-goal game with Wisconsin, even if it's in your own rink, you can play.
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2005 World Junior Championship
I was an event volunteer and was in attendance for several games throughout the tournament. The Gold Medal game between Canada and Russia is the loudest I have ever heard The Ralph. My ears ached every time Team Canada scored. The place was an absolute zoo. Also, it's incredible to look back at the amount of talent that was on the ice during those two weeks - Crosby, Ovechkin, Malkin, Bergeron, Weber, Getzlaf... During one of my shifts I was in the Olympic rink when Team Russia arrived and I remember watching the media swarm Alex Ovechkin. He shrugged them off and stood in front of a television watching highlights of himself.
It was also cool to see all the folks in the hockey world who ventured to Grand Forks (NHL GMs, coaches, and scouts, Wayne Gretzky...). The Stanley Cup was even in the house for a few days.Wow. What an experience!
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I drank those a couple of time and I didn't really like them... They gave me a headache...
That might have something to do with how many you drank, Goon.
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Among the things I'm looking forward to seeing this year:
Healthy Rocco
The sophs
Both new goalies
Hakstol and his constant giggling
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A lot. It would take a long time to name all of them. I had 4 on my team alone.
A little off topic, but think of how unusual it was for a Central Redskin and son of a NoDak hockey legend to play of the gophers. It is one thing for a Potulny to play for them, but a Gambucci? Jay Potulny played baseball for the Sioux, but Serge was a hockey icon.
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This team has the potential to play with a BC kind of tempo--speed, skill and experience.
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Based on those comments it makes you wonder if money was been shoved under the table.
Why? Didn't he say about Portland, "Their facilities are great, the coaching staff is unbelievable"? Or am I reading Forever's quote wrong?
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. No, didn't search it and no, not an If you took the majority of your classes in Upson, Witmer, and Harrington, tests normally were about taking the concepts and principles you were to learn and applying them to problems you hadn't seen or considered before.
What if we took most of our classes at Whiteys and Frenchy's
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Who is it--Dirty?
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A thought. I'm personally in favor of choice when it comes to cages v. halfshields. But knowing myself as I do, and using the picture I have in my mind of most of you, based on what I can draw from your posts here over the years, I wonder if those of us who are less concerned about facial injuries aren't just uglier people.
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I used to love guys who'd wear the glass shield. I'd put a little greasy stuff on the outside edge of my glove and any chance I'd get I'd put a little grease onto the visor of an opponent.
Jerks like you explain why there's so much wrong with the world. You probably pitched too.
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To each his own. I prefer the full facial protection because I don't like to see bloody facial injuries. I can handle seeing a torn ACL but I get really squeamish at the sight of a rearranged face.
And that's a valid reason, but I doubt the player who has to wear the equipment cares how you or I react to his knee or face injury.
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You don't have to play the game to comprehend the fact that you're safer with your face protected than you are with your face left wide open and vulnerable to sticks/pucks/etc...
Common sense, try using it for a change.
I'm one of the slow ones who doesn't quite appreciate your point, Dave. As long as this discussion relates to adults and not kids under 18, it seems to me that this involves two competing considerations: personal safety and personal comfort/convenience. If you say there are no competing considerations--that it is only a matter of personal safety--and you have never played the game, then you can't blame some people for thinking you are just a little bit full of shatt. If you acknowledge that there are competing considerations but insist that the personal safety factor easily outweighs the comfort/convenience factor and you have never played the game, then you can't blame some of us who care a little less about what you have to say.
I personally have no problem with college hockey requiring players to wear cages or full shields, but I completely understand those who think players should be able to go half-shield if they want. Pros? Let em go with no shield if they want and deal with the risk by contract.
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I'm trying to get my head around the premise that taking seatbelts out of cars will make people drive more cautiously which should also make them "safer". As crazy as that sounds, it is the same exact argument that is being made by those of you who are against the full shield/cage.
Crazy? No so sure. If they made the driver's side seat a bench with two little holes in it for my balls to hang through, I would drive slower, which would make me safer. Nervous, but safer.
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I think you guys just want no cages so you can see the player's faces better.
No, but that is the reason we think breezers should be optional.
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funny, but you can play hockey with a full cage, you can't play ice hockey on rollerblades. another bad analogy.
Guess I should have added the part about how you melt the ice first.
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One of the most horrific hockey injuries is the blade cut, which can and does happen to players with cages, neck guards, gloves and everything else. It just gives me the vapors to see it. Why they don't have the sense to go to rollerblades is beyond me.
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As in...
The theory that making players vulnerable to gory facial injuries by taking away the full shield/cage will make the game safer is like saying you could make the roads safer by taking away everybody's seatbelts.
Not quite there yet, Dave, (the eye-roll) but we can see you're trying.
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As long as everybody has a full shield/cage, we don't have to worry so much about players keeping their sticks down. It becomes a moot point when the faces are all protected. The theory that making players vulnerable to gory facial injuries by taking away the full shield/cage will make the game safer is like saying you could make the roads safer by taking away everybody's seatbelts. It is, to put it bluntly, a stupid argument. Anybody who subscribes to that theory just doesn't get it. It isn't 1930 anymore, time for the game to evolve. Safety is safety, people. Get a clue.
Every once in a while, people are pursuaded more by the merit of an idea than by the force of an insult.
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North Dakota vs Manitoba - gameday
in Men's Hockey
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For a while last night, I kept thinking I had another program running because I was hearing voices that did not match video. Then I thought it was those voices in my own head once again. Finally, I learned that it was just sh!tty production. You guys are upset, but I'm relieved.