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I'm old too, Fetch, and I also tend to like what I have. But when you're old you also realize that nothing is ever what it was--that change is what brought us to a good place. The WCHA is not the same conference I grew up on, but it has been a wonderful experience. The quality of hockey in the new conference will be right up there with the best in the country. Adam will be off the ice. I won't have to stay up real late two nights a year. My medications won't be affected, and my prostate is not bound to get any worse. I will greatly miss the gopher and badger rivalries, but when they bring home the banner in April '13 the Sioux will not have kicked the last gopher azz. And yes, it's a good thing Adam is upstairs and not on the ice.

Do you have a link or a cite to his suspension? It's been a while, where is Sugars?

If it is true that Don Adam has it out for the Sioux, then he shouldn't be reffng Sioux games or any other games for that matter--I'm sure we can all agree on that. But if he is wearing the stripes for a Sioux game, then Hak and the boys need to BE SMART ABOUT IT. Control what you can control. I'm a Hak supporter. I would rather have him than either Lucia or Eaves, both good coaches who have had a lot of their fan bases calling for their heads after several years of just plain bad hockey. The team will come around. One thing that frustrates me, though, is the way we have been losing so many puck races this year. It's not just Saturday nights. You could argue that the Sioux were outskated on Friday night too and would have lost that game if it were not for Saunders and an opportunistic offense. There is a lot of speed and quickness throughout this Sioux lineup , and they are not big, so hustle and winning puck races will win games for them. I understand that the way coaches have designed defensive coverages explains some of it, but not all. But we can't lose sight of the fact that this is a very talented Husky team. When they get all their players healthy, they will win a lot of hockey games.

And now that some Kristos and Simpsons have decided to go elsewhere because of all that and we have some roster spots to fill, if there are any young players out there who like to pout and whine and who will give up when they get a bad call, come on over! The rematch for this series will be intense, especially if SCSU gets a couple of its horses back and Parks is healthy.

That's true. It's as if he lacks confidence unless he is carrying it out of the zone. Is it my imagination or do our Dmen seem to hold the puck a long time before making the first outlet pass? That may be a scheme, but they often seem to hold it until the lane closes.

Man up. We got beat on the ice by a team that outskated and outhustled us. SCSU deserved the win. The refs sucked, but we would have gotten beat anyway.

The unfortunate thing is that the talk will be about the officiating, which was pretty poor, but the Sioux flat got outskated. They got beat when it was 5 on 5 too.

Whatever it was, it was not smart.

I'd like to see how fast he can shuffle across after they let him out.

You're probably right. Some bad calls, but Hak really has to keep his cool there. He just has to.

I don't know what the Homers were saying on the radio but on the streaming they were saying it would be one or the other, not both. Did they call the same thing last night, in reverse?

So did Hak get a penalty

Sioux being badly outhustled

Questionable calls hurt, but SCSU is winning the races to the puck. That is not out of the Sioux's control.

Situations like this are good for the team at this point in the year. Although it was not an egregious hit, Schmaltz will learn to avoid that situation. Saunders will have to carry them for the next 4+ minutes, which he is capable of. If SCSU scores and the place starts to jump, the Sioux will have to learn not to panic and to come back. Good test.

Don't be a quiter, passit--there's a lot of hockey left. But if SCSU gets 2 out of this, it will be a long way back.

Not the least bit surprising call. You make that hit, borderline though it was, you expect that call.

It is nice to have a goalie whose college experience has been knowing that it was up to him to keep his team in the game--that his team would not win in spite of him but because of him. His positioning is so good. Last night he made some huge plays on cross net passes without flopping all over the place. He was just where he needed to be. I wonder what coaching he had at UAB, if any.

Saunders really played a strong position game last night. He saved the Sioux's arse in the first.

I think it's because the Canadian players who have played here all skated before they walked.

Good analysis. Yes, the D were guilty of some miscues, but they have been very very good in their zone this year so far. Hak will bring them along--he's a fabulous program coach. I think this year will tell us how far he has come as a game coach. Schmaltz is as far along as a freshman as any D the Sioux have had for a long time IMO You also have to like the way BU plays the game.

And when the team gets to chipping the puck up the boards or off the glass instead of passing . . .

But then you have that evil twin problem most of us try to overlook . . .

I'm still excited about this group. They have skills and speed across the board we haven't seen in a while, and I do think they work hard. It will be intresting to see who emerges as a real team leader on the ice.

He did what Sioux D used to do all the time but haven't done much of this year and that is hold the puck for two seconds before attempting the same pass that was open from the start. You could see the Sioux starting to lose the puck battles again tonight and feel what was coming. You know Parker will have a good game plan after all his years' experience, and his boys delivered. I really like Gleason, but you wonder how long it will take before there is a change there.