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No, but that is the reason we think breezers should be optional.

Guess I should have added the part about how you melt the ice first.

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.

Not quite there yet, Dave, (the eye-roll) but we can see you're trying.

Every once in a while, people are pursuaded more by the merit of an idea than by the force of an insult.

Can you conceive of the day when NHL goalies without any kind of face protection whatsoever were bent over looking around screens so they could see incoming slappers?!!

Leave them to their karmic destiny, Grasshopper. They will come back as the Chicago Cubs' farm system or Mankato's hockey program . . .

JP's name was usually pronounced "Pa REE zay," I believe, and I would guess that most NHL announcers are familiar with that.

Yeah, but you'd whiff 20% of the time too, Yzerman, and that would be worth seeing.

Since it's that time of year, I'll throw out a golf analogy, which may be full of sh**. This from a fan who really liked Eidsness. There are some guys who, if you golf with them often enough, you grow to expect some things. I golf with one guy who plays at about a 9. He knows what to do with his clubs and is fully capable of putting together a 73-75 at a fairly challenging course. But if he's hitting the ball real well and scoring at or near par, I can almost guarantee he will cough up a double or triple somewhere along the way to blow his low score. It's not pressure, because we don't play for money, and he might hit the tough hole on the front nine. Maybe it's concentration. Maybe he's just a good but not real good golfer. Eidsness seemed that way to me. He was real good for the Sioux, and I expecially liked his maturity. We were lucky to have him. But I was never surprised to see the softie--usually just one. I suppose statistics would disprove what that analogy suggests about his play, but hey, it's summer. It would be a treat, though, to get a goalie who, when he is on, is just plain shut-down. Might be what is needed for #8.

I agree. He really showed desire to win last year and, at the same time, he played the team game in the offensive end.

Spirko has to be up there near the top

I somehow think you are pretty familiar with the minimum.

Job well done, coach. Thank you for what you gave to our program.

Just another guy the Gophers didn't want anyway.

Nelson was really coming into his own, but I'd tend to agree. Kristo showed last year how badly he wants to win while, at the same time, being more disciplined on offense. UND will have some real hard-to-contain quickness next year, and Danny's energy will be contagious.

Danny and Rocco can both give opponents fits in a similar but very hard to defend way. This is a big deal. Danny proved how focused and determined he was last year. With the most skilled player on the team being that focused, it will only make everyone else more of the same.

Good for Dave. Now let's go get 'em.

Not only that--very few gopher fans know how to use twitter yet, so you could pretty much rule them out.

As a fan, it was an extremely fun year. Dave proved again just how good he is, and the boys have a lot to be proud of.

Interesting information, but I think it's also a different question with a high draft pick. It may be that it is for those players that the CHL gets its rep. For example, Seth Jones probably does not worry too much whether he will get to the NHL. For him, the question is which route can get him there the soonest and to stay.

Makes sense, but I hate to see Gaarder off the ice. Really like his play

I love Blood, and he was a horse this year. But man, he coughed up a lot of pucks.

That freshman bunch of ODonnell, Parks, Matson, Grimaldi, and MacMillan, with the quickness and work ethic they have, could give the Sioux a BC-like quaility next year. If Kristo stays, their quickness level will be as high as it's been in many years.

York has something historic going at BC. Amazing.