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I cannot get the video no matter how many times I go round the circle. When I try to subscribe (after giving password info) it won't get past the screen where I select the package. jeez, am I that dumb?

Who knows--maybe dad will be inspired to add some lawnmower throwing to the next SAW movie.

If Penn State adds hockey, they gotta let JoPa coach at least a game, just to get the atmosphere right. With those glasses of his, it would look like a Hanson brother in their box. Good ol Pennsylvania hockey . . .

Yeah, and now maybe he can fill the hole in my Sioux heart that was created when Spirko left. And then some.

Anybody seen Harrison Aide from Bottineau play? He will be playing for the 15 Selects in NY next week, I think. His dad and three sisters were/are all superb athletes, and I know hockey is a passion for him.

I realize MacKinnon's name is spelled "Mac" in the article, but is he any relation to Manitoba native Kevin McKinnon, who played for the Sioux in '89-'90?

Hanging banners is nice, but owning the gophers cures impotence.

Not out of the question. I see a trade sending Blais to UMinn for a half-dozen overrated Minnesota-born quitters and a blood-oath to end UND's season just once in the next five years.

I know of this Lunsetter through a friend. Canadian roots. His second cousin (I don't remember his name) was from central Saskatchewan. North Battleford, I think. After high school, he decided to attend UND and try out for the hockey team. Apparently, he got cut pretty quickly, while some other Canadian players his age or older made the team. I think he tried out two years in a row, failed both times, and then left school. Pretty bitter about it. Since he didn't get a degree either, he ended up working as a cashier at a 7-eleven in St. Paul, where he stayed and started a family. He had a couple of kids, including a boy, who would sign up for summer hockey camps at UND--I guess trying to reclaim his father's honor. I heard that the kid was sent home from camp because his skills were just not there and the staff thought he might get hurt. Kind of lost track of the kid until he started showing up on USCHO a lot. Lonetree! That's his name. Happy Lonetree. Nice enough people, but I guess they never quite got over that UND rejection. At least that's what I recall.

It's really nice to see LaPoint getting positive press. He still makes me nervous in the corners and along the Defensive endboards, but he's starting to look more like the player who was contributing so much offense in Green Bay.

The gophers need open the Red Pepper menu and pick up a bunch of grinders.

I hope this controversy and suspension doesn't take Frattin off his game. He's been on fire. And by "off his game," I don't mean head hunting. That is not his game--scoring and playing with intensity is. The real prize starts with regionals. Anybody else have mixed feelings about this team coming off a three-game weekend and then playing three more at the FF followed by another short rest before the biggest weekend of the year? Or am I just another pussy?

Gophs have loads of talent and they are desperate. Only way for them to avoid a total failure of a season is to come out of this series alive. Don't expect the usual favors (of lack of urgency) from them this time. If the Sioux pass as poorly getting out of the zone and on the PP next weekend as they did this weekend, the results will not be good.

I'm in.

When the feet stop the penalties start. We can't spend much time in the box against this team.

Dammit, Goon, tie your shoes, would you? And when's the last time you took a comb through your hair?

Heading out tomorrow morning for an 8-hour drive each way to see them kick the !@$! out of the pios. Easily worth it.

Is Chay even able to skate much (much less scrimmage) while he is recovering? If not, it seems like it will take him a while to be game-ready anyway.

It's hard to get around superior speed in this game, and the other side had it. I thought the Sioux did pretty well , though, considering. Powerplay was dismal, as has been noted, and there were some pretty strange second passes in transition. But still, nothing for them to hang their heads about.

First of all, keep in mind we lost by a goal to what is arguably the best team in the courtry right now. These folks in Wisconsin are pumped about this team, which has very good defense and goaltending to go along with an offense that has been missing from their teams for a long, long time. This year, I think their players are buying into the scheme in ways that has not happened in Madison for a while. That said, I agree with the comment about chippiness at the end of games/periods. If you have some goal tender issues, stay the hell away from the Penalty box. Save your "edge" for beating people to the puck. What I would rather not see again is having to put on a strong finish just to make the tourney. All that really matters is that they are peaking when the NCAAs come around, but if the transition game is still lacking and the goalie does not look like he can steal a game for you, they are probably looking at an early exit. I still like this team, though--a lot.

This is a very good Badger team and getting better. I was at a golf fundraiser this summer with Eaves, and he was really pumped about the talent and chemistry on this team. More than the usual sales pitch. Sweeping this weekend will be very tough, but it would sure be sweet. Sweeping might get some Mojo back too.

To locals, it will always be just "The Forestry." The story of how Penner got to the Forestry and ended up skating with the Cup is an inspiration to under-the-radar kids everywhere.

Spot on. Totally different skating game--lateral and backwards v. forward. Though Miller did quite well. I would be a little less worried about the time it is taking skilled players like Kristo and/or Marto to eliminate gaffes on the blue line. None were better than Roche at playing possession on the blue line during PP, but but I'm sure he turned over his share in his first couple of years. Maybe not--I can't remember to be honest. He!! to be old enough to remember a lot of hockey but also old enough to forget all of it.

Never really thought of hockey as being nuanced.

Frankly, it makes me a little proud, though not surprised, that a fair number of Sioux fans might think it rude to stand during a breakaway. Illustrates that sense of civility and respect midwesterners are know for. But then we hockey fans are animals, so I guess that little observation goes nowhere . . .