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Stand up on a breakaway, then sit down--that's not rude. In church, maybe, but not at the rink. Now, to stand up, howl at the moon and urinate over as many rows below you as your stream can reach is just outside the range of acceptable hockey behavior.

Very serious stuff. Hope Chay comes out of it healthy. Losing Genoway even for a short time hurts--last night was pretty good evidence of that. But if the Sioux can keep winning enough to stay in the NCAA pool, having him out for a time might force others on the blue line and PP to grow their game in ways they might not have otherwise.

Members of the LWW (Librarians Without Work) will be applying in record numbers for rink security positions. They'll have the upper hand in getting those jobs too, since they can pick up a loud voice from a block away and understand what Order is. It will be a boon to guys like Sheppard too, because they will probably be asked to referee fan infractions from their booth in the sky. It might ultimately be good for the atmosphere too, since fans will be booing the refs for penalizing fans for booing the refs for penalizing a Sioux player. Domino-effect booing that will cause the librarian security guards to blow a circuit and abandon their positions for a warm cup of tea at home with their cats and small dogs. Then we can stand, stomp, curse, and defile like good hockey fans were meant to.

Best response is to skate hard to every puck, finish checks hard, but clean, and score on every power play you get. If you get a 4 goal lead, make it 8.

No, he shouldn't.

Time out, Time out Most of what we all say ranges from hyperbole to gross exaggeration to complete bull***t, and we know it. This is just good, clean, Nodak fun, and we don't have to kick the dog or ruin a good 7-iron as long as the gophs are around. Although we stray from time to time, we aren't here to be rational, for the most part. Back to regularly scheduled program Gophers blow

OK, we're a little punk. The gophs are boys choir, and Don is getting uncomfortable playing in our club.

Looking for two tickets to the Sat night Wisconsin game. email: epmolberg@hotmail.com Will pay extra for Sioux win guarantee Thx

Paint Your Wagon: I was born under a wandering star.

A complimentary copy of "Fight on Sioux" was on every seat the Friday game of the Mankato series after Ralph E died. I don't live in the area and don't catch many games in GF, so I don't know if that was coincidence. My favorite pic is a double across pages 2 & 3 showing the sioux goalie (maskless) from a '59 game in the barn.

In fairness, the Badger fans have fun with that cheer, and I don't see it as mean-spirited. They've never picked me with it, but I wouldn't mind if they did--probably stand up and laugh it off. They have a lot of fun as a group with those cheers, along with the band. I wish the Sioux had a little more of that. But as to Rizzo, you're right that she would chew on that cheer too if it were coming from Sioux fans. Too bad she can't go back in time to the old Ralph. She'd probably have to spend the game outside in the production van listening to Hennessey and Home of Economy ads.

What JFR really needs to know is whether there is a TV show host among them.

What you say is probably true, but facts can seem awfully one-sided until both both versions are told (grant you that they probaby won't be if they negotiate a plea and related civil claims are settled).

It's hard to see how T. Arnason can still be in the game.

OK, we got most of the preliminary fluff out of the way--win/loss record, line compositions, captains, nickname, etc. NOW . . . What about Miller Time?

Don't hold it against Dean that he played for the Gophs. He wasn't that good--who else would take him? Coaching's different--he's damn good. If he ever takes the job with UMinn, it's just proof that he is getting old and demented. To be pitied, not hated.

The Sioux never cycle the puck anymore. or They need to do something other than cycling the puck all the time.

A rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet.

Good post, but it's a lot simpler than that. "Sioux fan" is defined in Webster's First College Hockey Dictionary as "One who . . . , and hates the Gophers with a holy passion." If you don't hate the gophs, you don't fall within the definition, so you can't be a fan of both. You might want to be a Sioux fan, but you can't be. Sorry, but the world is a hard place sometimes.

Okay, I won't tell you what I'm about to tell you.

We have to be careful not to impose too many limitations on Gopher hatred. If you hated a gopher when he was playing for UM but like him now that he plays for an NHL team you like, that makes sense to me, because he isn't a gopher anymore. If you hated him then and still hate him, even if he plays for an NHL team you like, that makes sense too because he used to be a gopher and that will never change. As long as you hate gophers, it all works. I can speak from personal experience when I say gohper hatred has been good for me. I've always known it didn't make much sense, and that used to bother me to the point where I sought treatment. But I have learned to embrace this hatred, and boy what a difference! I no longer kick the dog. I don't threaten my wife with divorce quite as often, and I don't tell my kids they'll have to go to college in Minnesota. I quit chewing my nails. Even if I like Garrison Keillor or the Vikes, I know I am doing my little bit to maintain the natural balance of things by hating the gophs. I don't like the Badgers, but I feel no sacred duty to hate them, so I don't. If I were Jay Potulny, could I hate the gophs while my sons were playing there? Sure. I would hate hate hate them as gophers, call them names, write them nasty anonymous letters, impune their morals and reputation and still love them as my children. Makes perfect sense. Hate away. It's OK.

I'm glad jk brought that up. Dean is a great coach, and colorful, in his way, but people tend to have amnesia when they imagine what he would have done with Hak's teams. Those 98 and 99 teams were powerful and disappointed in the tourney. Virg Foss once said he thought Dean was better at winning a championship with a team that was not expected to win but that Gino was more likely to win with the favorite. Not that Virg's word is gospel, Parise knows. But I would like to see Hak wear Dean's green jacket.

Plus a little bit of "go-for-the-balls" edge of . . . now what was that guy's name . . . .

I don't want to bring Happy out of his end-of-the-slide hibernation, but what were the combined ages of the Hrkac line compared to Toews, Oshie and Duncan? DOT was awfully young. Greg Johnson was on some lines in 90-91, including Dixon Ward, that could play with the big boys. But they did not have the defensive side that DOT did.

You never know--he might see himself as a regular on Brad Miller Time.