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I loved Hak, partly due to his character but mostly because he delivered top notch hockey teams year in and year out. He took a tremendous amount of grief here, though, because some people judge by banner count only.

I'm confused by the "Hak's roster" thing. Sometimes, fans stress the fact that assistant coaches do most of the recruiting, other times not so much. I suppose it varies by programs.

Ice rough? Lot of pucks jumping over sticks.

And UMn could get swept too.

You are right in a limited sense, of course, but I see that as being just as tired a rationale.

The woulda coulda shoulda folks come out in force every time a little adversity hits. I love that old worn-out pitch that if you aren’t panicking and pointing fingers of blame its because your “standards” are too low. We set our own standards in our professional and personal lives, not on the games played by someone else’s college-age kids.

CC scored 7 last night without breaking a sweat. They still need to climb at least two PW rungs, and they smell Sioux blood in the water, so what's to say they won't score 14 or more tonight? About the only way to prevent something like that from happening, IMO, is to start three goalies and try to completely seal off the goal. That and position one of the three skaters out by the red line as a permanent floater. Maybe you catch a breakaway goal, then you pull another skater back to the crease area to protect the one-goal lead. Call me crazy, but I'm just a realist. What else they gonna do?

This seems like an appropriate time and place to ask this. And when I use the term "they," I mean to include myself, because we all seem to identify as ledgies at one time or another. How can you tell when someone has actually jumped? Is there some kind of declaration or code phrase they use, or can you just tell? I mean, the ledge can be totally crowded one day and then have all the room in the world barely a week later. Along those same lines, how do you recognize those who constantly climb off and back on again? Are there marks on their hands and knees, a look in their eyes; or is it in the words they use? Lastly, is ledgie behavior the same behavior that makes us, as parents, become ugly at our kids' games? Oh, and is there a ledgie hotline or a bar somewhere where we can work through our bouts of ledginess.

Say the secret code "far out, man" and the picture returns.

I'm not and I don't think others are making fun of the CC program in any real way. There's a lot to like about CC. It's just that we are so spoiled with the game production side of things (and the floating tiger heads belong down the highway a little ways where they weaponize such things).

I was thinking maybe a dramamine bourbon highball.

We can walk you through this, Goon. You can do it.

Bring on the floating tiger heads!

I think they all tend to feel that way down the stretch. Gonna be interesting for sure. CC really wants to turn the corner with this series.

Two top NCHC COY candidates going at it this weekend. Be nice to see Brad get a little separation.

I'd definitely take that bracket.

At the same time, don’t dial down to the lowest of the low, Mariucci.

Surely it just has an altitude dial.

Like a hot Sioux knife through butter.

I gotta finally say it: it's about time they return to old school Sioux hockey. As soon as the puck drops, start hitting people. Hit the forwards; hit their goalie; if they lean over the boards, hit their coaches. Hell, hit their cheerleaders if they are manly enough to have them. And if they can do all that and stay out of the box, they sweep, Simple--just like back in the day. If it were me, I'd have every Sioux player wearing a rubber Mike Prpich mask. Mess with 'em, then mess 'em up.

Today's Bpot games should be interesting. Hopefully.

And like a bunch of his teammates, the guy can shoot. Not on a level with Gaber, Mac, or Blake, but pretty exceptional. More shooters than we’ve had in a long time.

Denver is the second best team in the NCHC, current records aside. The NCHC is good, but there are stronger conferences this year.

It would be fun (and, yes, quite a bit of work) if someone could identify these commits by the former Sioux player that most reminds them of. Some of us have never seen them play or even watched the league they play in, so other than stats and draft status, cannot visualize their play, Occasional vids are nice. Some of us fans are so needy . . .

Michigan a bubble team now? With all that talent?