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I was in the camp that thought und would beat BC. Nobody, and I mean nobody, saw that coming. If you did you are a flat out liar. I was alarmed at a number of observations yesterday: 1) BC manhandled und in physical play. Forever and a day und has been a physically brusing team and bc has been more "finesse" but yesterday bc pounded und into submission. 2) und basically gave up after the 1st period. I can't remember a time when und was blown out in the 1st and basically called it a day. I saw absolutely ZERO sustained effort in the 2nd and 3rd period. To me that was very very alarming. It was almost as if they thought well we made it here again and that is good enough. 3) Did Lamaroux think they were playing in the late game becasue he didn't show up. Spectacular season no doubt about that. Without him und is not a #1 seed and I doubt they even appear in the Frozen 4. 4) No sense of urgency or inspiration what so ever. like I said before, it seemed as if the boys were content just to be there. 5) Jerry York took the pedal off the gas. You could clearly see that. If bc wanted to they could have put up 10 on und. While I am not a fan of Hockey East, York earned a ton of respect in my book and handled it with a lot of class. 6) Hakstol and the coaching staff deserve some heat. Sorry to say he is quickly going down as und's version of Doug Woog. Do you fire him? Hell No (what nimrod actually thinks that?). However, the team was woefully unprepared yesterday. The coaching staff had 10 days to scout bc to find their tendencies, strengths, weaknessess etc etc etc. It was evident that bc was fully prepared to handle und but und was not preparred to handle BC. Sorry to say that goes on the coaching staff.

I am kind of in your boat. Born and raised a Gopher fan so gopher fan first but via marriage somewhat of a sioux fan. disagree on the gophers making it to the Frozen 4. IF they beat bc then they will have to contend with Miami which is not going to be easy with their goalie. I would be a little more optimistic if the Gophers could AT LEAST muster some type of momentum on the pp. Teams should have no fear of taking a penalty becasue the pp is down right embarassing. and yes Norton is an idiot.

Glad you had fun because that is what is all about, oh and watching great hockey. if und plays like they did on saturday afternoon the 8th nc banner will be raised. One more thing, if some sioux fans would put their blinding hatred aside for the Gophers and gopher fans I think you would realize we aren't that bad.

Think it's not. How else could the Golden Gophers beat Mankato and St. Cloud?? I see no other logical conclusion but a conspiracy between McLeod, Shepherd, and Don Lucia to rig tonights game so the gophers will be in the Friday pm game. Hmmm makes me wonder what all 3 were doing at Jax Cafe today over lunch?? There is just no way that the Gophers could actually win a game on there own. Obviously they needed all the help from the Shepherds and McLeod. Plus mysteriously the Gophers are on "spring break" which just so happens to coincide with the week of the Final 5. Hmmmmm

at least... good thing for the pro-gopher conspiracy to get them (gophers) into the friday night game.

same with duncan and zajac

Boy what shock that the home town team announcers are homers. Woog looks like a sioux fan--well I did hear some good solid complaining of the officials.

just a tough hard-nosed hockey player

Bemidji yaaaa saaaayyyy. Man Daves's Pizza ROCKS. Hands down the best pizza in the leauge.

The irony lies in the fact that sioux fans label the style of game Stu Bickel plays as a "hack" but label the exact style of game Joe Finley plays (or any other sioux defenseman) as a "physical". Basically Bickel plays identical to the norm of und defenseman but he is labeled a "hack" instead of "physical". You could call that ironic, hypocritical, or downright homerism. I simply choose the word irony.

ohhhh the irony. I really need to dedicate more of my time reading here. It is just pure comedy.

Completely agree. I understand loyalty and cheering for your favorite team but when this rivalry results in physical violence is totally uncalled for. Also, I can tolerate a little friendly exchange between fans but once the game is over shake hands and go buy a beer.

My gawd do you have some serious issues to deal with. Anger management counseling is the first to come to mind. You are an absolute embarassment to all fighting sioux fans and I would bet that 99% of the sioux fans that post here would agree with me.

Why do you guys even care what Dubay has to say when it comes to und? I guess I don't understand it. Really he is no more qualified than any of us.

Classless as hell if you ax me Not a fan of comments like that and really no need for it. Don't think that typifies all gopher fans. Really this rivalry needs to go back to the good ol days. when the gophers played in Grand Forks John Mariucci used to go over to the und coaches house (can't remember his name) and those 2 would get all drunked up Thursday night, Friday night, and Saturday night. Then when the sioux would play in minneapolis the und coach would go over to Mariucci's house and do the same. My father-in-law was telling me a story that back in the 60's he and his buddy drove from GF to minneapolis for the siox gopher weekend and attended a party saturday night after the game and the players were yucking it up and having a grand ol time. Some of the horror stories I have heard of sioux fans and gopher fans acting like complete d-bags really makes me cringe and somewhat embarassed. Really it is just a game people.