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For your sake I hope they do because on sunday the entire team will be attending their own funeral after the Gophers sweep the sioux by a score of 102-1 and 56-1

I prefer this: no to the sioux and YES TO THE GOLDEN GOPHERS

LET'S GO GOPHERS !!!!!!!!!!

Join the club... From all accounts I have read they basically dominate any team when they are on the ice. I assume the same would be true this weekend. If we can hold them scoreless all weekend long (big task) the Gophers could sweep. If they start hitting and sticking like Popeyes fried chicken I just may have to head back to the hardware store for more paint thinner

Good one....the paint thinner I have been drinking is starting to kick in.

Goon Goon Goon, of course the Gophers will have 3-4 more penalites than the sioux--the officials are on the Gopher payroll. Where the hell have you been all week?

No trolls here just Skippies

Of course it is. Just like the officials on the Gopher pay roll, it is all part of the plan for world domination.

Lightweight Barribal vs Duncan Welterweight Okposo vs Chorney Middlweight Peltier vs Jones Heavyweight Schack vs Finly

Prepare for the onslaught of Holy Cross references. You have done it now. Good luck to you and may God have mercy on your soul. TC is a Gopher fan & I am a Gopher fan, however I do not want to be affiliated with his/her comment

You look at that guy and he just looks like he is missing a few puzzle pieces

My money is on Cary Eades into the crowd. The blue-hair security guards with their canes screaming "Stop it Sonny back in my day we never did this type of thing"

Not gonna happen this weekend. I sent the officials their "payoff" money since all of the WCHA officials are on the Gopher payroll. This virtually gurantees a Gopher sweep. Man now I can rest easy this weekend

Good point FHG, how silly of me

Whewwww that is a relief. I am glad I sent the payoff money to the correct officials

That is non-sense. 2 months ago I would agree with you but today these teams are a lot closer than their record indicates. Believe me, I would love to see the Gophers sweep in a dominating fashion this weekend but it ain't gonna happen. UND could easily get 2 if not 3 points.

That is why we come to this board to get all of our Golden Gopher hockey news

I think that is a fair question. My guess would be it all started in April 2002

Darn those pesky names like Briggs, Howe, and Flynn. Can't forget about Anderson & Johnson--residents of the upper-Midwest have a very very difficult time with those names. And obviously Vannelli, Goligoski, and Okposo are names that synonomous with Russian heritage.

Did you happen to read the last paragraph in my post where I said this series will be a split?? I even highlighted it for you. Yes statistically the Gophers are superior to UND so far this year. Break it down any way you want but MN's record is 13-2-3 in WCHA play where UND is 7-9-2. Does that equate into an automatic sweep this weekend---obviously not that is why they play the games (worn out cliche)

See I disagree. UW style of play is very very defensive-minded. They basically sit back and wait for the other team to make mistakes and then capitilize on them. I think when they swept UND in the ralph a few weeks ago it gave them a boost of confidence. The MN series Friday UW was clearly the better team and I thought the Saturday game was 50/50.

*Sigh* Please go back and read my posts. I have been saying this series will be a split from the get go. In the aforementioned post my point was IF (key word IF) MN can sweep UND along with a SCSU/DU split would result in further seperation in the WCHA standing. The possibility of MN sweeping UND is very real, the possibility of UND sweeping MN is very real

Here is my take on this weekend: For UND--this is a huge huge weekend. They need to continue to build upon their momentum from the previous 4 weeks. They need to get at least 3 points to keep ahead of Wisconsin for the 5th place in the WCHA. UW has played 16 league games where UND has played 18. UW appears to be turning the corner a bit. UND does not want to finish 6th in the WCHA and have to go to the Kohl Center for the 1st round. A series split does not do much to UND except improve their Pariwise ranking. If UND gets swept it could be a long remainder of the season. MN--A sweep can give them some more seperation from DU & SCSU. Said teams are squaring off this weekend in Denver. I see a split with the SCSU/DU series. A sweep of UND coupled with a DU/SCSU split would vault the Gophers 7 points ahead of the 2nd place team in the WCHA. I guess I am not too concerned about the outcome of this weekend though. I want to see MN play their style of hockey and keep improving on the PP & PK.

Let's see here. Minnesota 18 13-2-3 29 58-32 27 21-3-3 105-51 2 St. Cloud State 18 10-4-4 24 63-44 24 16-4-4 88-52 3 Denver 18 10-6-2 22 46-42 28 18-8-2 77-59 4 Colorado College 16 10-6-0 20 50-43 24 14-9-1 79-64 5 North Dakota 18 7-9-2 16 50-50 26 13-11-2 80-70 6 Wisconsin 16 7-8-1 15 34-32 24 10-12-2 53-52 Alaska-Anchorage 20 7-12-1 15 48-70 26 11-12-3 71-83 8 Michigan Tech 18 6-10-2 14 45-44 26 11-13-2 63-60 9 Minnesota State 18 5-10-3 13 50-65 26 8-14-4 72-91 10 Minnesota-Duluth 20 5-13-2 12 45-67 28 9-16-3 77-97 Joe Fallon, Jr, UVM 22 13-7-2 1297:03 35 462 .930 1.62 2 Kellen Briggs, Sr, UMN 15 11-2-2 908:12 26 374 .935 1.72 3 David Brown, Sr, ND 24 19-4-1 1449:27 42 534 .927 1.74 4 John Curry, Sr, BU 20 10-4-6 1228:28 36 510 .934 1.76 5 Peter Mannino, Jr, DU 11 6-3-1 634:36 21 289 .932 1.99 6 Jeff Frazee, So, UMN 12 10-1-1 724:53 24 251 .913 1.99 The Gophers have a 21-3-3 record. They are outscoring their opponents at about a 2:1 ratio. They score an average of about 4 goals/game and only give up a little under 2goals/game. They have 2 of the top ranked goalies in college hockey with Briggs giving up 1.72 GAA & Frazee giving up 1.99 GAA. They damn near never give up any 5on5 goals during a game. They reeled off an 22 game unbeaten streak and 21 straight victories at Mariucci Statiscally speaking they should sweep UND, however, the games are played on the ice not on the score-sheet. I am sticking to my guns and saying a series split. I think the last 5 years UND has split with MN in Mariucci. I see this trend continuing this weekend. UND wins Friday but MN wins Saturday

I think that is a stretch. Under the new CBA his salary is about $800,000 annually or $75,000/month plus some type of signing bonus (with that type of money he might qualify for a mortgage, YO JT give me a call... the mortgage business is slow this time of year). As much as he may like UND passing up that kind of money is awfully awfully difficult.