Southernmn
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Like we said last spring, they can have "Phil the Thrill"!!!!!
Hey Phil, pass the puck!! Ha Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
17 goals...33 assists.
He must have passed it a time or 2 ............
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It is sad that some fans are clueless. Everyone has them. They are the same ones yelling like idiots as they are walking out of the building at the opposing fans after their team won. I never understand it.
HC played better and got a few good bounces. What else is there to discuss? I don't accept the lost very well, but can't make excuses why we lost. #3 above is just too funny.
We got beat because HC played better.......plain and simple.......they showed more heart.
It is a shame that some fans (Gopher fans included) simply can't accept that once in while their team lays an egg. Accept it move on....it's over.
#3 is pretty good though...........a nazi conspiracy ??
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Hauser should have been whooped by the Maine players for his blatant hackings with his big stick during the playoffs that season. it was rediculous. I would have loved to been a player on the ice and have that hack hit me with his stick, there would have been a brawl in the championship game. That was one of the direst things I have seen from a goalie in the NCAA playoffs.
On to the breaks, it sure as heck doesn't hurt to be lucky sometimes. DU and Minnesota were lucky in their run and UND might or might not get a break during their run.
Your right Hauser was no hero....gave up what HAD to be the worst goal ever in a championship game, that almost turned out to be the game winner.........and yes, he SHOULD have had a penalty called in him in overtime. However, be it right or wrong, penalties are rarely called unless it effects a scoring chance, which his 'chopping' did not (which made it worse in my view). If Koalska hadn't been tripped, he would have had a clean break away.
Breaks......I always say I would rather be lucky than good, and that certainly holds true hockey as well as most sports. Odd bounces, players tripping, you never know.......but at the same time the teams that work the hardest, do seem to be the luckiest.
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Well we will see who else is gone by the end of the next week.
Surprised this didn't happen Monday...........
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I know someone who works with the State of North Dakota and who happens to be a persons who has a good grasp of the laws and buildings on state ground and I had asked him if he had heard the rumor/urban legend about the ralph being destroyed if the name changed, he basically said that it was against the law to do what has been suggested by some. Apparently you can't just blow up a building like that.
I told him the rumor about the Dynomite being on the site when Charles K was thinking about changing the name and he said, that would also be ilegal. So I hardly very much doubt some of this crap that is out there.
Correct me if I am wrong.....but old Ralphy never said he would blow the place up if the name was changed. When the dispute was going on, the arena was only half done. He said he would have no problem stopping construction and letting the place rot.
If the Engelstad's (who control the arena today), felt the same way...they could refuse to rent the facility to the university if they were contemplating changing the name/logo/etc.
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Kind of like how Johnny Pohl lead the nation in points in 2001-2002 (27-52-79 ) and wasn't even a top 10 finalist. Unfortunately, it happens!
Go Matt Carle!
Potulny has signed with Flyers............
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I thought Ralph (or the family now) had control of the Ralph for 30 years and then after that the University could buy it for $1. Or is that another ridiculous rumor?
The terms are actually different..but at this point the family does have control of the Ralph. That's not to say that they are going to implode the building though...........sounds far fetched to me.
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That is the biggest widespread rumor that I have ever heard. The Ralph is no longer controlled by the trust fund.
Wrong, the arena IS still controlled by the trust. It's fairly complicated, but the policies involved with the trust, created the reason that Dean Blais left the university.
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No problem. Frankly, I'm opposed to voting AGAINST someone and prefer to vote FOR someone else. There are plenty of reasons to like candidates without being negative.
I disagree with sagard's assessment that winning the WCHA doesn't mean much. It's a conference championship and they still raise banners for them at Mariucci and REA, don't they?
You are correct. Winning the WCHA is a BIG deal. That's the one that says you played good hockey for a long period time. The 'Championship" in any sport, at any level, is all about who is playing the best at the time.
A hockey season is more of a marathon than a sprint........playoff's, especially in a single elimination tourny are definately a sprint.
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I don't think anyone is going to go on run like the Blais did in the late 90s for a long time. The competition is far more fierce now. Blais was far superior to both Woog and Sauer and the results speak for themselves.
With Lucia and Eaves at the Big 10 schools, DU's return to power, CC's steady program and solid coaching in place at UMD and SCSU now, I don't see a run of four WCHA titles in five years as realistic for anyone.
As the for great accomplishment of winning the league and then the NCAAs, to each there own. The league title was far more of an accomplishment in the days of a balanced WCHA schedule. The best team will usually win the league now, but the craziness of a team playing UAA and MTU four less times than another just reeks to me.
Can also be a curse having to play these teams more than others. Minnesota ended up playing the last month of the schedule, and first round of the playoffs against these types of teams, and there is no question that's where they lost their edge.
North Dakota on other hand, played MEANINGFUL games during that time span........games they HAD to win to even qualify for the NCAA's. Essentially every week was playoff hockey for them.
I think the last weeks of the regular season had as much to do with the Gopher's fall as anything.
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Carle gets my vote. He could control a game when he was on the ice, no one else in this group can say that.
Potulny's number's are VERY good, but as several have pointed out, other than the SCSU game, where was the big play when it really mattered.
Elliott would have got my vote back in January, but I don't think you can miss as much time as he did, and still be considered a serious candidate. Not his fault, but just the way it is. Plus when he did come back, those first few games he looked like pee-wee goalie out there.
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No need to to feel sorry for us Gopher fans....we will be back. Every team loses games that they should win once in while, though they usually don't completely disappear at this time of the year.
They Gophers did play the game as though they were entitled to win simply by pulling a sweater with a big "M" on it over their heads. They had no heart, no fire, and no emotion....and that is the most disturbing thing. I never expected that out of this years squad, other years, yes, but not this years team.
So now I am Sioux fan for the next 2 games !! I have no problem cheering a program that honors the game, has a great tradition, and truely love and understands the great game of hockey.......unlike that 'other' team to our east. I want the championship to remain in the WCHA where it belongs.......as long as there no red attached to it.
You can find me at the Bradley Center, still wearing the jersey of my beloved Gophers, and cheering as heard as anyone for green.
GO GET 'EM SIOUX !!!
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ATTA BOY! Gotta hate them Badgers!Hate the Badgers ??!!! Hate is pretty tame word..........
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Good luck to the Sioux...this is one Gopher fan who will be cheering for you in Milwakee...........can't win 'em all !!!
INCH Rookie of the Year
in Men's Hockey
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