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Well, that sucks. I forgot MTU was on in the eastern time zone, so I missed the whole first period. Good to see the Sioux on the top end so far.

Watch the video again, Dave. Zach doesn't flip out and chase Lucia after taking his gear off. He skates in his direction, prepared for the confrontation. He doesn't flip out until the refs tackle him. Nobody knows what Jones was going to do. Nobody knows what Jones and Lucia talked about on the ice. You don't KNOW that Jones was going to attack an unwilling Lucia. As AZSioux said, if Jones really wanted to "attack" Lucia, he wouldn't have waited until the puck dropped, he would have gone after him at first opportunity. Do you know why he didn't? Because that's not what you do in hockey. And for as many stupid and ignorant comments that constantly fly around this forum, to say that a fight (in hockey? No!) is WORSE than a spear absolutely takes the cake.

Like it or not, fighting is a part of hockey. I don't necessarily like it, but I accept it. In my eyes, Jones did the RIGHT thing. He talked to Lucia (supposedly). He took off his gloves, he took off his helmet, and was prepared to lay it on the line and have a fair fight. Lucia broke code (from what we understand and assume) and skated away. Yea, there are a lot of assumptions here, but we probably won't ever find out what exactly happened but at least Jones didn't just chase down Lucia and start hacking him with a stick, or crosschecking him in the neck while he was laying on his back on the ice.

For anybody interested, at 6:30 CST tonight on Fox College Sports - Central, you can see a replay of last nights (I assume) Sioux/Gophers game.

That's pretty much exactly how I was thinking.

They were really stretching that analogy, weren't they?

I work with a guy from SCSU, but for some reason he's also a big gopher fan. I think he got tired of the Huskies being so crappy all the time. This year, though, we've handled both of his teams pretty thoroughly.

Don't blame the educational system. Blame the general lack of common sense and the idiocy that is far too rampant in general society.

I dislike inter-message board arguments as much as anybody, but in case anybody didn't go over to GPL, here's a quote from their front page article regarding this game:

This is one time where I don't have to try to defend the Sioux after they wrongfully went after a Gopher player. Everything that happened this weekend was because the Gophers were pissed that they were losing and they lost their cool. Well, maybe (probably) a lot of it was because the Sioux were mouthing off on the ice, but that happens in all sports at just about all levels. If you can't deal with it by now, then you shouldn't be playing.

Unfortunately, I'm going to have to deal with people at work who didn't watch the game, but just heard about how the big bad Sioux were trying to start a fight tonight.

Stats: Goals: 6-1 Sioux Shots: 28-24 Sioux Scoring Chances: 20-10 Sioux Power Players: Gophers 0-1, Sioux 1-5 Penalties/Minutes: Gophers 17/50, Sioux 15/52 Faceoffs Won: 42-33 Sioux Turnovers: 23-13 Gophers

Well if he can turn the focus of the weekend towards Jones's move rather than his team getting absolutely railed, then he'll take the opportunity to do that.

Hill was told by one of his players that Jones was mad at Lucia for hitting Trupp by the bench. "My guy said it was just a bump and he laid on the ice". Hill said it was a classless move and it was all for show and there's no place for it.

Hooking on Gophers 4-on-4

3:17

I'm just thinking, if somebody starts chasing you and yelling (and taking equipment off), you'll look at him confused. ...unless you know it's coming but want to come off as an innocent little angel.

That's pretty much what I was trying to say, I just didn't word it very well.

Frattin for 4 for roughing and a 10 minute misconduct. Jonesy only got 2 for unsportsman like conduct and a 10 minute misconduct. Other players got penalties, but I was just pointing out those two. I don't see how Jones got off lighter than the Frattin. Oh well. Gophers score. 6-1 It was after one guy was out of the box, so after the goal we're all at full strength.

I think it's pretty awesome how well the Sioux players have been able to get into the heads of the Gopher players.

Penalty on Kozek. 1:30 of a 5-on-3 for the Gophers.

Lucia didn't even look back, and you can almost bet Jones was yelling as he was chasing him. By not looking back it makes it seem like Lucia must have known he was going to be coming, but was choosing to ignore him. Obviously I don't have any inside info, but I'm just saying what it looks like to me. Frattin's out for the game. Fortunately, through all of this, Jones is the only player I could see getting suspended for next Friday.

Jones DIDN'T get touched at all!! He dropped the helmet and gloves right away after the faceoff and Lucia skated away. He was lined up as a winger. Odd. Ya think Lucia and Jones "agreed" to fight, then Lucia just skated away? Wouldn't put it past a gopher player.

Jones was PISSED! He must have been blind sided in addition to being tackled by the refs.