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That hit was closer to a five-minute than McWiliam's was.

Random thought (since they mentioned Grimaldi, so maybe it's not totally random): If Rocco applied for a medical redshirt for this year, would he still officially be a freshman next year, therefore eligible for freshman/rookie of the year? Even if he didn't stay long enough to need the redshirt, he could try to fill out his trophy case.

That's not a normal Denver team, though. Watch out for a closer 2nd period, I think.

Only one so far.

Once again a case of the refs calling the result of the hit rather than the hit itself. It might not even have been a 2-minute minor if the play would have just fallen backwards. But since he flipped around, it made it look that much worse, so of course they had to give him the major.

Initial contact was below the neck. In other words, the refs blew the call.

And they still switched over to our game with plenty of time to catch the opening face off. No need to complain. It's not just you. Must be the production on NBCSN.

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I have a bad feeling that our game will be joined "in progress". Well....7 minutes left in the BU/Vermont game, and the puck usually doesn't drop until 5 minutes after the hour, so maybe we'll be ok. And this game definitely isn't going to OT like a certain lacrosse game.

Better than the worse-than-high-school rink that the Ferris State vs. WMU game is being played at. (That game is on Fox College Sports.)

Anybody else watching the early game on NBS Sports Network? How did the Hockey East refs call that a goal? It didn't get anywhere near close to completely crossing the goal line. The announcer is convinced it's a goal because it hit the padding that's inside the net (covering the pipes on the base of the net, that cover the pipes). I still have no idea how the refs called that a good goal. Vermont got screwed on that one.

"Get me my gardening gloves! NOW!"

Does that mean you would stop cheering for the unnamed UND team and stop coming to this website?

This isn't a Division 1 issue, this is an NCAA issue. If for some reason UND decided to roll back to Division 2, they still wouldn't be able to host playoff games or wear the name/logo at playoff games. The timeline just happens to coincide with the move to D1, but this isn't just a D1 issue.

I also recall hearing that, but I'm not sure where the statement came from.

I hate to be negative about this because it's such a unique event, but it doesn't look like there's a good seat in the house. The only way to actually decently close is to sit on the ends, which I'm not particularly a fan of. Otherwise if you want a side angle you're going to be sitting really far away.

John Hoeven didn't do any more to "create" the oil reserve than Al Gore did to "create" the internet.

It's not what the penalty is, it's how many people are on the ice. For coincidental minors, players are in the box but the teams still skate 5-on-5. Since you can't play 6-on-6 (when you have goalies), teams have to wait until a whistle to get their players out of the box.

I'll thank you in advance for the updates tonight. I'm stuck at work and can't even watch the game when it's in HD.

As somebody else said, you're looking at NBC Sports Network. CBS Sports Network is what used to be knows as "CSTV" or "College Sports TV".

What do you think caused the upward shift in the possible rankings? Any ideas?

Well maybe you should have just done that the first time instead of just coming on here yelling about how everybody is "WRONG!" Do you have the link to where you got that text from?

That's my point. But the post I quoted seemed to be implying that once the WCHA "paired" us with SCSU, they became a rival. I don't think they are, though, and I don't think many people think of it that way. The only thing "special" about SCSU is what we're guaranteed to play two series a year against them. (Ok, maybe there's something else "special" about SCSU.)

How many Sioux fans even consider SCSU a rival? They're not even close to UM, UW, DU

I thought they said the jerseys wouldn't be available until the end of February, but the team would continue to wear these jerseys for the rest of the season.