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What's with all this "we" stuff? Are you even a student anymore? What's the big deal? Get there before warm-ups and you won't have to deal with lines. For crying in the beer, we used to have to wait in line for 2-3 hours as recently as last year to get the seats I've got now, and that was in negative temperatures at times. Students are doing all this complaining about losing tradition from the old arena because REA officials apparently have it in for students, and yet there are only a handful of students who make it to the game in time for warm-ups now (except the people in the upper bowl who still have to wait in line). Who's going to heckle the players during warm-ups if nobody is in the lower bowl? Who's going to help create the intimidating atmosphere that was present at 5:30 every night last year? Don't think opposing teams weren't impressed when they saw 1,000 rabid hockey fans running to their seats a full 2 hours before the game with nothing better to do than taunt them. Now all they see is that the student section looks no different than the rest of the arena, with most people showing up at or just a little after game time. I think I just grew up.

Rawr!!

Yup, all rolled up on a desk. The security guy told me he already confiscated one as he rifled through my stack, so I asked what it said. He told me I could look at it, and it took some effort not to laugh when I saw what it was. I tried to make a crack about Saigo earning that jersey, but I was shut down. He was all business.

Student tickets are red flagged if you try to go in any entrance besides the Student entrance, so we can't go in any other door. I don't know what doors YaneA goes in, but security has checked with her too.

That was the biggest non-call of the game, and yet Schmidt called Parise for throwing a player off his back? No excuse me, he called Parise for holding.

Thank. Nice to hear that Jason is doing well.

I saw your poster (very lovely by the way) when the security guard took me into his office and went through all the signs. One that made it through Friday night with YaneA didn't make it Saturday night. "Fix the Huskies." There are some pretty sensitive people out there. I asked him who was complaining about them, and he said Kupchella has been on a roll since the Gophers series, trying to clean things up. It's pretty ridiculous. So basically the funnier the idea, the less likely it will make it through security from now on. (ahem, Flatspin)

Through a very lengthy process. I must have explained my rather embarassing situation to a million people. I went to the student entrance and asked if they could at least let me in to find a friend to take me home, even though I didn't have my keys to get into the house. But they said they couldn't and sent me to the front entrance because apparently they reprint tickets for you if you lose yours. So I explained my situation and asked if they would be able to print me a ticket, but of course you need some sort of ID to get it printed. Finally she asked someone else if they could do it, and another girl asked for my address, phone number, etc. since I have season tickets and they have all that information in their computer system. So yay, I get a ticket. Then I figure, hey, I may as well go in at the main entrance. Nope. The ticket guy's scanner starting beeping like I was a freaking terrorist, and he looks at my ticket and tells me I have to go around to the student entrance. I tell him I don't have an ID anyway and that they just reprinted a ticket off for me, but I still had to go around. You gotta be fisting me. So I go back to the student entrance and since I don't have an ID, I had to tell the people at the office there my NAID #, and he pulled up my picture from my student ID on the screen and compared it to me to make sure I was a student. Then I got a pretty pink piece of paper that said I was a student and Oila, 20 minutes later I'm in the building.

Hey, don't blame this s&!t on me! I had the worst 30 minutes before the game last night. I got to the arena and couldn't find my ticket, so I'm frantically searching my car. Finally I decided I must have dropped it in the parking lot at home so I shut the passenger door to go around to the other side and drive home, when I realized I locked my purse/cell phone/ID/keys in the car. And my roommate wasn't home. How stupid do you have to be? I can't believe I got into the game. I did find my ticket in the parking lot this morning...

I was wondering the same thing. It was so stupid it was funny.

FYI: NORTH EAST LOT UNAVAILABLE FOR UND/SCSU SERIES GRAND FORKS, ND.

The answer is obviously no. Rumor has it Schmidtdoggydog bases his whole existance on Redwing77.

Because Roche was signed for his offensive abilities, which the Wild organization continously voiced. Hale was signed for his stay at home defense, which is similar to Scott Stevens. Big difference.

No, but I would assume it will look something like last weekend. Brandt starts, and if the team looks good and wins, Parise gets a start Saturday night. Assuming Brandt plays well and the team loses, I think he would play Saturday too.

Now that I like!

Naturally. I'm still pining for his hair.

Actually I think Blais and TH talked about that on the Coach's Show a week or 2 ago. Maybe when they were discussing Andy Schneider's ankle sprain? That toilet is hilarious Scott. Did you have to hire someone to come into your home and paint your crapper?

If the security is anything like the big African dude who laughed and told me I was "straight up crazy" then no problem. That guy was funny.

Whoops, that was supposed to say bad enough to warrant surgery. POI is Pride on Ice, the Gophers message board.

Shhhh!! Great, now no one will contribute!!!

If the injury was bad enough to warrant surgery, why in the world did Ryan play Saturday night?

Greyeagle, did the injury happen during practice?

You know, with everyone talking about their favorite memories from this weekend, I thought I'd share one of mine. One of the funniest things that I thought happened was in the student section. A few college-aged Gopher fans are sitting in the student section, and every time the Gophers scored on Saturday this stupid girl would stand up, scream, and point her fingers in the air (one of them was big and foamy) with a look on her face that said "Somebody please remove this stick from my ass." UND students (mostly male) responded by standing up and turning their backs to the ice to face her while chanting "Ugly Gopher" clap, clap, clap clap clap. Friggin hilarious! Her friends were smart enough to stop standing up to cheer after the first Gopher goal.

If you've already decided, then why did you make a poll?

AHAHAHAHA! I can barely make out the Sioux logo on my black jersey at the top of that picture. NorthStar is right, that kid gets all the ladies! Nice pictures. I've always thought, if people really want good pictures to look at every week, I'd be more than willing to take some from my awsome centerline seats....as long as someone buys/loans me a camera. Come on guys, everyone pitch in like $50 and you can have all the pictures you want!