Finishing near the top is always good in the WCHA, meaning that you'll play one of the weaker WCHA teams come playoffs(thinking of the final five at this point). Fifth and even fourth place is scarey to me and the most of us since usually the stop 6 to even 7 teams in the WCHA are capable of eliminating any of the top teams in the leauge. But again, this is WCHA so even the last place team can do damage. As what others have posted already, winning the WCHA is sweet, but once you get in a situation where the Sioux are at now and have been the past few years, you just dont think about the WCHA banner, but progressing and being good enough to contend in the NCAA tournament/s.
I am ok with the split this weekend, since it ended the way it did. 4-1 not cool, but 4-3 with a very close ending and a loud crowd made the situation better going into the break. Lets get all the players back to 100%, and come back and destroy NH and let the team(Sioux) show us, the fans, what they plan on doing to teams for the rest of the year!