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Here is the vintage style jersey in photographic form. I've never tried a uni swap like this on a photo, but it turned out pretty decent for the most part. It's not something I would probably do again as it's pretty extensive.
Anyways, how do your opinions change now that you can see it "in use"?
Nice work. However, I don't like it. Think Minnesota's green jersey now in white/tan. We don't want to look like the Wild. They have the worst colors in the NHL, let alone the worst jerseys. I don't care if they started trends with their red jerseys and with the logo for the alternative jersey, the wild have brutal jerseys.
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Curious as to why people think they wouldn't keep the MacMillan-Rowney-Parks line together? Personally I think you at least start with them as your second line to see if they continue to play as well together as they did this season. I think they were often our best line over the second half of the year.
I realize these are just everyone's extremely early projections, and a lot can and will change, but assuming no early departures, my thinking is that the top two lines from this year stay together and you mix and match to find some good combos for the 3rd and 4th lines.
Simply stated, Rocco Grimaldi isn't a third line player or talent. He belongs on the first line if not the second, but with the likelihood of Knight, Kristo, Nelson staying intact, there is no room for him on that first unit. He'll be playing with Parks and Mcmillan. Rowney gets the demotion making the team better and deeper with his talent at 3rd line center.
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Like it, I would have O'Donnell as the center instead of MacMillan.
Your centers will be Knight, Gimaldi, Rowney next year.
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Based on what I have seen of Gothberg he is going to have some work to do if he is going to usurp Dell from the "starting" spot.
Despite Gothberg, I think people need to understand how good Clark Saunders could/will be on a good UND team, next year. He's a 6'3 goaltender with a save percentage over 900% playing on a shoddy Huntsville team. Keep in mind Dell is only 6'0 ft. Not taking anything away from Dell, but you can bet Saunders is going to get quite the opportunity next year.
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Reason for leaving out O'Donnell? He will be a Top-9 forward next year.
I forgot his name while determining the lines. He'll not only be a top- 9 forward next year, but a top 6!
I'll insert him to start on the third line: (because he's coming off an injury)
3rd - O'Donnell - Rowney - Rodwell or Chyzk
Pattyn gets bumped to 4th line. The perfect line for him, he'll be a great grinder, can be an instigator and kill penalties. No shame in demoting Pattyn to the third line to the fourth. He'll know his role next year. I expect him to get in a one fight next year too, which will be an absolute massacre. The reason being, is because he wants to fight once, and we'll have more depth and no injures for him to do so, next year.
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We already know next years team will have more depth and in fact be better from Day 1. It sure would be nice to know whether Seth Jones decides to come to UND or not. I have a weird feeling he'll commit and use that as leverage for major juniors, don't know why, don't ask. I'd love for him to commit to UND, UND hasn't really had a big time stud D man in awhile, sure would be fun to have a player like that.
Next year, we bring in two great goaltenders to challenge Dell all season long, which is great. In addition, we bring in two skilled forwards and one top incoming defensive recruit.
Our biggest challenge will be team chemistry at the beginning of the year. Also, the transition back to the college game for O' Donnell, Rocco and Rodwell. Rocco and O'Donnell will find their game fast, Rodwell needs to get a goal early right away next year for confidence. He'll either be a really good third player or a fourth line player looking in. Taylor Dickin, great kid, his days are limited, he had the opportunity to have a big impact year this year and didn't despite his year end injury, he'll be an extra body.
The depth next year, should help a lot, not only barring injures, but more so with competition in practice. I expect some great players to be on the third or fourth line.
My line up:
1st - Kristo, Knight, Nelson - given that Kristo doesn't leave
2nd - Parks, Grimaldi, Macmillian - Pretty sure this was the line used prior to October and Rocco's injury
3rd - Patty (he belongs on a third line, great grinder!) Rowney (his numbers may go down, but it's for the good of the team) - Rodwell or Chyzk
4th - St. Clair - Koules - Gaarder
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Mac - Forbs
Simpson - Mattson
Gleason - Schmaltz - I like that pairing, Gleason with his speed for recovery when Schmaltz makes some rookie mistakes in the first half of the year.
Goalies - I'd say next year more than ever, a rotation will be used. I don't care if Dell is a Senior. Gothberg will contest and that new transfer goalie, should be awesome!
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If I'm the Toronto Maple Leafs, I'd rather play and have Andrew Mcwiliam on my team and play a shut down role D than play the most overrated defensemen in Luke Schenn, who turns over more pucks than a Pee Wee player.
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On D next year, you let and keep Gleason on D. I think he'll shine playing D. He's a great skating D who can skate the puck out of the zone. I'm excited to see him play back there all year and actually have enough forwards to fill out the forward lines.
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Next year looks very promising. As much fun as it was to watch Gaarder and Senkbeil and even Panzeralla get some ice time this year, that won't be the case next year, their ice time will be limited. Next years team won't have any holes to fill in the line up. With fully recovered players in Grimaldi, O'Donnel, Rodwel, and with new talent in Koules, Chyzyk, Schmatlz and possibly Jones, the team should be pretty deep.
I'd say Kristo is 60/40 flight risk. He leaves, big deal. I'm a true believer Rocco will be quite the dynamic player next year in college hockey. I have high expectations after watching him play 4 games, 1 game live, he is that good. He'll easily replace Danny on that top unit with Knight and Nelson. If Rocco, plays center next year, one can move Parks up to the first line with Knight and Nelson. Parks is a better corner player and forechecker than Kristo anyways.
I REALLY hope next years squad starts off the season in a winning fashion. I love the second half surge, but would love to a see a Sioux team be consistent from day one and then know they'll make the NCAA tourney sooner without all the pressure of treating second half games like playoff games. In addition, time and time again, we've seen winning the WCHA Final Five is nice, but it usually doesn't translate into too much success in the NCAA Tourney. If I were coach I'd only shoot for a #1 seed in the National Tournament if my team won the league (WCHA) title. Other than that, who gives a rats a$$ about being a #1 seed in the National Tournament. It's completely irrelevant to be a #1 seed in tournament play these days in college hockey, in college basketball, that's a different story.
Being a #1 seed this year hurt us by having the Gophers be in the same bracket. Hindsight is 20/20 and no one could have predicated us winning the Final Five and being a #1 seed, but after that victory against the Gophers I had the Sioux being a #1 seed, being in the same bracket with the Gophers. I tweeted a response to Schloss about it that night. He was still skeptical... well, look how it ended up.
Back to next year again, next year looks very promising. Let's not forget, besides Rocco this year, Brendan O'Donnel was our best incoming freshman, despite his injury filled season, he still put up 5 goals. With a strong summer of recovery and off ice training, he should step in next year and be a huge impact player. I expect the play of Parks and McMillian to rise another bar next year too. They'll be key assets to the our team. The team should be solid at D and goaltending. Macwilliam is a flight risk to leave, but I think he stays. If he leaves, we are screwed on the defensive end for a hard nosed/gritty D man, and our D corps than has the makeup of a traditional Gopher D corps, offensive and not tough to play against. I hope he stays.
One question mark will be developing line chemistry for next year, and how good will Colten St. Clair be? Is he ready to step foot on a third line or fourth line with a deep Sioux team, or will he be watching a lot a games in the press box?
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Bottom line, you just need to find it within your team to a keep a closer, low scoring game to have a chance to win. Seriously, how the hell are you going to win a game against the Gophers, let alone anyone in a National Tournament game? This is my biggest problem. Why do the Sioux give up some many goals when it matters and play below their potential on the defensive end?
Hats off to the Gophers, they were the better team But a few of those goals we garbage and so deflating. Like I stated, you can't expect to win a game at tournament time when you get scored on 4-5 times...Not Dell fault one bit.
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Who's Jess Myers at INCH anyways?
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I won't be able to make the Saturday games of the regional in St. Paul, so I have 4 available for the Saturday games only. Price is $50 per ticket and the ticket is good for both games. Seats are located in Section 117 Row 14. PM me or email fargosioux@cableone.net if interested.
Email sent too.
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A couple things from the U of M fans and our fans (UND):
1. Saw a lot of Gopher fans comment to me whether I was wearing my black Toews Sioux Reebok jersey or my Sioux T-shirt - with the people looking at me and commenting for no reason "Hey, the Sioux suck!" ... "You're a Sioux fan, Sioux suck!" etc... -- Having fun and always winning the battle (my mentality on how I was raised and born, not trying to be a jackass) "Hey, glad you remembered how to get to the Xcel this year" ... "Hey, are you going to the third place game today?" (after the Sioux beat the Gophers Friday night) "Hey, did the Gophers have practice today?" comments to Gopher fans at the Championship game between UND and Denver.
2. I met some great Gopher fans; so much so, that they bought me my late night meal at Mickey's at 2:30 Friday night! (A $50 tab amongst 4 people) Also the Gopher fans were cool sh^ts. His comment, "That dang Sioux team, I knew they wouldn't quit when they were down 3-0, they never do!" "Hey, regardless of your name/logo issue your jerseys and fans are awesome, even though every fan base has a few bad apples"
3. My main problem at the Xcel Energy Center, the Ushers in Club row. They got a little heated with our section of 20+ some Sioux fans cheering heavily Friday night, then come Saturday against Denver, they monitored and spot checked our tickets twice throughout the game, making sure we had Club level tickets. - Our group was a bunch of young professionals in the ages of 25-30, yes beer was being consumed, but we didn't use any profanity or make any rude comments around the fans around us...basically the ushers were disappointed because we were a little rowdy and had a lot of fun! -- They also thought having that many Sioux fans 3 rows deep was absurd! Hey, sorry for having friends!
And for a good laugh from a St. Cloud fan Saturday morning during St. Patty's day.
"Hey, the Sioux suck, you and your fans are losers."
My rebuttal Hey, good season St. Cloud, there's always next year.
His response, "Hey, we'll see you in the National Tournament."
My response: "Sorry, kid you won't, your season in over (St. Cloud), figure it, your comment was the dumbest thing I've heard all weekend!"
Lastly one more from a Gopher fan Saturday morning in St. Paul during St. Patty's Day:
"Sioux are terrible, they suck."
Me: We beat the the Gophers last night, did you not see that, you must be a gopher fan"
Her reply: "We just didn't care and didn't really try" ...Wow, what a fair weather fan and response!
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From my vantage point, it looked like two Gopher fans pulled the jersey off the Sioux fan from behind. Then they wrap him up and when he gets free, he pops one of the Goofy fans. I didn't see him drop but he may have. What I DID see was a few minutes later security escorted the two Gopher fans out, while the Sioux fan remained to watch the rest of the game.
I like that, a win, win!
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The fan fight was ridiculously. Not sure how it happened or if a Gopher instigated the fight with a Sioux fan. Either way, glad the Sioux fan dropped the Gopher fan for his antics. I don't promote this behavior whatsoever, but when push comes to shove, I'm glad that Sioux fan got a solid right in.
It's not surprising that Gophers fans are involved...
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Can't we just all agree that the Minnesota block "M" is the best logo on the front of any hockey jersey in the world?
It's clean, sharp, and you can tell excatly what it is from the last row of the upper deck.
Hey, buckysieve, I said it before and I'll say it again, Get Bent!
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Or 3. With UND in the Final Five across the river in St. Paul they know a lot more UND fans will be strolling through the mall. I do like option 2.
I still like option 3) That nobody outside of Fargo likes or cares about NDSU. It's seriously the truth. Born and raised in North Dakota. Sometime the truth hurts Bison Dan. Maybe if NDSU didn't have such ugly colors
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We were walking through the Mall of America yesterday and as we passed the "Field of Dreams" store I noticed there was a Sioux Hand Bag in the display window along with hand bags for the New York Giants, Kansas City Chiefs, Denver Broncos, Illinois, New England Patriots, etc.
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I'd never been in the store before so I went in to check it out. In addition to the hand bags, I noticed there were some Sioux pennants hanging from the walls along with Illinois, Texas A&M, Michigan, Michigan State, Purdue, Iowa, Ohio State, Texas, Florida State, USC, etc. Most of the Big-Time college programs and Pro Teams were there.
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Out of all the pro and college teams they had merchandise for I was surprised that I couldn't find any North Dakota State Bison stuff. I figured surely a Mall of America store would be capitalizing on the fame NDSU has garnered with their recent success in football.
There are two possible senario's here:
1) either there's been a huge run on the Hurd merchandise and their pennants and hand bags are on back order
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2) nobody cares about NDSU and their FCS football championship
I'll go with option 2. Because yes, nobody cares about NDSU outside of Fargo. Fact!
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What contest? I have always heard this also but who, where, and when was the vote taken? In the 80's when the switch was made from the Blackhawk to the geometric logo the same thing was said then. So again I ask can anyone provide a link or proof that such a vote was taken.
There was a voting poll done with hockey jerseys from every league. The Sioux jersey won. It was on some website a few years ago. Prior to the Sioux jersey winning in that poll, there was another similar survey/poll website voting page and the Sioux jersey took runner-up. Schlossman would know and could provide the link.
You sound like a old grumpy man, watchmaker49. What's your deal?
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The logos and wordmarks on the helmet are stickers. They can be covered or taken off and replaced. The logo on the breezers (on the right leg) is embroidered on. I'm not sure how they address that without new shells for the pants...maybe sew a patch over it. Logos on sticks are can be easily taped over.
As I understand it, they can't have the name or logo visible at the NCAA tournament. I think some undergear with the logo would be fine as long as they aren't wearing it to press conferences. I remember seeing undergear on players without the logo at press conferences earlier this year when we were temporarily sans Fighting Sioux. So, I'm sure they already have that gear.
One thing we can be sure of - Andy Rannells and Pat Swanson will have a busy week.
Not sure now, but a few years back the players had customized Sioux logo's on their Bauer Total One sticks. i wonder if there's any logo's on their Bauer or Easton sticks this year.
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Duly noted. My point was that I actually know people who were surprised to hear that the Chicago Blackhawks play the same goal song as North Dakota since they thought it was a Grand Forks thing. Videos are a different story.
My personal favorite video was one involving O'Fortuna...I think I recall a version of that from the 2006 regional.
That goal song (Chelsea Dagger) needs to go. It's the Hawks goal theme song. I wish the production crew and Sioux team could find an original song of their own.
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LOL...because you can't hear "Welcome to the Jungle," "Right Now," or "Chelsea Dagger" at any other hockey venue?
He's talking about the "unique videos" and not the music. He is correct, REA will never upload those intro videos to YouTube or Vimeo. If you want to see them and experience them, go to the REA and to a game, that's how it works. I expect nothing less from the people who put long hours in producing and editing those videos.
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I usually bring three to four jerseys with (I'm like a girl who can't figure out what purse to use). I am going to start off the weekend with a little retro style (green blackhawk one) and then if we win and play on Friday I am going to wear my white TJ Oshie jersey (it seems like his game usually elevated whenever he played the Gophers). Then if we make it to the Championship game I will be wearing my white Reebok (same as I wore last year when we won in double OT). That's just me though!
Did we really win in double OT last year? I thought we man handled the opponent in the Championship game, maybe that was the year before against St. Cloud when the boys damn near ran out of gas. Someone refresh my memory.
I have and will be wearing a black Toews sweater, just don't know whether to bust it out from day 1. I wore the jersey in Duluth and they won on Friday night (only game I attended) but the boys haven't played that well in blacks all year -- have to wonder if the blacks aren't going to be worn for the rest of the year. I'd be okay with that.
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You listed 4 chain restaurants as better buyers than JL Beers!! That's just crazy! JL wipes the floor with any of those places any day!!
JL Beers knocks the socks off a Green Mill or BWW burger. Who orders a burger at Green Mill anyways? I don't live in Grand Forks, but I do know the only place that can compete with a JL Beers burger is Five Guys or a well done burger at Culvers.
2012-13 Season
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An extra game for Rocco, Derek, and Brenden to get their sh^t figured out before the season starts and put the injury bug behind them on the journey to banner #8.