Stromer

I appreciate both the band and the PA music at the games. I just wish they would put someone with hockey knowledge and or common sense in charge of the band and the PA. It great to fill in empty time and get the crowd into it. But if there is a bad penalty and the crowd is doing an anti-Shepard cheer or if the crowd is actually doing a cheer or taunting the other team, do not push the music button on the PA and do not signal the band to play. Simple as that. If they can't figure out when to hold off on the music, than maybe they should be replaced.

Well it was a rumor until it got announced late today. It doesn't sound like everyone over there is totally onboard with another away game. CM is def a quality opponent but you still need another home game. P.S. I hope we don't play you until 2009. I can wait until everyone is settled and the field is fair so that there can be no complaining by either fan base that the game hurt their team.

Was that the big rumor on bisonville?

Well then I guess I need to step up my arguments.

Plus I think students have to pay more so that cuts down even more of the crowd.

They play "Not Listening" by Papa Roach between the Offspring song and the Breaking Benjamin song.

Now while I agree with you, Gothmog, on the fact that NDSU is not scared to play anyone, there is a difference in scheduling UND or a FBS or FCS team. If NDSU loses to a top ranked FCS team, people say well they lost to a very good team. If they lose to a FBS team, people say they were supposed tog et beat. If they lose to UND, all hell break lose. There is a risk to scheduling UND but I don't think that what's holding them totally back from adding the Sioux on the schedule.

Congrats to the DL hockey team for their great season. 3rd place in the state is nothing to scoff at. They played a good tourney, beating a Grafton team that they came close to beating twice during the season, and giving a solid effort against RR. Groves really had a coming out party and showed he is solid. Anyways, it was a pretty good season by a team who people doubted because they played in the west last year. Hopefully it won't be another 26-27 years before they make it to the semifinals again.

Wouldn't that put CC in a tie with us and don't they own the tiebreaker?

Thats too bad that they can't get in a nicer, smaller arena. I hope they can keep their program going cause hockey needs all of them they can get.

Thats why I am a goofer fan tonight.

Why?

If they only draw 320, why did they move back from those 2 other arenas they played at? They look a bit nicer than the fairgrounds does.

They are playing U2 at a hockey game?

3-2 Tech after 2.

Tech up 3-1 in the 2nd.

Why yes it is. Dang it, I could have sworn we were gonna miss out on most of it but it looks like alot outside already.

I thought GF wasn't supposed to get a lot of snow. I heard Fargo and Minneosta were supposed to get more. Anyways, I highly doubt they will be postponed sicne it isn't bad here at all.

Why can't certain trolls just be banned snce they bring nothing to the conversation. The only reason he is here is to stir up trouble. Lock his membership and throw the key away.

Grafton Park River at 3:00.

Don Adam!

And thats the game. Well at least this means the DL game will start on time.

Turnover in front of the GPR net. South player had a great shot at taking the lead.

And what made this rivalry so poisonous? It has always been a good rivalry but this break has elevated it to the madness setting. Instead of seeing who is better on the field and then taunting the other team for a year, we sit on boards like this one and debate who is the most evil, why we hate the other, who is a coward, and how many babies the other teams posters eat. It isn't healthy to be obsessed like this, yet both sides are. If we could just play and get a result, the attention could be taken away from the negative actions of both institutions and the focus would be back on athletics. By the way, I don't think we schedule NDSU until we are fully funded and are a counter towards NDSU. That way both teams are even and it will not hurt the chances of NDSU making the playoffs. After resuming, the rivalry should be an every year occurance. Its a joke not to have a in state rivalry, an even bigger joke when this rivalry was one of the longest in the nation. This thing started out like Michigan-Michigan St., its a rivalry but not a lot of hatred. When resumed, I don't think another rivalry can compare to the amount of hatred held by both of these teams fans.

I agree with most of this but not so much with the DL stuff. While the shots on goal were pretty similar, many of them were not quality scoring chances. Groves made some good saves but you never got the impression that Bismarck was a threat to score. They had an open net one time and the puck almost went in, but that was as close as they came. DL, on the other hand, had a lot of shorthanded opportunities and cycled the puck really well. I think the score was indicative of how the teams played. I was very suprised that Bismarck was the top team from the west and I hope DL can keep it going and finally knock off RR.