Donald

You people are pricelessly ignorant. OMG. You win a game in which you got grossly outplayed and you complain that the team who was skating circles around your players was holding and hooking? Too !@#$% funny. YOUR team was hooking and holding!!! They did EVERYTHING they could to slow down the Seawolves! Talk about crappy winners. OMG the depth of the complete and utter rubeness is nearly unending in North Dakato. None of you actually deserve to have a team to cheer for. Gopher fans > Sioux fans by a HUGE margin. Goon: Boring? You my friend should stick to looking down the barrel of your various guns for sporting enjoyment. Because you know NOTHING about hockey. Absolutely NOTHING. Trapfest on Saturday? LOL. When was UAA trapping? When they had the puck deep in the UND zone ALL NIGHT? When they stole the puck off your defensemen's sticks behind the net? Do you even know what a trap is? Give it up pard ... switch you blog over to hunting and join the Remington fan forum. Your observations in both places are worthless. Dear Administator: Is there anyway you can remove my registration from this bogus site so that I can never again feel tempted to post here? Thank you in advance for any proactive measure you can take. I will try to do so as soon as I finish this last post here but in case I can't please ban me or whatever so I can't type here again. Because if I'm able to none of your members will probably be happy with what I have to say. Thanks again.

This response isn't directed specifically at you. I quote you but it is the latest entry referencing the situation. What you say is true .... except in the case of UAA. UAA contributes positive revenue to each and every opponent that comes to play in their barn. The NCAA grants "exemptions" to the schedule of each opponent that schedules a team from Alaska or Hawaii in those locations. This exemption allows the opponent to schedule an additional home game for each exemption they earn. That additional home game varies in worth. How much does UND get for putting an additonal 10K people from a home game? $50K? More? Also in UAA's case; for the first 10 years of membership in the league UAA paid the overwhelming majority of the travel costs for each opponent to come to Anchorage. Those cost savings were worth on average to about $18-20K each year for each WCHA school. After 10 years those costs were gradually phased out and I don't believe UAA subsidizes anyones travel any longer. So with a minimal amount of calculation one can see that UAA's inclusion in the WCHA has been responsible (at a minimum) for well over $1,000,000 in positive revenue to the WCHA community. Replace UAA with Bemidji? Ain't gonna happen ... dream on ... forgetaboutit ... WCHA schools ought to be kissing UAA's arse. And oh yeah Sioux fans ... good luck with the whole "sweep" prediction thing. There'll be a pretty determined hockey team facing yours on the ice in about an hour.

I agree ... I don't think "a lot of people" think it .... but it pops up every year. I don't think I meant to indict more than just the one idiot who made the ridiculous comment on my blog but also that I saw it as an opportunity to educate any other ignorant folks within Sioux-fandom as to the reality.

A surprisingly ignorant (well ... perhaps not soooo surprising) comment on my blog has brought me here to ask that a knowledgeable Sioux fan (perhaps Patrick Miller) explain to the Sioux fanbase the exact reasons why UAA will never be replaced by Bemidji (i.e... How UAA's participation in the WCHA creates TENS OF THOUSANDS of Dollars in revenue that those member schools would otherwise not see and in addition how historically UAA saved those member schools money) I'm hoping that hearing the FACTS from a Sioux fan will lead to an acceptance of reality that my explanation likely wouldn't. PCM? Please? Or perhaps someone else here in touch with reality (sprig; jimdahl)? I bet even Diggler could recite the reality?

... if by awesome you mean petulant whiny little bandwagon-jumping insipid biatch then ... yeah he's awsome.

I didn't read the article but I'd assume that it points out that the Susies have some fairly balanced scoring (obvious by looking at a stat sheet)? How the "#1 Rube in Minneapolis" couldn't figure that out shouldn't be a mystery to anyone that actually knows something about the game. That dolt is an embarrassment. The fact that ANYONE likes or (god forbid) respects ANYTHING he says is a source of constant joy for me. But that said ... referencing ANYTHING he has said is kinda scraping the bottom of the barrel in search of negativity about all-things-Goofer isn't it Brian? Shame on you for even mentioning his name in relation to hockey talk! ;-)

I'm hoping there is some way to pick up the Sioux TV broadcast off a satellite. I recall from last year that someone here seemed to have all that info available. UAA's local provider here has done a good job of making arrangements with whatever opponents TV people when UAA has been on the road but for some reason we aren't getting the game this weekend. I'm hoping I can get some friendly sports bar to tune it in if it is available at all. Anyone know the Satellite and Transponder numbers?

Is their "Dullard Contingent" larger or smaller than here?

How exactly does my status as a UAA fan have anything to do with my posted judgements/comments regarding the events? Are you so incapable of discussing the issues raised that you resort to this sort of mindlessly ignorant "jibes" (even though "jibe" is a generous word in this context) when you don't have anything useful to add? Or was the desire for inclusion in the Dullard Contingent just too much of a good thing for you to pass up?

Sprig: Hard to believe you're serious. Naturally, posting here I expect the dullard contingent to come out in force with their brilliantly witty comebacks (by "brilliantly witty" I mean 2nd grade-ish) but the fact is that Kaip paused about 5 ft away from the opposite side of the net; then he saw two bucky players challenging one sioux player for the puck. He picked up his pace and easilty 15 ft before he hit Smith, he could see that he was bent over. If anything, at that point Kaip increased the intensity of his strides to make a bigger hit. Yeah ... fine ... you're supposed to hit hard in hockey. No doubt. But charging is as equally dangerous as checking from behind. It was nothing other than minor circumstance that kept Smith's head from drilling into the ice (which could certainly have caused a neck injury). For you to minimize this the way you've done makes you a far bigger homer than I would have previously imagined. That's all ... I'm just surprised. The rest of my comments aren't directed at you ... So to address one other point (amongst the other mostly ridiculous replies) ... The fact that the ref didn't call a 5 min penalty is meaningless. When do the refs get it right? Did they get it right on the Pauko hit? No. Did they get it right on this hit? No. Kaip is an enforcer. Nothing more. In a game where fighting is outlawed he is irrelevant except to a coach (and a fanbase) with a serious inferiority complex. I know you guys think you have an NHL team there in GF but ... psst ... you don't. I find it ironic that I'm hoping Dirty will show some of this fanbase some maturity.

Maybe the (J)(G)enoway's should decide how they want to have their name pronounced. One kid it's a G and the other it's a J? Kaip should lose his captaincy for that stupid hit. It had the potential to be another Paukovich/Bina incident. If Hakstol doesn't discipline him then he's a woman.

Isn't this all just part of the Gopher Conspiracy? Lose two games badly to the Sioux knowing that will trigger their players to go out and party. Lucia, Sonmor and Nanne are geniuses. Hakstol's not stupid though. I hear he's already suspended them from playing hockey for the next 10 days. I wonder where he learned how to handle things "internally"? When Guentzel gets the head coaching job at Mankato I'd put even money on Haks going to the "U". LOL. I think I'm so funny that I'll have to cross post this over at GPL. LOL.