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The fans have spoken, and we now have determined what will go down as the Greatest Sioux Jersey Ever. Thousands of votes were cast throughout the rounds, and thanks to all of you who came to check out the site and take the time to vote. It's clear the majority of fans have an affinity for the black sweaters, as the only two in the entire 16 jersey tournament met in the finals. The Nike Swift won by a narrow margin. I echo some of the sentiments of others, as I definitely preferred a few of the older style jerseys, but I only get one vote like everyone else. Thanks again. I've been slowly moving forward with adding the different ice designs the Sioux have played on over the years, which can be found under the respective jersey pages in the Encyclopedia. Some of the ice sheets will include those for home games, Final Fives, NCAA Regionals, and Frozen Fours...or whatever else may pop up that's interesting. Also, I plan on doing some refinements on some of the sweaters already posted. After hours and hours of work to create them, the mind gets a bet bogged down at times and some mistakes are bound to happen (most are extremely minor and I'm probably the only one that notices them). Also, if you own any game-worn Sioux jerseys, I'd love to be able to host your jerseys on the "Collections" page, all credit going to you.

I wonder if that isn't an NHL rule...every NHL team places the red line over the top of the center ice logo. I agree though, it's a better look the way UND does it.

Personally, and I bet it's the case for a lot of people, it's either going to Omaha or going to the Final Five. I chose the Final Five.

One other interesting thing to note... When the new logos were reavealed a few years ago, they showed all our new wordmarks with the interlocking ND in the "O" of the word "North", as shown in the pic below. Interestingly, it seems UND has moved away from that in many of their designs, which is a good thing IMO. Bottom row, first and third ones in. The only usage they've shown without that look is in conjunction with the interlocking logo as the primary. The style guide is much more in-depth, but follows the same rules.

I may whip something up just for fun, but the flame logo is an academic logo. As good or bad (whatever you may feel) as our current athletic logo set is, they are still ours

I've been meaning to digitally recreate this "logo" before showing it off, but since we are on the subject... I think this is one of the coolest UND logos I've seen. It's from an early 1900s UND baseball team.

Here's another photo example, this time of the Islanders. I would think having two different colors (blue/orange) would make it even harder to see, if it was an issue. It's a great question, though. I wonder if there are any NHL guidelines when it comes to designs...or even in the NCAA/WCHA.

There are a lot of pro teams that use pretty much the entire center circle with color, whether it be a logo, or filler. Being that it's a uniform color, and isn't on the dark end of things, I don't see why it would be any worse than teams like the Blackhawks, Sabres, Islanders, etc. A few teams use quite a bit of black even. EDIT: Ray77 beat me to the punch there with a great pic.

EDIT: Got beat to the punch...

Frattin with a pair of goals, including the OT game winner.

Changing the subject a bit... The ice design for this year seems a bit bland, (I suppose it's fitting with the blandness of everything else non-Sioux nowadays). But, I decided to come up with a concept that, in my opinion, is much better. Our kelly green is almost as unique as was the Sioux nickname. So few schools and pro teams use the color. So, I wanted to add more "green" to the look. So, instead of adding a green interlocking ND, I decided to make the circle green instead of the logo. The other obvious change is the ND itself. I actually don't mind the use of "North Dakota", but it doesn't fill the space at center ice like it should, and just doesn't look as professional. My only concern is if someone happened to tune into a game on FCS and saw the ND, they'd be confused with Notre Dame. I think the revised ND logo better differentiates us from theirs, and it fills center ice pretty nicely. One other subtle change was, instead of white squares in the center red line, I changed them to diamonds. For comparison sake, I put our current design on the left, the concept on the right:

Closest regional this year is in Grand Rapids, MI. Hardly even close to WCHA territory. That's the "West" Regional. Midwest regional is in Toledo, OH. How does this work in the eyes of the NCAA? Just gross. I know schools/locations have to bid these things, and they usually aren't much of a money maker, if at all, but wow.

Thanks for the heads up. I'm a DirecTV user and was pretty disappointed.

St Clair Gaarder

Fire Anastos. Fire Berenson.

Fire York.

Michigan, tied for 9th in an 11 team conference, has more draft picks on it's roster than the top three teams combined.

Since 1998, BC has played in 8 National Championship games, winning four. Eight title game appearances in 15 years is pretty darn impressive.

Michael Forney scored one of the three Colorado Eagles goals in the ECHL All-Star game yesterday. The ECHL All-Stars won 7-3.

Bud Light...for those who want beer, but don't like the taste of beer.

I really liked Frank Mazzocco and Doug Woog. They really brought energy to big games that didn't seem forced like with Doug McLeod. Yeah, Frank and Woog were big time homers, but that's to be expected, and I actually enjoyed listening to it at times.

I can see them pulling it off just to make us all angry.

I think we get 6 of 8 pts the next couple weekends which will set us up quite nicely down the stretch. I really feel like this team is about to breakout. One thing Hak's teams tend to do is play tight, until the stretch run of conference play. Then they tighten up again in the playoffs. If they play loose, fast, and smart, I think they can beat just about anyone.

The Championship vote is now live! It's the Battle of the Business Suits. What are your thoughts on this? Here's a look at how the bracket has played out. Which matchups had the biggest upsets?