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For Thursday's game, since it's on ESPN2, you could use: E very S ioux P layer N eeds 2 More Wins Ann Arbor is a Whore is a common classic slogan...not sure if you could get that sign in the arena though.

I saw a green Toews gamer from his freshman year. Nothing topped that one.

No one can say for sure where Frattin's shot came from, but some say it came from the grassy knoll area...

Does all this mean we are getting a new state-of-the-art arena in a few years?

Chay Genoway was HUGE this weekend. During many parts of the season I was hard on him because of his play, and not due to a lack of effort. The guy wants to win so bad that he'll try to throw the team on his back and win it himself, which is great determination, but often led to too many mistakes at key points in games. If he could learn to control and direct the game instead of trying to take it over himself, the team was bound to do great things. Chay did just that this weekend. He didn't try to do too much, but made the most of his opportunities when he could. Chay didn't try to force anything, and was very conscious about his defensive responsibilities. Look what happened....the Sioux dominated both games and Chay had 5 assists over the two games. That's awesome. He plays a huge role on this team on and off the ice, so if he plays like this in St. Paul, the Sioux will be just fine.

Wow, what a great job by luapsided.

It was clearly a goal on HDTV. All evidence and visuals point this being a legit goal. If you really take your time to watch all the angles a couple times, you can piece together where the puck is when out of sight, but there IS visual evidence, even in the overhead cam, that the puck was completely beyond the line. It was the right call....a tough call, but the right one.

Come stop by our little tailgate party...we'll have a sign that says "Honk for the Sioux" along the road that separates Lambeau and the Resch (assuming we can claim a spot along there).

That sucks...I'll be at the regional but would love to take advantage of a 15% discount in the Sioux Shop. I get the shaft again.

Great wallpaper!

The Sioux just can't let anyone get a cheap goal on them. They need to keep their opponents in front of them, never giving them an odd-man rush or breakaway opportunity. Make the opponent earn every goal, like the PP goal CC scored against us on Friday. Not many teams could have stopped that, it was a beauty that they earned. Just don't give up the cheap stuff.

You can't knock Genoway in any way without a -1....everyone does it to me. I actually agree with everything the poster said. I think we need to play simple, smart hockey. Our biggest problem is when we try to play too physical to prove a point. Not only are we prone to more penalties, but the team finds themselves out of position way too often when it happens. Just play positional hockey. Also, don't watch the puck when in front of your own net, play the bodies. This costs us too often.

I'm almost positive UAF pays for each CCHA visitor to come up and play them. If that carried over, it wouldn't be such a bad thing.

Something tells me that if the nickname somehow manages to stay, that Kelly and Faison will be first in line to say "Hey! Look what we did! We managed to save our great nickname for all its great fans!" ....despite the fact that they want it gone.

Davidson is in his 4th year of maturity and has a lot more muscle than Nelson does. Nelson, the longer he stays, the stronger he will get and the bigger his physical presence will become. Brent is 24 and Brock is only 19...a 5 year age difference.

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Michigan Tech is a VERY smart school. Their academics are not an issue...just their athletics.

I don't think Davidson ever looked out of place much even in the very little time he had early in his career. Sure, he wasn't a force by any means, but he always played smart and knew where to go and what to do with the puck, and that was and has been invaluable to his success.

By definition, a logo can be a mascot. It's just that the common knowledge version of a mascot is a person in a costume doing things to pique a fan's interest.

I like the idea of keeping the status quo (minus Minnesota and Wisconsin). In the end, with schools like North Dakota, it's all about championships. If we have even a slightly off year in a super-conference of teams like Denver, Miami, CC, Duluth, and Notre Dame, we may not even get in the NCAA Tournament. Yes, realigning conferences is nice for the small schools because they'd get a chance to compete for a title, which they very well may (like RIT), but the same could be said for a team like North Dakota if they manage to have to sneak into a Tournament as an underdog...I like our chances even as an underdog. If anything, add Miami and Notre Dame, but that adds problems of its own (travel related) Also, if we stay in a conference with the smaller Western schools, it maintains some quality play in the league for the little guys, giving the added benefits of the good teams playing them (in other words, more money). We would be looked at like the good guys. If we bail on them, we are no better than the Big Ten thugs.

Sounds like it...I'm quite intrigued.

Wrong. We don't have a mascot in the most common reference to the term of someone dressing up in a costume and performing stunts to encourage fan support. We DO have a mascot in the sense of the definition whereas our "thing" is a logo that represents the symbol portion of the definition...

Oneida Bingo & Casino is in Green Bay. Been there a number of times before wearing Sioux stuff. Some drunk people thought me and my buddies played for them once (we graciously accepted the picture opportunities they asked for). I've also had a long-winded conversation about our racist nickname with one of their employees working the Craps table...who ironically enough was a Washington Redskins fan.

I think the racist person in this whole thing is the person that assumed acting or dressing like a monkey is a reference to African-Americans. And I feel that way in almost any other situation where someone is accusing someone else of being racist.