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Mr. Simpson, Mr. Mattson, Mr. Forbert....Meet Brian Lee and Joe Finley, they'll be showing you around. (it's a joke)

As far as I'm concerned, Denver is a much bigger rival for ME than Minnesota. I love to spank the Gophers, but it erks my like no other to lose to Denver. Reasons: -Both have 7 titles, second most in the NCAA (Michigan, 9) -Gwozdecky -Paukovich -Gwozdecky -Multiple title game losses to them over the years -Gwozdecky -How good they always seem to be Minnesota is a great border rivalry and there are a lot of Minnesota sports fans in and around GF that make things interesting, but throw those aside and Denver easily takes the cake for me. Everyone knows a Gopher fan, and that makes it fun to be able to rub it in their face after a sweet victory, and that's part of it. Also, many students/players from UND are from Minnesota, and that's a big deal as well.

I've been saying the same things as well....so I concur also.

I read an article about how one manufacturer was showing off a TV at the CES that featured yellow added as a fourth color. They "SAY" it's supposed to enhance the picture more than you can imagine...I'll wait to see for myself before judging though.

Just get yourself one of these (when it comes out): 82" 2160p (4 times great resolution than a 1080p tv) What you'd use it for? I dunno, it wouldn't look any better than what's already available because nothing is shown in 2160p, but you can say you have the best!

Hopefully Zach Parise and TJ Oshie found a loophole and are coming back to fulfill their years of eligibilty left...rockin' their Olympic gear.

Well, so much for that, Hambone.

Instead of bashing our sophomore goaltender, why don't we bash a senior wearing a letter who has failed to step up in big games....Mr. Vande Velde. He's been a dud this year and only has as many points as he does from getting to exclusively play on scoring lines with other guys who put the puck in the net. He's going to put up his worst number since his freshman year if he doesn't turn it around quick. Yeah, he'll win more faceoffs than he loses, but it hasn't led to the goals we should expect from him. Time for Chris to take ownership of our offense...

Here's a question regarding Eidsness... Would you rather have him hot during November-January or February-April? I'll take the latter. He has had some bad games, but he'll figure it out. He is capable of getting hot, too. We haven't had a Freshman/Sophomore goalie get this much playing time since Karl Goehring, who had less than Brad. Karl then took us to two Title games, winning one, the following two years. Eids will only get better, if we give him a chance...it's not like he's terrible right now. Brad also has the 18th best GAA right now in the country, which isn't stellar, but it isn't like he's a bottom end goaltender....that while having one of the youngest, if not the youngest D-corps in the country in front of him. It'd be nice to get the very best players from North America each and every year, but it's not realistic. Keep in mind, he was a freshman who led us to a MacNaughton as well.

Malone Kristo

I'll name an obvious one....VANDE VELDE. What a letdown this year. Sure, he wins a few more faceoffs than he loses, but hasn't been deserving of his scoring line roles. He used to be a power forward that was incredibly hard to knock off the puck. Now, someone looks at him and the puck is going the other way. He's managed to get a decent amount of assists just because he is on a decent line, but only has 6 goals...at least one of which was complete garbage and luck. He should be a 20-25 goal guy, but might not get to 15. I think he's trying too hard to be a goal scorer, insted of letting them come. GAME ON CHRIS!

This thread is a joke. I don't care if it's tongue-in-cheek, created because it's "healthy to vent", etc. Hakstol should go NOWHERE. What has he done with his five and a half seasons? 4 Frozen Fours 1 MacNaughton 1 Broadmoor 0 Missed Tourneys Consistently ranked in the top 10 It's insane to think that Hakstol "should" have won a title by now just because we are North Dakota and have had great talent. There have been much more talented teams over the past 5 years that haven't won the crown. No one has been as consistent as this school since he became our coach. Now, take this season. It's the youngest one we've had since 05-06 (which had a much more talented class), we've lost our Captain/Pts Leader (at the time)/Hobey Candidate for more than half our games, another senior has missed time, our last senior mentioned has failed to live up to expectations, Hextall has been out, Kristo missed a couple games for WJC, and we've had a pretty hard schedule. All that AND we are still a top 10 team in the country, despite our failure to live up to WCHA expectations at this point. This season isn't over, yet many are treating it as such. Blais never got stomped once by the Gophers at Mariucci? How 'bout Gasparini? Hak has a WINNING record against the Gophs since his time here, he's obviously done something right. Who knows, maybe this horrible season we are having will be the one where Hak gets his glory in the end, and all you idiots can shut up...hopefully permanently. Rant over.

If you need some help hooking up your jazzy new television, DaveK should have some great pointers.

Look one post above yours...

I'm not going to make many excuses for an inept defense, but here's a list of things to consider: 1) Packers are a very young team, with a 2nd year starter at QB, a completely new defensive scheme, in a tough division. It took them 8 weeks to gel and get used to the new system, and after that, proved to be a very good team, losing only two games of their last 9...1 on a last second miracle to the defending Super Bowl champs on their home turf, the 2nd to the defending NFC Champions on their home turf 2) This game would almost certainly would have been different at Lambeau then in Arizona. Again, it was the defending NFC Champs (who are arguably better than last year) on their home field 3) Take all that in. Then, consider the circumstance again. Green Bay wasn't supposed to win any playoff games this year. They are a team of the future, not the team of today. Yet, they managed to come all the way back, only to lose the game on a somewhat fluke play. 4) If you want to talk about chokes, let's talk about the Vikings. They have 0 Super Bowl wins in 4 trys. Possibly their best team ever, lost to the Falcons (haha) on their home field in the NFC Championship game. This year has yet to play out, so don't count your chickens before they hatch. Heck, they have less championship victories than even the Lions. 5) The Packers never led in the entire game, they did anything but choke, especially considering the fact they weren't heavy favorites (the last I saw the line at showed GB was favored by 1 pt, which is basically a push and definitely doesn't equate to choking if they lose). The Vikes better win this year, or at the least, next year, because it might be awhile for them to get enough pieces in place once many key components to both the O-Line and D-Line retire, as well as old man winter Brett Favre. Green Bay is going to be a very good team for years...the Vikes have a very small window, so we'll see who chokes.

So...since no one has brought this up yet, and it's a question in need of asking... How will Matt's eligibility play out as a member of the team? After this season, he'll have a year and a half left. Will he stay for the whole year and a half or will he leave following next year? (I don't see him leaving after this one for all the work he did just to come back.) If he wants to use all of his year and a half, how will the team work that out? During what half season would he take off? It's too bad it had to come to his dismisall for half the season because he could have kept us in better position in terms of WCHA standings, but I'm glad to have him back either way.

Minnesota may or may not be a good team as of late...their recent record says yes, their overall record says average. Either way, a big weekend may be the extra spark these guys need to have another dominant second half run. A bad weekend may kill those hopes and dreams this time around.

Slackers

That's the Corban Knight I was kind of hoping for when he came in. I obvious don't expect two-goal games every night, but I expected the guy to create some scoring chances, which he hasn't really done until moving lines. Let's hope he can continue this trend, it will be a huge asset if he can.

Oh I did it, it was just a bit tougher than your average light beer.

If I got something like a Miller Lite, it was no problem....but sometimes you make the mistake of getting a Fat Tire and you have to choke it down while you run back to your seats.

Cool, I'm in the Sheboygan area. There are a couple other sconnie Sioux fans around these parts.

What part of WI you in?

It's called "Saving the Best For Last"! I actually forgot about the project until that post I mentioned it though...must've killed too many brain cells along the way.

If there was no negativity, criticism, or anything else of the sorts, it'd get pretty boring if everyone posted this everyday: "The Sioux are so great! They are bound to win the national championship, but if they don't, I don't care...I still love 'em. I don't see any flaws at all and it will be a shame if we can't win every game. If we don't, there's always next year. " BORING. There are major flaws with this team. That doesn't mean they can't win a string of four in March/April to win the whole darn thing. The key is to fix these flaws before it's too late. At worst, have something to build off of this year for next year when we should be a legitimate contender. At this point, there are only a couple standout teams, and none of them are without flaws either. It will be an interesting tournament, but if UND wants to do something, they need to start lighting the fire. It will be tough to make the tournament, especially if there is a lot of parity in conference tournaments like it's shaping up to be.