Big A HG

Time to wish Mr. Kangas good luck. If you would like to send him a quick text message (nice messages only!), here's the phone number that was at The Ralph last year: 507-884-9723

Give us Denver, Wisconsin, and Miami. I'll take the Sioux against anyone this year. This team isn't as skillful as year's past, but there's something about them that seems a little different, and I like it.

Going to a Sioux game is a social status thing for most people. They aren't there to cheer loudly.

I recently ate at one of these up-scale restaurants near me for Valentine's Day. The restaurant is called Cucina and it's part of the American Club in Kohler, WI which is the only 5 Diamond resort in the Midwest. They host many famous people all year round, and know how to charge a lot for something. Me and my fiancee had a 5 course meal each, mine consisting of steak as the main course, hers being some fish thing, and each meal costed $58 each total, without drinks. To me, this restaurant will fail. It has nothing to support it (like a resort or high-end business class), and it's prices seem too high, even for what you get. I wish it the best, and hope it suceeds, but to me it takes 2 + 2 to = 4, and it's missing one of the 2's.

Are you gay for hockey? I sure am! GO SIOUX!!! I'll be the GAYEST one watching it on TV if the Sioux win. A victory would just be, like, oh my gosh, exciting! Playoff time is the gayest time of the year for me....everyone is so gay because our team always in the mix to win another title. If UND wins it all, Grand Forks will be the gayest city in all the colorful land.

I'm glad a Gopher fan found it humorous.

GAY: And I quote [dictionary.com]: "

This thread is turning siouxpr gay.

Who is Mac? The only defenseman known to be initiated by the Greene Giant himself only goes by his new God-errr-Greene given name....and that is Animal.

If you're going by draft status...the Badgers would be hard to beat.

The top 25 RPI teams are the 25 Teams Under Consideration. Then, head-to-head RPI matchup of each team in the top 25 garners a point. There are 4 total criteria for points (RPI, Common Opponent Record, Record Against Teams Under Consideration (minimum 10 games), and head-to-head record). For example: Team A: RPI: .5831 Record Against Teams Under Consideration: 12-3-5 Record Against Common Opponents (Common Opponents being record against the same teams Team B has Played): 3-4-2 Head-to-Head Record against Team B: 1-2-1 Team B: RPI: .5683 Record against TUC: 10-6-2 Record Against Common Opponents: 5-1-3 Head-to-Head Record against Team A: 2-1-1 -Team A gets a point for RPI, better record against TUC, and 1 point for 1 win against Team B -Team B gets a point for better Record against Common Opponents, and 2 points for 2 wins against Team A -Both teams have 3 points against each other -If teams have an equal amount of points, the first tie-breaker is head-to-head record -Team B gets the Pairwise point -If both teams share the same head-to-head record, then the tie-breaker is RPI...which would then give it to team A So, each team gets matched up this way against the other 24 teams under consideration, and the Pairwise then ranks those 25 teams by whoever has the most head-to-head wins. Therefore, RPI is much more essential than just a tie-breaker. It determines which teams are considered (meaning that those bubble teams at the bottom of the list in RPI are essential...like the Gophers...because one week they could be a TUC, and the next week not...shaking up everyone's point totals against each other). RPI also is big because of that point factor for each head-to-head matchup. Sorry for the lenghty post, but I hope it clears that up on how important RPI can be...besides just being a tie-breaker. From USCHO.com on how RPI is determined: "The Ratings Percentage Index is one tool used to select teams for the national collegiate ice hockey tournament. Only results from games between two teams that each play 20 or more games against Division 1 opponents are used. Factors involved are 1) the team's winning percentage; 2) the average winning percentage of the team's opponents; and 3) the average winning percentage of the team's opponents' opponents. These factors are multiplied by 25%, 21%, and 54% respectively."

Let's not forget Toews, who had another multi-point night tonight. Since coming back from the Olympics: March 2: 0 goals, 2 assists March 3: 1 goal, 1 assist March 5: 0 goals, 2 assists 1 goal and 5 assists in 3 games back.

To take over the #4 spot in the PWR (which gets us a #1 seed), this needs to happen tomorrow: -UND win (of course) -BC loss to New Hampshire -Make up the .0002 difference in RPI that Bemidji has over us right now It is very possible to get a 1 seed ("FIRE HAK, CUT EIDSNESS, BENCH LAPOINT, FINISH FINISH FINISH, GET SOME SCORERS, etc") but still lots of time for things to change with conference tournaments in action next week.

OK, I'm getting really nervous. I have Time Warner Cable and have the FCS channels, but for whatever reason, none of them are working. This is EXACTLY what it says on my screen: "Fox Sport Cen is currently unavailable Please try again later" WTF? Anyone else having issues?

Fienhage didn't get the memo that it was an away game and missed the team bus yesterday.

You should be thankful for oil companies right now. I'd explain more at the moment, but gotta work. And trust me, oil companies aren't crooks.

I gotta say I told you so about Dell. I think you predicted 6-9 starts and I said 4-6, so it sounds like you owe me a beer.

How about snapping turtles, or something turtle related...

Well, it's showing me the Denver/CC games, but no Sioux games. Never had a problem before. I have Time Warner Cable What specific FCS channels are the games on both nights, I can just set it to record on those times then... Thanks.

I would make Cougars a hostile and abusive nickname...because I am, without a doubt, a cougar hunter.

I think it's safe to assume that it's not a game-worn Cindy Crosby jersey, just any ol' jersey that he signed. They would get $8,000-$10,000 for it from big time collectors ($10-$15k if it wasn't signed) if it was game-worn, which you'd never fetch at the Betty. You might as well burn a Canadian flag though if you burn a Cindy Crosby jersey...

How come the games aren't showing up on FCS when I go through my guide? (I have digital cable, not satellite, and receive all 3 FCS channels)

SiouxForce is right, REA won't release it. Someone brought this up recently and contacted REA about it, and they said the reason they don't is because it's part of the live experience that comes with buying a ticket. Some people have tried recording it in the past few years, but the quality is almost always poor.