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MSUM still rocking the cowbells? The Gophers outshot the Mavs both nights, but it looks like Cook came up big. Get to him early for a goal or two and make them play our style. Go Sioux!!

You want Dell to pitch a shutout every game? That's asking a bit much. Great series from the Sioux, awesome to see the stick salute, it's been too long! Now time to bring the Mavs back down to earth after their sweep of the Gophers.

MSUM beats UMN 3-2.

Good day for the Sioux. A win against SCSU, UMD loses, and UNO loses. Let's get a win on Saturday for a change!

UMD takes the lead on DU, 4-3, with 5min left in game.

BC over BU 9-5. No defense I guess. CC over MTU 7-3. MSUM leads UMN 3-2 after 2. BSU leads UNO 2-0 after 2. UMD and DU tied at 3 in the 3rd. Notre Dame beat Miami 5-4.

Gregoire is a good defensive forward. Maybe we should move him back to defense due to our depth at forward. Just kidding.

You'd think the Sioux were 5-9-2 with some of these comments.

The only real MUST win games are in late March/early April (assuming you win enough games to make it that far, of course). That said, the next four games are games that the Sioux should win. SCSU, despite being heavily hyped entering the season, are struggling. That, coupled with the fact that the games are at home, should hopefully translate into 2 wins for the Sioux.

ND was good, but UND was clearly the better team for long stretches both nights. I would say that Maine, UMD, and UNO were all better than Notre Dame...and maybe even Denver.

That tying Irish goal was textbook goalie interference. I was surprised that they allowed it, especially after they waved off yesterday's Frattin goal...which was way more debatable.

From Brad...sounds like UND recruits had great success in tourneys lately: http://undhockey.areavoices.com/?p=85512

Ouch, that's a horrible idea. The place is going to sound like the UAA arena.

You are correct. That was a great game to be at. Hearing all the Sioux fans cheering after the OT goal as all the Badger fans sat in stunned silence was glorious.

I know it seems weird saying that Forbort was one of our better dmen considering he is only a freshman, but from what I saw in the early season before his illness, he was one of the better defensive players on the team, not to mention he was chipping in offensively.

Tough news on Forbort, Mac, and Rowney. Hopefully the "mono" brothers can make it back soon, we have a tough schedule in the 1st half, and those two are usually some of our best dmen. If Rowney indeed has a concussion, hopefully it doesn't turn into a situation like Genoway/Kaip/etc. Speedy recovery to all three.

Sounds great on all three players. Can't wait to see them in UND green.

From Brad:

From Brad:

I was starting to wonder about Michaelson when we kept getting forward recruits for 2012 but no mention of him. Nice pickup for the Gophers. It was funny how some on GPL were saying that he hadn't progressed as much in recent years...maybe using that to make it sound ok should he have decided to wear green instead of maroon. But I bet those same posters are very excited to have him on board.

Talking about it on a message board probably won't do much for changing it either.

There was a warmup game between US and Canada West prior to the JR A Challenge. http://www.usahockey.com/Template_Usahockey.aspx?NAV=TU_04_01_05&id=294802 Good games for Sioux recruits. Gothberg gets the win in net for the US. Mattson with 1 A, Schmaltz with 2 A for US. O'Donnell with 1 A for CW.

Agreed. The Maine series was the only one this season that I thought was very poorly officiated, but a huge chunk of that was just that HEA officiating is that much different from the WCHA, and UND never really adjusted to it. Other than that, it just gets old to be constantly discussing it, whether we win or lose.

Eidsness will get his fair share of starts this season, it's not like Hakstol is locked into Dell already. And I would bet that Eidsness will be back in a UND uniform next season, even though he is graduating early.

DU up 1-0 on CC despite getting outshot pretty handily so far.