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That just seems to be a little bit TOO much of a coincidence......

PCM -- Just had to thank you for typing this out every week, I always read it and then forget to send thanks. I always work late on Wed, so it is always nice to come home and be able to see what was talked about. Thanks again!!

TH said that the preliminary schedules for next year have the Sioux playing a normal schedule again, with series going road, home, road pretty much the whole year. That will be nice to have that back to normal.

I think that the goal of 100 goals for The Money Line will be harder to reach than the goal of 200 points, simply because this team has so much depth. The LOF had 83 goals, but still managed over 200 points, so I think that the points are a much more attainable goal for them. Not saying that they won't reach 100 goals either though, because they certainly have the firepower to do it.

Hey, you guys stole my Money Line idea! It's been in my sig line on USCHO for a week now, so if it catches on, I get copyright benefits! No hard feelings for the infringement though!

Wow, with those line combos, that makes all four lines pretty well balanced. I think that Hale looks good back on the blueline, I say he stays there until we are all healed up with dmen. Does anyone know about Massen? What does he have, like 1 point on the year? I was expecting him to have a good year.

Only problem with padding their stats for those games is that Parise will be gone for the Xmas tourney games and the early Jan SCSU series because of the World Jr's, so that might hurt the line's numbers a little bit.

I wasn't trying to say that it was ok as long as you don't get caught, I was saying that it didn't matter if just Parise and Smaby got caught, because if Blais punishes them, he should punish everyone that was present at the bar. Which maybe he is attempting to do with this "bar banning" until xmas thing.

The Sioux need to figure out how best to put points on the board when Zach is not in the equation. We don't want to be a one line team and taking Zach out voluntarily isn't an option. With an infraction, you can work on this dilemma and still have a viable reason for sitting Zach out. No, I'm not saying that Blais is hoping that Zach gets in trouble, but whenever a team takes the ice, they head right to Zach. If they can make the Sioux offense into a threat without Zach, just think about what it will be like with him on the ice? I'm sure the Sioux will get plenty of time to find out how the offense works without Zach from Dec 27 - Jan 5.

You'd think that if Blais was going to give suspensions for the bar incident that something would have been mentioned by now. I mean, we're only three days away until the Yale series. Plus, it is kind of hard to just punish Parise and Smaby with suspensions just because they were the only two to get caught.

I will verify it. I posted it on USCHO; the whole team is banned from the bar scene until x-mas break. I also think that this is a good move on his part. I still have no idea if Blais will take any further action on Parise and Smaby for actually getting caught in the ordeal, or if he will view the "team punishment" as punishment enough.

Does that mean that if we still had Spiewak on the team that Zach wouldn't be playing??

Forecheck- I hope that you used that $20 to buy some shots for yourself! You looked too sober for a girl celebrating her 21st.

If the Wild draft Parise, I wonder if the Gopher fans would still boo him?

I agree with Morley. I already have a white, black, and red jersey, so I don't really want to buy a green jersey for just this one game. If all the POI'ers are gold, just make us light or dark.

PCM- That's a great pic. Would you happen to have a bigger version of it that could be used for a background? Much appreciated.

U2Bad1- I would love it if the Sioux won their 1st round playoffs and went to the Xcel Center and killed the Bulldogs in the play-in game. Maybe that would quiet down the 300 Bulldog newbies on USCHO. If it happens, I will be there chanting "Season's over" and loving every minute of it.

On USCHO, someone posted that Kasey Moreland had been discussing possibly playing for the Sioux next year as well. Anyone else hear anything about this? My god that's alot of goalies. Maybe they'll have 8 or 9 goalies for tryouts and just pick the 4 best ones.

Isn't Lamoureux coming to the Sioux in two years and Sedevie coming next year? I don't remember. Either way, if Ziggy wanted to walk on the team, that would be alot of goalies. Sofie, Brandt, Siembida, Sedevie, and Ziggy. That's quite a few. And only Sofie would graduate by the time Phillipe comes to the team. Not that I care how many goalies we have, as long as a few of them can stop the puck on a consistent basis.

I was also thinking about volunteering for the tournament, maybe get to see at least some of the games, plus you get one of those groovy all access passes. On another note, since when are Mory00 and forecheck puck bunnies??

Thanks for the offer. I talked to my roommate and he'll let me borrow his equipment for my friend to use. This is going to be scary, he can barely skate as it is, and now we're going to throw pads on him.

I was wondering if this is like intramurals where helmets and some pads are required or if it will be more of a relaxed atmosphere with just skates and stick. I do have pads and all that jazz, but my friend does not, so just wondering if we have to find him some or if it's not a big deal.

Forecheck- sorry to confuse you with the separate email, but I am Brian A. I could try to morph into two individual Brian's, but only if it would help the team.

I would say to just have the game open to the people that post on the forums, I don't know how fun that would be to get schooled by a bunch of ex-college players. KBG -what day and time are we going to rent the ice for, and around how much will it be. I know that it will depend on how many players we get, but ballpark figure.