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Watch out Diggler, he might email you again if you keep this up. But he did say that he would be at this series, so just look for the guy that gets all upset when the crowd yells "and the home of the SIOUX!".

I bet not long at all after coming from the Old Barn! The crowd probably enjoyed being able to watch hockey in temperatures above freezing.

I agree with this with all the possible people leaving after this season: Palmo, Lundbohm, and Hale gone for sure. Bochenski, Greene, Jones, ZParise, and Schneider all possibilities of leaving. Not good, but I guess we'll have to do as redwing77 says and just keep the faith.

That is one heck of a 4th line!!

But other schools' nicknames just don't work as well as the Sioux; most being two syllabuls and all....

I would start the Parise-Murray-Stafford line just so that they get the recognition from the Ralph crowd. Knowing Blais, we'll see how long these lines are left like this! And, thanks again PCM!!

I would definitely count goals and points for Bochenski when the other two are gone. He's part of the line, after all. Do you guys think that Blaiser will reunite this line again for the UAA series when Murray and Parise get back, or do you think he will leave Stafford with the top line again? I personally like Murray up there, adds a lot of speed and he just seems to fit better with the top line. I did notice that Blais was playing them together for the PP's, but not for the 5 on 5 action. Thoughts??

I thought that ESPN said that they were going to show us the FB game?? WTF!?!? Hurray for the Kansas and Oregon BB game. Gotta love it.

I don't think that Blais will use the senior line if they won't even be together for the USNDT game. Blais will probably just keep lines close to the same as what he's been using, I would guess. And as always, thanks again PCM!! And I'm with Sioux fan in Phoenix, would be nice to keep the top line together for another year!

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.