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UND needs a big win out of conference win tonight especially after CC and DU embarrassed the WCHA last night with their losses. UND dropped a couple spots in the Pairwise due to those losses. Grit out another shorthanded win tonight boys!

Actually making my first trip to New Orleans the last weekend of January. Looking forward to taking in the city and sites.

Have you seen your Saints play this year away from home and outside? Not pretty. No way Saints 2 win games on the road...with the last one going thru Lambeau. I actually think the GB/NYG game will be another classic in a week.

+1. Go Pack Go!

If it was an ACL tear, he would have/should have had surgery...period. Zero chance of that scenerio IMO. The training/medical/coaching staff would be totally negligent if that was the case. He has a pro career ahead of him and no pro team is going to invest in a kid with a torn ACL that hasn't been surgically repaired. To your major juniors comment, the way things have gone with this program lately it wouldn't shock me. I think on the limited info out there that he is not playing again this year.

Saw a piece on this story last nite on local Fox news. Tragic is an understatement. This kid's Dr. said she was concerned he hadn't made more progress since the accident. Kid's mother flat out said "we need a miracle". Doctors can only do what they can do, but as the bible states God is the great physician. A "miracle" can only happen through prayer...keep this kid in your prayers.

Very fitting on a night where it was the last official hockey game as the "Fighting Sioux", an extremely undermanned Sioux squad played with the determination, desire, grit and work ethic that has been seen on it's home ice for decades. Nothing says "old time Fighting Sioux hockey" than what was displayed last pm. That was a great win to end the "Fighting Sioux" era and ring in 2012. Both my girls have pink T-shirts that read "Forever Sioux" across the front. After visiting with my oldest daughter, 11, on our way home to Fargo after the game last night about losing the Sioux nickname and logo as of 12 am, she decided that wearing that T-shirt to bed last night was a great way to ring in 2012...BTW she is still sleeping! Go Sioux! Forever Sioux!

Miller, Cichy, St. Clair and Bruno. St. Clair was/is way over-hyped IMO having seen him play few times with Force.

Seriously??? Other than Parks and Rocco, they probably would have had spots in front of the rest of the freshman and Dickin. Kind of a mute point, but look at the names of our 4th line last pm? Put in Rocco, Mario and you still have Cichy playing for sure in place of those 3 guys. Bruno would have pushed Gaarder and MacMillan for sure for ice time.

Anyone think Hak would give up this month's salary to not have let Cichy and Bruno walk after last season based on the current situation. Those two leaving still is troubling IMO. Both would have been decent contributors this year IMO.

With the news of all these injuries, it makes pissing last night's "W" away all the more disturbing. Will be interesting to see how the 16 healthy bodies that are available react tonight. Maybe Dell can steal one? Or at least play better than last night.

Not disagreeing...he just didn't look 100% during warm-ups or on his shift prior to the "knee to knee". Again my point is look at where Rocco is. Knee injuries are difficult to play thru.

That's an understatement. Harvard is, plain and simple, not very good. Too lazy to look it up, but how many times has a Hak coached squad puked up a two goal lead at home over the last few years??? My guess is 3 to 4 times as many as they have come back from a 2 goal deficit. And this one was in the 3rd period against marginal talent. I know HU has 8 NHL draft picks, but I didn't see that talent last night. The key stat to me was early in the 2nd, HU had 3 shots on goal and 2 goals. Dell didn't need to have his best game for UND to win last night, he just didn't need to be next to brutal. Why the coaching/training/medical staff let Knight try and play was beyond me. You could tell he was favoring his knee from his 1st shift and was maybe at 50-60%. This better not be a Rocco situation where they try and let him give it shot and play thru it only to be sidelined for 8 weeks. UND needed their veterans to step up and they didn't. None of them played poorly, but our freshman carried the load last night. Mattson was amazing. Kristo was really close to being the hero late in the 3rd and in OT. Big game tonight...no way I see Knight playing. Mario was out last night, but will probably gut it out tonight. Kristo and Nelson need to come up big as does Dell, if he plays.

Only rumblings I've heard about water issues is due to the anuual spring flooding of the Red!

Probably has something to do with the fact that my yearly property taxes in Fargo exceed the GDP of Burundi!!!

A couple of years ago there was a local report in Fargo of the high % of renters in the city. Nationally, home-ownwership was approx. 60% to 40% renters. Fargo's stats were flip-flopped based on that report. Build them and they will rent...

Looking forward to 2 more games at the Ralph this weekend...always a treat. Sioux sweep: 3-1 and 5-2.

(a) is a given and always has been IMO and (b) might be hard to prove, but have know doubt it occurred to some extent.

That's nothing more than p*n*s envy. It's something they'll never, ever have that we do have and it's like a festering ass boil that won't ever heal!

Fitting Kristo gets the only goal. He was far and away the best skater on the ice last night and really the only guy from either team that was able to create his own offensive. Boring hockey to watch with Deano's crew going MTU all weekend with the 1-2-2 trap. Dell was brillant all weekend IMO. I'll say it again, Gleason is just a hockey player. Kid can fly and is so useful at F or D. That 4th line only had 2 or 3 shifts in the 3rd, but their shift at about the 10 minute mark was one of the best shift's in the 3rd period by any line. Gaarder IMO is a very poor man's version of Oshie with the way he plays. He is fast, plays physical...doesn't back down from getting hit and is looking to dish one out and he has some skill offensively. I really like that he plays both ends with a little bit of edge to him. Last night's gritty, tough effort comes down to one guy...Mario. With Knight out, he suited up and was basically playing with one arm and at about 70% speed. He was a gamer last night. This team, by winning 6 of 8, has set themselves up to control their own destiny in the 2nd half. Sweep Harvard and beat Kelly Clarkson...that's 9 of 11 with tDon and his girls coming to town. Get Rocco and Knight back and then this team could be salty come Feb. and March. GO SIOUX! GO PACK GO!

Agreed with all of the above. Officiating was fine in that they missed obvious calls both ways. Your Mac example is spot on...happened right in front of us. Dell was great IMO...D was too minus the very last play when they got caught watching and hoping Knight would bury the winner. Mac can't fall asleep and be a spectator. Once it hit OT I was just wanting a point with a tie. Didn't happen so got to get 2 points tonight. Was very disappointed in UNO 1-2-2 trap style defensive play last night. Thought I was watching MTU or UAA play. Was expecting and hoping for more of a CC type game. Guess that's how Deano get gets more out of less??

Big loss to open a big series. Mario does many things that one doesn't see on a stat sheet. Rodwell, Gleason and Rowney would be a 3rd line I'd like to see tonight.

Seriously??!! I'll put the odds of this happening on the same level as me getting signed to a free-agent NBA contract before the NBA season starts...Zero! BTW that fact I'm white and 5'8" in heels doesn't help my cause.

Sold.

Change of plans in our family schedule...have 2 of our 4 tickets in Sec. 110 available for tomorrow, Friday, vs. UNO. $80 for the pair. PM if interested.