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Well said! Finally, a Voice of Reason.......

Well, except for the fact that our boys couldn't score a single goal against UMD that night in a 3-0 shutout..... The UNH game, however, could, and SHOULD, have been won by the Sioux!

Frustrating to see him play his season's worst, all in 15.1 seconds of gametime. The guys a turtle on the ice - if he can't muscle people out of the way, what's the point of him getting playing time? Just VERY frustrating.....

Finley should have dropped the gloves and gone after that cocky a$$ LeBlanc, after he whipped out his "six shooters" at center ice to celebrate his OT goal.....

A few thoughts: 1. I agree that the mods are doing fine - some posts/threads are moronic, but that's part of what you see in public forums, and if you don't like the thread ... DON'T READ (OR POST REPEATEDLY!) IN IT! If I was Jim, I'd ban some of the people bashing him, ad nauseum, for "not doing his job" - it's HIS forum, if you're not happy here, start your own! Personal attacks should NOT be tolerated, I agree. But honestly, how much censorship should the mods be expected (or WANTED) to do? 2. I can't believe this thread has grown to TWELVE PAGES! I honestly took the opening post as a joke! "Fire the whole staff" of the most successful program in the nation is just laughable! With Hak's record here, he could write his own ticket anywhere, but we're lucky that here is where he wants to be, and I hope he stays here until he retires! Maybe the originator was serious, and for those who think likewise, I just shake my head and wonder what color the sky is in your world...... 3. I get tired of the bandwagon jumpers, too, but it's a BIG bandwagon, and we're all here to cheer on our favorite team, so "can't we just all get along?" I get more angered at ad hominum attacks between posters than I do at frustrated fans that vent that anger in an occasional post ripping on the team (as long as they don't go overboard - you wanna just come on here and bash the Sioux, then please leave and join GPL!) 4. Finally, although I was frustrated and terribly disappointed in their final game, I'm reminded of how lucky I am to be a Sioux fan, following the tradition of greatness that we have! And while we'll certainly lose some GREAT talent again this year, we have more GREAT talent coming in, and we'll have another shot at "#8" next year! Now, back to my "lerker" mode, while I read more positive threads of praise for our boys in green! SA

If you're not being sarcastic, then you've just posted the dumbest thing I've read in a long time! Crashing the goalie is never justified, period.

Congrats on your self-admitted hermaphroditism, lard-butt! Wallow in your pen... that is, Gopher-envy, oh small-minded one! I'm sure a good shrink would have a field day with you, "dude!"

How OLD are you, 12? "One of the best nights of hockey in REA history?" Obsession is an illness, NOT a virtue! Your "best night of hockey" was an embarassing upset of the Gophers, something the Sioux had nothing to do with? MY "best night of hockey" is a Sioux win in an important game, or, better, a championship - but yours? ...... You need to get out more, dude! This condescension toward Holy Cross, the "Little Sisters of the Poor" of college hockey is amusing, though! "Oh, please keep posting here about your team and players, because we CARE about you so much!!!" LOL I hope the Sioux can charge through these 4 games, and hang a new banner at the Ralph - something positive that we can celebrate, instead of only being able to say, "Well, at least WE didn't lose to #15 seed!!!" THAT's what "offends" me - the Holy Cross thing was funny, for awhile, but this just makes us look like Gopher-wannabes, with nothing to counter their recent NC's (they've won 2 since our last), hanging onto some lame memory like this! Like a 12 year old!

Amen! Is this thread still going? No offense, Holy Cross, but while you gave us a good laugh at the Gophers, it's not like your little program can even pretend to be on the same plane as the Sioux and other perennial NCAA powerhouses! Thanks for the fun, though! (You do have spiffy jerseys!)

Nicely done! I particularly liked "SiouxMatrixW" and "siouxscreenshot" - 2 new wallpapers for my home and work computers! Thanks!

Really? Not me! I want another shot at the Gophs! Besides, a run to the NC would be nice to include a thrashing of both Michigan AND the Gophs! (Who wants to go through a "powder puff" team like Air Force, en rout to a championship???) GO SIOUX!!!!!

Please READ the post that you quoted again, and then see if you can understand that your post makes no sense at all. I don't have any love for Lucia (unless he'd decide to come coach at UND!), but I thought that what he said AFTER the Holy Cross debacle, and in the MN Wild interview, was pretty classy. He wasn't "blaming" anyone for the loss, just stating the obvious: Fans of upper echelon teams (and yes, the Gophers are there as well as our Sioux are) expect to NEVER lose to a no-name team like Holy Cross. But $hit happens, and despite fans' expectations, upsets do happen. (Fortunately, upsets of THAT epic proportion have only happened to the Gophers!) No, let's go take care of those skunk-helmeted Wolverine, tomorrow, and THEN focus attention on the field rodents! GO SIOUX!!!!!

I said, "I know that there are MANY (majority, I hope!) thoughtful, intelligent, and rationale Sioux fans - this thread just seems to be devoid of them. " Thanks for making my point!

So, the only 2 choices for the forum, in your opinion, are for "bunny huggers," or ignorant rednecks? Hmmmm ... tough choice! My point is that threads like this one deteriorate into such ridiculous hatefests, when I thought that this was a hockey forum! Sorry, my mistake. It's NOT that I'm "offended" by these posts - they just make Sioux fans look like uninformed morons, who can't get over obsessing over another team's successes. Do we really want Sioux fans to look like Arkansas hillbillies? I don't!

You're wrong - I'm a life-long Sioux fan! But moronic comments like "here is absolutely no integrity in their program so why would anyone expect it from their fans. A waste of time to debate this one." just makes us look stupid. Like the caricature fans from "Da Bears" guys from SNL. You don't have to blindly hate all things "Gopher" to be a Sioux fan, you don't have to be a redneck hillbilly! I know that there are MANY (majority, I hope!) thoughtful, intelligent, and rationale Sioux fans - this thread just seems to be devoid of them. Oh, and Sioux_Hab-it, I shouldn't have to go over to GPL to have intelligent hockey talk! Or don't we do that sort of thing here anymore???

Honestly, some of the rubes here would NOT be satisfied with that - they'd also want you to hand over your children to foster parents in ND, and have your shaved head tatooed with the Sioux logo. Perhaps a new thread should be started on a "wish list" of what all Sioux fans want "pstar" to do to make up for "Gopher crimes?"

Well said, yzerman19! A voice of reason in this thread! Part of what I REALLY enjoy in college sports in general, and Sioux Hockey in particular, is the excitement, cheering and POSITIVE reinforcement in the fan response to quality play on the ice (or field/court). The nonsensical trash-talking between opposing fans, the out-of-control hatred of the opposition's team and fans, is adolescent and just makes a person look stupid. So many "fans" lose sight of the fact that this is a SPORTING EVENT! It's supposed to be ENTERTAINMENT! I don't see Americans blast Al Qaeda with the kind of viotrolic hate that I see posted here about people/players/fans from Minnesota! SHEESH!

Congratulations for the dumbest post in this thread (an intense competition, I might add!) Sheesh!

Absolutely right! At the X this past weekend, seeing all of the different team jerseys being worn, NONE of them came close to the elegant beauty of the Sioux green! The colors and patterns are bright and distinctive, the logo itself a classic! How BORING to have a simple "M" or "W-I-S-C-O-N-S-I-N," or a script "St. Cloud" on your chest! I heard ALOT of Gopher fans complementing the Sioux logo and jersey, and encouraging us to keep the tradition and "fight the good fight!" I hope that UND, and the state of North Dakota NEVER knuckle under to the bone-heads at NCAA! Hypocritical pinheads! GO SIOUX!!!!!!

Hmmm ..... a voice of reason ..... THAT won't fly here! You mean that ALL Gopher fans AREN'T deranged, drunken, illiterate, child-molesting, satanic anencephalics? How would one be sure, after reading all the keenly insightful, thoughtful analyses that we post here about them, based upon statistically significant sampling of said subjects? And I had REALLY hoped that finally, a thread here wouldn't deteriorate into another Gopher-bashing. Wrong, again.......

Um ..... DON'T hold back! Tell us how you REALLY feel!

We just can't help it! (You know how paranoid we are, right?)

Bingo! My point, exactly!

BTW, I DO enjoy the fights on the ice - that's part of what we buy tickets to see! Just not the drunk, fat slobs sitting in the row in front of me!

Stories like this really pi$$ me off! Emotionally-charged PLAYERS on the ice sometimes lose their tempers, and drop the gloves ... and then, off they go to the penalty box. But some beer-soaked wannabes, wearing their team's jerseys, who can't control themselves at an ENTERTAINMENT outing like this, should be restricted to watching the TV at home, and busting up their livingroom furniture, rather than embarassing the very sports program that they profess to love. All they do is make a$$es out of themselves, and, worse, bother the people around them, who paid good money to be entertained at the game. And I don't CARE who starts it - drunk and stupid is no way to go through life. Throw their arses out, or take them off to jail!