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toews with a oshie-esque delay, waited for mannino to go down and then slid it by him. 5-2 sioux... great to see the offense and defense playing together well, especially heading into march. keep it up boys.

actually, it was smaby and stafford on the assists, they had it wrong on tv.

great passing on the pp for the goal ryan duncan is playing excellent tonight sioux up 4-1 edit: radke and stafford on the assists

spirko just manhandled paukovich in the corner.... then parise w/ a nice save on a shot from the point. penalty over, 4:30 left in 2nd 3-0 sioux.

i agree w/ tv announcers in that kaip deserved a 2 min there too, but the du guy should have gotten 4 in that case.

looked like a little crosscheck right before the whistle... but the du player exploded on kaip.

bucky scores, 6-4 mankato, about five minutes left

score updates around the country: CC 4 - UMD 0: 10 minutes left in the 3rd MSUM 5 - Wisco 3: mankato with five straight goals to take the lead into the start of the 3rd SCSU 5 - Tech 1: six minutes left in the third Mich 3 - Ferris 3: final, i think this will help the sioux's rpi WMU 5 - UNO 5: final/ot... western mich scored 3 goals in the last 7 minutes to tie it up

feel free to say that 1st sentence a lot... seems to have worked this time.

oshie w/ a breakaway goal. 3-0 sioux

for those not watching tv... at the end of a scrum a du fan along the boards started going off on prpich and he just sat there and laughed at the guy.

great play by finley? (maybe smaby) to stop a 2 on 1 chance

mike prpich goal!!! great job by that line to keep up the pressure w/o fabian. 2-0 UND.

unless jim is being overly protective, you should be able to post a press release. the point of it is the hope that it gets copied.

being the best in one game is one thing, but when you're shut out in points the first game, then you're probably not going to get picked. especially when you have less points against a weaker opponent. not saying it wouldn't have been nice to see toews get it, but he certainly wasn't the best freshmen this weekend. so to feel like he was jipped is a little ridiculous.

i'm a big sioux fan, but sometimes i wonder if people who complain like the above post aren't huge homers.... 4 assists vs the number 1 ranked team in the league or two goals and an assist vs a bottom feeder. i think kessel is the obvious choice in this one, despite the fact that he's a gopher.

i haven't done a super in-depth look at it, but it seems that beacuse the CCHA did so well during it's non-conference games, it essentially means teams in the ccha are ranked higher because they play each other so much. like the wcha in previous years, if you beat up in non-conference games, your league will get a higher ranking, which means every conference game you play is technically against a "good opponent" even if it's just a lower-conf team.

drinking water here. it's too bad too... if i could have a nice cap'n morgan the 10 pm news would be pretty interesting for you all.

Walski in net for sioux that's not true. i don't know who is in net. settle down.

according to sagard in another thread: Fairbanks - UND needs to take over TUC. BU - UND needs to pass them in RPI and maintain CO. 50/50. Cornell - UND needs to retake RPI and sweep UMD who is a CO. This is looking somewhat tough as Cornell has mostly winning teams remaining on their schedule. DU - Out of principle. Michigan - UND needs to pass them in RPI. Tossup. UNO - UND needs to retake RPI. This one is probable. Providence - Sioux need to maintain razor thin RPI edge and have Providence lose to either UNH or NE. SCSU - UND needs to take back both TUC and CO. This is a 50/50. Also against Ohio State, Ferris, Mich State, and SLU. -------------------------- So Far at 9:30 On Friday: Fairbanks hasn't started BU beat Umass Cornless loss to Clarkson DU is up 5-3 after 1 vs Mankato Michigan Lost in OT to LSSU UNO beat N Michigan Providence lost to BC SCSU is losing 6-3 to CC Ohio State lost to Mich State yesterday Ferris Lost to Notre Dame Mich State beat Ohio State yesterday St. Lawrence beat Colgate

You're just a huge ball of sunshine aren't you. I bet you were pissed off at the team and questioning leadership back in '87 when they lost a couple games. Greene is a ROOKIE on a defense-laden team. Oh, no, he's only played 16 games this year. He must be the worst defensemen ever. Why isn't he playing with pronger on the first d-pair? You seem to have a short memory. Greene took a lot more bad-timing penalties last year, but changed when it started to go down the stretch. I think I've seen a change in Smaby's play over the past couple weeks. He's hitting guys like he knows how to, he's staying out of the box, and he's playing solid defensively. I think a lot of people put too much pressure on the Captain position. I think he's doing his job and is playing well. Well enough to be a 6/7 D-man in the NHL. Hopefully, he Tampa doesn't think so, because despite your harping on him, I'd love to have him back next year. In a year where we don't have the fearsome D-Corps we had last year, Smaby is the big mofo that will light you up if you try to come into the zone. That's the epitome of Sioux Hockey right there.

i was getting really scared when i was reading those updates and augie took the lead. i noticed the same thing happened at st. cloud. had a decent lead at half and then let the other team back in during the second half before shutting them down. hopefully, that will stop and the girls can just continue on their torrid pace that is set during the first half.

I agree this issue has been blown out of proportion. Look at some of what you people are proposing. Frist, you have to look at the overall picture which is: when the betty was built, it was NEVER intended to be a conference game arena. That's why games were played in the Ralph last year. You're basically asking REA to have seen at least one year before-hand that the atmosphere at the ralph would suck and that coaches would ask to have all games at the betty. When the Betty was built here's where things were at: Volleyball - Betty Non-Conf BB - Betty Practice - Betty Conf BB - Ralph Big Games - Ralph Seems like expecting the REA to know that the Betty would be used and there would be ONE sell-out in it's second season is ludacris. People are acting like the world is coming to an end because there was a sellout. The Xcel Energy Center sold out every game for it's first three years (could still be selling out, i don't know), but people didn't act like the sky was falling because there was a lowly 18,000 seats. Don't look at the issue as the betty wasn't built big enough for conference bball, because it was never intended for that. Look at the issue as, some changes have been made this past year and some issues are still being worked out. I know a lot of people who think they've been screwed over by the Ralph, but have a little faith that they'll learn from this one issue and be prepared next time there is a potentially huge game. I'd think once the playoffs get here, the REA will be ready to handle a 4k crowd. If not, then let's come back and discuss how the REA management is a bunch of idiots.

your point about men's basketball is moot, because of a certain 25-0 team right now. seems like budget cuts didn't affect the women... i'd say coaching, injuries and some players not being on the team this year is why they are underacheiving. fighting sioux hockey is in it's fourth year (second in the wcha)... despite being so young, they had the fourth highest attendance in the ncaa last year. the number of fans continues to rise as the games progress. with better results, will come more fans, which would allow the rea to up ticket prices, make more money off concessions, and the school would get money from final five appearances. it's been a year and a half of wcha hockey. before that, it was two years of taking girls off of intramural teams and whatever was left in the area. give the team some time. give the coach some time. this isn't the men's team, you can't expect them to be instantly amazing. anytime a program just starts up, it's tough for them to win a lot. (please look at nearly all professional expansion teams and their track record with the playoffs). it depends on who you ask whether we're getting what we pay for. if we're basing it off right now, then no. but if you based any sport on it's first four years in existence, then the chances are you could say no for all of them. are we providing girls across north dakota and northwest minnesota the opportunity to have someone local to look up to? yes. and that's immeasurable. how many of these high school girls who take trips to watch the team are going to commit to the school because it was so welcoming to them. give it some time before you start going off on title 9. i'm all against making up for wrongs in the past, but i'm all for equal opportunity. give them the same opportunities that this school gave the men's team back in 1947 when it started out with barely a handful of wins in its first couple years.

i don't think any of last year's games at the ralph were free... the only time the free bball with hockey ticket was with non-conference games when they were played in the betty and sioux hockey was playing in the ralph. i think rea should evaluate the capacity issue year by year. if we have more sellouts, then we should seriously consider going back to the ralph for conference games only. if all we have is one sellout, then i don't think moving games back to the ralph (except maybe scsu) is a good idea.