"Sorry the ice was less than ideal yesterday. Fans, we hope you brought your parkas and SiouxSports.com fleece hats today!"
Same problem at the 2000 WCHA Final Five. 15 years later it's "we're working on it."
North Dakota won the Beanpot regional out east back in 2005 to advance to the WCHA tournament in Columbus...which led to the greatest Al Pearson bus ride in the history of Al Pearson bus rides!
Sidenote X 2: can you imagine SiouxSports.com if Minnesota State, Michigan Tech, or Nebraska Omaha wins the whole thing? jimdahl will have to shut 'er down for a month!
Seemed to take Red Berenson and Jack Parker a while too...
Hell, I'm surprised some fans weren't asking Dean Blais what the he** took so long back in '97.
Houghton is 6 hours from St Paul - in IDEAL driving conditions. The reason Tech had so many supporters was because a good number of Gopher fans showed up to cheer for them (wearing Tech jerseys) and because it's the first time since the early 1990's that the Huskies were in the title game. I'm guessing that had a few fans wanting to make the trip.