MafiaMan

Good food, good drinks, meeting some of the monikers on the board, introductions of folks, maybe a few door prizes/give-aways, exclusive SiouxSports/Hoggsbreath memorabilia, insider club information, Sioux story-time, and a group photo underneath the Hoggsbreath sign (which will again display a welcome for Sioux hockey fans). It's a good chuckle every year.

SIOUXELEVENS - 2 bcblues -2 fightingsioux4life - 1 Siouxman - 2 brianvf - 1 sprig - 4 Goon - 2 or 3 siouxczech29 rhenry8439 - 4 CMSioux - 2 LeftyZL - 1.5 Cratter - 1 Sioux Fan in Sioux Falls - 3 Ice Arena Man - 1

Let's not kid ourselves that Don Lucia "hated" the so-called Gopher rule. How many recruits were skipping school so they could catch the 2:00 pm North Dakota or St Cloud game? Answer? Not many. Minnesota and its fans loved that prime-time game and they know it. What will the excuse be when Goldy loses this Friday afternoon to OSU/PSU? The early afternoon start interrupted nappy-time?

"WCHA, Bruce McLeod speaking." "Hi Bruce, it's Don Lucia." "Hi Don. What can I help you with?" "Well, as the #1 seed, we'd actually prefer to play the Friday afternoon game this year." "Sure, no problem. That's all you wanted?" "Yep. See you next weekend." "Alrighty. Take care."

A-ha! It's gfhockey!

SIOUXELEVENS - 2 bcblues -2 fightingsioux4life - 1 Siouxman - 2 brianvf - 1 sprig - 4 Goon - 2 or 3 siouxczech29 rhenry8439 - 4 CMSioux - 2 LeftyZL - 1.5 Cratter - 1

That is correct. Alex Stalock was incredible in that tournament, allowing only 1 goal in 3 games.

Checked it out - the last 3rd place game was 2010 (Wisconsin over Denver 6-3). League expanded to 12 teams in 2011 and 3rd place game was scrapped.

So in 2009, 2012, and 2013, MN lost the 3rd place game too?

I believe Mariucci means Final Five games and B10 Tournament games only.

UND could just be the Studded Rough Riders to differentiate itself from RR.. No, wait...

It's slowly coming back to me now... This was the look until the end of 2011. For the 2011-2012 season, the green numbers on the white jerseys were changed to black and the green numbers on the black jerseys were changed to white.

If UND could just find another $1.8 million and increase Brian Jones' salary to $750K per year, can we raise the expectations from simply making the Big Sky Tournament to a Final Four appearance?

Wait...that sounded bad.

Postgame smile courtesy of a first game happy ending?

I'm gonna guess that the kid wore 'em to a game or two, sure.

If it's the University of North Dakota Sucks, will Bison fans change their "Sioux suck" cheer to "Sucks suck"?

I think you're correct, Starman avatar. I definitely like the patch better on the front. Siouxkid12, I'm about 200 pounds right now. I wonder if I could grow into a 56...

Actually, you can probably find him at Augies this weekend when our team IS playing too...

Didn't know you two were besties...

What year(s) did that style jersey have the WCHA patch on the chest as opposed to the back butt?

Meh. I'd prefer to let them rot in the B10.

Page 25 in NCAA 2014/2015 thread...sent you a PM.

Gardy was the GM too? Torii Hunter's a nice sentimental pick to come back to Minnesota. Why didn't management check to see what Jack Morris, Tom Brunansky, and Butch Wynegar were up to these days?

Darius Kasparaitis was my favorite Penguin.