MafiaMan

Good grief, Shireen Saski just referred to the '87 team as the "Circus Hrkac Show." Wow.

Rico Blasi getting the Miami boys fired up for the 3rd period. What will Dan Hakstol do?

How on earth did Canada's Olympic committee look at these and say "thumbs up"?

gfhockey predicting 3rd period letdown.

Soviet hybrid?

So is CBSSN chummy enough with Blasi to keep referring to him as "Rico" vs Enrico?

Section 104...what row and seat number?

4-3 final. UNH wins.

Is gfhockey passed out in the concourse somewhere?

Bummer that that wasn't converted! The roof woulda come off REA.

BU scores...4-3 UNH with 3:00 left.

Spartans win shoot-out at Penn State. Minnesota fans so thrilled about seeing Michigan that Mariucci is almost half full.

ENG!

That sure looked nasty on the replay.

No class on Monday, right? That explains a lot.

Looks like another shoot-out in the Little 6...

UNH now up 4-2 over BU. Pegula Ice Arena looks like a nice venue for hockey. Sparty ties it at 2.

I'm sure they are. Doesn't your home-monitoring device send an alarm to your PO when you're out of the house, though?

Nike's way of getting even with Sweden for demanding the Tre Kroner on the front of the jersey. Nike really wanted to mess with that, from what I have read (think Finland and Czech flag jerseys).

This is somewhat difficult because you want a very specific answer for a very hypothetical situation. If you define the "status-quo" as ten consecutive 23-30 win seasons, multiple conference and NCHC playoff championships, 10 consecutive trips to the NCAA tournament, 5-7 trips to the Frozen Four, and 2-4 title game appearances but ZERO national titles, I'd still argue that North Dakota is a premiere college hockey program and that Hakstol is a good coach. Fire him based on that? It'd still be tough to do if I was the AD at UND - and I realize some people may disagree with me on that. The problem with the "Woog" analogy is that Doug Woog's last three years were a rapid decline record-wise. From 27-12-1 and WCHA conference co-champs (2nd place playoff finish) in 1996-1997 to 17-22 the next season and 15-19-9 in his final year. That's a pretty steep drop and the decision to replace Woog was probably inevitable at that point. And don't think for one minute that Dean Blais' 1997 title didn't start swaying the minds of Gopher fans and their "Minnesota's Pride on Ice" mentality - because it did. I think eventually, Hakstol's legacy will go one way or the other. Either he gets over the hump and gets that elusive title - or the team starts declining record-wise, missing some NCAA tournament appearances, and he will be Gino Gasparini'd out the door. And as I stated earlier, should Minnesota win a title this season, you can bet the heat on the Hakstol stove will get turned up by about 50 degrees to 400 farenheit.

All stuff I've pointed out here MANY times, Mariucci.

Did Nike make Sweden ditch their sleeve stripes? Canada...black jerseys...single red arm-band with white borders around it...hmnn...is it just me or does that have "bad idea" written all over it? Finland...stick with the Lion on the front. Switzerland...we needed an ambulance on the ice?

Whew. For a second there, I thought this post would say "Fire Brewster."

Norway should have played to win yesterday...not just to look good in a 3-1 loss to the tournament favorite. What's today's jersey report since I didn't see the games?

I'll take whatever someone wants to dish out today. If the Sioux lose tonight, I'll still be up early tomorrow to watch USA vs Russia. Meanwhile, over at beebs' house, he'll have to gently break the news to the kids that the family cat "ran away" sometime shortly after the Sioux game ended.