MafiaMan

The toolpusher called...he said since it's a slow day on the rig you can scrub the doghouse again and then mix up some more mud.

12:40 left...still 3-1. Finns have a nice short-handed chance...

3-1 Finland! Yea baby.

Opinion, not fact. Michigan State and Ohio State had no problem dishing out suspensions for their bowl games.

Yea I am not sure what Petterson was thinking. Go Finland go! Speaking of stupid...nice misconduct penalty on Canada. Hit right to the guy's head and Drouin whines about it all the way to the box.

It's Appalachian State and that's a great analogy. So before that game, you predicted Michigan would wind up 'a mess' by season's end? How about NDSU vs Kansas State? Georgia Southern vs Florida? Eastern Washington vs Oregon State?

"Their" rules? The article specifically said "NCAA violations." That's a lot different than breaking a team curfew.

Special occasions is one thing...and I am a big fan of third jerseys. But having four-five jersey and pant colors along with five different helmets does nothing for me. Did you notice Indiana's hot mess of a wardrobe this season?

Groan. So we can be like Tennessee, Oklahoma State, West Virginia, and everyone else who decided to add grey to their uniform color scheme in the past season or two? Why stop there? Why not add the fake color 'volt' to the uniform scheme as well?

Because some schools actually like tradition - Alabama...Georgia...Florida State. Special-event jerseys like Notre Dame's green jersey are cool...coming out with some different Nike garbage every week waters down your brand.

STOP THE MATCHING JERSEY AND PANTS INSANITY! No monochrome!

Dumb dumb dumb. Fly out of the penalty box when the game ends to go find a Russian player and punch his lights out. Nice.

Russian player sent to box earlier on goalie interference call...sure looked to me like he was helped by the Swede defenseman into the goalie.

Russia outplaying Sweden everywhere but on the scoreboard!

Sioux half-a$$ it and lose to vastly inferior opponent in exhibition game: fire Hakstol immediately. Sioux lose Rocco for the season and Gothberg for 4-6 weeks due to injuries suffered in exhibition game: fire Hakstol immediately.

Alright, I concede. Should North Dakota pull a Yale out of its hat this year and win an NCAA hockey championship, the banner raised next fall in REA should have an asterisk on it saying 'we lost to the University of British Columbia.' What was the attendance last night?

Michigan Tech any time it beats UND in hockey...NDSU football beating Kansas State...#15 Lehigh beating #2 Duke in basketball...

What exactly do we disagree on? I agree that there are players who give 100% even if the event is a father-son game. There are also others who half-a$$ it in what we as fans think should be a big game. I've said it before and I'll say it again: UND needs to get back to recruiting players who want to win while IN Grand Forks...not those who are more interested in what happens when they're in the NHL.

I do remember reading that. Wasn't Oxbow 6 in his group that day? I'm sure he could verify it. Russia vs Sweden makes me glad I got out of bed this morning. What a first period!

Right on. I bet there isn't an active discussion going on over at Gopher Puke Live today about canning Lucia over yesterday's "loss" to Crest, er, AquaFresh, er Colgate.

You can say that about any big name team in any sport. In theory, yes. In practice, it just doesn't happen. Just ask a guy like Randy Moss and he'll tell you.

Find me a college or pro athlete in any sport that doesn't mail it in on occasion. The 10-6 Eagles got their butts handed to them by a hapless Vikings team. The Miami Heat opened their season with a loss to a team tanking it to try to win next summer's draft lottery (76ers). The Islanders defeated the mighty Blackhawks a day ago. Baylor was expected to smoke Central Florida in the Fiesta Bowl...but the Knights put up 50+ on the Big 12 champions. The series at Western Michigan and the next two series will tell you a lot more about this Sioux team than an exhibition game played in scenic British Columbia will.

This game meant as much to UND hockey this season as the Valpo game meant to UND football. And UMD fans were calling for Sandelin's head at least two years prior to his NCAA title run season. Had UMD not made that Frozen Four, I don't doubt for a second that he'd have been canned by now.

Doug McLeod makes me long for the good old days of 'the rug' himself.

So if Ohio State University played a mid-season exhibition football game against the University of Nova Scotia and lost, would you say it is time to think about canning Urban Meyer?