MafiaMan

I know you're a Mankato fan and I'd agree...a mid-season rivalry tournament at the X has the potential to grow over time as opposed to another run-of-the-mill non-conference series against Robert Morris or Sacred Heart at the MWWCC. Maybe I'm just bitter because I already miss the yearly road-trips to Mankato to see the Sioux play.

I watched the games on TV and heard the estimates on "Beyond the Pond" on Saturday morning. The show did everything to try to minimize the Friday afternoon attendance problem, including at one point, blaming the weather. Instead of saying using actual numbers, they pointed out the 14,000 figure from Friday but admitted "several thousand less than that" for the afternoon game. Several thousand? Try 10 out of every 14 people with tickets not showing up for the UMD/Mankato game. Only UMD play-by-play man Bruce Ciskie mentioned the low attendance for the afternoon game as being problematic.

You didn't listen to "Beyond the Pond" on Saturday morning, did you? if I'm premature in comparing it to the Final Five, Minnesota homers are beyond premature in comparing it to the Beanpot or the GLI. Beyond the Pond's quotes that I listed earlier in this thread on Saturday morning were laughable. "A different vibe" at the X? With 4,000 fans there? C'mon.

http://www.mankatofreepress.com/sports/x651196278/Despite-finish-Mavs-impressed-with-North-Star-Cup There won't be an announcement of single game attendance for this reason (taken from the Xcel Energy Center web site: Tournament packages include two tickets, one for each day of the tournament. Each day’s ticket will provide access to both games on that day. The arena will not be cleared between games each day and there will be no ‘in and out’ privileges either day. Single session tickets will allow access to both games in the session. Your estimate of 38,000 fans in attendance is about 10,000 too many. I sent a Gopher fan friend of mine a text as I knew he was in the stands for the championship game (he skipped the 3rd place game along with about 10,000 other folks). When asked what the atmosphere was like for the Gopher/UMD game, he said while it was a great game to watch and the crowd was into it, the crowd numbers rivaled those of the WCHA Final Five 3rd place game.

Nice!

I caught that as well...total double standard, ya think?

It was smokey who decided to politicize this thread with his "Larry Craig" comment - as if that had anything at all to do with his original post.

Nice to see you again, passit. I was surprised you didn't blow up the World Junior thread this year with comments about Don Lucia. Or did you wear yourself out last year raking Phil Housley over the coals?

And if this poor girl was found in a snowbank eight hours later with a severe case of frostbite, the cop who drove by but didn't stop would be skewered in today's newspaper. Damned if you do...damned if you don't...

I have never ever mentioned Simpson's dad or any other player parents in any post anywhere on this site ever. Talk about just throwing a charge out there. You pretend to know a lot about journalism - I'll await the retraction of your statement.

I had no idea who her parents and grandparents are until you pointed it out. Did the Herald make it a point to mention Danny Kristo's or Matt Frattin's parents when details of their encounters with campus police made headlines? Nope. You made it a point and did some research yourself...why? To sensationalize the story further?

After drawing about 4,000 for the opening semi-final and 3rd place game, I would concur with you about building something better. It would be hard to go down from that.

Nevermind politicians, how about college hockey players? I don't see any of them (or football players at NDSU, for that matter) turning in their jersey after being arrested.

Put up 25,000 bleachers in Fargo and I guarantee you that a Sioux/St Cloud or Sioux/UMD game would draw that many fans. I would consider that equally as impressive as the Minnesota/Ohio State outdoor game.

Ask our friend smokey. Apparently he finds it quite hilarious.

In best Hillary Clinton voice: We have four dead Americans and one dead border patrol agent. What difference does it make? Ppssst...smokey, your watchmaker49 is showing...

Why would we sell weapons to Iran? Are we moving away from this administration's policy of giving them away to drug cartels in Mexico? If our own government doesn't care why four Americans were killed a year ago in Libya, why is this poor college girl's mistake making headline news? Because it's more fun to laugh at the troubles of people in 'high places'? Why not a post about Anthony Weiner's latest sex-capade or Eliot Spitzer meeting the parents of his 20-something girlfriend? Your post alerting everyone here of your 'breaking news' was pure trash.

As opposed to giant windmill farms killing birds by the thousands? That sounds healthy for the environment.

Too bad she didn't work somewhere in the Obama administration...she'd still have a job. Or maybe our Prez needs someone to help point out Sweden and Finland to our ambassador-nominee to Norway?

I believe students are also required to take a diversity class ensuring that they are aware that 'tribe' in no way insinuates anything related to American Indians. I have to research that last statement though. http://www.wm.edu/about/mascot/background/faqs/index.php

And why is that? I haven't seen anything out of the ordinary from him lately. Just the usual 'in Hak we trust' and 'Saturday letdown' stuff. I must have missed something big somewhere. Maybe it's in the football thread.

St Paul was just too far away, LOL?

Why isn't he your avatar? Get it done.

The Czech Republic team in '98 was a bigger and better story, in my humble opinion. For years, the second-best team in Europe and probably the world (as Czechoslovakia, obviously), but always under orders to lose to the Soviet Union when it mattered most. In 1998, the Czechs had their payback. The massive crowd of people celebrating in Prague after the gold medal game was really something to see. Back on topic, Penn State lost 3-2 to Boston College last night...sure would have been nice to see them win that game.

You're correct, but it decided the 1994 Olympics...a total travesty.