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The Brainerd comment was meant in terms of approximate distance from his hometown. Toews bringing the cup to UND would be akin to Leddy bringing it to Brainerd.

I was just gonna say...20 minutes from Eden Prairie to Mariucci? Maybe at 7am on a Sunday morning LOL!

It's Brainerd, not Brainard. Leddy grew up in Eden Prairie, a lifelong Gopher fan, and he brought the cup back close to his roots. Toews grew up in Winnipeg, spent two years at SSM, and two in GF en route to the NHL. Yes, apples to oranges. Had Toews grown up in Thompson and worn Sioux jerseys to UND games as a grade-schooler, we'd now be comparing apples to apples.

If I could be paid $50 million to move back to my home country or $75 million to play thousands of miles away from it, which would I choose? Jeremy Roenick is wrong on this one...kudos to Kovulchuk for wanting to go home...and doing it.

Let's go over to GPL and talk smack about Seth Helgeson and see how many Gopher fans jump to our defense and back us up. No surprise that a pro-Penguins forum would back Matt Cooke...

With all due respect, DaveK, you can't miss Stevens coming in with the elbow squarely aiming for Lindros' jaw. I have zero doubt that his intent was to put #88 out of the game. Full shields won't save anyone from a concussion. I should know...I got one while wearing one not while playing hockey, but by playing broomball.

Yikes. I'll find the link to the hit where you can see Stevens CLEARLY go out of his way to hit Lindros with his elbow. I couldn't stand Eric Lindros but that hit pretty much destroyed his career.

...and your opinion of the elbow smashing into Lindros' face is...?

Toews bringing the Cup to Grand Forks would be similar to Leddy bringing it to Brainerd. Apples and oranges...

Agree button x 1000.

Whoa! He liked it! What a great goal that was...Chris Harrington got faked right out of his jock on that move.

The same McSorley who years later used his stick as a softball bat against Donald Brashear? His career is forever scarred by that incident.

So Goon and DaveK, what are your respective opinions on Claude Lemieux as a player? 'Honorable' champion or total turtling thug? Did he deserve to have his a$$ kicked by Darren McCarty in 1997 or was it not his fault that Kris Draper's face got re-arranged in the 1996 playoffs? What about Scott Stevens? Remember him knocking Eric Lindros into retirement? Open-ice clean hit or total cheap-shot elbow to the head of a player looking the other way. I'm curious as to your thoughts...

I like it. Maybe then, folks in the lounge/bar area of REA might actually look at the ice below them and see what's going on!

Believe me, it's not something I'm especially proud of...

OK, I'm actually going to defend Justin Bieber on two counts here: 1) Touching the Stanley Cup as a 'civilian': When I stood in line in 2008 to see the Stanley Cup on display in Eau Claire (a $10 'donation' was charged to take a photo with the cup - the donation was for hockey facilities in Eau Claire), almost EVERYONE in line touched the cup when they posed with it. You were allowed to touch the cup, but not pick it up from the table. I would bet that easily 50% of the people I saw in line before me put their hand(s) on the Stanley Cup when their photo op came up. I did not because I believe in the tradition. My then 8 year old son fessed up later that even though I gave him explicit instructions to NOT touch the cup, that he couldn't resist and actually put a finger on it when I wasn't looking. Rather than backhand him across the face, I chuckled. He said it was pretty cool. 2) The horror of standing on a logo that's put on the floor: I'm sure plenty of people like me in their 40's remember the days of gigantic center-ice, mid-court, and midfield logos of college, NHL, NBA, and NFL teams. The bigger the team logo, the better. All of a sudden, the Miami Hurricanes, Florida Gators, Florida State Seminoles, etc. are pictured on TV weekly in about the early to mid 1990's stomping on their opponents' logo at midfield. Pre-game fights break out, players getting ejected, etc. Home turf is something that's to be protected. Now, even the THOUGHT of walking across a logo THAT'S EMBEDDED IN THE FREAKING FLOOR is something that apparently deserves nothing short of a punch in the face. Hey, let's put UND logos in the granite of REA...then a few years later, let's rope off the area so no one can walk on it. I don't get it... Case in point...football pre-game warm-ups...or West Side Boyz vs 3rd Street Mafia?

Duluth students spell out "Bulldogs" and Michigan Tech fans spell out "Technological" after goals...UMD makes me cringe when I hear it...Tech makes me laugh out loud...agree with you, UNDBIZ on UND fans doing it...second worst thing ever only to the pair of stonewashed jeans I used to own in 1988.

I think Jimdahl deserves a month-long suspension for posting this.

Nice thought, but unfortunately, that song usually winds up being sung something like this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5yp0G7DkgA

I don't cheer for the Blackhawks and groaned the first time I heard the Chelsea Dagger song in Grand Forks...how original.

But it's Jonathan Toews and every Sioux fan should be a Blackhawk fan now, right?

Sorry, Goon...behold...the greatest rock video...in the history of rock videos... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nZniMYCZp4

I'm sure it was sarcasm...let the kids play! The logo looks great.

DLR no doubt about it...wanna feel old? Read this article about the legendary 'Hot for Teacher' video... http://ultimateclassicrock.com/van-halen-hot-for-teacher-video-star-lillian-muller-resurfaces/

#88 in the front row on the left...that's clearly the former Fighting Sioux logo...