MafiaMan

Rivalry. I love it!

I'm not so sure you'd want to do that, gopherz. It looks amazingly similar to another orange, white, and black jersey that you may have seen this season: The one sported by Rochester's Pride on Ice.

I was just thinking the same thing! Another fan and I hopped on Al's bus in 2005 en route to Columbus. We had a great time.

It's funny you should mention that because it was a story of mine at the Hoggsbreath on Saturday. Last year, one of the hockey dads saw me a week after the Minny win at the Final Five and mentioned that he was surprised I was wearing my Sioux gear and how I must've gotten over the heartbreaking loss at the Final Five! After some discussion, it was determined that he had no idea that the NCAA tournament was still being played. WOW.

Dude, I'm the Cliff Clavin of remembering stupid details of every hockey game I've been to or seen on TV. Now if I could just remember important things...like where I put my license tab renewal form...

That goalie was none other than Tony Quesada. If memory serves me right, didn't he toss his cookies right on the ice at some point early in the game? You think that kid was nervous?

I watched the Sioux/Holy Cross game at Old Chicago in Roseville. I was watching the Sioux/Denver game when the screen went blank late in the 3rd period. How did I find out? Via text message.

How quickly we forget. The team who played the Sioux tough in 2004 was none other than Holy Cross. I bet 2/3 of people who saw the western regional in Engelstad a few years ago had no idea... One might think Michigan would keep their mouth shut given the fact that in March of 2001, while most people were predicting an 8 or 10-0 win against Mercyhurst, the mighty Wolverines held off the Lakers in a 4-3 regional game in Grand Rapids. Never overlook your opponent.

Talk about billboard material for Niagara. I hope they play like they did in 2000 when they stunned UNH!

Sioux-cia bought her tickets from a scalper on the street corner. He will be mailing her the information packet next January.

Outside of the small-towners (and I mean that term nicely) thinking a 1.5 hour side-trek to Cracker Barrel wouldn't come back to haunt us, the experience was AWESOME! What made yours so bad?

BC has made it to the Frozen Four what, 6 or 7 of the past 10 years and has exactly 1 title to show for it. It's not as easy as it looks. Just ask DUKE! Sorry about ps$$in' you off. That brings up bad memories for me too, having paid for a ticket but being over-ruled by the rest of Al Pearson's bus-riders who wanted to stop for breakfast in Champagne, IL, on the Thursday am of the NCAA Frozen Four. One car accident 30 minutes outside of Columbus later, we're sitting in traffic for 2/3 of the DU/CC hockey game.

The 2004-2005 Frozen Four wasn't that long ago, was it?

I'm looking to travel with my six year old son and am looking to do it cheaply. A limo probably isn't the way to go.

While I'd like to agree with everything you say, I stop immediately after "I am not a gopher fan...". Frankly, I'd love it if UND got a chance to avenge some disappointments at the hand of Boston College and hand them a beat-down in Denver as opposed to having the Gophers do it for us. Miami irritatingly overrated? They've played Michigan several times and usually given the Wolverines all they could handle. I bet you'll think better of them once this tournament gets under way. They stumbled last year, but they have lots of returning players who won't let that happen again.

And wasn't Chorney like a -4 or -5 on the second night of the UNH series? What do you want Finley to do, turn his jersey into Hakstol? Maybe you could stop by practice today and show big Joe how its done?

Wow. One bad play and some people are "Brian Lee'ing" the guy.

It rolls off the tongue much better than 7>6!

There was NOTHING brave about those morons.

Fixed your post.

It'll be Kangas' first real test where 33-98% of the crowd won't be cheering FOR him. BC has too much firepower to lose. 4-2 BC.

Gopher fans AND Sioux fans in my section actually thanked me for saying something to them. They were pretty subdued by Saturday night, but probably only because they were too full of beer and too hung over to be as dumb as they were on Thursday and Friday. What was equally apalling was the parents not only sitting by and watching their sons make fools of themselves, but almost encouraging it.

These idiots sat in my section and they weren't funny in the least. There were about 4-5 college-aged kids holding these signs up (along with the 8 beers per game that each of them consumed). They stood up during every break in the action and held up their signs, cursed at other fans, and flashed the finger at people. At least two of them went up for beer between periods at some point during the weekend and had to be helped back to their seats by their moms. I'd had enough of their antics myself by Friday night and stepped down a few rows to tell them that on behalf of Sioux fans everywhere, I was asking them to cease and desist. After having one of the d-bags swear at me, things got a little heated and mommy quickly jumped in to defend her upstanding citizen of a son. I'll stand by what I told them on Friday night: They are an absolute embarrassment to Sioux fans everywhere.

I actually met several nice Gopher fans this weekend and the fans sitting behind us in row 10 of section 102 were great. The bad apples of our section, some fans near the boards, were about 4-6 drunk Sioux fans obnoxiously waving HOLY CROSS and RIT signs for the entire Thursday and Friday night games.

Once we got the crispy bacon vs regular bacon, pancakes vs hash browns, and sour dough vs wheat toast all straightened out, it was a GREAT breakfast! Good times this year at the Hoggsbreath and if I'm successful getting the "WELCOME SIOUXSPORTS.COM" put on the sign outside the place next year, we're taking a group photo!