MafiaMan

2 series left on the road and 3 at home. Final Five on the road and then West Regional at home. Seems to me...the home schedule is starting to be more important.

It's not like I'm fond of admitting it, sagard.

Agreed, Buckysucks. I remember a few years ago UND was in the midst of a monster home winning streak. I happened to attend the game when the streak was broken and the Sioux team was serenaded with boo birds (particularly from the student section). I seem to recall commenting to one fairly loud fan that he'd just witnessed (forgive me for not remembering the exact number of wins here) 8 or 9 wins in a row and that the team will suffer an occasional loss at home during his four years at UND.

Very well written? As a speech in a junior high English class, maybe. I'll write it again...anything that compares a chant at a hockey game to fascist Italy during WWII is hardly well-written. The writer attended the Mariucci "Classic" game involving Union College. I wonder if the fans would have been as "classy" had he attended the second game of a road sweep by Wisconsin a while back against his beloved Gophers.

Occasional Wisconsinite? How about a certain Austrian named Vanek who was pretty much instrumental in getting the 2nd of the bookend titles? I wonder if this clown ever heard of him.

Who cares about the play-in game? The play-in game winner has not advanced to the Final Five title game since its inception. I think that's an important statistic to note. The Sioux goal should be to finish third...and with home games against St Cloud, UMD, and Michigan Tech coming up, 12 points isn't out of the question. The key, then, will be taking 2 out of 4 against Denver and Colorado College.

Don't shoot the messenger... Gopher Hockey Article I think my favorite part is the comparison of the M-I-N-N-E-S-O-T-A chant to fascist Italy. Um...ok...

No, I think I originally read your point to be "success" at the Kohl Center. I don't think 4-8 is a great record. However, I think your point was just to have the opportunity to celebrate a win at the Kohl Center. Duly noted.

Cue the Adam Sandler line from "Happy Gilmore"... "AWWWW...COME ON...IS THAT NET REGULATION SIZE OR WHAT?"

Any truth to the rumors that once the helmets were removed after the game, it was discovered that the POI roster included Jesse Bertigliot, Dan Woog, and Steve DeBus?

I'm assuming you're talking hockey here, Cratter. The Sioux are 4-8 in their last six visits to the Kohl Center with wins coming in 2002-03 (sweep), 2001-02 (split) and 1999-00 (split). I'd say Bucky's gotten the best of the Sioux during that time. See SI.com today. One of the major columns talks about NDSU's win being the big event of men's college basketball this past weekend. For those of you whining about how UND's women's team being undefeated isn't that big of a story...even Division I women's basketball is rarely mentioned on SI.com or ESPN Sportscenter unless it involves Tennessee or UConn. If the Sioux women knocked off a dominant Division I program, it still wouldn't make news. Unless it happened to involve the two teams I just mentioned.

Trying to make me jealous?

You don't get too intimate with your skates, do you, Cratter?

Congratulations Bison fans (not to mention Bison basketball team) on a big, big win today. Way to go!

I wear #19 in broomball and softball, Sioux-cia!

Alas, it is for those of us who cannot skate.

I've seen that face before...last March...Columbus...the Platinum Fox...ah, yes...it's all coming back to me now. In all seriousness, I didn't see any highlights of the game, but it does sound like the Sioux played well. Let's hope that that continues tonite and UND gets an important sweep to put a nice gap between 5th and 6th place.

How many of you guys own broomball shoes or a broomball stick? I could probably borrow a ton of equipment from one of my two teams and we could make it the 4th Annual POI/SS Hockey game immediately followed by the 1st Annual POI/SS Broomball game.

At ONE point in their life. You've managed to follow that sign up with some stoopid comments on here, too, so I guess that means twice.

I saw the throwback jersey guy, too. He's the kind of fan whose jersey usually has a nice set of heat press-on letters applied to it with a goofy name like "Rubiks Cube" or "Back-to-Back Champs" along with the #69!

Speaking of sarcasm, the "Pittsburgh College Hockey Showcase" game on January 5, 2007, will be between Robert Morris University and Notre Dame? Ugh.

I hate nothing worse than polls and pre-season rankings. Wait, one thing. Pre-season All Americans in college sports. Dumbest thing ever. People who rely on those things are the same people waiting for Brian Lawton to prove he's a better hockey player than Steve Yzerman.

Knowing NorthDakotaHockey as well as I do, he's rabid enough. And if he starts foaming at the mouth this weekend in Grand Forks, please, someone, get him to a veterinary clinic.

A friend of mine's ex-girlfriend's former fiancee knows Chucko's dad's brother's mistress and according to her, he's a jerk too.