MafiaMan

BOOBIES!

You're right Fedorov. Clearly, this is the best recruiting class in the history of hockey. It's a good thing the 1980 Soviet Olympic team is past its prime because the 2005-2006 Gophers would give them an a** kicking they wouldn't soon forget.

The truth shall set you free, I Ranger! I couldn't agree more.

If we're going to turn hockey into soccer by having the players intentionally kick goals into the nets, why don't we just take away the sticks while we're at it?

Honestly...how hard is it to do some research? It's not rocket science.

Personal insults accomplish nothing. I respect GrahamCracker's opinion and respectfully disagree. A few years ago, I stood in line at Target behind an American Indian wearing a Cleveland baseball hat and Indians jersey. Racist? Misguided? An Uncle Tom? I don't know...you tell me. Just the other day I was at the pool and an American Indian man walks up to me and says he noticed the tattoo on my back shoulderblade. It is of the old Sioux logo (Blackhawk, if you will) with the words "NORTH DAKOTA" above it and "FIGHTING SIOUX" below it. He asked to see it close-up and asked if I was Indian. I am not and told him that I attended UND and am a fan of the hockey team. He was familiar with the school and the hockey team. His response? A) "You're a racist pig!" B) "Change the nickname!" C) "Cool tattoo...I like it." The answer would be C. The gentleman must be another uninformed commoner who needs to be told that white society is putting him down. Or maybe, just maybe, he really thought it was a cool tattoo. While we're busy trying to wipe out the Sioux nickname and logo, perhaps we can start burning history books, too, and making sure no one knows who inhabited North Dakota before white Germans and Norwegians. I don't see how changing the nickname accomplishes anything.

I don't know if I agree with fines being levied against officials who make bad calls, but I agree that the problem isn't necessarily new rules, it's the enforcement of existing rules.

While I realize there is a big difference in the games, broomball is played with the blue/line then red line "in the zone" rule and it's actually quite simple. Teams will carry or dump the puck into the zone past the blue line and the defensive team must get it past the red line to get it back "out" of the zone as opposed to just pushing the puck past the blue line. I suppose one could argue in hockey, however, is that all this does is push two defensemen back to the red line. While that creates a three on three atmosphere inside the zone closer to the net, scoring chances may actually decrease since your D-men have no hope of scoring on a slap shot from the red line.