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my biggest beef with hak is that we don't come out ready to go in a lot og games-three times in the last eight games we have found ourselves down 2-0 in the first period

the two things I want to hear on sunday from bears radio play-by-play jeff joniak are: "Devin Hester you are ridiculous" and "Fade to Black the Bears are going to the super bowl". Go Bears.

so we're 176-2, sitting as the number two team in the pairwise and lapoint has started I beleive all but one game which was athe sat night in maine-has played pretty well and people want to sit him? I don't get it. I remeber two years when he went down injured he was one of our best on the pk and after he got hurt our pk sucked the rest of the year. let's give the guy some credit. he isn't the most skilled or talented d-man we have but he is pretty reliable and doesn't do stupid things as some of our other d-man can be prone to do with the puck or penalties.

how about being just the University of North Dakota. if the Fighting Sioux isn't good enough for people than let's not go with anything. that being said I think going with something like the force of the north would be the closest thing to this as there is.

I see the tournament committee has tweeked the pairwise critera back to the old form for the TUC catagory and now it is any team with a .500 RPI or better is a TUC instead of just being in the top 25 of rpi.

not from me this time around, he got one with the world junior team last year. this time he is with the enemy per his own choosing.

So evidently they don't think much of UND alum eric hanson.

3 hours is a long time in western north dakota with not much happening except high school sports. bismarck century football and basketball can only take you so far.

I would sure hope he doesn't, I am not a huge fan of his. the radio show he does in bismarck whenever I have listened to it puts me to sleep as I drive through bismarck. what drives me nuts about shows like his are they think they know sioux hockey, but he really doesn't but acts like he does.

I'll admit I don't watch a lot of KVLY, but in order for Hammer to get this gig did Scott Peters leave?

is yale better than us? that's up for debate I don't think they are but yale is what it is, an Ivy league school that has scheduling restrictions and a very weak schedule. they did beat us last year and in a one and done situation anything can happen. would they beat us in a best of 7, no way. let's not forget people were bashing TCU for it's "weak" schedule and in a one game setting they beat wisonsin. I would love to get another shot at Yale. the schedule we have played and willplay will prepare us beter for the ncaa's than yale. and if we end up as the number two team in the pairwise at the end of the year so be it as being the number one overall seed hasn't counted for much the past few years, except for BU.

did anyone else catch the post game radio show on sat night? TH asked frattin if they maybe didn't come out with a lot of jump and being focused. frattin said no that they have a a lot of leaders on this team that wouldn't allow that to happen like in his words they overlooked new hampshire and yale inthe NCAA tournament the last two years. are you kidding me? how do you overlook anyone in the torunament especially the way upsets have happed the past four years?

no it happened in a warm up drill in practice the week of the st. cloud game.

on a side note, I wouldn't expect to see gregoire this weekend or anytime soon as word is he is not doing well with his concussion. boy this is starting to sound a lot like chay last year.

looks like the MO on the gophers is they come to play against the upper end teams. they have beaten,duluth,michigan and pounded cc on the road. I look for two heated close games.

In that 4 goalie scenario unless Brad leaves early I think Mr. Maris would be the odd man out.

maybe there needs to be something done with hockey head gear as when a hockey player gets a concussion they seem to be out for extended periods of time and when football players get a concussion it seems they are back within a few weeks if not the next week.

this will be a good mental test for the boys-coming off a big win versus duluth with the gophers looming the following week. that said just find a a way to win 2 games.

right now we lose the comparison to bc and are winning against unh. what will really help us is for maine to play 5 more games against tuc's and we will atomatically flip that comparison as their tuc record is brutal. it wouldn't hurt for yale to start losing a few games. as well to drop their rpi.

will gregoire ever come come back or willit be like chay last year? that said sounds like same lineup we had against the usa teenagers in which we struggled big time to score. that puts a damper on thursdays game. maybe it's a good thing it won't be on tv.

they usually leave a day ahead to get a practice in the opposing arena.

if you live in the duluth area it will, as far as other areas-that remains to be seen right now.

true, but that was one year. in other years for example in 2005 had to go through bu and bc intheir backyards, 2007 go through michigan and then minnesota, 2008 princeton and then wisconsin on their home ice, 2009 new hampshire on virtually their home ice and if we would have won BU intheir backyard, 2010 yale and if we would have won BC in their backyard. which is more dificult? already being seeded in the semifinals as in 1980 without having to play a game,playing clarkson in a total goals series on your home ice in 1982 to advance to the frozen four, and a home series against st. lawrence in which most total goals advances you to the frozen four or the route teams have had to go in the past 9 years?

also Gino did have some down years, some real bad years in fact. Dean even had a down year-hak hasn't had that down year yet. has he won one yet-no. but we have been in postion to each of his years. not to mention the playoff format is a little more difficult now verus any of the title runs gino had or dean had. in all three of blais' frozen four trips they only had to win once to get the the frozen four.