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wow, how many great coaches would have been canned for not winning a collegiate national championship in x amount of years-coach k, dean smith, jerry york, red berenson. I think all these guys ended up winning more than one.

maybe he thought it was time to do things different for a change. I think he also has beating BC at the Frozen Four on his agenda for change this season well

you're right it is way too early to start getting into pairwise. that said if we keep winning at the rate we are the maine losses shouldn't hurt too bad as we'll have a high enough rpi and tuc record to cancel out the common opponent category against other teams and head to head versus maine. if we were to happen to be a #2 I would love to be matched up in yale's bracket. I think we owe them one from last year.

our special teams will be brutal this weekend. no hexy and no gregs on the pp which has already sucked in recent weeks-good lord. I'm sure we'll see mr. nelson back on the unit which is not a good thing as there is a reason why he was taken off of it. like I said in an earlier post split at best now.

no. but if it is true and we lose two thirds of our top line and we already have had struggles scoring, just saying anything more than a split doesn't look promising. who's going to step up rowney, bruno, gleason?

wow, if that is to be true. split at best.

I'd say we make Dunn look like an all-american one night as we did last year on the second night here, we lit Lee up a couple times last year. I'll go sioux 6-4 fri and some kind of 2-1 or 2-2 result on sat to keep with the theme of the past couple of weekends.

I saw the replay on goon's sight and there isn't an argument for goalie intereference as the notre dame player was inadvertantly tripped into dell. if you look at the replay you can see right before he goes flying into dell his leg hits a sioux players' leg then he goes flying. I do think it was the right call.

wonder if the weather over the next day or so will impact Notre Dame's trip up here? hopefully, they have a safe trip.

I would actually guess the one on the left will be duluth's and the visiting team's will be across ice off in the upper right corner.

not gonna happen. no team that loses to tulsa and navy will beat USC, especially in LA with a backup QB.

yep and I hope Looker announces USC's 42-3 drubbing of the Irish on Sat night when he announces scores from around the country.

Hey WYOBISONMAN, you obviously are closer this situation than we are, if NDSU wins on Sat are they in the playoffs or is there still a chance they could miss it?

the more points we keep throwing away now are points we can't get back at the end of the year. don't forget it is only the top two teams that avoid playin games at the final five this year.

the part that bothers me is we keep facing all these"veteran" teams and they do things real well in the words of Hak. we're supposed to be a veteran team as well and what are we doing well right now?

not that it means much, but how in the hell do we have just the fourteenth toughest schedule when we have played DU, Duluth and Maine? unless our schedule is overrated and on the flip side dultuh is higher than us having only played us really?

that's what was said about UMD as well and we split with what many consider on this board to not be a very good team on our home ice. no way shoudl we be favored over wisc or omaha as at this point are just as good if not better than us right now.

yep, score one more goal last night and this is all moot point. it goes both ways. after malone got pulled down last night with no call, moments later we got away one as well as we took down one of their guys in the closing minutes with no call.

too much inconsistency to see anything more than a split. I said it earlier this reminds me a lot of the 2007-2008 squad that had a lot of returning players that spilt every series up until middle of january. I can see us splitting until sometime in january.

that means nothing. if you remeber a couple of years ago we hadn't swept the gophers at the john in 27 years and proceeded to do so. past history doesn't mean squat. some of those duluth teams in the past ten years have been awful as well. I look for two dogfights this weekend and really won't be surprised if anything happens as duluth is a very,very good team despite what others on this board think.

A lot of people on here have been saying split, not get swept. I don't think predicting a split this weekend is being negative, but more realistic as to what might happen(especially with injuries,sickness and suspension). I think it is safe to say we all hope for a Sioux sweep.

Being physical is what makes Malone the player he is, hopefully he doesn't lose any of that as a result of this.

fri-kristo

IF Malone were to be suspended for his hit on Martin, this would be the third straight meeting between these two teams in which a Sioux player couldn't play due to suspension-last Feb Mario was suspended for a game because he wanted to fight Marvin, then in the WCHA playoffs Frattin was suspended for a game for his hit on Wehrs of the Gophers.