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only if he is going to be Big Ben's chauffeur. Go Steelers.

I don't care what it takes for us to finish in the top two as long as we do that and avoid the play-in games at the final five. cuz if we don't we could possibly see a repeat of last year where we played 6 game sin 9 days and we all remember how well we did in the ncaa's being dead tired.

I'm sorry but who gives a rip about what yale is doing or not doing. we currently have a team in a serious funk and currently isn't anywhere near a team that can take over as the number one team in the country. so it really doesn't matter that yale lost.

Hak was essentially hand picked by Blais to be his successor and things have turned out pretty well. We are the only to team in the WCHA to make the NCAA tournament every year since Hak took over(in fact I think us and Michigan are the only two nationally to make it every year since Hak took over), obviously there were some bad frozen four appearances(2006 and 2008) and in 2005 and 2006 with a little luck we would have a NC to brag about.

I was not in the gf area at the time, but were people calling for Blais' head after the 2001-2002 season when we didn't even make the tournament? or were people just well that's will just happen from time to time?

as far as points go this a huge series beings duluth and denver are both off and we are off next week. I think for us to have a share of first place after next weekend we need a minnimum of three points this weekend. on a side note I know it is still early but as of right now we hold the tie breaker over both duluth and denver even though we split we have more conference wins than both.

yep and when my 2 1/2 year old asked me this morning if the sioux scored last night(as he wasn't at the game)-and he got so excited when I told him yes and he started to go sieve,sieve, sieve.

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.