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what's eerie is that these two teams are almost identically flipped from last year heading into the series in january.

that would be the best case scenario. I wonder if kristo will get a few days off this week?

blood needs to quit taking stupid penalties. on a side note all three of the mavs goals this weekend were a result of not clearing the zone. if we can get that taken care we should be fine. a split this weekend wouldn't kill us, I did the what if calculator and had a sweeping the mavs, duluth and tech and splitting the rest and I got us a fourth place finish.

don't you mean valvano?

not gonna happen. that aside this team has started to prove it can play and WIN without him let's keep the momentum going this weekend.

it was nice to watch a sioux-mavs game that didn't involve a lot of chippiness. I was actually impressed with how well mankato skated last night, though hak said they didn't see their best.

barring injuries I think cichy will be the odd freshman out from here on out.

nice solid win for the boys tonight, lets keep it going tonight.

I'd take 10 in a pair of 5-2 wins without any more injuries.

I listened to the coach's show last night and it appears chay is still having some difficulties, hak mentioned that when he did some light skating with the team it didn't go real well.

it just gets frustrating to see the same thing happen in nearly every game since mid november. good start, poor second period marred with stupid penalties, inconsistent goaltending and a blown two goal lead in the third period. you would think at some point some of this would get straightened out. even in all of last year's first half struggles hak kept mentioning "we're real close to going ona streak" not once have I heard him say that with this years squad. maybe that in and of itself says something.

Goon you are the eternal optimist. if the sioux take 3 out of 4 from all those teams they could very well hang another banner up next year.

chevy's not a good comparison but if you took rhett rock or wiercoch out of their lineup that would be the equalizer to chay.

I do believe so.

the past five years havenothing to do with this years team and I wish people would just stop thinking a second half run is a given.

good.

has there been any word on hextall? I saw on sun night he came out of the game early.

well then I'm sure we'll have a swoon to as we'll lose a few.

second half swoon? we're two games into the second half. also the last two years their swoon as you would call it has been injury and departure relaterd. two years ago rueggseger(sp) was hurt and missed a good chunk of the second half, lost brock trotter to an early departure and lost bozak for almost the entire second half last year. not that different than us with losing genoway for a huge part of this season.

and we only have one sweep in minneapolis in like 30 years.

if that were the case would brad label them as the greatest team ever assembled like chambers did with du this year.

sure.

want to place a wager? say a beer at the denver series. we had a perfect opportunity to sweep the gophers here and blew it, I don't see us doing much better than a split down there.

I can really see us coming out and flying on fri night, sat nights has been another story with this team and we'll have to see. like others have said before this is one of the more sweepable series out there for us in the second half and if we are to make a run it will need to start here.

the only problem with your if is if genoway comes back this year.