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anyone know what was up with putting miller with oshie and duncan? I didn't think he brought anything to that line last night. it also didn't make much sense to break up the martens,miller frattin line lwhich I thought had some good chemistry going. Kozek looked out of it last night on the third line.

Colorado Springs here we come? it is starting to look more and more like we will end up out there. I don't like the prospects of having to beat CC on their home ice to go tot he Frozen Four. We don't do well in the Springs.

as somebody said in a previous thread we will find out a lot about this team tonight and what they are made. do they come flat and shell shocked or do they come out guns a blazin like we haven't seen this year yet.

they must have purchased "the how not to convert on the power play" video offered by UND.

last night was a blue print: hold und's top two lines scoreless, give the sioux 5-6 power plays(as they won't convert on them) score 2 powerplay goals yourself and celebrate a win.

I have said several times this season reminds me of the 2000 season. we are in the hunt for the cup up until the very end but come up just short to the badges . in the 2000 wcha first round series we beat 9th seed denver 4-0 in game 1, lost 2-1 in game two and won 9-4 in game three. went on the beat the badgers in the final five and the rest is history. I doubt we'll put up a 9 spot tonight but plug in tech and cc and maybe history can repeat itself.

be careful what you wish for. they have some very good, big forwards that could give us trouble.

michigan, miami and cc all fall into this catagory.

with all the injuries , sickness and scoring problems I sure as hell hope we aren't sitting here on sunday or monday talking about how the sioux ran into a hot goalie(s) this weekend and licking our wounds.

isn't that already being done?

I think the teams that have been the most successful against us have been able to push us to the perimiters as we enter the zone-which I think has been the case a lot lately. this has been our lack of scoring problem because once we get pushed to the outside the possession has essentially been over becasue we have a very hard time creating a lot of opportunities in the slot area.

possibly 6 depending on what duluth does in denver.

and we would have the toughest, but what else is new. this is where having the toughest schedule in the country and taking some lumps early would/will pay off.

deep down in dark places you don't like to talk about-you want to be here, you need to be here. you just can't handle the truth.

academic related.

out of curiosity would anyone know when they usually start to mail them out?

there's a nice little q&A with toews on www.chicagosports.com about his first season.

ours has been getting worse in the goal scoring department.

that explains why he hasn't had a penalty called on him since around december

I think I recall hearing during one of the coaches shows a few weeks back hennessy said that in december tj suffered a hip injury. my originaL thought on saturday was that tj may have reaggrivated that injury. hak said back in december that tj could play, it would just be the amount of pain he could take. so time will tell. best bet-we don't see tj unless there's a game 3.

however if the mavericks win they would become a TUC in the pairwise and we lose the miami comparison then.

I'm not sure about that last part. in 35 games this season the sioux have scored 4 or more goals 13 times, 0-2 goals 15 times and 3 goals 7 times so odds are we're more likely to see 0-2 goals versus anything else.

unfortunatley I think that's what will be the ultimate downfall of this team. scoring 1-2 goals might get by the likes of bemidji, duluth and st. cloud but come cc, michigan, miami and denver that won't get it done.

I'd say Kozek is the most improved, I base it on production. Kozek simply has produced this year putting up goals, Martens hasn't this year or any of the two previous years.

maybe he got in trouble friday and instead of a public suspension this was the way they did it.