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Congrats to UAA, they played hard all w/e and deserved to win. It is becoming painfully obvious that Grieco is not ready to be a regular starter at this level. There is certainly potential there but way too many soft goals allowed this year. Given he is still only 17 I would guess they had planned for Parise to be back this year and Grieco to get another year of juniors. Lammy hasn't exactly looked great this year either. Until they can get consistently good goaltending this team is going to struggle. I think the loss of Berry also hurts quite a bit, the defense isn't playing as well as I would have expected. As for the offense...if you throw out the Mankato series we have just 15 goals in the last 8 games. No better then Wisconsin is doing and I think most would agree the offensive talent for the SIOUX is quite a bit better than the Badgers right now. Real easy to be negative right now after a horrible w/e. I do have confidence in Hak that they will get things straightened out. Getting a little tired of having to get things "straightened out" for the third year in a row, although I will be more than happy if it consistently results in making the Frozen Four. It's the journey there that is driving me nuts. We may have to just get used to this type of inconsistency when we are losing top flight players after just 2 or 3 years.

How do we get outshot 14-3 in the 3rd period ? Pretty sad.

Gotta say it SHEPARD SUCKS!

This is not the 2nd period, it is period 1A.

First period over 0-0. Period 1A coming up.

Webcast working now.

Not working for me either. Anyone getting the feed OK ?

My keys for the SIOUX: Eliminate the stupid penalties (slashing, hooking) Make all the routine saves. Also need to make some of the "tough" ones. Everyone on the team competes hard for the entire game. No taking any shifts off. Crash the net. Take the body. Still waiting to see more physical play from this years team.

I'm gonna guess Greico. Since it hasn't been announced on the line chart my gut feel is the Hakstol will start Greico again if warmups go OK.

The AA webcast was very good for periods 2 & 3. Had alot of trouble with it in the 1st period. The resolution is much better than dataflix cause they seem to be sending three times as much data.

Looks like Martens is replaced by Fabian on the 3rd line. Bishop replaced by VandeVelde on the 4th line.

Here comes the makeup calls for the earlier crap.

These second periods just suck this year.

Don't understand the logic on allowing that one. Might as well run into the goalie every chance you get.

Video is back, hopefully it will last.

I mistyped clarks name, it's fine with me if you want to give it someone else.

UND - Toews, Zajac Alaska - Cark, Corrin, Selby

Feed is up.

What's the word on Sensor's carrying the games this w/e ?

I think it may be a problem on their end. I get the same failure if I try the MSU games. Try a different game, they seem to work.

I see the Columbus fired their coach today. Anyone think Blais has a chance ?

Not sure I understand why they won't appeal if they think an appeal would have merit. It may be too close for the first round of playoffs, but there is a possibility of the SIOUX hosting in later rounds. Surely there is enough time to appeal and prevent everyone from being exposed to all the hostile and abusive images. There is also the possibility of hosting playoffs in other sports long before the trial starts in April. I can only surmise that the NC$$ cannot find any grounds to appeal the decision. For some reason I don't expect this case to go to trial next April if the NC$$ thinks they might lose. Something will happen that will keep it from going to court. I have no idea what this would be, maybe another Sioux tribe will say it is OK to use the name (one should be enough but it seems the NC$$ doesn't like that resolution). Maybe a second one will give the NC$$ an excuse to grant the exception and settle the court case...who knows what UND might turn up during the discovery process. A loss in court may also cause a few schools that gave in to the NC$$ edict a reason to backtrack and keep their name (e.g. Newberry). God forbid, maybe WM will put the feathers back. I really don't think the NC$$ believed anyone would take this to court once the big schools were given exceptions. As soon as FSU started talking lawsuit the NC$$ came up with the exception clause. In fact, other than UND almost every other school as capitulated. The only other remaining school that I could see filing a lawsuit is Illinois and they were given an exception for the nickname. I doubt they will sue the NC$$ over the Chief.

Let's look at each of the four regions and how the prior weeks regional rankings played out for the 1/2 seeds: Northeast: 1. Shepherd defeated unranked West Virginia State Received #1 seed. 2. Bloomsburg defeated unranked Cheyney Received #2 seed. Southwest: 1. Northwest Missouri defeated unranked Southwest Babtist Received #1 seed. 2. Chadron State defeated unranked Adams State Received #2 seed. Southeast: 1. Newberry lost to #9 Presbyterian Received #3 seed 2. North Alabama defeated unranked West Alabama Received #2 seed 3. NC Central defeated #4 Elizabeth City Received #1 seed Northwest: 1. Grand Valley defeated unranked Northern Michigan Received #1 seed 2. North Dakota SIOUX defeated #3 South Dakota Received #3 seed 3. South Dakota lost to #2 North Dakota Received #5 seed 4. UNO defeated #12 Central Washington Received #2 seed. So, in every region except for the SIOUX, if a #1 or #2 seed won they received a bye. The only top 2 ranked team to lose was Newberry which was then dropped to the #3 seed. With Newberry losing, NC Central (at #3) leapfrogged the #2 seed North Alabama, who also won. North Alabama beat an unranked team while NC Central beat the #4 seed. This seamed to be enough to put them ahead of North Alabama. The reverse happened to the SIOUX. The SIOUX beat the #3 seed and get DROPPED from #2 to #3. There is absolutely no integrity in this process. No one can convince me that the seeding for the SIOUX was not a direct result of the lawsuit and the injunction. The NC$$ is a corrupt, monopolistic organization and I wish nothing but the worst for Brand and co. I hope the judge is paying attention as this seems to be a willful act of defiance and thumbing their nose at the court (i.e, if we can't deny them homefield we will do everything in our power to limit the possibility of a home game and screw them as much as possible). It would have been too blatent, even for the NC$$ to give the SIOUX a #5 or #6 seed to totally deny all home games.

Newberry College Reaches Agreement with NCAA

Why did we go for two ? Extra point makes SD have to get 2 TD's to win. Now a FG and TD with 2-pt conv. ties it.