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If this year's BU team is anything like the one that showed up to play the Gophers in regionals last year, I'm not shaking in my boots too much.

They would ALWAYS be first in line at the student entrance. That guy that was a fan of the Gophers also cheated to get lower bowl seats on nights he had upper bowl tickets since he worked at REA - he'd pretend he was working to get to the lower bowl. Pissed everyone off. But like I said, I attended UND from 06-09, and I learned of the list near the end of my time, so I don't know the situation currently.

There are currently no flights going out of the east coast. I saw on twitter that SCSU's women's hockey team is stuck in Providence until Thursday. So we will see if we actually play this weekend.

These guys had a list of players from other teams and things to chirp them about. I don't know if it falls much into the "cheers and chants" category, but these guys were diehards who spend the week leading up to the game doing research. Added to the atmosphere of the student section. I graduated in 09, so I'm not sure if a similar group exists.

Do we still have the guys with "the list" ? By the visitors penalty box? Guessing they graduated. I hope they passed the torch...

Well, the Gopher student section only knows 2 cheers, maybe 3, if that makes you feel better... And they stole most of them from Wisconsin

Based on Twitter, I'm guessing one was Holy Family's Shane Gersich. He lives in Chaska. Tweet said "Sioux game in OT #rockin" Not 100% on that though. Either way, I don't expect him to commit to UND.

BU completely disgusts me. I hope we destroy them.

I was just slightly amused because I saw some chirping from Gopher fans when we only beat the U-18s 6-4 and then the Gophers go and tie them. I'm thinking their fans should have probably kept quiet before they knew what they were getting. The U-18s have a lot of talent, and are going to put up a fight. They are a good majority of the top players in their age group in the country. They're not going to lay over for you, no matter what team.

Got our SRO tickets yesterday through the Gopher Athletic Dept, who randomly called my mom trying to sell a 3 game pack and she talked them into just the UND series after convincing them she was a Gopher fan. Ha I thought that was funny.

I saw Lincoln play a lot last year, and I don't think I ever saw him on a line with Kevin Roy. Except maybe on the PP. He played with Jared Hanson (now at CC) and Matt Friese (now at UAF) whenever I saw him play.

SECOND GAME OF THE YEAR! and yes, I'm yelling.

I don't think anyone's cocky. I think everyone's laughing because of all the talk of the Gophers being "unstoppable" after destroying Michigan State and then the very next game they lose.

Well, they do have weekly alcohol education classes...

I agree. John Hill was awesome!

Why do we care again? I'm bored with this argument.

I made a joke in the offseason that Haula peed in public to draw attention to himself because it seems Gopher fans forget that he was actually their leading scorer last year. Which was funny because Lucia said the same thing earlier this week. Focus too much on Bjugstad and Rau and this kid will kill ya.

Things must have changed in the last couple months then because I heard differently.

It's more like Lucia doesn't want to schedule us. They made scheduling agreements with BU/BC, Notre Dame and CC/DU to avoid it.

On Friday night, we will get to see what basically our team will look like next year... kind of intriguing.

Not very good, but not like Sacred Heart bad. I didn't think they were good last year either when I saw them at the Icebreaker.

Um. When was that?

Lacking physicality defensively. Looking too much for offense. Saunders looked real good.

Thanks for the update. I hadn't heard if he was still injured or not. Good to know he is back on the ice.

Scouting report on Evers calls him a "smooth skater", so I'm not sure that would be "pylon" material. And with Mantha, I've also seen him described as a "mobile, puck-moving defenseman". So I think it's important to remember that just because they're big guys, doesn't mean they can't skate. I think there's more of an emphasis in recruiting these days to find big defensemen that can skate, probably because of past issues with d-men that get skated around like it has been said.