NorthDakotaHockey

We were lucky enough to take in the weekend series at the Magness. Great series. Great Friday night win by the Sioux. Great comeback on Saturday from being down 2-0 to take a 3-2 lead. Then, the DU rally. JPar let in a soft one, but Anderson was letting him get run by the DU goons left and right. There were probably two or three goals that he should have looked at on replay, but did not. The third period penalty against Toews was a joke. Both players went into the boards in DU's defensive end. Both were getting up. Toews stick got in the way and the DU player took a dive. The Lee interference call was just bs. The Sioux were laying some bonecrushing hits on the Pioneers and it seems like each one was drawing a whistle. Before the game, Anderson was seen kissing and making up with Gwoz. We were close enough to hear George tell Anderson that he sure wished that he could get over him, or something like that. Remember their tiff from the night before when Gwoz threw the fit and Anderson tossed him. Well, old Andy made sure that the Pioneers were given every chance to hang in there on Saturday night for the split. What can you say? What can you do? The Sioux have no reason to hang their heads over that split. The Sioux were given a chance with the 5x3 for about 90 seconds at around the five minute mark. Couldn't convert then, when the score was 5-3. Game-O. What aggravates me most is the smugness of the DU program, from Gwoz, to the players, to many of the fans on down. I have little doubt that Gwoz teaches the "turn the back" and "take the dive when the stick is near your feet" approaches to going on the power play. Not saying it is either right or wrong, just pretty clear that that is what is preached. As for JPar pulling himself, it looked like Hak was a bit surprised, but probably understood. My read on it is that JPar was through getting run and pushed around, and figured that if Anderson was not going to blow a whistle to protect the goalie, then JPar was better getting off the ice before he took the head of some DU goon right off of his shoulders. I hope that we see these clowns again in the Final Five. All in all, a fun series. Great Sioux crowd. Solid Sioux effort. There is no shame in garnering a split on the road, especially when a very capable DU squad was facing "season over" on Saturday. They responded in top fashion, with the help of Anderson, who probably had taken a third period call from Shephard, who probably had taken a third period call from McLeod.

Great post frnkdrcmn . . . . . Brings back alot of memories. Billy Stankoven. No wonder he couldn't stop more than about seventy percent of the shots thrown his way. Alot of great Sioux players back in those days, including those who struggled with Rube. The WCHA in its earlier years was something else. Great great hockey. Even better rivalries. Nothing has changed. Grand Forks is a great place. I shoulda been somebody dere . . . .

By the way, that opening press release is the stellar work of our former stellar backstopper, the ever capable and forever legendary Jake Brandt.

We have been to a women's Sioux-Gopher series at Da Ridder and it is pretty danged fun. The ladies took a pelting there several years back, and may do so again. That will change with time. We would plan to go, but for the fact that, with God's grace, we will be in Magness with brooms.

Why not?? At least it projects the Sioux in the tournament, and playing at home. What more could a fan want?

Say what you will about INCH, at least it appears that their writers are reasonably well focused on the task at hand . . . . INCH 4x4 - Version 1

Yes. This means that the games will be on at the best hockey restaurant on the planet . . . . Da Moon. D'Italian Moon.

I say we may as well ride JPar now because there is little to no guarantee that he will be hanging around for another year. I would give him a game, or two, of rest. Maybe one game with Tech, maybe one game in the Final Five, not to be jumping the gun. One shift at a time. Here on in. I agree that most of those shifts should be skated in front of Parise.

For those in the Comcast viewing area in the Twin Cities, I see that they are playing the St. Cloud-Mankato State game on their home Comcast channel tonight.

Gonna have to be down the road LB#11. We are going to Denver, and then wrapped for the Tech series. Won't be around for the first round. We are set on Final Five and West tickets. How 'bout I take two of your Frozen Four tickets?

Geez LB#11, wish I was in town . . . . Great offer.

Parise probably should have been whistled for diving on the Czech break out of the box . . . . Parise is a great goalie, and a pretty good actor to boot. Probably sucks as a rock star.

Thank God Ziggy transferred to UMD.

Sounds like the WDAZ sound team is wearing the handcuffs tonight . . . .

Too much barley pop last night while courting all of those fine North Dakota women down in sunny AZ?

Fancy party top hats. IH8G4rs. Hey, now there is a great personalized license plate!! I think YaneA already has that plate.

She'll make a sign for any takers. Great great hats as well.

That was YaneA on the telly right at the period brake. Big fan. Sioux look right solid. Ziegelmann looks like he might suffer from shell shock. He didn't have a clue where the puck was on a couple of those saves, and on the Sioux tally to boot. One shift at a time baby. All the way to Milwaukee.

If this were to happen, and I am a firm believer that it will, we will be hoisting Number Eight at The Ralph next October. On a more realistic note, if we were to "win out," we'd be Final Five champs and automatically in the field. I know that this is not what you meant to ask, but it is a literal answer to your question RW77. The streak starts tomorrow night.

I will be forever both stunned and amazed that the powers that be at NDSWho lacked the focus and the courage to start a hockey program back in the mid-to-late 70's. Same with the City of Fargo. Combined, it was one of the greatest collective failures of foresight and vision that any sports community, anywhere, has ever committed. The Bison could be a Division I force in college hockey today. Just like St. Cloud, UNO, Bemidji State, and Mankato State are all perched on the precipe. Of course, the Bison are not so perched, and never will be. "Football is King in Fargo," so they said. Back then, they may have been right, winning title after title with Ron Ehrhardt, Paul Hatchett, and Chris Simdorn, all during a day and age that is now long past. So now, the Bison have now gone D-I in every sport that doesn't matter. It was only for the research dollars, not the athletic contests. The Bison failed to go to D-I in the only sport that does matter, at a time when they could have easily done so. The Bison will forever suck the hind-titty of D-I AA sports. It will be generations before NDSU fields a hockey team. I will always regret that the Sioux-Bison rivalry never had a chance to live in pertetuity . . . . on the ice. No disrespect intended, this is a hopeless thread. All of us reading this board right now will long be dead before the Bison ever even think about having a chance to compete with the Sioux in D-I college hockey. Tbat is one of the reasons why the Sioux will always respect their Fargo faithful. They could not sell out The Ralph without them.

Holy Schmoley!! At least it is nice to see that there is at least one school in the WCHA that has a little bit of integrity when it comes to academic policies. Tigers will still be tough. A wounded Tiger is a dangerous tiger.

Denver is going to be a dogfight?!? We play the Bulldogs first. That is going to be a huge dogfight. If we don't take care of the Bulldogs this weekend, it is hardly going to matter much what happens in Denver. First things first. One game at a time. Let's knash our teeth over Denver when it is time to knash our teeth over Denver. Maybe they'll sweep the Gophers this weekend and go home feeling pretty good about themselves, making them soft for the underbelly kill. Bulldogs. Two dogfights. Sioux need to come out of The Ralph saturday night with brooms in hand.

Hockey again. Thank God. While I still have little to no life, and waste way too much time looking around this board, things get a bit scant on these pages while we are all twiddling our thumbs waiting again for the puck to drop. I wonder if any posters actually shot themselves over the drivel, or over the break. They could be lying near their computer with no help in sight. Everyone. Check in here now please. We said back in October and November that the college hockey season does not really start until mid-to-late February. Too bad we weren't thinking January 27 but hey, what the heck. So, here we are. Games on again Friday, and every weekend from here until April as long as we just win. Strap yourself in, it's gonna be a wild and heckofa ride. One day, er, I mean one game at a time.

Until March 19, this stuff is all fiction and fickle. Scoreboard watching can become a bad habit, and can drain one of focus and motivation. The only sure things are that a number of teams are already in, and that the Sioux will be hosting the West, on the ice, if they take care of business on the ice. Just do it. Here is one group of fans who remain supremely confident that our boys will be doing just that.

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