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Classic example of playing through the buzzer. Badgers put one in at or near the buzzer while the Dogs had an eye on a locker room lead. 2-2 after one.

Dogs 2-1. Six minutes to go in the first. Watch other thread.

Dogs 2-1. Six minutes left first. This is not a typo.

Power play goal, Badgers. 9:00 mark of 1st. Ford. Reichmuth in goal. Bruckler for Wisco. Cripes is he tough. Dogz were all over him on an early pp but could not crack the line.

Got your back here Dogz. We'll be watching Wisco-UMD for a shade. Hope the Dogz win for a few reasons. Watch for them on the main game thread.

From where I sit, CC is a much better team than is the Gophers, at least right now. SOH, WPoS, Sagard, GreyEagle, and all the other interlopers here can cry all they want about this observation, but it is true. Better goaltender. Better forwards. Better chemistry. More experience. Coaching equal to the Don. Guess we'll see tonight. Briggs sphincter slams shut again in his hometown. CC 5-2.

Unbelievable. I can see if fans are cussing and spilling brews. However, loud cheering for any team is what makes the sport so special. On another note, my kids were hanging over the tunnel before the game, with a raft of other kids. Some 3.2 cop comes up and shoos them all away. Says they can't be there. My boy asks for the rationale. The guy says that the players "don't want to be bothered." My kid says, "the players aren't even there!" The guy threatened to boot him out if he didn't follow his directions. I looked over there and thought it odd that there was not a raft of kids hanging out. Fuddy dud old folks and security guys with a control complex ought be be given their own partial section. We sat next to some guy and woman who spent all night looking for people in the crowd. We'd be craning to see that action their way, and they were looking back over us hoping to see, or be seen. We went particularly nuts in cheering just to try and get them in the fever. No such luck. "Where?" "See, over there. Up from the railing. She' wearing a blue sweater." All the while while the Sioux were taking to the Wolves in the second period. Unbelievable. Something's gotta give with these non-fans and bone-headed guards and ushers. Ralph? Kin you hear us Ralph?

Just got back home from the game last night. Schedule wouldn't allow us to see both. Rats. The second period flurry by the Sioux was unbelievable. I have not checked this thread, nor the stats, but it seems like the Sioux had 20 or more SOGs in the Second alone. The Alaska goalie was exhausted. We were right on ice level in that end. You could see it in his and everyone's faces. It was just a matter of time before one went in. Sioux defense rotating in in the offensive end. Huge. Anyway, the second period ovation for the Sioux, right before they scored their go ahead goal, was the LOUDEST I have heard that arena to date. The place was rocking in appreciation for the non-stop effort. Brady Murray, even at three-quarters strength, is a force and an influence. Great game. Great win.

It's gonna be an ass-kicking series. Last few years, its been the Dogs who have been giving folks a run for their money. This year, no different. Remember how they absolutely took apart the opposing brown and yellow last year? Five straight, damned near, as I recall. Maybe a stumble in Mariucci II. Twasn't any better balm after a tough loss to the National Champs last year than to see the Dogs take apart Minnewhota. Come February, it will be the Dogs and the Sioux battling for the Cup. Mark it down.

We have had a change in plans and can only go to the Friday night game of this premier WCHA clash between two teams that will be right there in February wrestling for the Cup, just like last year. As such, we have four (4) tickets to the SATURDAY game. Ice level. Section K, row 2, seats 1-4. Near the blue line in the end that the Sioux twice defend I believe. Looking across to the benches. Right near the alley where the Sioux take and leave the ice. Private message me here if interested. Face value $20 a throw. I am not looking to collect the ridiculous handling fees that we paid.

I am all for Jake getting a start this weekend. I may be not recollecting the early season, but I don't think that he had a shaky outing early, if he has even had an outing at all!! Sure, Lammy appears to be the real deal. Wouldn't hurt to spell him here and there and from where I sit, I'd much rather have Jake as the backstopper than I would JPar. Anybody looking for Saturday Duluth tickets? Looks like I have four that I may not be able to use. On the ice, section K, two or three rows up. I know that this is not the place, but what the hey.

There are few things in life that beat going to a Sioux game with the family, proudly wearing the colors, sitting with the enemy, and cheering like there is no tomorrow which, in this case, there is not for the loser. Going into hostile arenas and stadiums and cheering for your favorite team builds more character in young kids than many will ever find in the public schools. Have fun.

The Sioux footballers are studs. Cocks of the Walk right now. Watching that game today on my 'puter screen, courtesy of GVSU, was real cool. The GVSU announcers were a shade shell shocked by the end of the game. They had me convinced the Sioux season was over there, but only for a second. I should have made the drive. The less-than-capacity crowd will be just one of the reasons why they will be put on the road next week against the Gorillas. C'est la vie. That's the way it should be. Sioux fans travel well. Git your travel tickets to Florence, AL now baby.

Jones is, and always has been, a stud. 4-2.

It's only Michigan for crying out loud. They've played no one. They've got nobody. They are ranked where they are on reputation alone. Just as we were a month ago, just as the Gophies are now.

The Gophers are exposing the Wolverines for what they are . . . Next to nothing. Gophers sporting some new jerseys tonight. Maybe throwbacks. For a change, they are not ugly as sin, although they are still brown and yellow. BTW, the audio does suck. At least we get to listen to some Rogers and Manilow while listening to the game.

Geez. Here it is Friday and not a word, at least as far as a cursory look on the board shows me, of this weekend's series with Tech. I hope that the sweep over St. Clown, or the tryptophan from yesterday, does not have everyone figuring that a sweep is imminent or that Tech will be a pushover. To state the obvious, Tech is a WCHA team which, by definition, makes them no pushover. A review of their schedule shows that they have had no easy go of it so far, and have played very little at home. They have played some tight games They are an experienced squad, with some quality players, and with a young coach who is hungry to restore the team to prominence. On the other hand, our guys have been on a long bus ride, are sleeping in hotel beds, and are on somewhat unfamiliar ice. Since this board has been known to host a fair number of boo birds, here is saying right now that the old adage to win at home and to hope for a split on the road still holds true. As such, 1-1 this weekend, or some combination of 3-1 over the next two weeks, will be perfectly acceptable. There are no bottom feeds in this league. Sure, a sweep is a distinct possibility, probably either way. I'm all for a Sioux sweep, but I ain't gonna be ledge walking if Tech plays 'em close or takes one away. Besides, it's the Holidays. We should all be in the Spirit of giving. That shouldn't end on the ice now, should it? Eh?

I'll take this one. It is the Gopher's hockey board. A much inferior technological electronic messaging product with less tolerant board administrators presiding over generally far less knowledgeable hockey fans who are pretty much known mostly as unemployed drunks who, by and large, have failed in most efforts at establishing meaningful relationships with anyone, who really like to talk about their Gopher hockey. Pride On Ice. At least pretty much since they finally got a coach who had the balls and the brains to realize that to win a championship or two in POI Land he would need to go outside of Minnesota to find championship-caliber leaders in the Great State of North Dakota. Check it out. What can be certainly said is that the POI Board is not nearly as advanced, in many ways, as is SS.com. No trash. Just fact. Pride On Lice, er, I mean Ice.

Come to think of it, I've got one. Just what the heck does 7>4 mean these days anyway? Here's one more. I've been thinking a switching my moniker to Dr. T, or The Pearl. Whachoo think?

By the way, I would not trade either Greene or Schneider, or what they have brought and will continue to bring to this team, for any of the above-named dusts to the wind. Roche included.

Offensive Defenseman: Bill Himmelright Bemidji, MN 1975-1979 28-121-149 / 152 games 105/218 Pen/PIM

A little birdie with a rocket science degree from the greatest rocket science school in the country told me to look at the top five teams in the nation this week, and understand that one of the reasons why they are there is because four of the five have played the Sioux tough. The Sioux have, with one exception, been right with these teams in every game. We are not losing to skinny wimps. We are losing close games that will become close wins as this team finds itself. It's setting up perfect. It's setting up perfect. Get your West Regional tickets now. I see a Sioux-Gopher clash there in March for the right to go to Columbus.

St. Clown wide left. Sioux ball to win. I'm thinking, book it. Glas ain't gonna miss agin, is he?

Second OT. Man, these St. Clown announcers are a hoot. Sweating bullets, as are we all.

Yes. SCSU punting into the wind. Thanks for the radio link feed you guys. Here we go. Winning drive coming up. Ball at 50. 10-10. Sioux moving with the wind. 2:00 to go.