Slap Shot

wtf? I am going to repeat here what I posted at gpl.com: http://www.gopherpucklive.com/viewtopic.ph...r=asc&start=100 I removed some tongue-in-cheek jabs at you guys in hopes that my main point - that the Nazi references are unnecessary and have no place in these forums - would stick out for any non-Sioux fan here that agrees with Piper.

He's no Bill Brasky.

Which is partly why so many of us found the criticisms over the infamous press conference so unnecessary. Nothing from him seems to indicate he'd the type that would ask for something like that himself. As for Parise, why are some so convinced he's gone? Is this some of the, "insider" stuff that people cannot reveal, or is it more of an educated assumption?

I like the FB toss from 90 yards idea.

You gonna beat him up?

I don't want to speak for Sagard, but I'm pretty sure he knows that. Think, "tongue in cheek", think, "knock on wood", think, "you just cost him a no-hitter"....

I'm not sure how the new travel requirements apply differently - if at all - for students: New Requirements for Travelers It's possible that an exemption for students is referenced with the above text in bold and further addressed below: Other than a passport, what types of documents will be acceptable under this initiative?

The way I look at it - every once in a while you hit the trifecta and more stay than go. The following year potentially makes for a lot of fun.

Not even with a 10-foot pole.

I think you

Jack Johnson plays for Red Berenson. Erik Johnson on the other hand, I can

I think you missed my point. All I said was the post Goon replied to wasn't a troll post and that every error each of us has made in our past needn't be thrown back in our face every single time we post something with which someone else disagrees. I'm not sure how that incited such a long-winded retort. I would have to hope your post wasn't directed at me. I'll assume it doesn't because I imagine Jim would have booted me by now had I been guilty of the named transgressions. If anyone of us - myself included - posts something deserving of ridicule than by all means, let me/us have it. But simply offering an opinion that is not inflammatory, deragatory, disrespectful, rude, vulgar or whatever adjective you want to apply, there's no reason to accuse the person of trolling simply for not being a Sioux fan and for posting something we don't want to hear. And since you mentioned Jim, he himself defended buckysieve in this particular instance, so I'm not sure where you're coming from. If bucksieve posted something that was unnecessary I have no problem seeing him called out, but is there any point bringing it up if the more recent post in question was so completely unrelated? I imagine cooler heads will prevail here - I don't see any reason to elevate the tone here or anywhere.

I just came from that thread and nothing could be further from the truth. There are a few unecessary Nazi references in that thread, but there are plenty of posters like chitown_Gopher that seem very open to the idea that UND should not have to change their name. Even at uscho most Gopher fans agree that UND is in the right and the NCAA is not. Although I think the hockey rival-ry has been much better between UM-UND of late, the simple truth is most Gopher fans agree the UM-UW rivalry is more heated because there's simply more to it than hockey when UM and UW square off. You'll just have to get in line with all the other Gopher haters.

It would have had the post you responded to been worthy of being labeled trolling. People should spend more time responding to what was actually written than the source, lest we all have every poor choice of words from our past continually held against us. That this is a site geared for UND fans is irrelevent given it's a public forum, as long as a post is respectful, thoughtful and falls within the forum rules.

Sounds objective to me.

Yeah, like the Yankees in MLB the Gophers have the highest payroll in the NCAA. Oh wait...

I had the 'tool' comment in mind when I posted, which I didn't think was a response to anything that bad. No big deal either way.

Quite true Jim, but on that same token shouldn't you ask seasoned posters to equally show some restraint and not bash someone simply for predicting something a lot of people don't want to hear? There's nothing wrong with questioning information from a poster - especially when a specific link or source cannot be cited - but it's not as though the poster in question here was initially disrespectful or thoughtless. It's too easy to give a free-pass to regulars when in fact all rules - written or unwritten - should apply across the board.

Attendance wasn't a problem before Norm Sucks Green.

I'm curious about something. I remember watching Oshie in the state tournament and thinking how great it would be to see him in a Gophers uniform, but then I kind of lost track of him until I had heard that he signed with UND. Not that it would have made any difference, but did Lucia and co. recruit him at all?

Perhaps you missed the wink?

Sioux fans can't have it both ways. They either have the talent or they don't and simply played over their heads. Which is it? (Take the above with a grain of salt - I have no problem with either perespective )

This is true, but I haven't been this jazzed about a set of forward recruits coming into the Gophers since I can remember. And even without Potulny and Irmen the Gophers return an awful lot of points assuming Kessel returns. The Gophers main issue next season imho is getting their forwards to be more aggressive and getting more consistency from Briggs/Frazee.

I think an additional key to beating UW (depending upon the makeup of a paticular team) is to beat them at their own game and take the body. One thing that makes UW so dangerous is their counter-attack. UW likes to trap but it works because they have a lot of speed. Therefore they score a lot of goals off odd-man rushes and not necessarily from cycling around and around in the offensive zone. Maine took the body all during the first period and it had UW completely off their game imho. However, taking the body requires a lot of stamina and if a team is not used to taking that route all game it possibly wears on you to point of abandoning that tactic. imho as the UW-UMe game wore on, UW got stronger and stronger, and gained more freedom to counter since Maine just couldn't or didn't continue taking the body. This was the only criticism I had for Lucia during this season. The Gophers have enough big forwards that if they would have been more physical I think they could have done even more at the end of they year. But Wheeler, Stoa, Howe and others just don't hit enough and I think it falls upon Lucia to tell these guys they're going to hit or they're going to sit. However, a fellow Gopher fan did counter that they didn't necessarily have the depth at F due to injury to take that angle which I suppose has some merit.