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I would too, however that means we didn't win the Penrose so bring on Miami and the cup!

No, but I had a problem with the Charter feed in Minneapolis. And by problem, I mean the announcer mispronouncing Connor Gordon & Troy Stechler's name, calling the penalty box the "naughty box", and being such an unbearable homer it would make Paul Allen 'Voice of the Vikings' blush.

Channel 999 in the TC is surprisingly good quality, announcers so far... awful

Ironically, it's derived from a Sioux battle cry... edit: After doing a little more educating of myself, "Ski-u", is a Sioux non-verbal exclamation to celebrate something

He wouldn't waste his time thinking about or answering it.

^This, you never know if it'll be your year. Which, despite some heartbreak recently, makes excited everytime the tournament comes around and we're in it.

I know the exact feeling Mariucci! I was celebrating as hard as anyone when we had that amazing comeback in the Five. However, once those brackets came out I just knew MN would have it in for us & I hardly ever think this(I'm a biased Sioux fan, what do you expect). I was at the regional final at the X and was hardly even surprised when we lost, but the silver lining is that team really outperformed what most thought was possible. Since then, I've learned that no matter how big the game seems unless you're ending the team's season, don't get ahead of yourself .

You're just trying to start something with the annoyingly redundant "participation banners" crap, it's been played out. What I believe 'SJHovey' is trying to get to is the 13 wins, not 13 one-and-done tournament appearances. Point being, every game in the tournament is the biggest game of the season up to that point. Hak has come away victorious in these scenarios 13 times, that's not just participating.

Got Blake Coleman back though, and he notched 3 against us last time we saw him. You know what I meant, they're not the league doormat that we so often see. Unless they lay down against us like they did Saturday, but I don't see that happening twice.

Yup, I live in the cities too and live & work downtown so I actually walked to the Target Center on a break and picked up ticket packages. Got the lowest I could find in the upper deck for $60 for the series and no fees included. I figured I wanted to check the sightlines out before committing to lower bowl for the extra $. Oh, and as much as I hate saying it, we aren't exactly a near guarantee to make this tourney like we did the Final Five. I'm actually pretty nervous about it with Miami and CC surging.

I tried that at the Frozen Four in Denver, and the scalpers wouldn't budge a dollar so I said forget it and went across the street to watch the game in a bar(Jackson's I think?). I think the scalpers assumed that since I was a Sioux fan that I drove 1000 miles for the game. However, I was going to college in Colorado at the time, which is why $ weren't exactly growing on trees for hockey tickets. In hindsight, it worked out for the best because the game was pretty much over after the 1st period. It was tough to watch but would've been much tougher had I gave in to the greedy scalpers. I knew people that had taken an overnight bus from ND, and I'm sure some of you did as well, to watch the game. I remember feeling really bad for those people.

Ok, you can argue that expectations have been lowered on siouxsports.com. I don't agree but here's a better question: Why does it matter if a small sample of Sioux fans on a message board's expectations have been lowered? The real problem I would have is if Hakstol lowered his expectations and started acting like we had a good run and we were happy to get as far as we did. That has never been shown or alluded to by Hakstol or any player that has played under him. They're the guys that are sitting in the locker room at the end of the season and can't take their jerseys off while they break down in tears because they killed themselves for this program. Who cares if you think 'our' expectations have been lowered? The program still expects to win it all.

Well said, we do always have a pretty decent shot and this year is shaping up to be no different.

Haha at least you called yourself out on it. But I can't say I saw that game coming for Luke on Friday night, fun to watch though!

There's an inside walkway aka skyway to damn near everywhere in Minneapolis. Keep in mind though, that they generally close around 8-10 PM depending on the part of the skyway you are going through.

Agreed, Bulldog fans were super friendly to me all weekend which makes them really tough to hate. It probably helped that we put a beatdown on their team. A 12 year old hockey player from Hermantown sitting in front of me said that Duluth is good unless they play North Dakota, then they suck

And Blake Coleman is back, he sort of took it to us in Oxford and looks to be back to full form scoring twice against SCSU on Friday night.

Clever, was referring more to how the NCHC is stacked with top to bottom with dangerous teams but yes I do believe they hand out a trophy as well.

And what do we win? A meeting with a dangerous Miami or Colorado College, what a treat Not exactly Michigan Tech or Alaska Anchorage by any means, welcome to the NCHC

] Bump Hoping I can make the trip around 2 pm today

Anyone driven between Minneapolis and Duluth? If so, is it driveable or what kind of speeds are cars moving at?

Keep in mind Duluth is 4-5-3 at home, not exactly killin it.

I agree, good player for sure but Frattin was on another level. But I don't remember Kozek being near as dominant when it came to the physical aspect of the game. Kozek did have a laser wrister but couldn't score anywhere close to Frattin numbers.

Agreed, I thought he was dead and I just witnessed the last moments of his life.

Yup, someone cue up a video of a Sioux player writhing on the ground in pain and getting up for the ensuing 5 min pp. If there is, I'll immediately withdraw my post but I don't ever remember it.