siouxhockeygirl14
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Pierre McGuire has proven to be a buffoon self professed Division I hockey antagonist; for what ever reason, I guess he forgets that he is an American born in New Jersey that couldn't make it to the Division I level, he played in Division III. I can
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A friend and I will be attending the draft. Friday night is sold out so that should make for a fun experience.
I have watched the NHL Draft online over the last five years so it will be nice to see everything go down in person. I haven't yet decided if I'm going to wear a Sioux jersey or if I'll just stick with a Sioux t-shirt.
Anyone else from SiouxSports planning to attend?
I'm going with my dad and brother, I've always watched on TV. It's gonna be awesome being there. I haven't decided if I'm gonna wear a Sioux shirt or a Blackhawks shirt.
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All of them!
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Thank you!!! You just made me laugh out loud. My almost 15 yr old dog had to be put down today and I've been doing a lot of crying. A good laugh was sorely needed!!!
So sorry to hear that
Losing a pet is so hard. Hopefully if the Sioux go all the way this weekend that will lift your spirits. 
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Bought a ton of tix for relatives for the Regional in GF, and won tix to the Frozen Four in Milwaukee. Sat in the second row w/ a college girlfriend who just moved to Milwaukee the week before, great seats in the players section. (Met Robbie Earl before the game. . . nice guy, even though he was a big diver!) Anyway, sat by the biggest loser jerk of a Boston College fan that ever lived (although I've heard they're all that way from anyone I've ever asked) who chirped and dissed North Dakota the whole game. (My girlfriend says to this day that it's a good thing they don't serve beer at those things. . . I'd have never made it through the second period w/o getting kicked out!) We lost of course, but I was still so mad about it the next day that I wouldn't sit by the Boston College fans at the tasting part of the Miller Brewery tour. My friend and I hung back so we could sit by some Sioux fans. And it's all History after that. I married the scruffy one two years later and our son will be playing for the Sioux in 2028.
P.S. Still mad I didn't write a great letter to the brewery about how we met so we could have gotten free beer for the wedding dance.
Went to Denver Frozen Four for the Honeymoon and lost, so we're staying home and going to Wild Wings on Thurs. in Bismarck. I think we're due. . . . it's our son's first birthday on Sat. I agree with RWD. Best story of the thread!
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I was also in Milwaukee for the BC beatdown of UND. Here is my account of that, my only Frozen Four trip thus far:
Wow, talk about a letdown.
Driving all that way, finally getting there a few hours before puck drop,going to the alumni party, packed shoulder to shoulder, tip back enough cold ones to feel good...walk to the arena with the band, stood outside the arena chanting and getting pumped up. Then, we get in the arena, took our seats in the upper level, no real atmosphere, other than the Sioux sections below us by the glass. BC comes down on our end and scores 3 quick ones in the first, snipe shots. The alcohol starts wearing off, and we are dumbfounded. Sioux make it close at the end, but still lose. That walk out of the arena, with tons of Wisconsin fans asking if we were selling our championship game tickets(which we didn't have) , was one of the worst as a fan for me.
We stayed in Milwaukee for an extra day, we went to the Miller Brewery the next day, saw lots of Sioux fans walking around, looking as lost as I felt, and a few smug BC fans. Left town, watched title game at my buddies in the Twin Cities, hit the road for GF on sunday.
Damn, that was a depressing rant by me, but it made me feel better, I think I had some repressed bad feelings!
I HOPE THIS YEAR IS BETTER!
If it made you feel better, than its all good. Hopefully this year will be the complete opposite!
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great topic. here are short recaps of the frozen 4's ive attended..great times with great fans! have met many of you from this board and propbably many more this weekend! go sioux
2000 - Providence, RI - first frozen 4. was 19 at the time (no fake id yet, but this is where the super cool uncle comes to the rescue) went with some family and friends. best frozen 4 city ive been to up until this point im going to imagine come thursday. when i say that i mean the overall atmospehere and people were just awesome. beer tents everywhere, street hockey games, fans everywhere as the streets were blocked off. first time being out of the midwest to watch the sioux (living in arizona) and that was the start of "i want your jersey" or "ill trade my jersey for yours or my hat for yours" as many of the eastern fans from all teams were simply in ahh and amazed with how many sioux fans were in providence. did cape cod friday morning and boston celtics game friday night. saturday was just awesome watching the sioux win it all with my uncle, his good buddy and my grandpa. oh yeah, #7 was won that saturday. one thing ill remember from this trip is my grandpa introducing me to ralph engelstad before the game. glad to have met ralph!
2001 - Albany, NY - couple flights from phx to newark for the soon to be rematch vs boston college. same group with a couple new ones this time. id in hand, we were ready to win another title!! first let me tell everyone who will be making your first never frozen 4 trip THAT WINNING THURSDAY MAKES THE TRIP A HELL OF A LOT BETTER, especially if you are traveling far to attend
so the sioux take care of business thursday with a solid win. did new york city friday afternoon/night (always fun to have a nice side trip friday). decided to drive in from albany. 5 white guys rolling in a crown victoria tinted windows. may have just threw some cop uniforms on us with that ride. so my uncle does all the driving thank god, he just likes to get to where we want to go which is my style as well but sometimes the road you thought was the right cut across doesnt end up being that way. if i rememeber right we were just cruising down malcom x blvd then realized that this didnt look like the espn zone, mtv studio or anything that we were heading for 
ate at espn zone, no yankees game as it was rained out so just hit up time square. grabbed the wrong subway trying to get back to our car so did a 2 hour subway ride with some of new yorks finest.. we made it alive, maybe the car did work! saturday was awesome, pre game was great with all sioux fans (everyone should at least stop in for one of these) as its a hell of a atmosphere to be apart hours before the sioux drop the puck. well great exciting end to the game but that nhl bust krys kolanos made a hell of a move to get bc a title. bummed out heading home then lost my wallett at the newark airport. oh yeah, did a quick 2 hour visit of the baseball hall of fame before flying out sunday afternoon.2005 - Columbus, OH - all wcha frozen 4 in the buckeye state. fun surroundings with the horseshoe across the street. good party tent set ups around the area and tons of sioux fans compared to providence or albany obviously being closer to home. the gophers stand in the way and they literally stood around on the ice thursday in columbus. game over (this may have been the beginning of what they are going there now, maybe not but the sioux hit them and just didnt let up) du up next. again pre game for thursday was tons of fun. former players, thousands of sioux fans and as always the frozen 4 has great fans from around the nation. fans just as passionate as this fan base but on such smaller levels if that makes sense. maine fans are always cheering for the sioux with the solid relationship the teams and now the teams fans have after blais honored the late coach walsh when all sioux players wore jerseys with WALSH on the back. i love seeing all the different jerseys and you will even see d2 or college club jerseys around as well. denver takes care of business vs und. SILVER FOX comes into play here, lets just say i noticed it was all boarded up 2 days after i made my way into that fine establishment. i think many from this board can chime in on the fox.haaa. mm? this is the first i met al pearson and his groups that he puts together. i think a couple of guys in our group ended up taking als bus and we stayed at the same hotel as that group. we rode the bus to the games each time and that was a experience in itself!!
2006 - Milwaukee, WI - the start to the BC nightmares began in malwaukee. first off this was the worst fan experience set up i had seen to this point of my f4 trips. yeah uw was in it so that saved their butts but it was a boring setting as a whole. bc made me realize how fortunate it is to watch the sioux and how much they win. thursday night wasnt as exciting when the boys are back on the plane back to grand forks and im stuck in milwaukee until sunday...should have just drove to chicago friday-sunday
brewers game friday night where it was pretty cold iirc. went to a pool hall that friday night and introduced my uncle and a few others to my friends red bull and vodka. we had fun! saturday rolled along and many had already begun their drive back to g forks so i was the ticket king for that day. lets just say nobody in our group ended up paying for their tickets and some thanks to wisconsin making the title game. oh, well i did almost screw up big time. a buddy who was there is a huge uw fan and i had his center ice 20th row tickets in my back pocket, well with the mad scrambling of selling all of our extra tickets i accidentley sold his. im sure he wanted to actually kill me and then we remember we had 2 more of similar seats back in our hotel. thank god! fun times as always and all the college hockey fans were awesome but just not a great frozen 4 feel there.2007 - St. Louis, MO - the normal group wasnt able to form together for this one but i flew in from scottsdale and 3 others drove from g forks. st louis was a fun atmosphere i thought. stayed right down by the arena and there was a little extra buzz with tj oshie turning into the player he was being property of the blues. blues fans were awesome to talk to. fast forward to the bc nightmare #2. friday was seeing duncan win the hobey! got to meet ryan who was just super nice and humble. sioux fans were loud and made it fun even though we were eliminated again. changed my flight to saturday morning and got home. st louis had a nice fanfest area with bars, tents ect...i thought they did a good job. met the hansen brothers for slap shot. few pics as they were doing some sort of bud light promotions i believe.
2007 - Denver, CO - shortest flight ive taken to a f4 from az.bemidji buddy and i made the trip. met 6 others and convinced my az friend who had no hockey knowledge to book a flight to denver 2 nights before we went as they were 149.99 round trip. now hes a sioux fan! denver pre game by the arena was insane. my uncle got there 2 hours before we did at noon and barely got a big table. i think they may have had to stop letting people in as it was so crowded up and downstairs. sea of green is a understatement. my cousin dipped out of pre game festivities for a hour as he walked and found a local barber to clean up his beard and turn it into a mustache as that was the hockey teams "thing" that season like their beards this season. dedication right there! so its game time and the bar goes from 2,000 people maybe to 20 and then after the first period it went back up to 1,000 sioux fans im guessing with gerbe and friends putting a quick cap on that game. bc nightmare #3 is in full effect at this point........bar time and a NCAA staff member sees my buddies shirt that read" FU NCAA" he had taken his jersey off right at gametime and he had that on. well we were sitting glass and the tv crew and espn i guess saw him and he was told he had to put his jersey back on. so back to ncaa staff member, he walks up to dave and asks to get about 3 photos with him then it turns into a photo session with drinks in between
went to the hobey ceremony for something to do. lets just say nathan gerbes sisters who i sat next to were the best part about that night!!2009 - Washington DC - had plane tickets so ended up just going because bemidji state makes it!! so it worked out alright. got to see several older bemidji friends but its not even close to the same level of fun when the sioux are there but still had a great time. sight seeing, wondering around dc where i gave a bum 5 bucks and he was pissed at me. i actually laughed. thats pretty funny! so watched bemidji lose then watched miami choke away a natty title. dc was fun but still not a great place to host imo.
2011 - St Paul, MN - thursday is a given, im sure ill see and meet many more from ss this weekend. but up all of those tickets sioux fans if possible and get #8!!
one observation from my f4 experiences - there are a sh#$ ton of sioux fans out there and come thursday the rest of the college hockey world will be blown away...go sioux
Great stories. Is it Thursday yet?!? Let's Go SIOUX!!!!
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Awesome stories Farce.
Maybe you should write a book on your Frozen four adventure.
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Let's bring #8 home! GO SIOUX!!!!!
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I will be there with my Dad and Brother.
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That's just plain creepy.But I like it
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What is with this 26 year old Canadians and smart kids comment? I doubt most of the UND players would make it into RPI based on grades.
16 players made the WCHA All Academic Team.Once again you don't know what you're talking about.
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Priceless.
The best part was this guy sitting in front of us turned around and said-"I'm so glad you did that".
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Goldy always gets in my way at the Final Five, and it is scary how the U of MN fans around me follow his antics. The puck can be in play directly in front of them, but they watch Goldy and tell him to "spin his head".
My Dad had that problem during the Final Five back in '97 and to solve he tripped Goldy sending him tumbling down the steps
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Whos' more in beast mode right now? Toews or Frattin?
I would say they're even
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simpson is playing very well. great to see flashes of what he can do for the next 2 years. draft stock is rising! yeah he makes a few freshie mistakes but not bad for a kid who just turned 18 and getting pp time
His dad was in attendance this afternoon.I saw him in the concourse.
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Is UMC playing UND?
UMC is playing Winona St. I know this because my dad is the Athletic Fundraising Director at UMC and he also does the PA for basketball.
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Out of curiosity, how many of you that are saying he was transferred to Regions because it was "too severe" for Altru or too whatever for Altru have considered that hey....Danny is from Eden Prairie, MN. And guess what, St. Paul is a heck of a lot closer to Eden Prairie than Grand Forks is..maybe, his family wanted him in St. Paul to be close to them and for privacy issues with things travelling faster in GF than in the cities?
Regardless of what happened or how it happened like others have said, WHO CARES? There is a young man in a hospital bed that needs your thoughts and prayers, NOT YOUR ACCUSATIONS.
Well said
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Here's something that isn't speculation, get off your high horse and stop judging people. Especially in a difficult time. Just because you have a jerk opinion, doesn't mean you need to express it.
Can't hit the + button because I reached my quota for day.But thumbs up!
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I really and truly wish that all the bullshat speculation that is being posted as fact would end. We can guess what lead up to his injury but unless you were there or are privy to confidential medical information you don't know squat!! Isn't it bad enough that the kid has a case of frostbite that is serious enough to land him in a hospital in Mpls? Is it really necessary to post crap that you don't know is true!! GAWD!!!!! Posts such as these just make me want to reach out and smack those grand-mas that have nothing better to do than gossip about things they know nothing about upside the head!!!!
I agree 100% Best post of the day!
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According to Schlossman, the guys are wearing BLACK JERSEYS tonight.
I just did a happy dance!
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I would say it is more like you who needs to get a clue.
Go back under the bridge where you belong.
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People are acting like losing Grant Potulny was like a terrible oversight by the Sioux staff like not recruiting a Parise or something of the sort. He was not a big time recruit by any stretch of the imagination. Nobody recruited him out of high school. He turned out to be a very good college player that added a dimension to the gopher team that they were sorely missing. Would he have had the same effect had he been recruited here where the Sioux have/had plenty of character/grinder type players? Maybe, maybe not, but to act like he was a no-brainer recruit is hindsight at its fullest. Some players are late bloomers, and recruiters don't have a crystal ball to determine which ones are diamonds in the rough.
Great point.The guy graduated from college 7 years ago,so there's no need for us to even be talking about him.
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He graduated then but played juniors after that. Shows you that he was not that big of a recruit out of high school but bloomed in the USHL.
I know that.He played in the USHL before Hak was here.So the guy who's saying that Hak lied to Blais about Grant needs to get a clue!
Miller draft
in Men's Hockey
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I was there too, I didn't watch the replay on NHL Network. I was sitting by runninwiththedogs and she had gotten a text from a friend saying that McGuire had said Miller should go to the OHL. Maybe everyone just misunderstood him.