redwing77
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I don't like the idea of facing DU again.
Let's face it... DU should have won that game. They played better than us for longer periods of time. They basically owned all but the last 5 minutes or so of the first OT.
They played Frattin as well as a team can.
I know we were without Gregoire but still...
I think we can go to the Championship game if we can get by DU... or if WMU pulls off a miracle and beats DU.
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Here's how KRACH would pick it:
KRACH Predicts the NCAA Tournament
Toward the end of the week I'll post how the community's picks deviate from that. Usually we overpredict UND to win, but judging by this thread I wonder what we'll see this year
It's an interesting prediction system....
but I wouldn't have Yale at 50% probability of beating Yale. I'd probably flip flop that.
In my bracket, Yale gets beat by UMD and then goes on to face off vs. Notre Dame. They beat Notre Dame and face UND for the title.
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But of course you like that Gutless Puke and P.O.S. known as Matt Cooke. I also think it would be a great idea, Daneyko is a smart man.
Late but not never....
I dislike Cooke with a passion and Daneyko is right when he says that Cooke and those who immitate them are the face of the "problem" inherit within the NHL today. HOWEVER, I disagree that injury is the best solution to the problem because, if Cooke is run and gets injured, then doesn't that action justify Daneyko's claim?
The correct action would be to make repeat offenders receive over the top punishments... stuff that would send most fans through the roof and having the offender crying for justice.
Example? Cooke concusses (illegally) another player this year after already doing it once (or twice)... he's suspended for the remainder of the season and postseason and fined variably based upon the final game total Pittsburgh plays... so, if Pittsburgh doesn't make the playoffs, Cooke pays less overall... if the Pens win the Cup and does so playing the maximum games necessary to do so, Cooke loses big time.
OH YEAH, as the Coup de Grace, Cooke's name is removed from eligibility to be placed on the Cup should the Penguins, in my example, win the Cup the year he is suspended thusly.
I'm going to have to think up an accompanying punishment for the team of the offender... A fine doesn't do it. In this case, the league would be getting plenty of money. Maybe some sort of roster penalty can be thought up... like being forced to dress one skater short?
Over the top.
But that'd send a message, no?
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This whole mess started in 2005 with politics, thank you very much Myles Brand.
I thought Ray Saigo got the ball rolling and Myles Brand saw it as the next "Bob Knight firing?"
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Adam Johnson sophmore forward of Hibbing who looked very good at Minnesota State Hockey Tournament last week has committed to Duluth, not sure if Sioux were intersted or not.
According to Chris Dilks, Aaron Johnson has HEAVY connections with UMD to begin with.
If we did recruit him at all, I doubt it was serious. Reading in between the lines with this guy, he was UMD bound from the get go.
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Or perhaps what Earl earned....a beating by a teammate for it.
Something tells me that he's too much of a weasel to man up to something like that.
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I doubt Cepis will get into many fights....
Cepis will fade into oblivion though. He doesn't have as good a stick as Earl had, so I doubt he'll even get a sniff at the NHL.
What Cepis will notice is that his diving antics won't work as well as they did in the WCHA. He not only won't earn the penalties he got gifted while in the WCHA, he'll likely earn a benching or two.
In any case, his offensive numbers will dip.
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Non-first or second rounders who have gone directly to the NHL within the last ten years (so drafted 2001 to 2010):
Patrick Sharp played 3 games out of Vermont before inevitably being demoted to the minors, would that count?
Christian Ehrloff played 41 games before first game in minors (or does DEL and German OBL count?) - 4th rounder
Jordin Tootoo played 71 games out of Major Juniors - 4th rounder
Or do you mean just collegiate players?
Adam Burish (UW) played 9 games in the NHL before playing his first AHL game - 9th rounder
Lee Stempniak (Dartmouth) played 51 games in the NHL before playing his first AHL game - 5th rounder
Mike Lundin (Maine) played over 100 games in the NHL before seeing the AHL. He got sent down 21 games into his sophomore NHL year. He was a 4th rounder
These are just 2001 - 2004 drafted players. But I see the point... Not many went straight to the NHL and stuck (none I listed did) but there are a lot who played at least 1 NHL game before playing in the minors.
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let's be honest. He's one of the best all around forwards in the league and he's a junior. He's great on the wall and has a knack to score around the net. That's exactly what pro teams want. The Isles don't want to risk losing him to FA by letting him go to his senior season. I think he's ready IMHO. Hope he stays but .....
It's not quite that black and white regarding Free Agency.
If Gregoire stays his senior year, he'll still be property of the Isles until August (IIRC) following his senior year. I may not be correct with the month but I'm VERY certain that the Isles, in this case, would retain the rights to Gregoire until after Gregoire would graduate.
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Prediction: Miele, Thompson and Frattin are the Hobey Hat Trick
I'll go with this.
However, I still think, unless something unbelievable happens, Miele will get the Hobey.
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The unique thing, and this ties back to another thread, is that these two skate on two separate lines...
Often times you see a dynamic duo on one line. Fratty and Gregs are the top-end scorers on each of our top two lines. Their linemates all contribute tremendously as well, but seldom do you see a team with this kind of one-two punch.
This fact is why UND is so scary.
We have more than one line that can score.
I think if Kristo were healthy, we'd probably have 3. He was getting hot before the injury.
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I've talked to someone who worked for 20+ years at the station and it's cost, plain and simple. He said they hardly make ANY money broadcasting sioux games, and never have. You can run a commercial on the sioux broadcast for something like $300 per 30 seconds.
This is also why you won't see the games in HD soon either...
I'm hoping that we can get some help in the advertising market.
I'm rather tired of the same commercials every time... Rydell (and that humiliating idiocy they put their salespeople through), Dahlstrom Motors, American Tire, gosh... I'm repressing a few of them.
The commercials are just old and lame.
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I was going to blame it on East Coast bias.
I was going to blame it on either those racist Republicans or Obama.
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FOr once, I agree with the NHL on the Fly blowhards:
Montreal (and Quebec) needs to relax... but they won't.
It kindof goes with the territory. For decades, they've always been the forgotten stepchild of Canada being overshadowed by Ontario, the governmental HQ of Canada, Alberta and BC, the more beautiful parts of Canada. Now this hit comes and Montreal sees it as a way to get more attention it so desperately craves.
These moronic politicians and absolutely imbecilic law enforcement officials can do what they will but they make themselves look like absolute morons... which I guess they're fine with.
Hopefully the police will see the light and drop the case. If not, fine. I hope they get their butts handed to them in court.
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Scouting report on Dehler:
- slider sometimes goes out of control
- hits the corner with the breaking stuff
I heard he did this out of a challenge made from the stands: That guy couldn't hit the broad side of a barn!
Well, he one-upped the heckler by hitting the corner of a smaller building. Unfortunately it took an SUV to get the job done....
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One thing that would help would be to stop giving an automatic BCS berth to the Big East champion. The teams in the Big East may excel in basketball but football is not their thing. Nobody wanted to go watch Oklahoma destroy UConn.
If a Big East team has a good season then they can get in as an at large team but the auto-bid has to go.
I am actually in favor of getting rid of all automatic bids.
It will eliminate the "Little sisters of the poor" argument and lead to the best situation of all: Playoffs.
Why?
Because then teams like BSU and TCU will get NC consideration and teams that are 6-6 will be doing the right thing: studying for finals or doing other things other than football. Weak teams will make Bowl berths and thus, kill the bowls even without the financial debacle going on.
Then they'll start a playoff system and we'll be happy that there is a real #1 team.
Just don't make the mistake the DI Basketball folks make: 165 teams make the NCAA tourney and if you are one of the 110 teams left out, you make the NIT.
And let's just say if your record is .500 or worse, plan on spending Christmas and New Years at home with family.
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DaveK can have Crosby.
I'll take Toews. Seriously, I know Crosby is injured but there is NO ONE playing better than Toews right now.
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This is one of the regular Rodentia Talking Points that they stick with year after year. They believe in their heart of hearts that Gopher goaltending is ALWAYS better than Sioux goaltending, even if the stats prove otherwise. During the rein of Kellen "Five Hole" Briggs, Rodentia always yapped about how "solid' and "steady" Briggs was and that J.P. Lamoreaux was "unreliable" and "shaky". They pointed to all the "big" games Briggs "won". They pointed to the 2004 Final Five MVP award Briggs won despite giving up 8 goals in two games (the ultimate example of the Brad Schlossman Rule). They will conveniently ignore the fact that Briggs probably cost his team any chance at all of a "Three-peat at the Fleet" that KFAN was yapping about until Duluth shut them up in the regional final that year. They also conveniently ignore the soft goals Briggs gave up against Holy Cross in the 2006 West Regional in Grand Forks. I will contend that the Gophers won DESPITE Briggs, not BECAUSE of him. And that goes double for Adam "Doogie" Hauser.
I am happy with Aaron Dell, thank you very much. Now go trolling for backlash comments someplace else, please.
I agree with this completely.
I thought Frazee would waltz in and Briggs would spend at minimum the last half of his senior year watching the game in the best seats in the house.
Of course, Frazee didn't pan out but still.... Briggs was NOT good. Neither was Hauser nor Weber.
It's just how good the Gophers forwards were as well as their system that masked it.
If you want an example now: Look at UW. Gudmanson is NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT as good as his stats suggest. He just has a good D in front of him and a system that makes the whole thing work.
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In a not so polite way, Eat $hit and Die! I would be more than wiilling to talk bad about your team but it seems your to discrased to say where your from or what team you are supporting in your profile.
please come back when you grow a spine.
No personal attacks.
There are still comments left to make on this thread... I think. Not sure what your personal attacks will do to the thread.
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Please don't go there, too many people will highjack the thread and it will turn into another what actually happened thread. It appears that we will never know the entire story and I am perfectly fine with that.
This is code for: FIRE HAKSTOL!
Sorry, had to.
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There is two webcasts on Fightsioux.com, click on the first one. Its a flash one from my understanding and its coming in perfect.
It's now down down. Lucky it is intermission.
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Really sad to say that I'm no longer watching the game. The webcast is inop.
It buffers then pixalates long enough to bring in audio then buffers again. I haven't been able to piece together 30 seconds of continuous hockey. It went bad right after MacWilliam's penalty. Came back long enough for me to see BSU players celebrating a goal and then went away.
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You could field a really nice core to an NHL squad with ex-Sioux
Scoring 1: Toews centering Parise and Oshie
Scoring 2: Zajac centering Stafford and Blake
D1: Greene and Commodore
Just thinking about the ridiculous talent we've had at UND.
There are a lot of GMs who would happily take those 8 guys and build a team around them.
Well....
Commodore is available right now on waivers.
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I didn't know I was supposed to ignore the sentence right above it where you said to assume salary caps and franchise tags!I would also ask: who on your team would you consider to be a tradeable player? Not because you hate them or think they are terrible, but because you think they would be worth something on the trade market. I would say Mike Seidel even though he's my favourite Bulldog, because he's stuck on the 3rd/4th line because of depth but has a great offensive upside and PP experience.
I'd trade for a defenceman, maybe that Jensen kid from St. Cloud.
Really?
All you have to do is find the players fans here tend to like to hate and you'll find your list.
Players I'd say are tradeable by the number of flak thrown at them:
Danny Kristo
Derrick LaPoint
Mike Cichy
Brad Eidsness
Coach Hakstol...
Brett Hextall
The Untouchables:
Jason Gregoire
Chay Genoway
Matt Frattin
Brad Malone
Jake Marto
For me? I'd trade no one on D.
I might be willing to trade Mike Cichy or Taylor Dickin for a 3rd liner perhaps with perhaps some potential scoring upside? Or perhaps the rights to a currently signed recruit.
Big Ten Hockey Conference
in Men's Hockey
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Yes.
Notre Dame was part of the WCHA from 1971 to 1981 or thereabouts.