Mad Man

How would having a low 1.98 gaa make it hard to hold on to a No. 3 ranking? Does Anais Medina even know what hockey is. Brad must be a great two way player, 4th all time in goals and a great save percentage!

Did you watch the Regional games. Saving 79 of 81 shots doesn't sound like there was much of a defensive effort in front of him. Anyone that watched the game against Wisconsin will tell you he was the reason the Sioux went to the FF.

Green breezers! We will be in home whites when we take on the Badgers saturday night.

Good to see two former fan favorites get to battle for the cup. Matt looks to have made the right decision forgoing his senior year and getting a chance to win a title his first year in the league. Mike is getting his second shot at the cup in as many years (not counting last years lockout). Good luck to both former Sioux, hope it's an entertaining series.

You'll never get the chance. The jerkoff turned his back on UND and his past a long time ago and doubt you'll ever see him back any time soon.

I guess it depends on how you define prospects. If prospects are just NHL draft picks, the 97 team might be considered the last championship team without prospects. However if you define prospects as anyone the NHL is looking at, I would say you have to go back to the years before Pro hockey. If players weren't prospects at the beginning of the season they certainly would be after a championship run.

I know the guy that has the game-worn jersey in this picture, but I have no idea if he is willing to part with it.

So is the 97 championship team considered a team without prospects? Or does Lee Goren being on the team althouth never dressing for a game count? He did still practice with the team, just like Roche his first year with the Sioux. Is it a team without any prospects with an astrik.

Even if Elliott sticks around for next year and they pull off the improbable. That would be one year short of the three-peat and they lose Elliott to graduation. End of three-peat chances.

He didn't play that season. If I remember correctly he had to sit out that year because he played two games in the WHL in 95-96.

I don't recall any draft picks being on the 97 championship team.

If you would have just told us this at the beginning of the season the NCAA could have just given the Badgers the championship back in October. What a waste of seven months of hockey.

The Sioux only lost 2 seniors and will most likely be getting back Bina. So far that is only a net loss of one player. With seven signed players coming in that's 6 extra guys How many of these guys will be waiting a year to join the team and who & how many early defections will the Sioux have.

Vhat??

eight in the last seven games.

I saw this pattern forming last year and wasn't to happy to see them come out of their regional. I like our tournment record against BU much better.

One question. From the NHL team's standpoint, why would they want to sign any of these players this year if they could save all that bonus money by signing them next season? The players may want to sign to get the bigger bonus but if the team is cheap and wants to save money wouldn't it make sense to sign them after next season.

Maybe you would rather watch the Saturday nite movie on Lifetime, "Layover" starring David Hasselhoff.

He's afraid of more then just Zajac. I like this response from the ESPN chat, he's asked which one forward scares him the most and he names three: As far as first goal, I say Finley or Jones will get their first collegiate goal to start things off Thursday.

This post makes me laugh. Walski can't be a good backup for the Sioux because he's from North Dakota. I find this rather ironic considering Lamoureux will be the #1 goalie for the Sioux if Jordan leaves early. Your remark doesn't piss me off, but rather leads me to believe you're a little naive about the talent coming out of the area.

Care to share?

Just Minnesota. Since Minnesota is the best isn't everyone else "sub-par" by comparison. And one "sub-par" team playing another "sub-par" team makes for good competition.

I don't know, to me it is kinda like the Minnesota rule for the final 5. The games are in Milwaukee and the BADgers are in it. Or maybe Thursday is a school night and Doug Flutie can't stay up past 8PM.

Not too shocking when you realize it will be the Badgers playing the other game in their home state.

The Sioux dodged a bullet? Are you kidding? It looks to me that the only ones dodging any thing are the Gophers dodging the Sioux. First they lose to St Cloud so not to face the Sioux in the Final Five and then drop one to Holy Cross so as not to risk facing the Sioux in the final game of the west regional. The Sioux didn't need to dodge any bullet. It looks like Goldy took that bullet square between the eyes.