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50% to win a national title seems almost impossible from a statistical perspective. Not trying to call anyone out, just thinking about it from my old days having to play with mini-tab in Blegan Hall...

God be with you Shopek family. Sioux are on your team on this one.

I've seen KRACH used to predict the tourney as well...

NHL.com has mock drafts up today 3/25/14. Both the east and west scout picked Schmaltz to go #27 overall to Anaheim

Anyone in Nashville?

I've stayed there! Its a great place.

Wisconsin has the capability to do EXACTLY what Miami did to us on friday- get up early- frustrate, and win. That game film is the recipe for both teams to win...

I think he's banged up. My bet is a shoulder, hip, or ribs. I disagree that Wisconsin has the best forwards. Wisconsin has a good top line, but Miami's and St. Lawrence's top lines are more talented IMO. Kerdiles is great, and we need to make him re-think his love of hockey on friday night. Just be obnoxious for him to play against. Nag on him. Nothing outside the lines, not even big physicality- that fires him up...just hook a little, and slash a little, and tug a little, and always be in his space and taking away time. Do that, stay out of the box, and we can win.

Good call-out. We're used to dominant skill up front, and punishers on the Blue line. This team is truly different.

MacMillan and Thompson both tossed pucks to little kids after warm-ups. I thought that was cool.

He did WHAT better than Louganis?

Keys to the game- Do not let Mersch shoot on the power play. Shadow Kerdiles, make his life absolutely miserable out there. Get the first goal. Establish a physical and net front presence early. Get some flow out of our end- no speed through the neutral zone plays right into Bucky's strengths. Hit the net and follow shots to the net. Their goalie is solid- not likely to pop the water bottle from the dot- need to bang some off the pillows and pounce on rebounds.

The trash talking in hockey has gotten really, really bad. I have to think there'd be less of it with half-shields and 5 minutes for fighting

Warm weather would've brought out more fun- rooftop bars, etc. I bet the owner of Eagle Street, Allarys, McGoverns and Mr. Tom Reid are a little irritated today

Was it coach Hakstol?

Also saw that Gopher de-commit Tommy Vannelli signed 3 year deal with the Blues, max signing bonus ($92,500 x 3) $70k in AHL, laddered NHL pay with an avg value of $742,500

Greg Carey's contract NHL public info: Came through weird- $92,500 to sign, $70k AHL, $925k NHL, 1 year deal, $212,500 in potential bonuses

Against the field, we are 3-4-1 with some tight games... MN 7-3-2 vs the field BC 8-4-2 Union 3-2-2 Wisconsin 2-3 (but only vs MN and BC) Ferris 1-5-0 Quinnipiac 4-3-1 Lowell 7-6-1 SCSU 8-4-2 Mankato 3-5-0 Providence 5-4-2 Notre Dame 6-7-1 Colgate 6-5-2 Vermont 3-10-1 DU 2-3-1 (only played UND and SCSU) Robert Morris never played the field MN, BC, and SCSU stand out on one end. Vermont and Ferris stand out on the other end. Other than that, it is pretty close to .500 hockey vs the field for everyone else. Robert Morris 0 games vs the field, Vermont,BC, Notre Dame, and Lowell on the other bookend with 14 games vs the field

You have to believe that no #1 seed is excited to face NoDak.

Makes yesterday's games really matter when you have 3 teams playing to keep playing or to hang em up

We would've been done without the 3rd place game

I saw this clown...reminded me of Biff Tannen from "Back to the Future"

I agree with this. I don't see any reason to mess with bracket integrity.

I want to know what he's going to do differently going forward. I would love to hear his plan. The system sucks. Not only is it not working, it isn't very fun to watch. His system had great success with ELITE talent- play a system that avoids opportunities to screw up, then let the God given talents of Travis Zajac, Drew Stafford, TJ Oshie, Jonathan Toews, Matt Frattin, etc. score a couple goals. You have to play fast and on your toes- FORWARD, not backward, not lateral, FORWARD with speed

its an anonymous message board, not a work xmas party...embarrassing...eh, not so much. nobody has any credibility, "great hockey minds", blah, blah, blah hockey is not intellectually hard... I did not hear the fire Hak chant last night- although he deserves criticism for the egg that was laid. What's worse than losing is losing with no opportunity to win. We did not play entertaining hockey. We did not play SIoux hockey. Wanting to fire your coach is not embarrassing in my estimation either. He's the figurehead of the program, gets paid a risk premium, its his neck.