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Lucia did slam Zajac, but only after Darcy had already had him down and was working on getting the helmet off. If you watch the immediate follow up to that, Zajac gets out from under Tony and proceeds to try and rack him up against the glass. Fortunately for tDon's daughter, the official was able to stop it at that point. A little shot in the back on a cross check happens in games like this...it isn't a chess match or the marching band, it is WCHA hockey. leg stuck out on the Osh, cross check to the back by Zajac, Lucia and Flynn go after Zajac, TJ makes it even by grabbing Flynn. Struggle ensues. Zajac has Lucia down and is working on his helmet. Lucia trurns it around and takes down Zajac wrestling style. Zajac tries to rack Luica against the glass with arm cocked. Meanwhile TJ heads for the locker room. The fight showed more life from the Gophs than we've seen all year. I still can't get over the amount of clutch and grab the Gophers do this year. It is as bad as playing Mankato or Alaska. Every single time that Oshie had the puck he was mugged. Positive is we had no puck luck and got 3 points. A lot of pucks that wouldn't stay flat and bad hops/bounces. We played without Duncs. We still got 3 points. Almost every decent Gopher chance came off a fighting Sioux mistake or bad hop. Repeating: Adam lost control of the game on the Trupp check from behind, where tough Gopher took it to Trupp while Trupp was in no position to defend himself. Malone went in, because the ref was too late. Should've been 5 and a game for the check from behind, and double minor for roughing on the Gophs. Malone got what he deserved. Blake Wheeler is going to have to learn to watch his mouth, especially if he ever gets a shot at the NHL. When the Capitals play the Coyotes, Wheeler is going to have to face Joe without a face mask, and with officials who won't step in.

Now I backed Sagard earlier in this post, but to call out DZ as a coward is just assinine. The cross check from the back was retaliatory and designed to instigate. it wasn't cowardly, as he was definitely prepared to back it up.

After Saturday night here is th elatest from what I see: Miami vs RIT UMD vs BC Michigan vs BSU Michigan State vs Mankato*(Northeastern) CC vs Providence*(Notre Dame) Denver vs Northeastern*(Mankato) NH vs Notre Dame*(Providence) UND vs Clarkson Notre Dame #14 and Providence #13 switched to avoid intraconference matchup Mankato #11 and Northeastern # 10 switched to avoid intraconference matchup Don't like having to deal with NH again with VR in the lineup, but what can you do.

Was at the game, just read through the full thread. Take it easy in Sagaard. He has always been a decent poster despite his rodent roots! I've sen it a million times, but it still kills me. MN has this way of instigating and then looking innocent. This is why fighting should be allowed in the game and why guys shouldn't wear full masks. If you're going to act and talk like a punk, then be prepared to settle it like a man. Now fighting is stupid, but if you're going to talk the talk, then you'd better walk the walk. Minny is the princess of the world, and they love to take a shot, do a facewash, and then run for help from the official. Stand and deliver. If you want t ogo, take off the helmet and gloves and do it like a man.

Guys have gone to jail for less than what the Gophs tried to do to the Osh tonight. Man, I wish Duncs hadn't gotten the boot so early. ALl those penalties, he would've been key

MSU keeps doing us favors! Nice sweep of DU. I might need to stop speaking so negatively of Jutting's goon squad!

EJ is in the NHL. I could add Bochenski too. Which Gophers are currently skating regular NHL shifts? Vanek, Ballard, Johnson, Leopold, Martin and Kessel jump to mind. Bottom line, both programs are elite. To speak otherwise is silly.

I have met great Gopher fans too. The kind who shake hands and say, "This one must be your year" after a loss. Only morons disrespect programs like these. I have, however ran into many an idiot. Especially at the Final 5. I think that tourney brings out the Gopher fan who isn't a hockey fan. I think Sioux hockey fans are mostly the kind who understand the game, could tell you how the PWR works and what RPI is (both the team and the stat). I think the Final Five is more of a social event for Twin Cities people who really don't know the game. I have to caveat that i do know plenty of good gopher fans who are also good hockey fans and understand this stuff. I think in a metro of 3 million people, the odds just favor meeting the rubes. Hey 9 game unbeaten streak intact!!

Oshie was gassed, because every time he touched the puck, he was having to carry two or three Gophers. It must've felt like being Heidi Klum in a male prison the way they were all over him. Oshie showed how special he was tonight. He didn't score, but he was far and away the most skilled player at the John.

Agree that good teams find ways to get points. MN is in terrible shape on the national picture. I also think that we are a better team than we represent against them. I don't know why or what or how, but they always play us tough. Did get a little annoyed tonight at the John when some idiotic Gopher fan says to me in the bathroom something about the cost of having such an elite program that players only play one or two years. I looked at him and said, "I know what you mean." He goes, "Well, you didn't lose Erik Johnson, Phil Kessel and Kyle Okposo." Too which I replied, "No, unlike Okposo, our losses are skating regular shifts in the NHL." He says,"like who?" And I say, "Oh, I don't know, Jonathan Toews, Travis Zajac, Zach Parise, Matt Jones, Matt Greene, Drew Stafford." Next point: Is everyone forgetting that we played 64:53 without last year's Hobey Baker winner? Agreed it was anyone's game tonight. You'd be crazy to think it wouldn't have been different with Duncs out there.

Mazocko says: "you'd think he could do something more manly than tug a jersey" and Woog pipes in "well, I think he was trying to get him away from the crowd". Once again, Wooger at least has a clue where Frank has none. Yes, Frank, in that situation Joe Finley was hoping for the ref to bail him out of trouble and was going to be hoping to give Blakey a little facewash. Frank, you fing moron, Finley wanted to pull him away and kick his a$$ 30's style boxing. We are the Sioux, not Minnesota's Pussies on Ice We fight, we don't run. Wish it hadn't happened at the handshake, also wish the refs hadn't stopped it

I personally like having a few Gopher trolls over here. GIve the Rodents a little respect. They came to play. Yes, it might've been a different game if we'd had Duncs on the top pp unit, considerina ll the penalties. I live in Mpls, and have seen a few Gopher games on FSN. They are not a bad team. They are just not able to pull it all together. They are more of a clutch and grab team than I've seen in maroon and gold, but they play teams tough. You win some, you lose some. There is no reason to take it out on anybody's fan base. Fortunately for us, despite only being a slightly better team that MN, we are in a dramatically different position with regard to the national scene. Fighting on a web forum is almost as tough as going after a team's smallest player Go Sioux!

THe chaos on the handshake was bush league. This is the WCHA, not junior B in ALberta. Malone needs to cool his jets. You can't ever go third man in. Get the guys number and go after him next shift. That being said, I like sticking up for your teammates, you have to do that. That ruckus began because a Gopher decided to work over the smallest guy on the SIoux roster...really tough. Try that on Kaiper or FInley. Sioux picked up 3 points in Mariucci without Duncan for tonight's game. I call that a victory. If Hakstol flipped the bird, he has a lot of explaining to do. I blame the chaos at the end entirely on Don Adam. The game was out of control. Emotions were running high. He should've grabbed both captains and told them that next junk was getting a game, and then followed through. Class at the end with Lammy and a Gopher skater after the fight skating out to center and embracing. ANy post-game comments from Hak posted?

While we held our sticks a little too tightly to start the game last night and played tight, making too many silly mistakes, the shots were a bit misleading. If I remember correctly at the first intermission we had more scoring chances than shots. Lesson? HIT THE GD NET!

The VV no-goal was reviewd for the following reason: The play was blown dead when the official lost sight of the puck. Had the puck crossed the line completely off of TJ's stick, the goal would've counted. However, it was put in by Vandevelde after the whistle resulting in No Goal. Had it gone in off the momentum from Oshie, they would've reviewed to see if TJ mad contact with the puck below the crossbar (he did) thereby making it not a high stick and it would've been a goal.

correction: selection committee, not rules committee

I think the rules committee should start looking at bracket pairings that account for teams you have and haven't played. According to INCH's projection, there will be 7 teams in the tournament that we haven't played, and 8 that we have played. How is it then that in their projected brackets, we end up in a region having played all 3 other teams in the region before, and end up on a conference rival's home rink...STUPID

I grew up in GF, but I've lived in the Twin Cities for over 10 years. It AMAZES me the fairweather fanaticicsm and rube behavior. There should almost be a term coined "minnecentric": believing wholeheartedly that Minnesota is the center of the Universe and all things Minnesota are better than anywhere else. It is absolutism without reason and without substantiation. I like the Twin Cities, that's why I live here, but it certainly isn't a city on par with the likes of Chicago and its definitely not a city of the world ala NYC. Its really quite humorous. GF isn't much different than the majority of Twin Cities suburbs. The superiority complex almost seems like Napolean syndrom...what are Twin Cities people so selfconscious of? Why are they so insecure? Silly diatribe. Sioux win big tomorrow...disappointed in Sioux passing, surprised by Minny's obstruction...been a long, long time since Minny resorted to Mankato style hockey.

Agree, 4th line did their jobs tonight

Any road win at Mariucci is a good win. I almost came unglued in the first period. Terible hockey. We had one of those bad nights where you are pressing to hard, holding the stick too tight, pucks are always off the tape, you're never in stride when you do catch a pass...BUT we found a way to win. Oshie looked great, Trupp looked great. Big game tomorrow...By the way, I sorta want to finish second in the WCHA; i don't want to be the team that has to paly AA in the playoffs.

Anybody remember one of the signs from the movie Youngblood: "Pu$$y's on Ice". Works well with the old P.O.I. It would be a great sign for someone to bring in. They had another sign in that movie: "Sutton's a Fag". We could do all sorts with that as well. The humor would not be lost on those who have seen the fil,.

Not playing well is relative. Not playing well compared to what Taylor's best? Taylor's best is NHL top 3 D-man good. He woret he C in the WJC. Enough said.

In order to back up AZ, I though about pasting a pic of Okposo in a pro uniform, Hagemo's mug shot, and Tyler Hirsch's famous moment, but then I realized that doing so would be classless. Sioux will dominate. Minny will complain about all the pro defections. A minny fan told me the other day about how many guys they lost and asked if we lost anyone from last year...jeez, and they called themselves a hockey fan!

The penalty box girl happened at the Ralph in december. A Gopher went to the box, and the big screen showed a Gopher uniform go into the penalty box, take off "his" helmet, and out comes this flowing hair, and it was a girl!! Great humor! Agree with Holy Cross being over and done.

I'll be at Senser's for Friday, Mariucci for Saturday.