fightingsioux4life

Good grief, there is no excuse for that! Schedules are made out years in advance, they could have (and should have) figured it out a long time ago. I can't remember this ever happening with the WCHA Final Five being at the Xcel Energy Center (home of the Minnesota Wild). Just another big difference between the WCHA and CCHA.

Thank God we aren't in the (not-so) Great West anymore! I have never heard of a conference tournament champion having a putrid record like 11-21! The Big Sky looks better every day.

Another example of society and law playing catch-up with technology. We'll figure it out.

Why the heck are they having their championship game on Sunday afternoon? No wonder that tournament has never reached the heights of the WCHA Final Five.

I will be there!

The season is on the line tonight. We have to treat this like a must-win game because it is.

Because the Saturday thread is so brutal to read? Just like the game was brutal to watch?

Sorry, but tonight's effort for 40 minutes was putrid. And pointing it out does not make you a bad fan.

I wouldn't quite throw in the towel on Hakstol. Every team is different. No one saw the 1996-97 team winning NCAA title #6. Heck, no one saw the Hrkac Circus joyride coming in 1986-87. But this year's team is getting really tough to watch.

If our boys don't show up ready to play tomorrow night, you'll be making an announcement that the brunch just ain't happening this year.

There is simply no excuse for tonight. None. Period. I don't care how hard Michigan Tech worked or how good their game plan was, they finished 10th in the WCHA for one very simple reason: They are not a good team. But when you don't show up for 40 minutes, get beat to every puck, give up an odd-man rush with 2 minutes left in the game that ends up in the back of the net, you get what you saw tonight. I can't believe I am going to say this, but here it is: We are the underdogs for Game 3. Tech has confidence now (thanks to us) and we haven't looked all that impressive for several weeks now. There is a good chance we get beat tomorrow night and will then have to hope for an at-large bid to the NCAAs, where we'll probably get shipped out east someplace. And even if that happens, I don't see this team going very far. I hope I am wrong, but I have a sinking feeling that I am not.

Beat it troll.

Amen! It's obvious that Shirvani wants a bunch of good little fair-haired boys and girls who obey all orders without question. It's obvious he is trying to establish a dictatorship within the NDUS. That won't work in North Dakota. He won't survive the current fiscal year.

I agree with you. But.........if they have a "great, team-oriented system" like Bemidji State, it could be a long slog this weekend.

You could spend literally days looking at memory alpha......and still not read everything there!!!

Good and realistic.

Join the club. It might have something to do with women's hockey having fewer teams. That's all I can think of.

This isn't GPL. Just saying.

Well, both of them will have to give up possession of it sometime during the off-season since both schools are moving to different conferences.

Last night was good enough, we won despite not playing our best game. I guess some people (myself included) are just concerned about some things that will hurt us big-time in the playoffs. Giving up goals right after we score, giving up too many shots and scoring chances, ect. And remember, this is a place to vent to like-minded fans after a tough loss. That means sometimes being harsher than is warranted. I know I have posted some very negative things that 24 hours later I wish I could take back. Most of the people on ss.com are die-hard, legitimate fans of the program. The few that aren't are easy to ignore as outliers.

That's total BS.

And as I told that same poster, I have been a fan of this team since I was 6 or 7 years old and I will always be a fan of this team, win or lose. But that doesn't mean I won't point out what is wrong with the team and why it needs to be fixed. Legitimate criticism is not the same as "hating" or "abandoning".

Just keep running your mouth, son. Remember how you and your fellow Rodent fans were dancing in the aisles to Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" at the Xcel Energy Center on Friday semifinal night late in the 2nd period last year? Remember what happened in the 3rd period last year? It's tough to be on the business-end of Karma. You are playing with fire. Please feel free to continue posting asinine comments on here because the deeper the hole you dig, the harder it will be to climb out of it.