fightingsioux4life

And that is why Tech is Tech.

We look a step slow tonight. We had better start moving our feet better than this.

More often than not, we get screwed when it comes to the WCHA end-of-the-year awards. Didn't Oshie get shoved onto the 2nd or 3rd team a couple of years ago? I care way more about team championships and accomplishments than all this individual stuff. And I think every player in that locker room would tell you the same thing. I'll bet Duncan would trade that Hobey in 2007 for a National Championship in a heartbeat.

So correct me if I'm wrong here: The defensive trapping teams (Michigan Tech, Anchorage) are not good matches for us and neither are the fast skating teams? What is a good match for us? Nobody? I would rather play teams that like to skate and get up and down the ice. As for the goaltending, we will have to beat good goaltending in the playoffs to win anything. And we've chased some goalies at home this season (Kangas, Cheverie), so I hope Mr. Bachman is ready.

It's going to be weird to have a game start during the day and end in the evening the next couple of days. Both of these games are must-wins for this team to have a chance at the MacNaughton Cup and to move up into #2 seed territory in the PWR (5 thru 8). GO SIOUX!!!

GFC made the title game 4 out of 5 years from 1990 to 1995 and three straight years from 1993-1995, winning in 1993 and 1995. They also made the title game four straight years from 2002-2005, winning back-to-back titles the middle two of those years (2003 and 2004). GFRR qualified for the title game from 1996 to 2001 (six straight years!). That was when the GFC program went straight into the toilet after Chuck Ness left to coach his high school alma mater in Duluth and the Flood of 1997 decimated Central's talent sources. If I've forgotten any streaks by any other teams, please feel free to comment.

Central is still a young team (not as young as last year, but still pretty young). The kids will probably get bigger and stronger and, along with the speed and skill that they have, should be a formidable team next year. Bismarck impressed me a lot, they have the experienced kids who know how to win. I have to pull for the Riders since I am a life-long Grand Forksian, but if the Demons win it will be good for hockey in the state as a whole.

Maybe you should take your own advice. This is what irritates people about Fargo South in particular and Fargo in general; the arrogance and pompous attitude that the sport of high school hockey revolves around FSH. Even now, Fargo South's hockey tradition is a fraction of the tradition that has been established at Grafton-Park River. You have a grand total of three state titles all time (1994, 1999 and 2006). Between 1994 and 1999, you didn't even qualify for the state tournament. Back in 2003-04, Bruins fans were on this forum running their mouth about how FSH was "The best high school in North Dakota" and that they were going to win "the next four to five state hockey titles" and all this other garbage. Well, where's the beef (or in this case, the championship banners)? The banners are hanging in the rafters in Grand Forks and Grafton instead. You are absolutely dreaming if you think that both South and Davies are going to be powerhouses at the same time on a yearly basis. While South Fargo is growing rapidly and most new, young families will live in that area of town for the foreseeable future, there are not going to be enough kids to field two great teams at once on a regular basis. Fargo is not Minneapolis/St. Paul; this is not going to be a situation analogous to Bloomington Jefferson vs. Edina vs. Apple Valley vs. any number of other suburban high school powerhouses fighting for state hockey superiority. I think you'll see one team be strong for one or two years while the other team is down a little and vice versa. West Fargo will probably get more competitive in time since that town is growing and hockey will at some point start to reap the benefits of that. The Grand Forks teams will continue to contend on a yearly basis. And if this year's Bismarck team is any indication of the future, the West might actually have some teams that can compete for state titles more often in the future. I will grudgingly admit that Dean Wilson built a solid program at Fargo South and that they are very competitive year in and year out, but they are by no means the only game in town in Fargo or the state as a whole. My 2 cents.

Goon, I don't doubt there is some good hockey played in Major Junior. The point is that when you purchase a ticket to a CHL game, you are supporting people that hate the college game and would love to see it go down the tubes so they can have every big-time prospect in the sport. I'm not judging you or anything like that, but I don't think Major Junior fans would "waste" their time on a college hockey game because a lot of them like to turn their noses up at anything that isn't Major Junior or that doesn't originate in Canada. It probably pains CBC analysts to have to acknowledge that some NHL stars went the college route instead of their precious CHL Major Junior brand and I must admit to a perverse pleasure in watching them squirm. The more Parises, Zajacs, Oshies and Toews we can get into the big leagues, the better. My 2 cents.

There should be.....unless a certain team from Minnesota is matched up with us in the first round. Likely? No. Possible? Definitely.

That sounds about right. Imagine the ticket sales if a certain team from SE Minnesota has to travel to Grand Forks for the first round!

I don't think I could stomach buying a ticket for any Major Junior team in any Major Junior league. Major Junior is the enemy of NCAA Hockey. If the bean counters that run the CHL had their way, college hockey would vanish from the continent. The best part of Jonathan Toews coming here was the fact that he chose college hockey over Major Junior. To answer the question, I do not think a junior team could survive in Grand Forks. UND just sucks all the air out of the room and the high school teams take up what's left.

First Round of the WCHA Playoffs are March 13th, 14th and 15th (if necessary). I don't know when tickets are on sale, but I suppose it will be sometime this week.

I also received my tickets in the mail today. This is going to be one of the greatest Final Five tournaments ever, with every game a potential NCAA qualifier or disqualifier.

Here is my list. Notre Dame NDSU Minnesota Michigan Boston College Michigan State Duke Alabama The whole stinking Ivy League

Had to bump this back to the first page. Still looking for tickets.

Game Over. 3-3 overtime tie. Better than nothing.

I think Mazzoco's is bad enough, we don't need another one like that in the league.

Timeout Denver. 1:42 left in OT.

Let's hope you can repeat the performance on April 11th!

4:06 left in OT.

Colorado College has been such as soft team this year. They have not lived up to expectations at all. 3-3 going to OT in Colorado Springs.

Denver ties it with 55.3 seconds left.

1:43 left, Tigers lead 3-2. Face-off in Tiger zone.

For those of us who have Midcontinent Preferred Cable with the sports package, the Denver-Colorado College game is on FCS Central 316. Still 3-2 Tigers.