fightingsioux4life

I have had it with ESPN and their garbage. All the exclusive contracts, putting games on channels almost no one gets (DaveK, we know you think it's the viewer's fault, so don't even start with me today) and putting novelty, alternative sports like Lacrosse ahead of college hockey, which probably has 100x the fan base that Lacrosse will ever have. Anyone who tries to tell me that Lacrosse is a bigger money-maker than hockey (college or NHL) is full or crap or is an apologist for "The Worldwide Leader in Hype." End Rant. Go Sioux!!!

Here is the NCAA Hockey Tournament games and TV coverage for this weekend. East Regional, March 27-28 Bridgeport Arena at Harbor Yard, Bridgeport, Connecticut Friday, March 27, 3 p.m. Eastern time, ESPNU HD No. 1 Michigan (29-11-0) vs. No. 4 Air Force (27-10-2) Friday, March 27, 6:30 p.m. Eastern time, ESPNU HD No. 2 Yale (24-7-2) vs. No. 3 Vermont (20-11-5) Saturday, March 28, 6:30 p.m. Eastern time, ESPNU HD East Regional Championship West Regional, March 27-28 Mariucci Arena, Minneapolis, Minnesota Friday, March 27, 5:30 p.m. Eastern time, ESPN2 HD/ESPN360.com No. 1 Denver (23-11-5) vs. No. 4 Miami (Ohio) (20-12-5) Friday, March 27, 9 p.m. Eastern time, ESPNU HD No. 2 Minnesota Duluth (21-12-8) vs. No. 3 Princeton (22-11-1) Saturday, March 28, 9 p.m. Eastern time, ESPNU HD West Regional Championship Midwest Regional, March 28-29 Van Andel Arena, Grand Rapids, Michigan Saturday, March 28, 4 p.m. Eastern time, ESPNU No. 2 Northeastern (25-11-4) vs. No. 3 Cornell (21-9-4) Saturday, March 28, 7:30 p.m. Eastern time, ESPN Classic (TBD)/ESPN360.com (Live) No. 1 Notre Dame (31-5-3) vs. No. 4 Bemidji State (18-15-1) Sunday, March 29, 8 p.m. Eastern time, ESPNU Midwest Regional Championship Northeast Regional, March 28-29 Verizon Wireless Arena, Manchester, New Hampshire Saturday, March 28, 2 p.m. Eastern time, ESPN2/ESPN360.com No. 2 North Dakota (24-14-4) vs. No. 3 New Hampshire (19-12-5) Saturday, March 28, 5:30 p.m. Eastern time, ESPN2/ESPN360.com No. 1 Boston University (31-6-4) vs. No. 4 Ohio State (23-14-4) Sunday, March 29, 5:30 p.m. Eastern time, ESPNU Northeast Regional Championship Men

Last night, my buddy and I were driving in downtown St. Paul to get to 35E to get to our hotel. A pickup went by and some stupid Gopher fan leaned out the window yelling "Go Gophers!" or some garbage. Apparently, they don't know how to read a scoreboard. Thank God we don't have to put up with that crap the rest of the weekend. I do think some Rodentia supporters will come out just to cheer against us, but that makes it kind of fun. GO SIOUX!!! ONE TROPHY DOWN, TWO TO GO!!!

Me and my buddy from Fargo will be sitting in Section 125, Row 25, Seats 20-21.

Me and a friend of mine are going to the Final Five and we are interested.

No, the Cup will be presented to the team at next week's first round playoff series at The Ralph. Hopefully on Saturday night after a two game sweep of Tech.

Ladies and Gentleman, may I present your 2009 WCHA MacNaughton Cup Champions of the WORLD..... YOUR University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux!!!!!

Agreed. Let's stick to the game and leave the bickering for another time.

Dang it, I missed the goal. I was watching Tech beat the Rodents! Oh well, we're back in business!

Tech wins it in OT!!! Another weak goal given up by the Gophers!

I've never understood that. How can it be diving if there is hooking or tripping involved? Or vice versa?

Kind of like last weekend?

Agreed, but the good news is that it's only 1-0 and there are 40 minutes left.

It's early, but I don't like the way this game is unfolding right now. We have to generate some sustained pressure (not just with the man advantage) or it will be tough to win this one. I really want to wrap up the league title tonight and not leave it to chance.

5 x 3 PP coming up.

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.