fightingsioux4life

If we lose again tomorrow, we can kiss not only 3rd place goodbye, but maybe home ice as well. St. Cloud is going to be tough to beat next week on their home ice and the Badgers are still lurking within striking distance. If we can split this weekend and next, we'll be in good shape. Otherwise, all season ticket holders will get a refund on their first-round tickets.

Your team once again lost to a good team (no more Wayne State's and Ohio State's left on the schedule, by the way) and you have the nerve to come on this forum and rub our noses in a tough OT loss? Get lost, troll!!!

redwing77, If you would have actually read all of my post, I said I was wrong about Parise and I could be wrong about Grieco. I hope I am wrong about Grieco. It does this program no good to have a sieve on the roster. Grieco could turn into an all-WCHA goaltender, given time. But the point I was making earlier (and will make again and again and again), is that Grieco is nothing special right now and until he shows us something, I don't trust him in goal. The two games Grieco won in Mankato had little to do with him and a lot to do with our offense. He got the hook in Anchorage in one of our two losses up there. Based on this evidence, the idea of him taking us to St. Louis is pure wishful thinking. We had better hope that Lamoreaux doesn't get hurt again, or I don't think we can make it to St. Louis (It's going to be a tough road as it is). I don't expect a freshman to be perfect in goal (or any other position for that matter), but they should show us something (like Schweitzer did in 1996-97) to get excited about before we call for a goalie change.

I don't think anyone wants to bestow sainthood on him. I think some of us question why "St. Phil" gets blamed for everything bad that happens to this team, while Anthony Greico (who is nothing special at this point in his career) gets a free ride from some people on this forum. People talk about Greico taking us to St. Louis; I think Greico has a better chance of being the next Josh Sievebieda than the next Aaron Schweitzer. Of course, I used to think Jordan Parise was average at best, so I could be wrong about Greico. But I have a feeling that I am not. Bottom line, with Parise earning paychecks, Lamoreaux is our best bet to win and make a playoff run.

True, but the longer your team goes without a championship, the less impact '85 will have. It's like our hockey team: We have 7 NCAA titles, but none since 2000. The longer we go without winning one, the less impact our previous 7 titles have on the program. The chant "Yours are dusty" will be heard by fans of other teams (especially the Rodents. ).

Ever since the Janet Jackson "Wardrobe Malfunction" and subsequent FCC crackdown, advertisers have been hesitant to push the envelope on commercials. Everything is milktoast, milktoast, milktoast!!! Save milktoast for daytime television, this is the Super Bowl for Pete's Sake! Thank you FCC, for ruining a great American tradition!

Sorry Sioux-cia, but nobody remembers who makes the Super Bowl and loses. I don't even want my Vikings to get back to the Super Bowl unless they are going to win. Maybe it's shallow thinking, but in our society, winning it all is all that matters to most people when it comes to sports. I still hate thinking about the 2001 and 2005 NCAA Hockey Championship games or the 2003 D-II Football Championship game. That being said, accept my condolences. It's never fun to finish Runner-Up.

cujo2, You are right; our non-conference schedule is not that strong this year. I hope we get back to playing good teams like Boston College, Boston University and New Hampshire like we have in the past. I was just responding to the assertion that the Gophers have a strong schedule; a statement that I do not agree with. Of course, all of this will come out in the wash in March and April and that is what matters.

Sorry sagard, but any schedule that is full of teams like Wayne State (MI), Ohio State, Ferris State, Alabama-Huntsville and the two traditional "powers" of the Crappy Collegiate Hockey Association (Michigan and Michigan State) cannot be considered a "top six schedule". If your overall schedule is ranked high numerically in terms of toughness, that is because the WCHA is very strong right now. It's not because you have beaten the top teams from other conferences. I'm not making predictions on the rest of the season (anything can and usually does happen in this league), but so far your non-conference schedule has been soft.

Yes it is, it will help us catch the Tigers by their tails! Sorry, couldn't resist!

Well, despite having the deck stacked against us all weekend long, we are now 20 minutes away from a sweep in Rodentia for the first time since 1980. And even if we don't get it, this has been a great weekend for this team. Third place in the league is still within reach. If they can keep performing like this down the stretch, I think we can make some noise in March.

Trunk Monkey, You are 100% correct. The only way we avoid the box in the first period is to not touch anybody. That isn't hockey. Campion should either let them play or call everything on both teams. The favoritism is obvious this weekend!

Hey State of Hockey: M-I-N-N-E-S-O-T-A Minnesota (Sucks!) Minnesota (Sucks!) YAAAAAY, GOPHERS!!!!! (SUCK!) Go for the sweep Sioux, it hasn't happened in Rodentia since 1980! GO SIOUX!!!

Let's not get too carried away just yet. We still have 20 minutes of hockey left on Olympic-Sized Ice against a team built to play on it. That being said..... What a great period of hockey for our boys!!! GO SIOUX!!!

If we can stay out of the freaking box, we'll have a chance to win this game. Gophers making some poor defensive plays with the puck, we have to take advantage of them when they happen.

In my opinion, any discussion forum that doesn't have a diversity of opinions and viewpoints isn't worth wasting time on. GPL looks like nothing more than a Gopher lovefest, with no other opinions or viewpoints present or welcome. I like the fact that we have Gopher and Bison fans on SS.com. I like it even better that they like to stir the pot and offer different viewpoints than what those of us who bleed Green and White hold. Do they get on my nerves sometimes? Yes. But am I glad they are here? Absolutely. Any discussion forum that is nice and sweet all the time or that only offers one viewpoint on everything is boring. Give me more verbal battles and less preaching to the choir. My 2 cents.

People were talking about how unbeatable and unstoppable the Rodents were last year, too. And we ALL know how that ended. And this year, they have less senior leadership (Potulny and Irmen are off to greener $$$ pastures) and more freshmen expected to carry the load. And I am still not convinced that Briggs is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Last year, he had some good games during the regular season and melted down in the playoffs (again). If he can do better in the playoffs this time, I'll believe the hype. But not until then. PREDICTION (SPLIT): Friday: UM 5, UND 2 Saturday: UND 3, UM 2

This weekend's game against Augustana will have huge implications on the playoff picture and on who hosts the regional; provided we take care of business against Mankato.

No, I don't like the negativity on the Hockey forum. But I like the fact that our fans are passionate about hockey and they hate losing with a passion. You can still be a supporter and hate losing. I support ALL of our teams. I will never give up my football season tickets in the Alerus Center; I look forward to football season. And I think we have some of the best student-athletes in college sports. But like I said above, a program's legacy is built on National Championships, not Conference Titles or winning a lot of games every season. And we haven't been doing that. You are correct, it is always a gamble. You'll win some and you'll lose some. I just wish we'd win more championship gold.

I respect your opinion and I admire your attitude, but I guess I don't agree with you on this. I mean no disrespect or emnity towards anyone (we aren't talking about NDSU or Omaha), but I just can't cheer for another team to win it all. I always want our teams to be the best and that hasn't happened very often over the past 5 years in several sports. It is very frustrating to get so close and then having to settle for second place or worse. It took us years to get the football program to the point of contending nationally year in and year out; and now we are taking a back-seat to someone else. It's a very bitter pill to swallow. I guess I am too passionate for my own good. You might disagree, but I don't think this situation would be tolerated as much if it was Men's Hockey involved instead of Football. I look forward to the day when football defeats are mourned as much as hockey defeats. I think the move to Division I will help make that a reality.

That is apples and oranges and you know it. The move up to Division I will involve a probationary period and I have no problem with that. It will take at least that long to build a contender at the next level. Once we get up and running, we'll have no problem contending for championships in Division I. The win over Northern Iowa proves we'll be competitive sooner than some think. Winning 10 games, a share of the conference and going to the quarterfinals are nice; don't get me wrong. But a program's legacy is built on National Championships, not on conference titles or winning a bunch of games. And we aren't doing that. The expectations for football at this school are much higher than they were 10 years ago. And I like that, even though right now we aren't living up to them. Next year is our last chance before moving up. As usual, we'll be contenders.

I'm glad you're happy about it SiouxMeNow. I'm not. I am sick of being the Wanna-Be/Runner-Up program.

Uh, yes I was. And Lammy would have gotten roasted for giving up either of those goals; there are some people on here who blame him for everything. They would have blamed Lammy for giving up the rebound on the first goal and for being out of position on the second one (defensive breakdown or no defensive breakdown). Last week's Friday night game against the Badgers featured two defensive breakdowns that led to two second period goals, which led to another home loss. And people were blaming Lammy for it. Grieco gets a free ride from some posters on this forum and I am sick and tired of it. If we're going to have high standards for Lammy, let's have high standards for Grieco. He got lit up in Anchorage and he got lit up in Mankato, but we swept in Mankato because they have even worse defense and goaltending then we have. And there are some people on here who think he can take us to St. Louis? Yeah, right. I have zero confidence in either of them right now. They are just not consistent enough. Lammy and Grieco look good sometimes and bad other times. That isn't going to win many games for you. And even if they were consistent, we'd still be losing games because we aren't scoring enough goals and our defense has been mediocre all season. I don't really care who steps up in goal as long as someone does step up. If that doesn't happen, we are going to lose a lot more games this year. Now, which game were you watching again?

You mean the big, fat rebound he gave up that led to the first goal? Or maybe it was the big, fat opening between his legs that led to the second goal and his benching? I think it's time to give Walski a chance. The other two guys haven't been consistent enough and they've both had plenty of chances. Walski hasn't had a chance; give it to him. Of course, that won't solve our goal scoring and defensive problems.

I'm definitely NOT trying to start a feud with Runninwiththedogs, she is a good poster on this forum and she's from UMD, a school which I consider the Anti-Rodentia! However, when she comes on here accusing us of being "spoiled rotten babies" because we are not satisfied with our team's effort, I had to respond. I just don't think that expecting a solid effort from your hockey club equals being spoiled. We know we won't win every game, but we want our team to go down fighting. That hasn't happened this year and that is very, very frustrating. Maybe if Runninwiththedogs (and other Bulldog fans) would complain and voice their opinions more often, the athletic department would put a more competitive team on the ice more often, maybe even a championship contender. Nothing gets the suits moving faster than complaints from alumni and fans. The new arena in Duluth might help with this, but it also takes committment from the top. And I honestly think that has lacked over the years in Duluth. That is all I am going to say about this. GO SIOUX!!! (Hopefully in an upward direction! )