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But he let in some softies too, he wouldn't even come out and talk to the media after the game. Yesh...

Just to prove my point, and that I am not harping on Sievbieda, but he is horrible. I am definately miffed how come UND can't have better goaltending. Frankly we are lucky to be 12-1-1 and I think Blaiser knows it. I mean what does CB do? Does he bring in Lane at the half way point? Will Lane be any better. This is ridiculous... Here are the numbers. Josh's are not good, they actually went up this weekend though. I think it maybe time for him to sit and not pay any more. I hope Lane S. is a good goalie we are going to need him. Combined 1 Josh Siembida SO Save Percentage .851 GAA 3.09 Recd 6- 1- 0 30 Jake Brandt SO, Save Percentage .880 GAA 2.28 Recd 6- 0- 1 Conference 30 Jake Brandt Save Percentage .901 GAA 2.06 Record 3- 0- 1 1 Josh Siembida Save Percentage .824 GAA 3.48 Record 3- 1- 0

I am beginning to think that JBB is nothing more than a self rightous boob/troll/knuckle head that has nothing better to do than hang out at Siouxsports.com and try to impress us with his Liberal Arts Education, that he is getting from NDSuck. I sure as hell am not too impressed with him. Its almost like he is sleeping with John Hoff. Never mind the fact that his views on the logo/name are so easy to shoot holes in. Blah, Blah, Blah... Ok, JBB do us a favor and go over to bisonville.com and talk about how your teams at your school suck. Remember Suck starts with SU. For your information, Wanless was also a self rightous puke like you. He was run out of town for a couple of reasons. He is not missed here or was he that liked, move on and get over your self JBB.

First off I hate the SCCC Huskies as much as I hate the B.C. eagles and the dirty Wisconsin Badgers. Second, I think there coach is a joke, but I like the job he is doing at JBSU so I think we let him stay there. However, since this is a UND web page this type of talk should be expected... I predict that UND will win to very close hard fought games. I think UND is a better team maybe except for Goal Tending, Frankly we suck in that department, we can't put more than two decent games together last saturday Sievbieda had a night of 24/28 .860 percent is not good unless you went to a second rate school but UND is not. So our goaltenders to do better or we are not going anywhere this year. The two horrible young goalie recruiting busts and have been given enough chances its time for them to step up to the plate or step aside and let someone else play. Jake is better than Josh but thats not saying much. Sievbieda flops around on the ice like a musky out of water he is laying on the ice before the oppostion even shots the puck, I am not sure what Blais saw in the kid but he sucks period. My wife made the statement that these kids were like Toby, I said Toby was a lot better than those two clowns. I long for the days of Toby we must not be very good in net... (I am going to go on the record and make a prediction that Brandt or Sievbieda will be gone next season). Back to this weekends games I predict that Finger will get hammered by Matt Greene or Prpich. There will probably be a fight or two. I pray to god that someone in Sioux uniform that is a goalie will some how play better. Spiewak and noterman will shawdow SCSU top line and Zack will score 6 points after getting 5 last weekend. __________________

Well lets see it started out as a scrum in front of the net and then hale and Ryan McKelvie were tied up and then the gloves came off, Hale ripped number Ryan McKelvie's helment off and then Hale pummeled Ryan McKelvie. I wasn't even close he smoked Ryan McKelvie like 4 times right in the face. I think this was Hales first ever fight at UND. It was rumored that he was a good fighter in Jrs this just proves that point... This fight was can we say a brooks and Commy type fight one was an instigator and then that person turned into a punching bag. Once hale droppedRyan McKelvie to the ice he hale hammered him a few more time on top of the head. The fight was killer you know. The place went nuts. You know scarey good fight... Pcm, if you have pictures that would be cool. My wife asked why don't they stop it and I said do you want to get between those two big guys. Nope...

JBB its obvious that you know nothing about what you talk about maybe you should go back to play makers and drink some more. The Big Sky has said it is not interested in adding NDSU and the Gateway conference has said the same thing. Nobody wants NDSU. So I am not sure why you NDSU clowns still keep talking about joining Division 1AA. You cant even compete at the Division II ranks in Football.

My God Bill Mason (Or maybe its Bob their identical twins and I can't tell the difference) but he sucked(s) as an official and a lot of the calls were down right brutal, he tried to call a goal on the one shot that was obviously not a goal... If I hear anyone say that Hales fight was a draw I am going to scream he worked the Mankato player like a clown. He dropped the guy to the ice with some great punches and then when the player was on the ice he popped him on top of the head. Hales first fight it was a doosey, a high lite reel maker... Zach said he thought Davids fight motivated the team. I agree. It kicked ass... I expect UND to win big tonight, it was apparent that MSU can not keep up with UND speed and will try to hook and hold and hang on to keep up... Jensen is a good goalie though...

Goaltender on UW's list University of Wisconsin men's hockey coach Mike Eaves needs a goaltender to round out his 2003-2004 recruiting class, a process that has produced a target in western Canada. Mike Brodeur, the top goaltender in the Alberta Junior Hockey League, will make an official campus visit next week when the Badgers close out the first half of the regular season by playing host to Western Collegiate Hockey Association rival Minnesota. Brodeur, listed at 6-foot-2 and 175 pounds, currently is 12-7 with a 2.33 goals-against average and .927 save percentage for the Camrose Kodiaks. A product of Calgary, Alberta, Brodeur said UW is the only school with which he has scheduled a visit. However, he said he plans to make at least three more: Colorado College, Massachusetts-Amherst and Minnesota. North Dakota also is in the picture. "Wisconsin is high on my list, but I'm still kind of looking around," Brodeur said. I found this in the wsj... According to Brodeur, Gophers coach Don Lucia has talked about signing him at the semester break because the current Minnesota tandem of Travis Weber and Justin Johnson has been inconsistent. Findlay, a College Hockey America entry where former Badgers recruiting coordinator Pat Ford is an associate head coach, also is recruiting Brodeur. "He tried to sign me during the early signing period," Brodeur said of Ford, "but I wasn't ready to do that." UW needs a goaltender to fill the void when senior Scott Kabotoff departs after this season, leaving sophomore Bernd Bruckler as the lone veteran.

Just in from todays Grand Forks Herald, Andy Hilbert and Lee Goren were sent back to Provedence. I think this is a set back but I believe that Lee will get the call back up eventually. Being a Boston Bruins fan for many years I have followed the team and this years version of the Boston Bruins is a deep team talent wise and its going to be hard for Lee to break into the line up, however, Lee has been playing good this season so I think he will get the chance he wasn't afforded under the past coaches.

Awesome Job to PCM. I add a few pictures to my slide show that are my screen saver. I can't wait till we get some more pictures to stick on my screen savers. Thanks for the pictures. Pat were do you sit to get such good pictures of the game. Also is your web page not up any more, I haven't been able to find your web page that has really good UND hockey pictures.

Karl Goehring leads all American Hockey League goaltenders in save percentage, goals-against average and shutouts, but he has lousy numbers. Those being his height and weight -- which is listed at 5-foot-8 and 160 pounds (although, teammates say he's more like 5-6). In the current hockey climate, many goalies are just mountains on skates. A player the size of Goehring falls into the category of prospects who have to prove they can play, as opposed to those who have to prove they can't. The second-year pro and AHL rookie, is proving a lot with some stunning play for the Syracuse Crunch. He recently completed a five-game stretch during which he stopped 145 of 146 shots, including four shutouts. The only goal Goehring allowed was by Philadelphia's Kirby Law with 3:14 remaining in the third game of the stretch. "I'm not really doing anything differently,'' said Goehring, comparing his play with last year, when he shuttled back and forth between Syracuse and Dayton of the ECHL. "It's just one of those unique situations where the team comes together, and I've been fortunate to get the bounces." The bounces seem to go his way an awful lot. Goehring, an All-American at North Dakota, played well in both Syracuse and Dayton last year, leading Dayton to the Kelly Cup final. So it could be more than just luck. It might even have something to do with his size. "One of the things I focus on," he said, "is watching the puck. They teach goalies to look between all the legs and get low to find the puck. And sometimes when you're smaller, it's easier to do that." Goehring's stint in Syracuse last season was definitely being in the right place at the right time. He got to practice with J.F. Labbe, the best minor-league goalie of this era. Labbe has always been considered a "small" goalie, though at 5-10, 175, he makes Goehring look like a welterweight. "It definitely helped being here with (Labbe) last year," Goehring said. "We are such similar heights, and it was important to see how successful he was, and be able to pick up on the little things he did, the positioning, and how got himself ready to play night after night." Law's goal snapped Goehring's shutout streak at 197:58, a bit shy of Johnny Bower's AHL record of 249:51 set in the 1957-58 season. Bower was a big goalie for his time, 5-11, 189, but a lot of the all-time AHL greats match up well with Goehring. Gilles Mayer, second in career shutouts, was 5-6, 135. Marcel Paille, first in games played, was 5-8, 175. Bobby Perreault, third in shutouts, was 5-8, 170. Goehring doesn't mind being compared with goalies from the past when it comes to shutout records or size, but that's as far as it goes. Don't expect to see him peeking through a forest of legs without a mask on. "Oh, no, that's way too much," Goehring said. "I don't know how any of those guys ever played without a mask. Just thinking about what it was like in the old days is hard." And, these days, so is putting a puck past the hottest, and smallest, goalie in the AHL

Blah, Blah, Blah, the same tired worn out not true B.S. Hey Poindexter answer the question? Are you a white hand Wringing Liberal. That is the problem with Liberals you don't debate the Issues, you don't answer question you spend your time preaching and you just proved our point. You only tell us want you want us to think.

What JBB should say is that he cant handle the truth and nor can he argue the facts, he cant because he is losing the argument. However, JBB being the misguided liberal is going to slug on his in cause no matter how wrong he is. By the way JBB are you a white hand wringing liberal?

I can't remember if this was brought up before and I am pretty sure that othes have brought this up but Vernon Belcourt isn't even Sioux he is (WaBun-Inin) Anishinabe Ojibwe Nation Minnesota. Hum another person of Ojibwe decent upset about the fighting Sioux name. Does anyone know why this is?

Here is the latest from the Heraldo: So what is Vernon saying if he can't manipulate the data and pick his focus group he rules that the poll is flawed and irelevant. Yesh... Scott Hennen hit the name on the head today by saying basically that the arts and science teacher are jokes and are jealous that they have basically been rule irrelevent when you compare them against the professors in the hard sciences. It also proves how out of touch the P.C. crowd is.

I did notice we are doing better in the face off department. It was a welcome change, I suppose they have been working on face off drills in practice too this year. Just a question Noterman mentioned shooting drills up coming for the next week. What exactly are shooting drills? Anyone have any insight on that?

JBB is denial, again point proved an argument has been posed and he can do nothing but say oh, your wrong and I am right. Back up by no facts at all. So what is his point. To take a verse from the Movie a few good men. JBB this one is for you. You want the truth? You can't handle the truth.

If I remember right that was the weekend the Sioux and UAA played a WCHA series that had very few penatly minutes, one game had like one penalty the whole game?

Prpich is starting to get some opportunities and I think he is going to start scoring and factoring in on the stat sheet. Prpich is also a great checker. On the lines issue it seemed that Blaiser was playing the match ups game this past weekend and he tried a few different combinations. I think CB is just trying to get more offense. Lines with CB change from minute to minute. Fyling had a few opportunities this past weekend but just didn't finish the deal. I think the luck is going to change. Noterman said in the post game program that he expects shooting drills in this weeks practice.

Blais had him on a couple of different lines and I thought he had a good series. I liked him on the first line but I suppose Noterman playing so good he seems to be a lock for the First line right now...

Here is the line on Brandt for the season, you can see his numbers are really picking up and he is turning into a decent goalie. 30 Jake Brandt Saves 98 Shots 109 .899 1.85 6- 0- 0 Saves 61 Shots 65 .938 1.22 3- 0- 0 Not bad numbers at all A save percentage of .938 in Conference games. Not too shaby at all...

Forecheck get well soon, I am so happy I have not had to experience that yet. Yikes it must hurt a lot. I am not a big fans of Denitists and Doctors they seem to give pain a perscription for getting beter.

There is a perfect example of what we are talking about. JBB maybe you shouldn't throw stones.

Taz, Here is the reality you can throw a hundred pro-name people against the small minority of P.C. pro-name change crowd. And for some reason the press thinks the pro-name change crowd has a more valid point. You would also think there is a ground swell oppostion to the fighting Sioux name and there isn't. Your talking about a small number of people in favor of changing the name. Now for some reason NDSU has gotten itself into the fray, I think more just to make themselves look more division one. Heres the reality is Bridges and a couple of other UND student organizations have contacted various student organizations on the different campuses around the midwest region (UofM, UMD, SCCC, NDSU and MSU) and gotten small protests started. Again I wounder how many of the protesters are hand ringing white liberal arts professor telling people how they are supposed to think? You know the basic theory of lets educate the rubes. Their out to save the world. For some reason the Media thinks that a protest of 100 people is some how signifigant versus 12,000 that saw the game against the Gophers last October. Maybe this is why we have so many problems in our country we are flunking basic math. That is a percentage of .0083. Of course you will never read the point of view in your local fish wrapper. I am also sure the SCSU president wanting to take the heat off himself and his univesity said, "Hey this is a great opportunity to get the focus off us and on to someone else." So the question I pose to everyone who is more prolific than the UND hockey program and its state of the art 100,000,000.00 college hockey arena. 7 natioal championship banners is lot compared to a small second rate institution like SCSU with its three NCAA appearances, all of them failures. Another problem is I think we are giving way too much credence to the to some of the people that are for the name change crowd, ie, the John Hoffs, Vivian Nelson's, Glenda Misken's and the JBB's of the world. Check out some of these peoples resumes they are less than impressive. They go around using flashy theme like Englestad is a NAZI and they write articles with facts that are mostly a stretch and easy to refute. However, no one in the media challenges them. They also publish make stupid web pages like UND.Racism.Com and the media then falls right into their trap and makes a big deal out of it. I think this debate also goes back to the biased issue, conservatism is dead and is not welcome on the nations college campuses, I bet if you look at the number of conservative speakers that have spoken on the UND campuses as opposed to the Liberal speakes it wouldn't even be close. The liberal elite does not want to hear the Dr. Yagley's of the world because they shoot holes in their arugments. They use facts and the liberals don't want the facts, they try to play on people emotions. They want to ram rod their case down our throats, and call people who argue with them racists, no one wants that label attached to them. Liberals make the false claim to be free thinkers and understanding of others, but they don't want to have a debate with conservatives because they are losing the battles. They blame others for their failures. In retrospect its sad, there will be no debate on this issue, and there won't be any debate because they don't want to make their argument appear flimsy. And this will never change as long as the Liberal establishment has a strangle hold on the educational system in our country. I look at the UND Fighting Sioux symbol as a symbol of pride and strenght and a winning tradition. I think for the most part a lot of these schools are jealous of UND. Its the haves against the have nots. SCSU doesn't have a Ralph Englestad. NDSU going blindly into the Divison one status has no clue how to make this happen. They too are probably more jealous of the campus to the north. I wonder if NDSU would ask FSU to keep its logo at home if they ever came up to Fargo, the truth is they will never grace the Fargo Dome turf. And like NDSU would turn the money down to get trottled by the Seminoles. I think UND athletic department has done a lot to educate the fans and make sure that the Logo is treated with repect and honor. You will not hear the crowd chanting like they do at FSU. You don't have a white person dressed up in a native head dress throwing a burning spear in to the football field at the 50 yard line while riding a horse. On the flip side of that argument last year UND held a Native American ceremony in honor of Coach Walsh was a wonderful ceremony. A very high honor bestowed on the fallen Walsh. So in retrospect there will probably be dissent againts the UND as long as UND has the Fighting Sioux name. And I guess there will be protests as long as there is someone there to listen.

I thought that I saw/read some where that Dixon Ward was back playing hockey in the NHL with someone that slips my mind. Can someone confirm this? I thought it was New York for some reason.