Goon

Is this guy any good. I have a hard time believing that he deserved to be dressed over Siembida. I suppose that is Blaiser's way of getting his attention. Before Saturdays game he was less than please with Josh saying that a 750 save percentage won't cut it... What ever happened fired Jake up. It seems there is a little motivation going on here. I remember Blais challenged a few of his players during the 1997 championship year. I guess this is his way of getting people's attention...

Maybe they might have miss spoken then. I was kind of shocked when I heard that since UofW and UND series always seem to sell out, maybe they don't count all of the students picking up their tickets this up coming weekend.

Dagies, I think you ought to come up, they announced last night that tickets for all remaining games are up for sale if you know what I mean. The arena had quite a few available seats this past weekend.

I tried listening to the game against Niagra when I was down in New Orleans and the conection was brutal. It finally cleared up at about the end of the game. But I am sure if you have DSL high speed internet it probably helps more.

Gater, Here is what I see. The bagders will come in and try to slow down the Sioux, face it not many teams are going to be able to keep up with UND's Speed (teams like C.C. Denver UM are probably the few teams that can) They are going to clutch grab and hold, it is going to be brutal hockey. Our luck we will get Don Adam and he won't call the hooking and holding. Its going to look more like All Star wrestling than hockey. Wisconsin has two great goalies and on of them will play on top of its head one game. I still think UND will be the winner but it will be a hard fought series. Wisconsin is a horrible team this season but I don't think that mattters when they are playing the Sioux. I woujld also lke to see this class of freshman/sophmores to have a winning record against the dirty Badgers. Unlike the past senior classes. Badgers we don't need no stinking Badgers... Its also time for UND to take its pound of flesh...

So are we referring to buddies in Mpls, or Boston He,he,he... Thats ok, the rubes in New York think Cornell has a decent hockey team too. Yesh Defensively UND looks really good, even though some claim that we don't have a defenseman that can hanble the puck, sure we don't have a Travis Roach, but we look pretty damb good, in fact i believe that the UND defensive core is more solid than 2000 crew, no kidding, and no I am not drunk either. If you look at these players below, Sneaks and Mazurak couldn't hold any of the following players jocks... Everyone talks about Zack staying all four years, I think it is going to be tough to Keeping all four of our solid defensemen for four years. Andy Schider is an awesome puck handler and a great defensemanand he can check great. Definately has the potential to play in the NHL. Mean streak and can hold his own... In 11 games he has 3 g's 8a's for 11 points. Good for a point a game. Matt Greene is a Commodore type player with a better up side, Matt skates better than Commodore. He also doesn't have the folk hero following yet. The UAA Rube that he challenged for a fight after he cheaped Zack wanted nothing to do with him. Matt Jones played solid all season and definately is a good defensive player. Great stay at home defenseman. David Hale was crushing people and playing great solid defense. I love when he plays defense with the crash line of Cannady, Genoway and Prpich. They thump people... Fuher looked really good and is not affraid to pound anyone that get near Zack.

Another sore spot with the UofM fans. Of course they claim its not because they got Hirsch but I like the fact that some good kids are coming to UND from there. No matter where they come from. Except from Russia. I don't know about anyone else but I beginning to feel that UND is going to return to the top and stay there for some time if we keep landing these top kids. I smell a couple of titles in the future...

I suppose the Gophers fan will be calling for Brook's head now after seeing that in the press. In fact a few of them are a little sensative about not getting him...

I think that would be a great idea to have Dr. Yagley at the Ralph. I wonder how we would go about getting the ball rolling.

SCCC a second rate liberal arts institution, the president of that second rate school should be ashamed of himself. Of course this article was probably in the back of the red star.

I would like to know what is on that slip of paper. Anyone else interested?

I actually think UND should (I am an optomist) Route UAA. And a split or being swept is not a option. I sound like some of our buddies down in MPLS. p :0 I hope that the boys can win and win big. The REA needs to become a hostile place for the opposition to come to. I am excited because it will be my first chance to see the team this season.

Yep, I was sitting around waiting for your post in addition to watching my fantasy football team take a crap again. Add to that the Vikes suck again this weekend. The Sioux win is the only thing good that has happened to me this weekend.

Huskie I was woundering when you were going to make your appearance.

You know your right, I guess you have a point, I kind of like the job he is doing for SCSU, 0-5 for the national tourney. to me that is pretty good. Happy with just making the NCAA's if thats all they want to accomplish that is fine with me.

Now I feel better, it sucks to be us when he is officiating the game, Adam, slowed the flow of the game down with his parade of player to the penalty box...

It might be safe to assume that James Massen has arrived and will live up to the billing that he came here with. I think James kind of reminds me of a former Bruins Player Cam Bam Neely. I know its early in his career, I love a big power forward who can score and hit. Three goals in three games not too bad eh?

Wew, what a great win, I was dancing around my hotel room. Siembieda beter tonight. 17/19 and a .894 save percentage. I can deal with that. Zach comes back strong for two more points. What a great night. Now UND can hopefully get on a run. 7-1. Not too bad... I think the Defense has really played better this season.

So that was the deal, I wounder if the radio has been put on notice not to criticize the refs but I think someone needs to look into Donny Adams performance on the ice. And another thing I thought that Adam was giving up reffing to run a officating school. I guess all bets are off now...

In listening to the pre-game show on KFYR, Josh is starting tonight, Blais said that he doesn't know it but he is starting. I guess Blais didn't tell them who was starting net.

PCM is right. Here are the numbers. 10/12/02 Michigan 4 15 63:27 W 10/26/02 Niagara 0 4 19:04 N 11/01/02 @ Princeton 2 20 60:00 W 11/02/02 @ Yale 3 26 60:00 W 11/08/02 @ St. Cloud State 5 13 43:31 L TOTALS Goales 14 Shots 78 246:02 3-1-0 Transulates to a .820 save percentage... Boy that is really good. Here is Jakes Impressive Numbers. 10/11/02 Canisius 0 18 60:00 W 10/25/02 Niagara 4 10 60:00 W 10/26/02 Niagara 3 9 40:56 W 11/08/02 @ St. Cloud State 2 5 16:29 N TOTALS Goals 9 Shots 42 177:25 3-0-0 That Translates to a .785 save percentage. Yep that is not very impressive. Your right the goal tending sucks. There is no more hey they are young, and they need to be given a chance, they have been give a chance. Here is I what I think Blaiser needs to do. Next season, cut one or if not both of these goalies. Starting next season. First off I would Cut Sofie (dead weight) and then make a decision on Brandt or Sievbedia or both. Have a competition, like the pros the ones that can make the team get to stay and the other get cut. These two goalies don't deserve scholarships. Bring In Lane at the half way point if it doesn' t get any better. He can't be any worse. Then recruit one or two more tenders and see if we can't get someone that can makes save at at least a 900 save percenatge. Like I said before UND is a top program in hockey we should be able to find a good goalie and its not asking too much to expect our team to have a good goalie... Here are the nations leaders. 1 Yann Danis, Jr, BN 2 1.000 2 Mike Brown, So, FSU 9 .959 3 Jim Howard, Fr, ME 4 .949 <A Freshman> Bobby Goepfert, Fr, PC 3 .949 <A Freshman> 5 Matt Migliaccio, So, MSU 6 .935 <A Sophmore> Jamie VandeSpyker, Sr, FIND 5 .935 7 Mike Walsh, Sr, CKN 3 .933 Dave LeNeveu, So, COR 2 .933 Jake Moreland, Sr, SCSU 4 .933 10 Jason Jensen, Jr, MANK 5 .930 There is no reason we should not have a goalie in those stats... PCM is right UND is going to have to score goals at a rate to 7-8 goals a game to win. If the want to win...

Here is my problem. Everytime Don Adam does a game he seems to have it in for UND and calls UND a ton of penalties and the oppostion gets away with murder. I am sorry but I have watched enough games to see that this is happening. I think the league needs to look into this and maybe think about not letting Adam reffing UND games. Especially after he made that comments about Commodore. Its eveident last night that I guess the SCSU player rams the Goalie and SCCC still gets the goal. What kind of crap is that? Biased officiating. To add to this Dahl better enjoy his little run I no doubt in my mind that UND is going to be clobbering some team bad the next couple of years...

Here is a letter a buddy sent me. I guess Josh didn't play too bad... However, evertime I hear there is a break away, I bet the score board operator is already getting ready to put up another goal. Its brutal... If I was one of the leaders I would take the young goalies off to the side and tell them to suck it up and start playing. I Blais gets some more goalies next season. I think if Josh or Jake doesn't improve they should be sent down the river. Sorry I think it has to be done... Goalies should be expected to have a .900 save percentage to be a starting goalie in the WCHA. Right now they are not... Hey Goon, What a treat tonight! The North Dakota at St.Cloud game was on TV in Bemidji. Channel 45 out of the Cities. Despite what you might read in the papers, your young goaltender Siembida didn't play that bad. Your defense let you down early in the third. St. Cloud got a couple of quality scoring chances because our "D" got caught and hung your goalie out to dry! It was tied to start the third.

This why I have no respect for this program. Dahl the other day, says oh if Zack scores 50 points this season hell be gone, sounds like he is begging. #uck you Dahl. Dahl gets his players to win now, but chockes when it matters the most. 9 November, 2002 College hockey: Huskies hammer UND By Kevin Allenspach kallenspach@stcloudtimes.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The reason North Dakota was ranked fifth this week is because no one had been able to stop the Sioux, and especially wunderkind Zach Parise. Until now. The Sioux ran smack dab into seniors Ryan Malone and Jon Cullen, both of whom returned after missing games the past two weekends with injuries, and the 15th-ranked St. Cloud State Huskies blasted North Dakota for a 7-3 victory Friday night at the National Hockey Center. Malone had a hat trick and two assists and Cullen scored a goal and set up four others. They figured in three of four third-period goals that broke open a 3-3 tie. And when they weren't making both Sioux goalies look bad, they combined with senior Joe Motzko to hold Parise and his linemates Brandon Bochenski and Quinn Fylling pointless and a combined minus-8. "I know (Parise) - he's a great kid," said Malone, who went to Shattuck-St. Mary's - the same prep school that produced Parise, who had a nation-leading 20 points entering Friday's game. "Obviously, he's got a lot of skill. But he hasn't played a team like ours and, as seniors, it's our last year. You don't want a young guy to come in and embarrass us on our home ice. We tried to limit their chances - that whole line. All we wanted to be was plus-1 or plus-2 against them and have some other guys chip in. It worked out a little better than that." Yah. Malone and Cullen fell one point short of the school record of six points in a game - a trick turned by five players. The only one in school history to do it against a WCHA team was Fred Knipscheer on Dec. 5, 1992, against Colorado College. And Motzko, almost forgotten in the equation, had a goal and two assists. "You don't expect to score all the goals we had, but that was the game plan - we went against their (top) line," said Cullen, back from a shoulder injury. "A lot of times when lines like that score a lot, they're susceptible defensively. We played good defense first and everything else after that we'll take as a bonus." The only other St. Cloud State goal scorer was freshman defenseman Tim Conboy, who connected on two third-period slap shots. St. Cloud State holds a 21-6 scoring edge in the last three games against the Sioux - all at the Hockey Center, where St. Cloud State hasn't lost to North Dakota since Nov. 28, 1998. "Their first line played really, really well," Sioux junior defenseman David Hale said. "I don't know what it is but the scores have been similar the last few times we've been down here. Maybe it's a curse or something. We'll turn it around (today). The character we have on this team is going to show up (today). It's going to be interesting to see how we come out." North Dakota, missing four players sitting out a one-game suspension from a fight last Saturday, suffered its first loss of the season. And Parise had never been held to fewer than two assists - until his WCHA debut Friday. Just listen to this idiot. Classic Dahl... "People can say all they want - it's a junior-senior league," said Huskies coach Craig Dahl, whose team won its fourth consecutive win over the Sioux - dating to the 6-5 overtime win in the 2001 WCHA championship game. "Unless you're a real blue-chipper, you've got to pay your dues. Juniors and seniors seem to dominate nine times out of 10. This was a great performance by our older players. You've got to have them in the lineup. It's critical." Another senior who had to come up big was goalie Jake Moreland, who was a stickboy for the Sioux when he grew up in Grand Forks. St. Cloud State was outshot for the first time this season, 43-25. Despite a couple of soft goals, he slammed the door on 15 shots in the third period. "You can let up a soft one like all goalies will, but then you've got to come back and battle and be mentally tough," Dahl said. "We talked about that this week, and we talked about it after the first 40 minutes. I told him 'Dude, that 40 minutes is over. Let's worry about the next 20.' He got the job done." The Huskies gave a crowd of 6,479 fans, their 31st consecutive sellout, reason to feel good 31/2 minutes into the game when Motzko deked around a Sioux defenseman and wristed a shot over goalie Josh Siembida. Malone then scored on a delayed penalty. Motzko was checked into the net, where he lodged against Siembida, just before Malone's shot hit the top left corner. North Dakota clicked on the power play early in the second period, but Malone responded with a highlight-reel goal. A Sioux drop pass went awry at the Huskies blue line and Motzko kept the puck away from a North Dakota forechecker long enough to find Malone streaking down the right wing. Malone took the pass, which was behind him, and brought the puck ahead between his legs. He skated in and beat Siembida low before skidding into the left post. The Sioux added unassisted and power-play goals to tie it. But the Huskies blew the doors open with four goals in an eight-minute span early in the third. Malone scored his third goal on a breakaway, and then gave a Captain Morgan salute as the hats rained on the ice. "Not playing last weekend (was a motivating factor)," said Malone, who suffered a hip injury two weeks ago. "Watching the (pregame introductions) last weekend was hard. On the road, missing games doesn't seem like such a big deal. Here, you miss being out there with the crowd getting into it. "(Tonight) is a whole new game, though. They're going to have (senior forward Kevin) Spiewak and (junior forward Ryan) Hale out there. I know Spiewak from Omaha (where Malone played in the USHL) and I know Hale from juniors, too. "I'm sure they're going to be jacked up."

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