Goon

Next season B.C. is coming into Marriucci to play the Marriucci Classic. So we will have a different tourney champion

Dagies, I am sure, that Andy would get to play against UAA, or at least on Senior night. Maybe he can get it back. I think he needs to check his eyes while he is at it...

Dagies here is the way I look at it... I was a huge Toby Fan when he played at UND, he was from Bemidji and It was cool watching a kid from my home town doing good. During his last year toby didn't play and stepped aside gracefully. Andy should do the same thing. I mean I think we can still make the tourney as a at large bid or as a 12 seed. Why not try to do it with the young kids? Beside Blaiser said if a new kid was as good as a older kid the new kid would be playing. We need to look forward to the future, much like the Viking are now...

I think this is something they should not flirt with. I hope Blais is smarter than that to come back with Andy. I hope that he gets no where further than on the bench with a clipp board...

GO4FER Look I am having fun with this week, I am realistic though, I tried to make a bet with a Gopher fan today my bet: A case a beer the Sioux split series. He didn't want to make the bet. As far as Hauser, I don't know, there are a lot of goalies out there. As far as Hauser goes there might be hope him making the next level, he will probably be at least a ECHL goalie if he wants to be. What he does is at the next level is based on his commitment level and if he gets someone to work with him on technical stuff. Hauser is big and that is one things the pros like about their goalies... Also, again I can't refute another persons quote, just putting it out there for some debate.

GO4ER, NUMBER ONE, oops I didn't write it, Number 2 I am not going to refute a post I didn't author I was passing it on as a thought disturber... I agree with the Hauser analysis, in fact you will see that I think UND has a great chance if he is the goalie in the net for both games, however, I don't think UND will get that lucky because I think Lucia is going to come back with Travis Weber, just a hunch.

Minnesota is prime for the picking, they did not look that great against FSU or Denver their last WCHA series. Sure they are a good team but we can beat them... If they insist on playing Hauser I would be willing to bet our chances improve. One of my buddies that is part of the BSU Hockey media thinks Hauser was a wasted draft pick for the Oilers... Realistically speaking UND is on the verge of having either a really good season or a mediocre season. UND is not a bunch of hacks.

Tim Hennesey was talking about the quote of the week when he told Blaiser your going to have your hands full with Minnesota this weekend. Blais remarked Minnesota is going to have their hand full with us... I love it...

My wife got me the book back in October and it is a must read, read the book in about 1 hours, couldn't put it down and kept reading it. The stuff about the Sioux and badgers was awesome. The stuff about Archibald was even more funny.

Hum, this is interesting. I love UofM fans I really do. I would love to see Sioux espeically Josh get just a win in Marriucci. I

A buddy of mine posted this on the BSU web page (part of the Public record) so I don't think he would mind if I posted it here. Its funny and what he says does hit home with me at least.

My father sent me this I think it is interesting... http://sportsmidwest.com/wwwboard/illfootb...ages/40903.html

I agree I think UND has to stick to the Run and Gun offense. Pick your spots don't go into a shell. Crash the net, crash the net pick up the loose change. I think James Massen, Brandon "Quick Hands" Bochenski could be just what the doctor ordered for the Sioux in the second half of the season...

Clayton one other point UND used to have banners for NCAA runners in the old Ralph but now in the new Ralph there is only NCAA titles and WCHA regular season titles.

Huskie, What ever, go back and when your team wins the NCAA title come talk to me. Besides I don't have to like your team, your newbie fans piss me off with their lack of knowledge about college hockey. One clueless huskie fan (not you by the way) Called the CCHA a weak league. I think Michigan has a more storied history than SCSU. That is the kind of stuff that pisses me off... Notice I didn't say anything about your team this season.I have reserved my criticism for the your bone headed coach. Classic liberal, great at spining anything and has a excuse for his teams losses. I feel the SCSU players have been short changed if anything. I have said anything less than a final four appearance and a national title will be unexceptable this season for SCSU, he can't hide behind his new to the league and other stuff that he spouts. Dahl can't spin this... He has not response but a title. However, Dahl will also see how hard it is to get to the top an stay there. Winning the NCAA title is all about Good Karma, i took UND 100 years to win the NCAA division II title, once in a life time shot sometimes. The right bounces, pucks going in instead of hiting a post ask the gopher fans they came a hair from winning the NCAA title in 1989.

I THINK A GOOFER FAN SAID THIS This pretty much sums up my feelings too. I think most of the Gopher fans have been pretty good. However, I think it is assine to assume UND is going to mail the points into the Gophers. Like Hennesey says Blais refuses to be swept by the Gophers. I actually think Blaiser is a good coach and is good for a win this weekend. Like I tell the others if Hauser is in net there is a chance for the Sioux...

Just to add to that I sure Blaiser will remember Dahl leaving his top Power Play line in when UND got drilled by SCSU earlier this year... I actually think UND can still make the tourney as a 12 seed.

SCOTT You bring up more good points. I think it is funny that everybody has kicked UND while we are down. Some of these people are newbies that have jumped ship during a great time. SCSU is probably more guilty of this than UofM, but a few of them have forgotten what has happened the last couple of years. A lot of them have slug mud and their program hasn't ever accomplished anything other than winning a final five banner which is now haning from the rafter of the concrete center. Now they have the odacity to call our team crappy.

Scott Said... Scott you said some nice things here, I agree, very well put, if UofM team is cocky as their fans (Many who I think are great people) UND could just get a few wins. I really feel good about our chances after last weekends wins. I think Hauser is very beatable, in fact I watched both there games this past weekend, and think if UND can get to Hauser early he can be his biggest enemy. Now if we can only keep Andy off the ice and go with the two new goalies we will be fine. I also don't want to see UND go into a shell if we get the lead. Attack, Attack that is the key to victory and don't take any stupid penalties we can't kill off...

This kind of sums it up... Taken from USCHO (Edited by Goon at 3:30 pm on Dec. 30, 2001)

Who was the back up goalie tonight?

Hiedi Sioux, David Lunbohm didn't dress in either game this weekend. I bet we could have used him though...

Here it is were up to 20th, I do believe we are better than some of the weak teams that are ahead of us... 2001-2002 Division I Men Pairwise Rankings (PWR) Rk Team GP W- L- T Win% Rk RPI Rk PWR 1 St. Cloud 20 17- 2- 1 0.8750 2 | 0.6556 1 | 31 2 Denver 17 15- 2- 0 0.8824 1 | 0.6482 2 | 30 3 UMass-Lowell 15 13- 2- 0 0.8667 3 | 0.6432 3 | 29 4 Minnesota 19 14- 2- 3 0.8158 4 | 0.6386 4 | 28 5 New Hampshire 18 13- 3- 2 0.7778 5 | 0.6336 5 | 27 6 Boston Univer 16 11- 4- 1 0.7188 7 | 0.6135 6 | 26 7 Cornell 12 8- 3- 1 0.7083 9 | 0.6017 7 | 25 8 Michigan State 19 13- 4- 2 0.7368 6 | 0.5974 8 | 24 9 Michigan 20 11- 6- 3 0.6250 10 | 0.5830 9 | 23 10 C. C. 18 9- 7- 2 0.5556 20 | 0.5818 10 | 21 11 WMU 20 11- 6- 3 0.6250 10 | 0.5608 13 | 21 12 Maine 16 8- 5- 3 0.5938 16 | 0.5795 11 | 20 13 B.C. 18 10- 6- 2 0.6111 14 | 0.5626 12| 20 14 NMU 17 10- 6- 1 0.6176 13 | 0.5460 16 | 17 15 A-Fairbanks 18 11- 7- 0 0.6111 14 | 0.5505 14 | 16 16 UNO 20 10- 8- 2 0.5500 22 | 0.5475 15 | 16 17 Niagara 16 10- 6- 0 0.6250 10 | 0.5307 19 |16 18 Ohio State 16 9- 6- 1 0.5938 16 | 0.5350 17 | 15 19 Rensselaer 12 6- 5- 1 0.5417 23 | 0.5059 25 | 2 20 North Dakota 19 9- 9- 1 0.5000 26 | 0.5129 20 | 11

Sioux Win, Sioux Win, Sioux Win... Boy I am impressed, I think the guys can feed off of this and put together a run in the second half... Siembida I think will make a impact on how we do this the rest of the season.

Just checked out the box score on the game and James Massen got two more assist to bring his season point total to 5, however, that 5 points in 3 games. Maybe James has arrived.