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Thanks, taz. I agree with a lot of your post. The old REA had 30 years to build memories. I think the new REA will still be here in 50 years and will be a beautiful fixture on campus.

The Sioux travel to Houghton for a pair. If UND had swept UAA last week, I could accept less than four points out of this weekend. However, having given a point up to UAA, I think they need to go get that point back with a road sweep. Winning on the road is difficult, but to be #1 and win the WCHA, this is the kind of weekend the Sioux need to sweep. On the Fargo recap (thanks, btw), the fourth line is listed as Lundbohm, Massen and Prpich. This surprises me only in that I was expecting to see McMahon, Prpich and Fylling reunited to check Conner's line. So now who checks that line? I would guess McMahon, Canady and Fylling. If those are the "lower" lines ... well, talk about just rolling four lines. One other thing: the Sioux owe MTU for Saturday night at the REA last year, probably the team's worst effort of the season, and the start the late-season slide.

Bartholomay committed to Nebraska-Omaha last week.

This is now updated through 19 games. This is how UND's and its opponents' scoring breaks down this year (UND's scoring listed first): 5x3 3-0 (When UND has the 5x3 advantage, it has outscored its opponent 3-0.) 5x4 9-3 5x5 69-28 4x4 7-0 4x5 2-12 3x5 0-1 6x5 1-0 (extra attacker goal) 5x6 3-0 (empty net goal) Total 94-44 I'm going to go on record with my opinion that the PP is improving, even though the numbers don't yet show it much. At least it's not the train wreck to watch that it was earlier in the season.

UND 43 UMD 35 UMN 35 UW 32 SCSU 31 CC 26 Denver 25 AA 20 Mankato 18 MTech 15

Dan Brooks saw a screening of the movie. This is from the Pioneer Press: ------------------------------ "The movie is awesome. People were cheering in the theater. Kurt Russell is the movie; he is absolutely phenomenal. His portrayal of my dad is uncanny; he portrays my dad as a little softer and gentler than he really was. But he looks like him, has his mannerisms and all his sayings. He must have really researched him and watched a lot of tape. I know he spent a lot of time talking to my dad. It was very emotional watching." Herb Brooks died at age 66 last August in a one-car accident just north of the Twin Cities. Danny Brooks said he got chills watching the film. "People who knew my dad are going to eat this up," he said. "There will be absolute puddles from watching this movie."

Did there happen to be a lot of pretty college girls left in line when the boys asked to stay?

TC transplant, You seem to get away with a lot here; your one-liners fly under the radar. Poor WPOS takes all the flack.

CRR, FWIW: I was the one who jumped on you about Goren, and I think I was just having a bad day or something because, in retrospect, you were just calling it as you saw it, which is fine.

The people defending Zudnic (the USCHO poster) aren't arguing against Zach. My personal opinion is that his post, both in premise and wording, is not offensive or flaming. It's an honest question from a very good college hockey fan, who calls it as he sees it. As an observer, he's much less of a homer than about 80% of the internet fans out there, including those on this board. I've never met him, but I've read a lot of his stuff over the last few years, and I will give him the benefit of the doubt.

http://www.adn.com/sports/story/4596125p-4565753c.html Article on Wes Dorey, which happened to be right below the one on Fournier's return.

amn5hol, Thanks for the heads-up, and for the regular contributions here on Lincoln matters.

Looks like Sauer is thinking along the same lines as Zach (from INCH): "It won't get the headlines that the 1980 gold medal Olympic victory in Lake Placid got, but the gold medal in Helsinki ranks up there with one of the great moments in U.S. hockey history."

UND had teams from 1997-2000 that were outstanding. This version has a chance to be of that calibre. MN's teams during that period were not nearly as good as this one; it's not even close. Those matchups heavily favored UND, but they couldn't sweep in Minneapolis. I'm not saying this MN team is dominant; they have been up-and-down, with a much wider range of performance than most teams display. Their "downs" have been putrid (Maine), but the "ups" (Michigan, putting 50 shots on UNH) have shown that they are right with the best teams when they are on their game. Yuck. I feel dirty from talking up MN. I will be cheering for a Sioux sweep. I just think we are getting ahead of ourselves.

Agreed. How does that go? counting chickens... Let's just enjoy the ride.

Thinking about the lines for this weekend. I think I would announce a first line of: Parise, Murray, Stafford ... and let the cheers rain down on them. Then I would go with: Genoway, Bochenski, Fylling McMahon, Prpich, Canady Lundbohm, Porter, Hale That would leave these guys out: Palmiscno, Massen, Marvin, Fabian ... which is hard to do. The controversial choices would seem to be Canady and Hale. It sounded to me like Canady definitely earned his spot with solid and improving play over the last two weekends. Plus, he seems a good stylistic fit with the McMahon-Prpich combo. Hale stepped up his play in the holiday tourney, but I can't say how he looked against SCSU. Maybe other observers could help there.

Most reviews had the Sioux pretty sharp last night, after waking up. I have just listened here and there tonight, but it sounds like the Sioux PP has been not dangerous, then the PP ends and the Sioux promptly move the puck into SC's zone and forecheck well.

Finland-Russia 1-1 in the first. I don't relish the thought of having to beat Russia twice in the same tournament, and playing Finland in front of thousands of enthusiastic Finns sounds tough also. However, this game looks to end about 16 hours before the winner will have to take the ice against a rested USA team. This is a real opportunity for the US to advance to the gold medal game.

SSM won the Mac's Midget AAA Tourney in Calgary yesterday. Congrats to Duncan and Chorney. http://www.canoe.ca/CalgarySports/cs.cs-01-02-0051.html Also, Dan Bertram, a 2005 recruit in the AJHL that every college wants (a Parise/Murray type of player) apparently injured his knee and may need surgery.

This is now updated through 15 games. This is how UND's and its opponents' scoring breaks down this year (UND's scoring listed first): 5x3 2-0 (When UND has the 5x3 advantage, it has outscored its opponent 2-0.) 5x4 5-2 5x5 60-22 4x4 7-0 4x5 2-10 3x5 0-1 6x5 1-0 (extra attacker goal) 5x6 2-0 (empty net goal) Total 79-35

Thanks for the note here. I'm sorry I can't help on Houghton, as I've only driven through the UP twice: 500 miles of fog on the way to Detroit, and 500 miles of driving snow on the way back. Of course, that was a round-trip from Grand Forks to Detroit (and Joe Louis Arena) in the Spring of 1987, so everything worked out fine.

Fantastic! Being the homer Sioux fan that I am, I have to note that this is a good result for the Sioux as well. Since the US has now avoided the play-in game, the US will play one less game than it played last year. Only two tourney games left for the US, so maybe the boys will come home with a little more jump in their legs than if they had three left. Considering that the Fristche (NHL), O'Sullivan (best offensive player in the OHL), Eaves line is supposed to be the top line, Zach's performance has been just amazing. Congrats to the whole US team.

My question exactly. We who watch him regularly (at least I wish it was more regularly for me) know what a special player he is, but it hasn't translated as much on the scoreboard this year. I have to think you may have nailed the reason. Whatever the reason, he is having a fantastic tournament and making the Devils look brilliant.

First Period 19.21 0 - 3 PP1 USA 27. WERNER, Stephen (11. PARISE, Zach) 18.48 0 - 2 PP2 USA 11. PARISE, Zach (9. EAVES, Patrick) 18.30 2 min Russia 10. SEMIN, Alexander Highsticking 17.11 2 min Russia 14. TOUNIK, Evgueni Cross-checking 14.44 2 min USA 4. CARLE, Matthew Slashing 13.37 2 min Russia 26. GROT, Denis Roughing 13.37 2 min USA 17. KESLER, Ryan Roughing 11.34 2 min Russia 3. KORNEEV, Konstantin Slashing 10.49 2 min USA TEAM PENALTY Too many players on the ice 09.45 0 - 1 PP1 USA 12. O'SULLIVAN, Patrick (9. EAVES, Patrick) (7. SUTER, Ryan) 09.33 2 min Russia 4. SPIRIDONOV, Andrei Slashing 01.02 2 min USA 12. O'SULLIVAN, Patrick Tripping

Is that a humorous poke at SCSU's PC problems, or just a racial epithet? I'm not sure, but I'm not very comfortable with it.