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I must have missed that, I didn't see any of their guys leaving the game.

Then where was the ejection for the Miami player that was trying to rip his helmet off?

Wow. Just wow. Now Gaarder is in the box off from an oscar worthy performance.

That was pretty weak call on St. Clair. How about the douche shaking his gloves as the refs are pushing him away?

You guys took me out of the bidding on those jerseys pretty quick. Don't have the available funds at the moment to be dropping 2 G's on a jersey. Wife would have killed me.

This is a good question, I'd be curious myself. Might take a day of vacation to come and see Lord Stanley.

I realize I'm very new to the board, although I've crept on it for the last two years, so my opinion probably doesn't hold much value, but, I never expected this type of season from this team. Last fall, I didn't expect them to be near the top of the conference, I didn't expect them to make it to the "big" tournament, and I sure didn't expect them to be in the Frozen Four pushing the #1 team in the nation to the final second. In my opinion, this has been Hakstol's finest coaching job of his career. He took a bunch of guys with mediocre skill, and made them play as a unit, and a dangerous one at that. With some of the skill set I hear is coming in next season, and player development from this team, I'm hopeful towards next season. And if they don't hang number 8, I'm still going to spend my money to see them play, I'm still going to watch Ebay for "Sioux" items to add to my collection, and I refuse to be a negative Nancy about the coaches and the players. Thanks you seniors for an outstanding season.

I just looked over the website in your signature, very cool, and very jealous of some of those collections.

This might be as good of a topic as any to make my first post. I've been lurking on the site for over a year, and finally decided to bite the bullet and join. I haven't been a Sioux fan for very long, especially compared to the amount of time some of you have been cheering for them. I grew up playing basketball, and hockey and basketball players had very conentious relations in my high school, so I never gave hockey the time of day. I met my now wife in 2008, who grew up in Grand Forks, and whose parents at one time had season tickets, and her uncle still did. She tried talking me into going to a game in the 2008-2009 season, and my past misgivings towards hockey players and the sport in general from High School won out. The 2009-2010 season she finally talked me into it. As luck would have it, she was able to talk her uncle out of one night of his season tickets, lower bowl, visiting side. The night she happened to talk him out of was Sioux/Gopher night. Being a first timer for hockey above a high school level, I couldn't believe the atmosphere. From the bus ride from Whitey's, to the anti-gopher chants, to the anthem. Everything took me in, and I bit hook, line, and sinker. Now she laughs at me, I've started watching the NHL (even went so far as to buy GameCenter), I very rarely miss a televised game, and we make three trips a year to Grand Forks for series. I have an entire wall dedicated to the Sioux in my basement, with the panaramic from the 2012 Sioux/Gopher series, pictures I've taken myself including the final Sioux-eep salute from the Pony Express year, and signed 8 x 10's of now pros wearing the Green and White (Toews, Oshie, Frattin, Kristo, Blood), and to think, the infatuation started with one game, in one series.