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Might be more realistic, especially with Blaiser having even more ties to the region. However, I spoke with Dean after he had coached the USA team and it was his opinion at that time that he wanted nothing to do with the baggage and attidude that the professional players have towards the game. He mentioned that at that level everyone is out for themselves and very difficult to coordinate a team mentality.

I agree! Easier to sweep at home than on the road. Get the points now and take the splits on the road.

2 million dollar economic impact and teams from all over the country? I thought Bison fans claim Fargo is not a hockey town?

THey should. It would dull your pain from losing

I think Danny Irmen helped too!!

Of those injuries, 3 have come since the Sioux series plus a starting freshmen that went to play juniors in Canada.

JBSU is dropping player like sacks of dirt. They have a lot of players that started the season out of the line up. Conboy is hooked on phonics so he is once again eligable academically, but that is about it. It is quite odd that this team could not provide offense at the beginning of the season, but defensively were strong. Complete turnaround after Christmas. The road is not getting any easier for them. Mid-season prediction. JBSU travels to AA for first round of the WCHA playoffs.

If you read the post I said that I did not even include Moorhead. This is exactly what I mean by being the Jan Brady of North Dakota hockey. Bison fan feels the need to come to this site and talk about how Fargo is not a hockey town so Bison hockey would never work. How do you know. You won't, because you all have this dream squashing mentality that it won't. Fargo didn't have a have a team in the '30's, '40's...... so it won't work today? Note to Bison fans, last time I checked the game is being played in a lot of non-hockey towns. If the Sioux relied on alumni driving 3 hours or more to fill the arena, there would be a lot of empty seats. That's the point! Attract some new fans which may in turn be fans that join yourcollege in the future. Is that not the reason that you are going D1AA? Or is it that women's softball and wrastlin' will be the only things that you will ever be competitive in again.

If the people of Fargo were to rely on you driving back to make it a hockey town you would be right, but they don't have to. Walter Running '61-64 James "Bob" South '46-47 Lets not leave out the future Brian Williams and Minnesota Draft pick Danny Irmen. That is just Fargo. I don't think that you could realistically leave out Moorhead. Do you think that people from Moorhead don't support RCCU?

Hate to say it, but it was a legal goal and ZP touched it well above four feet. You know how I know because you can count on FOX to show it seven ways to Sunday when it goes in the Goofers favor. Anytime that there is a questionable call for the Minnesota you got to see the replay at least 3 times. Where was the replay on the Schneider penelty (just one to name several). Make know doubt about it the Sioux stopped playing after the first period and the Goofs earned a win, but if I were them I wouldn't be feeling great about a one goal margin win at home in a game that they had to win with one of our men in the box for most of the game. Sure they held us to only to the fewest shots all year, we were short handed most of the time.

The Potunily's are from North Dakota and it took non-Minnesotans to win 4 and 5. The title still has to run through Grand Forks. Enough said!!

I just couldn't get off this thread without puting in my two cents (four if you live in Fargo). Many will say that St Cloud is the Jan Brady U, but at least they have D1 Hockey so I guess that NDSU is moving into this new role. They are joining the Jan Brady Division of D1AA. Note to NDSU: win at D2 before you move up to D1. I always find it interesting that the NDSU people that post here say that Fargo is not a hockey town. I say don't speak of that which you do not know. Look at the youth numbers, look at the fan base for the Sioux in Fargo, look at the national youth tourneys that come to the area,...... We at UND are sorry if the game is to complex for those of you attending RCCU (Rodeo Clown College University), but I feel confident if the hockey hotbed that you mentioned in Omaha can figure it out then you goat ropers can catch on as well. I think that it has been more of an avoidance by RCCU because they don't need another sport to have the Sioux hand them their asses to. If you built it they would have come. Fargo was not exactly a baseball hot bed (not bad, but not like other sports). Yet, they built a great minor league baseball facility that in some regards was bigger than the event itself and low and behold they came. What is the worst thing that would have happened if you had constructed a hockey stadium. You could have sold the refrigeration unit, covered it with dirt and had one hell of a bull riding stadium and on non-event nights you could have stole some business from the Arthur Barn Dance to help you finance it.

I agree there were bad calls on both sides, but I would say that more went our way. What I would like to see the league office review is that on the non-spear call from the camera angle on FOX, you can see the official on the lower left part of the screens arm come up right after spearing incident, that is what drew Brandt off the ice. Then when the Gophers controlled the puck and play was not blown Briggs made his way towards the bench. The tape will show that the call was coming on the spearing, but somehow got lost in translation.

What was the skill level like for last years games?

I was watching the game on FOX last night and I would like to know if anyone was as confused as me as to the penelties called against the Sioux especially in the third. Even the Ass Clown broadcasting team noticed the same thing when Bochenski got speared. Same thing with about three minutes to go. .