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WCHA Final Five/NCHC Frozen Faceoff: Share your memories here!

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Working on a WCHA Final Five/NCHC Frozen Faceoff article, and I need your help...

Please reply with your favorite memories and highlights. Best responses will appear online before the Last Call in St. Paul. 

Thank you! :)

Dave

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Wilbur Grand Master

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Definitely the first NCHC league tournament ever held at the beautiful Target Center, and there was a large rat running right down the middle of the concourse.  I looked at an employee and asked if anyone was going to do something?  The reply, "Nah bro, that's one of the small ones." 

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  On 2/9/2025 at 3:37 PM, Emerald joker said:

For me it was the Sioux down 3-0 to Minnesota going into the 3rd, then coming back scoring 6 goals in a row to win their 3rd WCHA Final Five championship in a row! Awesome night of hockey! 

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Without taking the time to watch the highlights (which would be a fun idea, acutally), I think UND's first goal was about 6-7 minutes left in the 2nd period.

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The "Timeout game". Prior to the game walking in the concourse yelling SIOUX YEH YEH!!, then hearing the response FILL the arena like a sleeping giant just woke up. The arena was filled to capacity. Riding a City bus back to Minneapolis and listen to one of the Suite attendants complain that we were too loud of fans and smiling because he had never been tipped so well by any other group as he did that night by UND fans. 

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With me being 9 years at the time I couldn't do much pre and post game stuff with the adults, but at least the games were great. This one stuck with me the most, because there were these two guys from Denver sitting near us and whenever a certain player that I can't remember touched the puck, they would scream at the top of their lungs "THE DYNAMOOOOO!!!!!!!"

 

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  On 2/9/2025 at 3:20 PM, Snake said:

For me it was taking over the Embassy Suites in St. Paul for the weekend. The happy hour memories are too many to count!

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And those omelettes they made were to die for them over to Gopher Bar a few blocks away for some pre game beers and of course a coney dog or 2 

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2001... first year the Final Five is at the X.  Sioux were down 5-2 to St. Cloud with less than 6 minutes left.  People were starting to stream out.  Blais pulls the goalie and sure enough, the Sioux score and the exodus slows... then they score again... then again to tie it up.  The place was going nuts.  St. Cloud won in overtime, but it was the start of something grand with the Final Five and it was an amazing era for the WCHA.  I sat in the same seats with the same group with the same people surrounding us year after year, every year until the Final Five ended.  Didn't miss a game for 13 years... too many memories to name, but that game really sticks out for me.

 

*edited the the time of the comeback because I looked up the details! 

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