NCAA Tourney Time!

[scsavre]

Does Lucia psych the gophs out. Read his quotes in the strib.

Rather than being excited about playing at the X and getting pumped up about having a home ice advantage. He is making it sound like the Gophs are at a disadvantage.

Says, its not home ice, they have played their twice in 4 years and are 0-2. It is a small rink and they are used to big sheet, etc etc etc.

If I were the coach I would be acting ecstatic even if i felt the way he does. I mean seriously, get these kids pumped up, dont give them excuses to loose before the first puck gets dropped. Your gonna have the biggest crowd, you travel 12 miles, no bus... you just played in the rink a week ago...get real.

This is the dump Lucia does all the time.

[solbes]

WHAT??? How can you complain about playing at the X??? Man what a huge advantage it was for UMD last year. Fans were pumped and the players had even more motivation for elevating their game.

Gophers play more than half their road games on NHL sized ice, so that shouldn't be too big of an issue. I would guess there will be a few diehard hockey fans from Saint Cloud/Duluth/Mankato that will attend who will root for the Gophers at the X as well. The Sioux/Gopher rivalry will give that regional some serious atmosphere.

[Shorelunch]

For those not going to St. Paul, or out east, (regular) FSN is broadcasting the Saturday UND/Western game at 12:30. The MN/BU game is on FSN+ and so is the UMD game. Sunday's final is still on ESPNU.

[solbes]

Shore, thanks for the heads up. I was scratching my head trying to figure out how to get ESPN3 without an approved ISP provider. This saves that headache. My wife wasn't too keen on staying up to watch the game on tape delay either.

Guess I know what I'll be doing all day Saturday. Watching 3 great college hockey games from 1 pm - 10 pm. Should be a blast.

[Bear55]

Well do we have any Gopher and Sioux gamblers among us?

THE BET

Avatars of course! If the Gophers win the regional Sioux fans have to post a Gopher avatar of our choice until the NCAA champion is crowned. Same goes for Gopher fan if the Sioux win the regional, you can pick our avatars. If tragic events should occur and neither team makes it out of the regional we can just go on with life as usual.

Just post IN is you are in, or CHICKEN if you are too scared.

[cbrooks]

I'm gonna have to pass. I think I might have jinx them last year and I haven't forgiven myself since

[cbrooks]

UMD player stats

www.collegehockeynews.com/stats/team-overall.php?td=36

vs

Maine player stats

www.collegehockeynews.com/stats/team-overall.php?td=25

Minnesota player stats

www.collegehockeynews.com/stats/team-overall.php?td=34

vs

BU player stats

www.collegehockeynews.com/stats/team-overall.php?td=10

minus Charlie Coyle(early departure), corey Trivino(departed back to Canada) and Max Nicastro(team suspended him).

UND player stats

www.collegehockeynews.com/stats/team-overall.php?td=40

vs

Western Michigan player stats

www.collegehockeynews.com/stats/team-overall.php?td=57

[archerystud]

Just post IN is you are in, or CHICKEN if you are too scared.

Other - it's a NO win situation if I end up with either of those avatar's.

[Bear55]

I'm gonna have to pass. I think I might have jinx them last year and I haven't forgiven myself since

Come on brooks, show some team spirit!

Aarcherystud

I thought about a way to work in other teams but my brain was too small.

[cbrooks]

OK I'm in if I can just use a signature. I've been trying to post a picture in my avator and I'm just not computer savvy enough to do it. Kind of sad huh. I'll put a signature of your wish...deal? Last year the higher powers hack into my account if anyone remembers that one. Maybe they will do it again. I dare them

[PierBridge]

With only 2 Sioux fan's in attendance here and one of those a part time poster only when things are going good for da Sioux.... I'll pass on the avatar bet unless Bryce mans up for once...

[cbrooks]

There's a few other Sioux fans. Is Savre gonna man up on this?

[PierBridge]

There's a few other Sioux fans. Is Savre gonna man up on this?

Doubtful considering I offered him 9 1/2 pucks in a State HS tournmanent game and he turned that down.

Lets face it the Kid "scarves" has some things going on upstairs that are UN-explainable at times...

[scsavre]

Sign me up for that bet. You bunch of hacks are going down. Stinking sioux fans. I wish I could do a bet where if I won you stinking sioux fans couldn't infect my town any more. I suppose the big 10 conf is gonnatake care of that.

[Bear55]

2.5 Gophers against 1 Sioux so far. Come on Sioux fans! At the very least we need to get Bryce and Pier locked up.

Brooks you can do a sig or I will see if I can walk you through an avatar update.

[solbes]

If the Dogs somehow get out of their Regional, I wanna extend this to the WCHA team that also makes it out of their regional. The 2 teams would play in the semi's in Tampa. Kind of hoping for a lot there, but you never know.

In the mean time I'm gonna have a good time watching. Really hoping the Sioux and the Gophers get a rematch on Sunday.

[Bear55]

Solbes I would imagine there will be some action if two wcha teams square off in the FF. You know I will be pulling for UMD, unless of course they meet the gophs. Whatever happens someone has to give BC a whoopin, I don't think the Sioux are up for the challenge so its up to us MN schools.

[solbes]

Air Force also gets up for the NCAA's, so BC might have its hands full there first. Serratorre is dying to get to the Frozen Four. Their last 3 trips to the tourney involved overtime losses. AF lost to Vermont in double overtime on a goal review, just missing a chance to their first ever F4 appeearance.

BC is always the team I want to see go down first in the tourney.

[Shorelunch]

With only 2 Sioux fan's in attendance here and one of those a part time poster only when things are going good for da Sioux.... I'll pass on the avatar bet unless Bryce mans up for once...

Not sure if I'm represented by those remarks . . . but I'm in. Let's Go "University of North Dakota!!!"

[Bear55]

2.5 vs 2 come on Bryce.

[PierBridge]

I like the signature Idea!...

"Deep down I am a big Goldy Gopher fan, I have a Maroon bow tie too"

"I love the Sioux Hockey team, fans and all the cool little hole in wall bars they have"

[scsavre]

The team I hate the most is nodak, bc and bu aren't far behind. Here's to gophs vs umd in tampa.

[Bryce]

IN.

[Bear55]

Nice, 3 gophs and 3 sioux so far. Any other takers?

[fishing tech]

Gopher fan but no clue how to do an avitar, signiture, or any other thing on a computer besides these posts and email. So I will just hope that the gophers win out and I don't have to have a family member try and do that for me.