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MN @ BSU: Wide-eyed Rookies Vs. Grisled Veterans!

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thebrain said:
I was up there for the SCSU series, The Corner Bar had $5 pitchers of Grain Belt Nordeast before the games. I don't know how late that goes though. It gets very busy, and they have decent burgers. Across from the Corner is the Garden, never ate there though, similar beer special before the game. Both are close, but may be a little bit of a cold walk. I remember they had a shuttle though.

Keg n Kork downtown has a great magic pixy drink called Combat, try a pitcher after the game.

Bar 209 has the best burgers, they make a Juicy Lucy. A little north of town there's Slim's which has good chili and burgers.

You can't go wrong with any bar burger in the city really.

How expensive were the hotels this weekend?
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Not bad, $100/night way more expensive than tickets. I got 2 seats 4 rows back for $35/each, can't even get into tREA for that price.

Happy said:
Look, UND has a proven choker for a coach, so they will choke it away somehow. Mn is going to sweep the beavers, and then the first round of the WCHA, and then have some fun.
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You should recycle metals, paper, and plastics not comments. The award for most unorignal poster goes to......you guessed it Happy.
 
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Both teams have had their Jekyll and Hyde moments this year. Like the Gophers, Bemidji has surprised some teams too by taking 7 out of 8 pts. from UNO in two series, and beating a good Union team for the Mariucci Classic Trophy behind the consistent play of goaltender Dan Bakala. They stomped the Gophers 6-2 last season capitalizing on several Gopher turnovers. This season they've had goalscoring and SOG issues only averaging just over 2 G/Gm. On the flipside, The Gophers have been on a scoring spree averaging 5 G/Gm over their current unbeaten streak of 5 games. Kent Patterson has been stellar in nets as well.

Both of these teams have good speed and have potential for scoring goals in bunches. I think Bemidji finds their mojo for one game and splits with the Gophers. But the Gophers lock up 5th place in the final WCHA standings.

Don Lucia is two wins away from tying MTU coach John Macinnes in all time career wins at 555. With Rick Comley retiring from MSU at the end of this season, Lucia will be 4th in career wins among an elite group of active D1 coaches behind Red Berenson/UM, Jack Parker/BU. and Jerry York/BC. George Gwozdecky/DU is next only 11 wins behind Lucia.
 
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Going with a level-head split prediction huh, Harley?

I'm curious to see what kind of loopy predictions(like last week) there will be on GPL as we get closer to game time :)
 
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Weekend preview

Minnesota vs. Bemidji State: Despite being separated by only a few hours, the Gophers and Beavers have played each other only eight times. Minnesota owns a 7-1-0 all-time record against Bemidji State, but the teams split a weekend series last year. Minnesota won 4-1 on Nov. 14, but the Beavers defeated the Gophers for the first time in school history by a 6-2 score on Nov. 15. The two teams played six times from 2000-04 with Minnesota winning all six meetings. The Gophers have outscored the Beavers 41-16 in their eight games.

About The Beavers: Bemidji State, in its first season in the WCHA, enters this weekend's series in a tie for tenth place in the conference with Minnesota State. The Beavers were swept in their last road series of the regular season at No. 1 North Dakota last weekend, but were 3-0-2 in their five games prior to heading to Grand Forks. BSU hasn't played Minnesota this season, but the team did travel to Minneapolis to claim the Mariucci Classic New Year's tournament with wins over Ferris State and Union. The tournament had a predetermined schedule to ensure that the Beavers and Gophers would not meet. BSU has gone to overtime nine times this season, the WCHA's second-highest total behind Minnesota-Duluth's 13, posting a 2-3-4 record in games that require an extra session. Bemidji State is led offensively by its top line of Jordan George (15g-17a), Matt Read (17g-13a), and Ian Lowe (11g-13a).

The BSU trio has combined point 43 goals, 59.7 percent of the team's overall output, and 86 points, which is 44.8 percent of the team's overall scoring total. Read is tied for second in the nation with three shorthanded goals. Defensively, the Beavers are anchored by junior Brad Hunt (1g-17a) and freshman Sam Rendle (3g-8a). Hunt and senior Ryan Adams (0g-2a) are the only two defensemen on the team who have appeared in all 32 of the team's games. Junior Dan Bakala has been Bemidji State's main option in goal, going 11-11-3 on the year with a 2.40 goals against average, .918 save percentage. Bakala is tied for sixth in the country with three shutouts in 2010-11.
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Re: MN @ BSU: Wide-eyed Rookies Vs. Grisled Veterans!

MN 3, BSU 2. Unfortunately, Refs 1, MN 0, making this game a tie.

BSU played like a bush-league team tonight, and that makes me sad. Headhunted one Gopher, took two others out (Matson/Ness), and couldn't hang onto a stick to draw the controversial penalty.

That being said, MN didn't play that well, but they did play well enough for the win, which was pretty much stolen with that penalty. Hooking? You canNOT be serious!!!! /McEnroe

Tomorrow had better have a different, and favorable, result.
 
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Not a very impressive performance by the Gophers last night. They seemed to get better as the game progressed. The problem with MN is when we play physical teams like BSU, like UND, etc., we don’t respond quickly enough with an equally physical game to win corner battles and push opponents off the puck. That was again the case tonight, as the Gophers let BSU kick their *** and now Matson and Ness are possibly out for tonight’s game. Matson took two brutal hits back to back and he literally crawled off the ice after the second one. No postgame report on his injury yet, but it looked like a leg. The penalty on Bjugstad with 40+ seconds left didn’t look like a hook to me. It looked like Bjug attempted a high poke check and knocked the stick out of his hand…that’s all…bad call. Patterson was totally screened on the tying goal and didn’t even see it.

The Gophers better come out of the gate with more sustained energy and hustle for 60 minutes for tonight's game, get the early lead and keep it.
 
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HarleyMC said:
Not a very impressive performance by the Gophers last night. They seemed to get better as the game progressed. The problem with MN is when we play physical teams like BSU, like UND, etc., we don’t respond quickly enough with an equally physical game to win corner battles and push opponents off the puck. That was again the case tonight, as the Gophers let BSU kick their *** and now Matson and Ness are possibly out for tonight’s game. Matson took two brutal hits back to back and he literally crawled off the ice after the second one. No postgame report on his injury yet, but it looked like a leg. The penalty on Bjugstad with 40+ seconds left didn’t look like a hook to me. It looked like Bjug attempted a high poke check and knocked the stick out of his hand…that’s all…bad call. Patterson was totally screened on the tying goal and didn’t even see it.

The Gophers better come out of the gate with more sustained energy and hustle for 60 minutes for tonight's game, get the early lead and keep it.
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That was a crap call I don't care who you are... the Beav got lucky to take a point. 2pts needed Saturday if the Gophers want to make a run.
 
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The strategy of letting the other team get penalties when they play physical didn't pan out with last nights refs. Then they start calling them in the third period and they make a pathetic hooking call on Bjugs. A game outcome changer. Looking forward to tonight. Barriball needs to wake up, the D needs to tighten up, with Schmidt and Parenteu back the physical play should be countered, hopefully not overcompensated for the lack of calls from last night. It looked like Bemidji was as psyched as they could be, 2 tv stations covering the game, a sold out arena of 1500, 2 blind refs officiating. This really hurts the pairwise though. I still want them to make the tourney but we may have seen their best hockey in the last 5 games. Without good D Patterson can't save the team.
 
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Brenthoven said:
MN 3, BSU 2. Unfortunately, Refs 1, MN 0, making this game a tie.

BSU played like a bush-league team tonight, and that makes me sad. Headhunted one Gopher, took two others out (Matson/Ness), and couldn't hang onto a stick to draw the controversial penalty.

That being said, MN didn't play that well, but they did play well enough for the win, which was pretty much stolen with that penalty. Hooking? You canNOT be serious!!!! /McEnroe

Tomorrow had better have a different, and favorable, result.
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Watching the replay of the ref calling that penalty was hilarious. Stick gets knocked out, and he slowing raises his arm as if to say "Hey! I don't think you can do that, can you?" That call was a total joke.
 
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Bush-league?, headhunted?, i was at the game and i also watched the game this morning. and the only thing that stood out besides the gophers getting outplayed was that Matson better learn to keep his head up,twice he had to pick him self up off the ice, once the the beavers had to push him back on the ice from there bench, and the last time the gophers had to pick him up off the ice.
Brenthoven said:
MN 3, BSU 2. Unfortunately, Refs 1, MN 0, making this game a tie.

BSU played like a bush-league team tonight, and that makes me sad. Headhunted one Gopher, took two others out (Matson/Ness), and couldn't hang onto a stick to draw the controversial penalty.

That being said, MN didn't play that well, but they did play well enough for the win, which was pretty much stolen with that penalty. Hooking? You canNOT be serious!!!! /McEnroe

Tomorrow had better have a different, and favorable, result.
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moose97 said:
Try 4373.
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He probably thought you guys still played at the old facility (which I think held around 1900 max?). :p
When was the last time Mariucci had every seat filled (for a Gopher game)?
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Tougher to fill every seat when the arena holds over 10,000 and charges nearly $40 per ticket. :p Cripes, I imagine our parking rates down here rival the cost to attend ****ing games in some locales. :mad:

I don't care about the physical play either way; what I do care about is the horrendous call late in the 3rd that handed away the win. How lifting a player's stick equates to hooking is something I'd LOVE to ask the ****ing ref that called the "penalty". With minimal room for error in trying to secure an at-large bid to the NCAA tourney, this sort of crap is really not needed.
 
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The Gophers did not look good last night at all and the Beavers played pretty decent. I'm hoping for a better game out of the Gophers tonight. With that said, while I still think it wasn't a great call in the course of the game, I think the last call on Bjugstad was officially a high-stick call and not hooking. Some arguement could be made for that call, but it would still be pretty weak. However, the refs made some bad calls for the Gophers too, the boarding call on Bemidji in the second, and there should have been a too many men call when Mattson was still on the ice and Gophers sent somebody over the boards early. The only difference between those bad calls and the one on the Gophs is the timing and I don't believe the Gopher's capitalized on their power play, but honestly can't remember right now.
 
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