Btw, when your facts are wrong on what took place outside of Judy’s…Not only that, Bochenski wasn’t even at UND when he was caught printing money..

You should check out Hagemo….He enjoys his meth

a) icing is that stuff that goes on cake.

b) Hrkac is the guy who knocked up the St. Louis Blues owner’s daughter. He’s also the guy that got into a fist fight with Gino Gasparini.

There!!!

I go to enough CC or DU games to constantly listen to idiots behind me talk about shopping, skiing, anything un-related to the game on the ice. Shut up and watch the damn game!

I still remember the brawl between UND and Minnesota players way back in the early 80’s when we had the low glass. During the warmups, the Sioux fans would yell “sieve” at the Gopher goalie everytime he let in a puck and boo everytime he made a save. After a while it got to him so much that he and his team mates climbed the boards and started fighting with the Sioux fans in the student section! It was wild! I must have been about 5 or 6 years old. I’d put that brawl up there with the famous “water bottle” fight between Wisco and UND.

Since the thread is about great memories of Sioux/Gophers rivalry games, I will share one of my favorites: When I was up in GF for the series two years ago (Irmen flashed the M after his goal), donning my maroon and gold in your student section, a loyal Sioux fan doused me with beer without saying anything to me (I think it was in good humor). Because he “unfortunately” lost his beer all over me, I proceeded to buy him one shortly after a Gophers PP goal. You know…to console him.

Still looking forward to tonight…keep the jabs coming!

But let’s face it, there wouldn’t be a rivalry if you weren’t a great hockey team. I have to admit that Oshie, Toews, and Duncan were the best line in college hockey last year.

It doesn’t change the fact that I hate you. Haha, bring on the weekend! Is it 7:30 yet??

Rather, it speaks of players that I have directly observed get visibly offended when a UND team plays them more physically than they would like. Thus, the perception (albeit over-simplified)that UM’s program wants to play no-checking hockey. And, the “country club” reference comes from the Woog era, when UM’s fan base grew restless with the teams’ performance in the playoffs.

Lucia has changed some of that, but some of the rivalry was clearly built during that era, and the attitudes of fans change more slowly than the turnover of coaches and players.

This is a Sioux fan website. You have to expect a light jab or two in the fan comment area. After all, it is a big rivalry.

So there were two players who pleaded guilty for being a minor in a bar and that was it. Big deal. There was no multi-part, hidden- camera expose on TV showing players repeatedly violating team rules, NCAA rules and city laws.

Was Judy’s embarrassing for UND’s hockey program? Sure it was. Was it as big a deal as you make it out to be? No, it wasn’t. Only by mangling the facts can you inflate it into a “Cops!” episode. However, Sioux fans who bring up Blarney’s should expect to have Judy’s to be thrown back at them.

I certainly understand why Gopher fans are tired of hearing about Holy Cross. But I still remember when one or more Gopher fans shut down a UND fan site by repeatedly flooding it with “choker” posts after a great Sioux team was bounced out of the playoffs.

The important thing for fans of both teams to remember is that what goes around, comes around. If you can’t take it, then don’t dish it out.

Neither Gopher fans nor Sioux fans ever seem to understand why their bad behavior is met by equally bad behavior from the other side. They always think that what they did was “good clean fun” while what the other side did was “classless.” Fans of both teams need to take a long look in the mirror and stop blaming each other for what they do.

I doubt that will ever happen, but a guy can dream.

Let’s also remember with Blarney’s that no one was fleeing police and there were no court dates for those invovled. So I would argue that these incidents were both equally embarassing.

From my experience, it doesn’t take much to for a gophers fan to rib a sioux fan-given by how much the jersey popping seems to bother you and how well discussed WCHA officiating is discusssed on your site.

I guess at the end of the day, it comes down to one thing at the end of the day-the scoreboard. Bringing up what happened in a Regional tourney 3 years ago can’t erase what’s up on the scoreboard when the buzzer rings at the end of the night on any given day/place

First, UND’s loss to Ferris State doesn’t begin to approach the historic upset of Minnesota by Holy Cross. Ferris State was the CCHA regular season champ in 02-03.

Second, while the Judy’s incident was indeed bad for UND, Blarney’s was worse for Minnesota.

Hirsch had his problems while he was a student at Minnesota and while playing under tutelage of Lucia. Bochenski ran into problems with the law before he got to UND and kept his nose clean during his three years here.

That’s not to say that Sioux players are angels while Gopher players are scum, but you could have helped your case more by making legitimate apple-to-apple comparisons. On the other hand, maybe you’ve successfully demonstrated why it is that fan bases from both teams stay at each others’ throats.