97% of MTU's fanbase are USCHO posters

And CrazyTechFan thinks she's hot.

This weekend the Huskies head out to one of the few places that is more "middle of no-where" than St. Cloud; Houghton, MI.

I believe they purposely scheduled an away game at Michigan Tech this weekend, not like any SCSU students would have wanted to be put to sleep at the NHC during Halloween..

I am going to try and make a list of reasons why I would ever go to Houghton, and then a list of reasons why I wouldn't.

Why I would go to Houghton:
If the people decided to do another huge snowball fight.

Why I won't ever go:
Bad hockey team to watch.
The population is 7,010.
It would probably be cold.
The area is big into Nordic Skiing.
I don't snowmobile.
No hot girls.
I am not in a pep band.


During the Final Five last spring/winter, I ran into a bunch of MTU folks at the Mall of America, did I run into you?

The Bulldogs are expecting a cake walk

Tonight UMD comes to the National Hockey Center, expecting a sweep I am sure.
After sweeping Mankato, and St. Cloud giving up a tie to a small, unproven Union College, who doesn't think the Huskies are going to look like a train wreck?

Onto more important things.

I saw something about some people wanting Kevin Allenspach to start tweeting. Is this really necessary? I was on the Twitter band wagon for a few months last spring, and then I realized that it was more annoying than getting text-messages from your parents.
If this happens, you do realize he isn't going to just tweet the scores of games, he is going to tweet all of his stories (many of them boring), as well as other boring news from the St. Cloud Times.

I am going to the game at least tonight, if we win, probably tomorrow, if it's ugly, my interest will probably be turned towards Valley Fair, or Valley Scare or w/e it's called now. Call me a band-wagon fan, fine, but until I see a legitimate winning team on the ice, why should I pass up more exciting things to do with my friends?

There has been some talk about me possibly transferring to the U. My answer to this, hopefully! I am not giving up on the school I've attended my first two years, I have had a ton of fun here, just not recently. I am not a country-boy, and when I am in St. Cloud, lately, I have felt out of place. the bars are boring, the parties are boring, Carlson would be better on my resume, somewhere like Roseville would be closer to pretty much everything (except the NHC, lord forbid), and I would make more money at a Red Lobster in the metro area.

If you see me at the game tonight, make sure and say something, punks.

Union visits St. Cloud - The Prequel to the Black Silk Sheet Phenomenon

It's not the 1860s, the Union is gonna lose this cold, depressing, weekend in St. Cloud.

Though our rookie goalie is no Stalock (attempt at humor), he was a decent goalie in juniors, and for some reason CBS ranked St. Cloud State. Where as Union has never done anything to prove themself.

If SCSU doesn't sweep, the Huskies season will be over less than one week after the Minnesota Twins. That's a problem.

Though I will be going to the game Friday, and the topic on USCHO about this matchup is pretty intersting Topic; I think the Gophers/Sew series is way more interesting.

The South will rise again!

Will 2009 Not Suck?

Well the St. Cloud State University (mens) hockey team has played 3 games against 2 teams. Two weekends ago they played the small school of Lethbridge, a university in southern Alberta, and last weekend they played Miami (of Ohio).



Results from these games?

A 3-2 victory in our exhibtion with a bad Canadian school.

A 2-3 and 0-2 loss in Miami.



Now this doesn't look good, actually it looks like crap for SCSU. Granted the rankings just came out today and put Miami at number 1. We play a shady Union team this weekend, and though I should predict an easy sweep, what I have heard about this team, I can't really expect anything more than mediocracy.

Go Huskies, I guess.

Hate Boston hockey

As Minnesotans, we are required to hate Boston hockey, heck, ALL Boston teams should be hated.
So I am glad Boston lost a rough game 7 tonight at the end of the first overtime, sending Carolina to the Eastern Conference finals.

Oh, and I didn't want BU to win the college NCAA Tournament for hockey, and I want Orlando to beat Boston in game 7.

The Twins changing their game

I am sure I haven't been the only one who has noticed it, if you follow the Minnesota Twins at all you should be all over this.
What happened to the Twins team that couldn't score runs to save their life? The team that relied on the bar-none pitching that they had? I watch the Twins these days and I see a team that hit 9 home runs in a 3 game series against Seattle, and in this series against Detroit have knocked a few out too. No doubt the Twins are doing a good job when it comes to scoring runs, but why aren't they winning as much as they should be?
Compare this years team to last years, we added Crede, who is a decent hitter. The pitching is about that same personnel wise, but why are they so bad this year? Liriano who is supposed to be our ace is 2-4 with a 5.75 ERA; this isn't good. Luis Ayala who was supposed to be a great addition this year as a reliever has a 4.70 ERA. Another reliever, Jesse Crain has an ERA of 9. Kevin Slowey is our only pitcher with a positive win loss ratio, and somehow he is 5-1.
Pat Neshek would help.

On a positive note, our teams hitting has a .271 batting average, which is 8th in the American League, which is the same rank as our runs scored, which is normally pretty low. With Joe Mauer back in the lineup, these numbers have been going up.

To win divisions it comes down to pitching and defense, all these home runs might be more exciting, but right now we're 11th[our of 14] in pitching in the American League(combined era), and that is not ok if we want to make a deep playoff run, if we can make the playoffs at all. If we had the pitching we had two years ago, and our offense produced like they have this year, we would be ahead of Toronto and leading the American League. No doubt.

The Vikings throw away everything

I am sorry for drifting away from college hockey, but this makes me sick. Here is a story from the Star Tribune tonight that hits the nail on the head. Written by

Jim Souhan:

What would we do without Brad Childress?

How would we entertain ourselves during the NFL offseason if the coach wasn't willing to play linguistic Twister, if the Sultan of Serpentine Speechifying didn't occasionally utter a line that made you drop your newspaper (or laptop, which can get expensive).

The man who brought you the phrase "Kick-Ass Offense" following a season in which Chester Taylor turned left more often than a NASCAR driver, Childress this week gave us another declarative sentence ingeniously filled with irony.

In the foaming wake of "Kick-Ass Offense," Childress actually said, "That's how I put food on the table."

In an interview with Star Tribune reporter Judd Zulgad, Childress tried to explain how he makes difficult decisions at the quarterback position.

"You do what you do," Childress said. "That's how I put food on the table."

At most positions, Childress prefers filet mignon. At quarterback, the most important position in football and the focal point of Childress' expertise, he serves gridiron gruel.

An NFL head coach with a blind spot for QBs is like a pilot with a blind spot for runways.

While it's difficult to discern exactly who makes what decision in the Vikings' front office, Childress knows NFL talent. He should get at least some of the credit for bringing in Chester Taylor, Visanthe Shiancoe, Bernard Berrian, Jared Allen, Madieu Williams, Ryan Longwell, Ben Leber and Steve Hutchinson. Compare that list of prime NFL players with the quarterbacks Childress has acquired or coached: a past-his-prime Brad Johnson, Mike McMahon (no relation -- to any functional NFL quarterback), Brooks Bollinger, Tyler Thigpen, Drew Henson, Kelly Holcomb, Gus Frerotte, Sage Rosenfels and Tarvaris Jackson, with a cameo by Koy Detmer, one of the five best Detmers ever to play the game.

When it comes to quarterbacks, Childress has trouble telling the difference between Spam and Honey Baked Ham.

Thursday, the Vikings continued their starvation diet, watching the Bears trade for Jay Cutler, a move that might haunt the Vikings for a decade.

Cutler embarrassed himself by whining about the Broncos' willingness to trade him. Remember, though, that Brett Favre started his career as a beer-swilling underachiever who became addicted to Vicodin and ended his career as a selfish egotist, and he's headed to the Hall of Fame.

During his rookie season, Troy Aikman hated his coach, Jimmy Johnson. That relationship worked out pretty well. Eli Manning refused to play in San Diego, John Elway refused to play in Baltimore. Just because a quarterback is a prima donna or whiner doesn't mean he won't win.

When Cutler started and the Broncos held opponents to 21 points or fewer, he went 13-1.

He would have constituted a dramatic upgrade from Rosenfels and Jackson. Today, the Vikings don't know who their starting quarterback is. If Cutler had walked through the front door at Winter Park, the debate would have ended.

In the NFL, finding the right quarterback is how you put food on the table. The Vikings still are serving scraps.