Lost Weekend:
Not Since the Sioux were beat by Mankato 6-0 December 1st 2001 had Sioux fans witnessed such a one sided affair at home. One could make the argument that this past weekend was eerily similar to last season’s sweep of the Sioux by Wisconsin Badgers, when the younger Sioux lost a pair of one-sided games 4-2 to the Wisconsin Badgers; who at the time were another junior and senior laden team. Just like Wisconsin the Maine Black Bears are an older experienced and pretty talented hockey team, and they took advantage of the Sioux’s youth all weekend.
The Black Bears used their battle-hardened experience to dismantle and keep the Sioux at bay all weekend. The Maine Black Bears came into our house and kicked our ass all weekend. Untimely penalties, poor passing by forwards, defensive lapses, poor goaltending cost the Sioux both games and the weekend series this poor showing also left fans disgusted and leaving for the exits early. I remember even chanting a beat the traffic as our section emptied early. Leaving a few of us to ponder the future of this young squad. If the Fighting Sioux keep playing like this it’s going to be a very long season.
Saturday Better But Not Much
Losing at home in our barn sucks, although the Sioux played better on Saturday night the result was the same. Sioux minus Sophomore Jonathon Toews put up a full 60-minute effort only to lose 3-1 but weren’t able to crack the mountain of a goalie Ben Bishop. Fire plug TJ Oshie briefly gave the fans something to cheer about on Saturday as he light up Maine giant Danis-Pepin by checking him into the Sioux players bench.
Post Game Comments by Hakstol
While listening to the radio Saturday night after the game the voice of the Fighting Sioux radio announcer Tim Hennesy basically asked Dave Hakstol if he would be giving Michel Leveille any props for his play this weekend. Hakstol said no that he didn’t like the way he played the game. When I heard this on the radio during the post game interview I thought that was interesting, but it kind of reminds me of a former Golden Gopher player Jeff “after the Whistle” Taffe good player but...
From SiouxSports.com 7>4 Sums up the weekend incident:
What Hakstol said about the Maine player is no different than what coaches were saying about Jeff Taffe a few years ago. Great player but a cheap shot. I didn't see either game, but I would tend to trust Hakstol's judgement based on his history. That said, it doesn't matter. They kicked our butts twice in our own house. Period.
Finally From the Captain Erik Fabian
This is our rink, we want to make it the toughest place to play and you can't do that by getting swept in your own barn," Sioux assistant captain Erik Fabian said. "We want it to burn tonight. But the sun's going to come up tomorrow and we've just got to learn from it."
I really like what Fabian said, this is our house and we need to make team hate to play here. The last thing we want is the opposing teams come in here and be licking their lips at the thought of playing in the REA.
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