A look at the Series ahead.

BSU vs UND
UND has an all time record of 11-1-1 against Bemidji State.
Bemidji has a 12-7-3 record 6-1-2 home 6-6-1 on the road
Bemidji is 7-2-3 in the CHA

UND is 11-11-2 over all 5-7-2 at home and 6-4 on the road.
UND is 7-9-2 in the WCHA
Stats
UND Numbers g g a pts
16 Ryan Duncan 24 17 10 27
7 T.J. Oshie 24 6 14 20
14 Brad Miller 22 8 9 17
24 Chris Porter 24 5 11 16
9 Jonathan Toews 15 4 11 15
22 Brian Lee 20 1 13 14
5 Chay Genoway 24 4 9 13
4 Taylor Chorney 20 2 11 13

BSU Numbers
8 Travis Winter 22 8 14 22
11 Rob Sirianni 22 8 10 18
22 Blaine Jarvis 22 8 8 16
14 Tyler Scofield 16 3 10 13
21 Luke Erickson 12 10 2 12
20 Joey Moggach 16 1 11 12
13 Matt Pope 22 5 6 11
27 Ryan Miller 18 3 7 10

Goal Tenders
UND W-L GAA SAV
Phil Lamoureux 8-9-1 2.35 .909
Tony Grieco 3-2-1 3.49 .884

BSU
Orlando Alamano 3-2-0 2.69 .912
Matt Climie 9-3-3 2.70 .912
Lane Sedevie 0-2-0 9.19 .787

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The word from Bemidji is that the arena is sold out for the Friday game. I wonder if they will break any fire codes this season as there was definitely no seats left when the buck dropped last season for the Friday game.

Reason for Optimism

After all of the poor play of the Fighting Sioux (its been documented extensively on this blog) and out right sucking during the first half of the 2006-2007 hockey season the Fighting Sioux now sit tied for 14th in the Pairwise Rankings. In fact the Fighting Sioux are currently tied with Vermont and which by seasons end hopefully will finish above Vermont. The best cure for finishing higher in the RPI and PWR rankings is to keep winning hockey games.