Sioux take game one from Wild Cats.

While reading the USCHO board this morning I found this picture, this has to be one of the funniest pictures I have seen in a long time. Must have been a WCHA official?

An interesting stat

Turn on the offense:
I found this interesting stat in today’s Capital Times blog article written Todd Milewski.

Wisconsin has averaged 4.67 goals in six non conference games and just 2.4 goals in 10 WCHA games.

I think Todd poses a good question. Why are teams like the Badgers scoring more goals in non-conference games than in conference games? One word: Obstruction.

Sioux take game one

With the win last night UND is 5-5 in the last ten games. Without naming names; some in the media have said the Fighting Sioux have been a disappointment so far this season, the fact remains that the Fighting Sioux have played the hardest schedule in NCAA hockey to date. Breaking this fact down further, that means that in 15 of 16 games UND has played this season have been against teams under consideration for the NCAA tourney. Just for comparison sake the Fighting Sioux's SOS rating on the KRACH is 441, while Michigan's is 128 and Miami's is 162.

~Make no mistake about it the University of New Hampshire is a good hockey team and they will be in the mix at the end of the season. Defensively UNH clogs up the shooting zone and makes it hard to score on them. I was impressed with UNH's discipline and they way they played as a team. The Wild Cats were also missing their one of their top forwards super frosh James van Riemsdyk who is playing for the USA in the WJC.

~UND won a game when Duncan, Oshie didn't score a goal or register a point.

~UND record is 9-1-0 where they score the first goal and 0-5 when they don’t score first.

~After scoring 10 goals for the Fighting Sioux last last year including the 180 footer against Jeff Frazee. Senior Defenseman Robbie Bina has no goals this season, however, he is third on the team in points and the top point getter for defenseman. Junior Taylor Chorney is fifth on the team in points with 12 and the second highest scoring defenseman on the team.

~If the NCAA playoffs started today UND would be a high number 2 seed.

~Sioux fans should enjoy Joe Finley because after this season he will be gone. Just a hunch...

~Kyle Radke was huge in the win last night. I would hope we see him again tonight.


~Jean-Philippe Lamoureux should get an Emmy for this acting job during last nights game. Let me say this, it was a top notch performance, however, ref Don Adam did not buy the performance and only game Bobby Butler a 2 minute minor. Here is what happened: UNH Forward Bobby Butler went behind the UND net and bumped into JPL who launched himself into the air, then fell to the ice like he had been shot by a 44 auto magnum. There was a gasp as the crowd looked on in horror, then miraculously Phil made a full recovery to rejoin the game. Maybe the gasp was the thought of Walski coming into the game.

~Here is the WCHA record against the rest of college hockey: 2-0-1 against the AHA, 12-7-4 Cup Cake Hockey Association, 9-0-0 against the CHA, 3-1-1 against the EZAC, 4-2-2 against the Hockey East. Below is the break down of the leagues record against the “big four”.

AHA 5-24-3 (.203)
CCHA 23-20-4 (.532)
CHA 7-26-3 (.236)
ECACHL 13-25-4 (.357)
HEA 15-15-5 (.500)
WCHA 19-10-7 (.625)