Sioux 3 Seawolves 1

I would have wrote something sooner but I was in pursuit of Bambi's brother. I was not successful but I did witness a young kid shooting his first deer. Hopefully some day my Abby will want to go hunting with her daddy. The other positive was I found my digital camera again, it has been missing for most of November. Unfortunately I didn't get any picture of said deer or youth.

Keeping with a positive theme, (I can't stand a lot of negativity and people that complain excessively, constructive criticism is ok); the Sioux beat the Seawolves to gain the split for the series. Negative, Friday's loss was only the third all time to the Seawolves in Grand Forks, ND. I like most Sioux fans hate watching the Sioux losing, especially to a team like the UAA Seawolves, so a win on Saturday was positive. The Sioux have played .500 hockey so far in conference play keeping up with the pack and home ice in site. Eerily similar to last season's first half of the season, split all the way till the new year. The Sioux are tied for 5th place with UAA and MSU-M.

Positives for the weekend.

1.) The play of Brad Eidsness, one goal in 29 shots on net. I don't care what the Eidsness haters say that is nothing to sneeze at. Although Hakstol has not said it yet, I believe the starting job belongs to Brad Eidsness. If I was the coach I would ride him the rest of the way. Just for comparison sake, Brad Eidsness has better statistics than goalie John Muse of the defending national champs Boston College Eagles.
2.) Brett Hextall I just love his style of play, the guys is a agitator and a hard nosed player that gets under the opponents skin. Every Sioux team has had a player that plays this role. Sioux7 and I decided that he is Prpich light. (That is a compliment in our opinion).
3.) Sioux defense only gives up 4 goals on the weekend. (see 5)
4.) Sioux remain in 5th place even with giving up the second highest number of goals against.
5.) The Sioux are very close to getting it going.

Goals Scoring/Penalties Time

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1st Period (20:00)
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NDK-1 Brad Malone (2-Slashing) AKA 0x1 1:51
AKA-1 Tommy Grant (2-Holding the Stick) 2:35
AKA-2 Josh Lunden (2-Unsportsmanlike Conduct) NDK 0x1 2:35
NDK-2 Matt Watkins (2-Unsportsmanlike Conduct) 2:35
AKA-3 Nick Haddad (2-Roughing) 5:43
AKA-4 Luka Vidmar (2-Roughing) 5:43
AKA-5 Shane Lovdahl (2-Roughing) 5:43
AKA-6 Kevin Clark (2-High-Sticking) NDK 0x2 5:43
NDK-3 Brad Miller (2-Roughing) 5:43
NDK-4 Brad Malone (2-Roughing) 5:43
NDK-5 Matt Frattin (2-Roughing) 5:43
AKA-7 Brian Bales (2-Tripping) NDK 0x3 8:12
NDK-6 Brett Hextall (2-Roughing) AKA 0x2 9:29
AKA-8 Tommy Grant (2-Holding) NDK 1x4 12:38
NDK 1 - 0 6x5 PP Matt Frattin (1) (Jason Gregoire, David Toews) 12:47
NDK: 21,17,18,25,8,G31 AKA: 22,40,23,10,G49
NDK-7 Matt Frattin (2-Tripping) AKA 0x3 14:28
NDK-8 Chris VandeVelde (2-High-Sticking) AKA 0x4 19:01

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2nd Period (20:00)
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AKA-9 Nils Backstrom (2-Holding) NDK 1x5 4:00
AKA-10 Tommy Grant (2-Cross-Checking) NDK 1x6 6:33
NDK-9 David Toews (2-Tripping) AKA 0x5 9:02
AKA 1 - 1 6x6 Kane Lafranchise (1) (Kevin Clark, Luka Vidmar) 11:06
AKA (+): 4,9,23,36,20,G49 NDK (-): 18,11,3,5,17,G31
AKA-11 Sean Wiles (2-Slashing) NDK 1x7 12:53

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3rd Period (20:00)
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AKA-12 Josh Lunden (2-Roughing) 3:59
NDK-10 Jake Marto (2-Roughing) 3:59
AKA-13 Kevin Clark (2-Tripping) NDK 2x8 10:11
NDK 2 - 1 6x5 PP GW LL Brett Hextall (4) (Brad Miller, Ryan Duncan) 10:29
NDK: 26,14,16,29,25,G31 AKA: 12,13,14,24,G49
NDK-11 Derrick LaPoint (2-Tripping) AKA 0x6 10:49
NDK 3 - 1 5x6 SH Brad Malone (1) (unassisted) 12:31
NDK (+): 22,16,6,25,G31 AKA (-): 18,20,23,9,4,G49
NDK-12 Mario Lamoureux (2-Hooking) AKA 0x7 14:45
AKA-14 Craig Parkinson (2-Diving) 19:26
NDK-13 Chay Genoway (2-Cross-Checking) 19:26
AKA-15 Tommy Grant (2-Hooking) NDK 2x9 19:49

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End of Game