Freezing your butt off in North Dakota - Sioux and Red Cows...

There has got to be a reason that we live up here in this God forsaken land, the weather is quite inhospitable and its not very much fun to be outside in it right now. Any thing that is exposed could probably turn into an ice sickle and getting frost bite is not very much fun, the fact that you can lose your fingers or toes because of it makes it less attractive.

With college hockey now in the second half of the season there are many good stories out there right now.

The Daily Gophers is wondering what is wrong with Minnesota Pansies on Ice...

As I had mentioned yesterday; It looks like C.C. Tigers forward Jaden Schwartz will not play against the Sioux next weekend.

The Fighting Sioux six game homestand ends with first-time visitor UNO coming to town with former UND head hockey coach Dean Blais at the wheel.

This weekend's games between the Sioux and the UNO Red Cows Mavericks will be broadcast live on the FSSN, the Midco Sports Network Channel 27 in Grand Forks, ND, Fox College Sports (FCS Central on Friday 617, FCS Atlantic on Saturday 623), WDAZ Channel 8 in Grand Forks, ND (Saturday only) and WDAY Channel 6 in Fargo (Saturday only). Friday's game will be re-broadcast on the NHL Network at 11 a.m. Central on Saturday, Channel 307 in Grand Forks, ND.

The WCHA blog predicts that UND will split with the UNO Red Cows Mavericks this weekend. I disagree with him I think UND wins tonight 4-2 and Ties tomorrow night 3-3.

The MGOBLOG has an interesting post about the Big Ten Hockey Farce and what a schedule might actually look like. I highly doubt you would see a 24 game conference schedule that would mean a lot of games between very few teams. I hate to think what that would do for the RPI/PWR. I could imagine a twenty game conference schedule. I find the comments by the people that commented on the article to be interesting as well.

Over on the Sioux Sports blog Dave Berger has this weekend UND and UNO series review. Dave predicts a three point weekend for the Fighting Sioux...

The CCHA has suspended LSSU head hockey coach Jim Roque for one game.

Ryan Cardinal from Gopher Puck Live was on KFAN on Thursday and you can listen to what he has to say about “Minnesota’s Pansies on Ice”… Cardinal is expecting a sweep against the big slow lumbering team from UAA.

As I mentioned on Twitter this morning, I will be on 1310 KNOX A.M. in Grand Forks, ND during the 4:00 PM hour with R.J. Richards and yeah I do have a face for radio… You can click on this link if you want to listen.

As usual U.S. College Hockey Online makes their weekly predictions and according to Theresa and Tyler they expect the Sioux to sweep this weekend.

Brian Sullivan from the EZAC blog has another entertaining article about how the ECAC is no longer the EZAC. You can put a tuxedo on a goat, but it’s still a goat.