Sioux open the WCHA playoffs with a Fratt Party: Sioiux 8 Huskies 0

The Fighting Sioux have played the Michigan Tech Huskies three times this season and have won by an combined 25-3, add to that goal total; in the past three weeks the Fighting Sioux have gone 5-0 and scored 35 goals and given up only 6, albeit the Sioux have played two teams sitting at the bottom of the WCHA standings but you play the schedule you’re given; right. Or that was what we were told when Yale was ripping through some bad teams in early part of the season. The same team the Sioux beat two weeks ago by a combined score of 10-3 waltzed into Omaha’s barn last night and won tonight the first game of the series 4-2.

The games between the Sioux and the MTU Huskies have been so one sided this season that you all most feel sorry for the Huskies, but like I said last weekend this is the same team that swept the Fighting Sioux back in December of 2006 and I doubt they felt sorry for the Fighting Sioux back then. like I mentioned in a previous blog post last weekend, the Michigan Tech Huskies have had two dismal back to back thirty loss seasons and have also lost at least twenty five games six of the last eight seasons... Folks that’s horrible hockey, and what can you do? The Fighting Sioux cannot afford to take the foot off the gas this time of year going into the playoffs. I also think that head coach Dave Hakstol has done a good job managing his team and not allowing them to take it easy on MTU or take the Huskies for granted.

So going forward and not letting the foot off of the gas, the Fighting Sioux have absolutely demolished the MTU Huskies in two previous games and tonight’s game was no different than last weekend’s results as the Fighting Sioux lead by five goals after one period of hockey (5-0) with goals from Hextal, Frattin (X2), Gregoire (X2). The score was 7-0 after two periods of hockey as Frattin and Gregoire finished off their hat tricks. The Sioux finished the scoring off in the third period with a goal from Jake Marto. Also having a big night for the Fighting Sioux was Senior Captain Chay Genoway who had (0g-4a-4pts) on the night.

Goon's Three Stars of the Game
1.) Matt Frattin (3g-1a-4pts)
2.) Chay Genoway (0g-4a-4pts)
3.) Jason Gregoire (3g-0a-3pts)

I think there are a few players that are playing well and worth a mention with four points tonight, Matt Frattin now has as season total of (32g-21a-53pts) so he has actually amassed almost half of his 112 points this season.

Junior forward Jason Gregoire missed seven games earlier in the season with an undisclosed upper body injury and has a season line of (24g-16a-40Pts) and has 106 points in 116 games, (56g-50a-106pts). It’s my opinion that Jason Gregoire is one of the best two way forwards in the WCHA.

Box score

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