YEAH BAbY!!!! Frozen Four in Buffalo New York tonight...MINNESOTA 5 new hamshure 1 TWO YEARS IN A ROW ! Hockey rules in MINNESOTA!
Posted by Bruce Bowers (Member # 892) on :
Yah fersure doncha know!
Dat goalie, he was sorta funny lookin'...
They had the game on the TV at the bowling alley tonight. We were fortunate to be bowling on one of the two set of lanes that have the TV in the overhead console.
The game was tight until halfway through the third period when the mighty Golden Gophers erupted for three quick goals! Woo hoo!
The Golden Gophers become the first college team to repaet as NCAA champions since 1972! That is an excellent feat to be sure!
Congratulations to the Minnesota Golden Gophers! Posted by Cam Bortz (Member # 55) on :
Well, I can relate, though admittedly it's not hockey (and thus of less interest to Meyer)...
I have become a fan of women's college basketball. I admit it. And before Meyer takes away my Minnesota Real Men's Club membership card and starts thinking I watch Oprah and sit down to pee, allow me to explain.
First, our own University of Connecticut Huskies (it's a play on words - UCONN - Huskies - not a comment on their size) have won the NCAA championship the last two years, and four times since 1995. After last year, four starting seniors graduated, leaving the team with a bunch of freshmen and sophomores and one junior, Diana Taurasi. This was going to be a "rebuilding" year. This was a team their own coach called "flawed" and not to expect too much. But a funny thing happened. They won. And kept winning. They came together, figured it out, went undefeated through the regular season. At the Big East tournament they lost the title game to Villanova, which only seemed to pizs them off, because they hit the NCAA tournament like a tornado hits an Oklahoma trailer park. The title game, when they beat arch-rival Tennessee 73 to 68, was a masterpiece. All this from a "flawed" team in a "rebuilding" year, which makes it all that much more satisfying.
So, why do I like women's college basketball? To me, men's college ball has turned into a minor-league NBA. It's become all about hot-dogging, dunks, trash-talking, an extension of the whole hip-hop urban culture, not every team, but enough. On the other hand, the women's game is still a game - it's about passing, setting up under the net, defense - remember defense in basketball? - and teamwork. Instead of in-yo-face and dunking, you see them draining three-pointers and actually MAKING their foul shots - Uconn was close to 80% from the line in the title game(eat your heart out, Shaq). It's real, it's fun, it's played for the love of the game, and best of all - we win! Again!
Posted by mike meyer (Member # 542) on :
I hear ya screamin' Cam...but if it ain't played on ICE, it ain't a sport! How bout Martha Stewart, Cam? If not Oprah, then who? Rosie? GIMME THAT CARD BACK!! ha
Posted by J & N Signs (Member # 901) on :
Hey Mike: Did you get the chance to go watch Crosby play? Here are his latest stats
...................GP G A PTS PIM GWG Sidney Crosby 57 72 90 162 85 15
[ April 13, 2003, 02:14 PM: Message edited by: J & N Signs ]
Posted by mike meyer (Member # 542) on :
Yes i did Mario, and he's gonna be a Great one! Shattuck is a top notch program. He's in good hands with J.P. Pariese. it's in the upper 60's here today, now how are we gonna make ice with this crappy warm weather? Inline? well, if we must.
Posted by Bruce Bowers (Member # 892) on :
Not that I have any plans of giving up my Minnesota He Man club card...
I, too, watched the women's final four games. They were an awesome display of basketball skills. I was rooting for the Huskies myself. I admire how that program came out of nowhere in the mid 90's and has been able to keep the program at such a high level.
I have to agree that Men's basketball, for the most part, has gone down hill. The women's game is so much more skill. It is entertaining and exciting.
Hey... this post was about hockey. We better get on topic before someone starts yelling at us.
Posted by mike meyer (Member # 542) on :
BORTZ!! BOWERS!! TAKE 5 LAPS AT A FULL SKATE THROTTLE !! MOVE!!
Posted by Bruce Bowers (Member # 892) on :
OK... now that I just hacked up a lung and blew my lunch, now what? Dana says thanks for nothing... Hahahahahahahahaha!
B/T/W...
Posted by Bruce Bowers (Member # 892) on :
dang double post
[ April 13, 2003, 10:17 PM: Message edited by: Bruce Bowers ]
Posted by Tom Bahr (Member # 2925) on :
Mike Basketball? Isn't that the sport they made for those who can't skate!
Posted by mike meyer (Member # 542) on :
Leave it to the bullboard to turn a hockey post into a basketball post...where's the religon, guns and war responses? Oh, that's right, it's about SIGNS.
Posted by Cam Bortz (Member # 55) on :
Meyer, if you had nothing but the damn Bruins to root for, you'd lose interest in ice fighting, er, hockey too. We had curling (aka Men with Brooms)on our pond this winter, first time in years. Sunday mornings, stones with handles, brooms, pass the flask between games, that's winter, aye rrright laddie!
Posted by Del Badry (Member # 114) on :
Gee Mike,, sorry to see how things are goin for the Wild so far.... you check out them oilers sunday nite... wooohoooooo,,, now thats hockey!!!!!!!!
