{"id":582,"date":"2007-03-16T06:50:13","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T12:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/03\/16\/dioux-the-sioux\/"},"modified":"2009-05-30T09:28:51","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T14:28:51","slug":"dioux-the-sioux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"Dioux The Sioux"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I follow hockey in general only a little more than, say, rollerderby, I do get a little excited over WCHA puck.\u00a0 Partly because it’s really good <\/em>hockey (sorry, NHL fans – I’ve always preferred college puck, albeit in the same way that I prefer being shot to death by a crazed fan to being trapped in flaming diesel oil), and partly because it’s a sport where my native NoDak kicks butt.<\/p>\n

Chad from Fraters – who’s a hockey fanatic, but usually sober and with a mostly-full mouth of teeth – makes his calls<\/a> for the WCHA tournament:<\/p>\n

he WCHA team that I think is playing the best hockey right now is the extremely politically incorrect University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux. They shouldn’t have too much trouble putting SCSU down 5-3 in the Friday semi.<\/p>\n

* I have no confidence in this Gopher squad and their silly hair-dyeing ways. Shaky goaltending and a young team does not usually get you far in the playoffs. I wouldn’t be shocked in the Gophers fell on Friday, but I gotta think that they should have enough to get past Tech 4-3 in the other semi.<\/p>\n

* That sets up a UND-Minnesota final. The Sioux dominated the Gophers in a late-season sweep at Mariucci and I think they will do the same on Saturday, something along the lines of 4-2.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I pick the Sioux for the same reason I pick the Bears; I always do.\u00a0 But I’ll go along with Elder.<\/p>\n

I do want to note that Mark Yost, “pride” of Brooklyn, is picking a St. Cloud State–Wisconsin final. We’ll see who has the true hockey cred after this weekend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Uh huh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I follow hockey in general only a little more than, say, rollerderby, I do get a little excited over WCHA puck.\u00a0 Partly because it’s really good hockey (sorry, NHL fans – I’ve always preferred college puck, albeit in the same way that I prefer being shot to death by a crazed fan to being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}