Quick recap of the night then I'm off to bed.
Tigers 3, Colgate 2
The Tigers looked absolutely awful in the first period tonight, landing only 3 shots on goal, by far the fewest ever for a period that I've ever watched in person. They rebounded nicely in the 2nd and played pretty decent in the third. Bachman was hung out on the 2 goals but made an unbelievable arm save on a semi-breakaway, wish I had the video of it because it was SportsCenter worthy X10! Met a couple from Nebraska sporting their Husker gear which was pretty cool. Speaking of that, I have a review about Tigers on Tejon coming this week, I was finally able to make a trip in while I was back for Thanksgiving. How does that relate to NU? Read the article and see! I'll have a more detailed wrap-up of the weekend either late Sunday night or early in the week. And for the record, the Tigers don't look like a top 10 team right now. They are out of synch and grasping for plays (but they are still skating well). I wouldn't be suprised to see them take a tumble to 8, 9 or 10 in this Monday's polls.
I'm driving back to Durango tomorrow so it will be an early night before heading to work by 7AM Monday. Couple of links below for some reading in the meantime. Oh, and in case you're wondering, Air Force lost 4-1 to DU tonight, ending the unbeaten streak.
CC Athletics recap
USCHO scoreboard

Yesterday wasn't a total loss, my Huskers won a ridiculous game over that team from Boulder that no one in this state seems to care about. I'll give em credit though, our guys were dumb talking trash all week and CU played pretty dang well for a beat-up and crappy team. Enough of that, this is hockey so on to the REAL black and gold...

The Tigers' long winning streak against the north-siders came crashing to an end last night and based on the articles and my friends who were lucky enough to get tickets, it wasn't even close. The Tigers again played sloppy and couldn't score on Friday night, a bizarre trend that will hopefully get corrected soon. The Tigers are in a slump, but it might not be a bad thing to get that slump out of the way early and still have most of the season to continue to grow up. We all know what happens when a team goes full throttle the entire season and hits the slump in the post season (see 07-08 Tigers). If you need an inspiration, look at our rivals in Denver. The Pios stunk it up most of last season and ended up winning the Broadmoor Trophy. North Dakota has traditionally been anemic the first half of the season and goes on a tear once the calendar year switches over. So no need for the panic button yet, this should be a great wake up call for our Tigers and hopefully we will see a team with more urgency the second half of the season. Tonight, the Tigers get Colgate who was blasted 6-1 by DU last night. Hopefully the Tigers will bust out full speed looking to rebound in a hurry, and Colgate will still be in it's high altitude daze. The Falcons head up to Denver tonight and will look to keep their undefeated record intact. Remember, last season the Pios were waxed 5-2 by the Falcons, should be an intense game.
Game links follow below. The Gayzette has a stupid headline like usual and David Ramsey goes into drama mode in his article blasting the Tigers crappy play. At least the paper is consistent in sucking huh?

Gazette: 1, 2, 3
USCHO: 1, 2
CC Athletics
College Hockey News

So I was traveling for the first part of the weekend and couldn't post anything from the tie Friday night, but I did watch most of it. It was pretty obvious after five minutes that both teams are very very good, which should provide us with a great rivalry this season. Bachman made 44 freaking saves, he's still got it. I caught a couple of mistakes in the telecast and the paper Saturday. FSN's wanna-be rinkside reporter asked one of our players (I forgot who now) how the series is different this season because of the change to home and home....ummm as long as I can remember that's the way it's been. The only difference this season is they don't play consecutive nights. Second error, the Gayzette tabbed tonight's game as the series' finale. Ummmm, we play DU twice more this season, not how I would define "series' finale", I know they were trying to sound dramatic, but that's stupid.
So tonight the Tigers take on DU(D) at the World Arena on ESPNU with a (hopefully) big national audience. Although I really want the Tigers to win, what I want more is an intense, high-speed, high-skill game to showcase our teams and the WCHA to the rest of the country who never gets a chance to watch us!
Speaking of rivalries, the reason why I want it to be a great game is because when one team has a down cycle, it's not so much a rivalry. For example, my Huskers got stomped by Oklahoma last night because OU is amazing and Callahan ruined our program so we are still rebuilding. Getting blown out 62-28 isn't fun, but when OU was in their down time, NU stomped 'em 69-7 in 1997 and 73-21 the year before. That's just how it goes. But anything is better than being a cu fan, what a joke!!
Here's the links from Friday's 1-1 tie
CHN Live Blog
USCHO, BOX
CC ATHLETICS

Well the new blog has been up for a few weeks now and it's great to see there is steady traffic coming in from the previous address. As the content grows on this site I'm sure interest will follow. I checked out the site on a friends computer in Lincoln this weekend to see how it looks on a non-wide screen computer with different settings and I was happy to see that the site looks as it should. The color was more yellow on his monitor (the banner is more gold on mine) but overall good except that I'm ticked to see that the links are blue and purple, they are set at gold and vegas gold in the settings but the display won't show. Any one else have the ugly blue and purple links all over the page? What do you all think of the Uncaged video of my pic highlights?

So here's how I spent my weekend. After going to games for 6 years it never gets old. You want to see a true intro video and stadium atmosphere stay tuned, I'll post the famous Tunnel Walk both from the stands I shot Saturday night and just the vid itself. And for the record, screw conference loyalty, I hope CU gets the crap kicked out of them tonight, I hate those egotistical pr**ks from Boulder.

So I got the new Tigers' schedule magnet in the mail a few weeks ago with the new slogan "Let's Prey Together". Anyone else think that's cheesy and stupid, not to mention offensive?! No wonder I'm hesitant about working in an ad agency. Check out the comment on this posting.