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This is why some of the democrat big wigs want Hillary out of the primary. Seems that the democratic nominee Barack H. Obama has a problem with gaffs and slips. His latest is a dozy. Now we got people bringing 6 shooters to the duck bling. Anyone with half a brain knows that you don’t bring a six shooter to hunt ducks with. Out of touch.

Well, it’s official. Barack Obama really is out of touch with small-town America.

Today he launched into a tirade, scolding Hillary for questioning Obama’s choice of words during the now famous Bittergate fundraiser at a United Steelworker’s rally in Steelton, PA.

Obama expressed his disappointment with Hillary in this way:

“She’s running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment, she’s talking like she’s Annie Oakley! Hillary Clinton’s out there like she’s on the duck blind every Sunday, she’s packin’ a six shooter! C’mon! She knows better. That’s some politics being played by Hillary Clinton. I want to see that picture of her out there in the duck blinds.”

This shouldn’t even be an issue. The law needs to be inforced. This is the Liberal mindset, leave the poor little law breakers alone.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is asking federal officials to rethink their policy on workplace immigration crackdowns that involve established businesses and to focus on employers that mistreat workers instead.

The mayor said in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff that work-site raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement could have “severe and long-lasting effects” on the local economy, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.

ICE made more than 4,900 work-site arrests nationwide in fiscal 2007, a 45-fold increase over the number in 2001, authorities said.

More than 130 undocumented workers were arrested at a San Fernando Valley manufacturing company in February and over 60 workers were arrested for immigration violations at South Bay-area warehouses last week.

Los Angeles companies such as clothing manufacturer American Apparel Inc. have reported being questioned by ICE officials about their hiring procedures.

Villaraigosa accused federal officials of targeting “established, responsible employers” in industries that rely on “workforces that include undocumented immigrants.”

“In these industries, including most areas of manufacturing, even the most scrupulous and responsible employers have no choice but to rely on workers whose documentation, while facially valid, may raise questions about their lawful presence,” he wrote in the March 27 letter.

He said ICE should spend its limited resources

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I am not a Hillary Clinton fan nor a democrat by any means but this is absolutely silly. The anti-nick name foes are always stirring something up and always seem to make a mountain out of a mole hill. Come on; honestly folks! Hillary Clinton is a liberal Democrat and I am sure she didn’t mean anything disrespectful by uttering the Fighting Sioux nick name at a rally for DEMOCRATS. Again I am not a fan of Hillary but some of the stuff she has had to face because the main stream media’s being in Barack Obama’s corner is down right ridiculous. It is surprising she isn’t down by 20 percentage points to McCain or Obama.

But Sele and the rest of the table said Clinton “stumbled” when she repeatedly used the full, and controversial, nickname of UND’s Fighting Sioux hockey team. Sele called herself a serious sports fan who’s not a nickname advocate, but not forcefully opposed to the nickname either.

By using the controversial nickname, Sele said, Clinton invited a divisive issue into the conversation that needn’t be there.

“I don’t think she recognized how contentious that is,” Sele said. “Unless you’re here, you can’t know that.”

A variety of UND student and faculty groups and many of the campuses’ American Indians have long opposed the school’s nickname. A legal settlement with the NCAA requires UND to retire the nickname within three years if it cannot win the endorsement of both the state’s Sioux tribes.

Clinton used the Fighting Sioux nickname at the opening of her speech after Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., presented her with a hockey stick signed by the entire UND men’s hockey team. She used the nickname again at the end of speech, comparing the determination that sent UND men’s hockey players to the upcoming Frozen Four competition in Denver with her own determination to stay in the presidential race.

Obama was also presented with an autographed hockey stick, but did not use the nickname while accepting it, joking instead that he’s a worse hockey player than he is a bowler.

Glassheim also called the Fighting Sioux statements an “error,” noting that Sen. Byron Dorgan called the team the “UND Sioux,” when presenting the hockey stick, considered by many to be a less offensive version of the name.

“I’m not violently anti-nickname, but it disturbed me a little,” Glassheim said.

Glassheim speculated Clinton was likely poorly prepared for the hockey stick acceptance, by staffers that aren’t sensitive to local issues.

However, he said, it’s just possible Clinton’s use of the nickname was a calculated appeal to her base. In primaries and caucuses nationwide Clinton’s supporters have tended to be more working class and socially conservative than Obama’s.

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Since the NC$$ has determined that the Frozen Four has to take a back seat to the pumpkin pushers and has a week off I was bored and checking out a few video from the season past on YouTube and this one from andreasue09 is pretty good and should be added to the video collection of any Sioux fan.

Not to be outdone the RedFrogND.

Post game interview on ESPNU.

Jean-Philippe Lamoureux was nothing short of amazing and should get a SERIOUS look for the Hobey Baker.

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The candidates for the Hobey Baker Memorial Throphy were announced today and it seems that they missed a candidate. Apparently Nathan Gerbe’s on the ice incidents and his suspension by Hockey East had no impact on Gerbe getting into the Hobey Hat Trick. I wonder if T.J. Hensick feels slighted after seeing the names today?

The Candidates are for the Hobey Hat Trick are:

Kevin Porter Michigan SR F 33-29-62
Nathan Gerbe Boston College JR F 30-30-60
Ryan Jones Miami SR F 31-18-49

I said before; It wouldn’t matter if Oshie had 50 goals or Jean-Philippe Lamoureux had 10 shut outs the award is going to go to a player from the CCHA or Hockey East. Gee, I guess I wasn’t that far off eh? This just proves that the college hockey media loves Hockey East and the CCHA. They should be happy with the results now, you got your candidates.

I think Kevin Porter from Michigan is a legitimate candidate for the Hobey Baker and I don’t have a problem with Ryan Jones from Miami either but it would be interesting to see if Porter and Jones could put up the same numbers with they WCHA defenders drapped all over them. I believe that Jones and Porter would have simular numbers to T.J. Oshie.

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Check out what Julie Robenhymer had to say on the NCAA hockey tourney. In case you are wondering who Julie Robenhymer is? Jules was named Miss New Jersey 2005, but she also does a pretty good job covering hockey…

The Midwest – Madison, WI

First Round

Princeton 1 North Dakota 5

TJ Oshie, 2007 Hobey Baker Winner Ryan Duncan, Taylor Chorney and Joe Finley - otherwise known as the team leaders of the Fighting Sioux - decided not to follow former teammate Jonathan Towes to the NHL figuring if enough of them decided to stay, this year could be special. ECAC Champions, the Princeton Tigers sounded like Academy Award nominees – we’re just happy to be here, blah, blah, blah. North Dakota in a roll right? Well yes, but not really…They might have won by four goals, but don’t let that lopsided score fool you – two of them were empty netters and the other three were on the man advantage. Princeton took it to the Fighting Sioux going step for step, playing physical and getting offensive opportunities the entire game, they just couldn’t solve NoDak’s goalie Jean-Phillippe Lamoureux.

Sidenote – Duncan , who scored his first career hat trick during this game, is an undrafted free-agent, but did participate in the Blues Prospect camp this past summer…will he jump to the NHL after this season?

Sidenote #2 – Ivy League athletes literally blow my mind…Princeton’s captain, Landis Stankievech, studies mechanical and areospace engineering and was named ECAC Student Athlete of the Year. I dated an engineer once and he practically lived at the lab…this guy’s ability to play D-I hockey and study what he does – at Princeton, no less – and be good at both, shows his commitment to success. He’s a rockstar in my book!

Make that 2-24-0 after this game.

Second Round

Wisconsin 2 North Dakota 3 OT

This was the last game of the weekend and what a game it was! The Badgers fed of their home crowd and absolutely dominated the first period peppering Lamoureux with 17 shots after one and 30 after two. It was fast paced and physical and the larger ice surface allowed the guys to use the open spaces and get the transition game going creating end to end rushes. Wisconsin led after two with North Dakota holding a 1-24-0 record in such situations, but North Dakota’s leaders stepped up as Kaip, their captain scores from the slot on a hard fought goal and Duncan ties it up from a ridiculous drop pass from Oshie a minute later. The highlight reel move completely sucked the energy out of the building and silenced the sea of red 18,000 strong who stood for most of the game in anxious anticipation. The Badgers nearly pulled off the upset, but Andrew Kozek scored as he was knocked off his skates less than two minutes into the extra session to send the Fighting Sioux to the Frozen Four for the fourth straight year.

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I could watch this video all day and it wouldn’t get old. At the beginning of the season I thought Andrew Kozek had the potential score 20 goals, I guess I wasn’t too far off on his goal total. I suppose Andrew Kozek is going to have to score a couple more of those highlite reel goals during the Frozen Four because he is currently sitting at 18 goals on the season and surpassed his career total of 12 goals his first two seasons. The kid has a quick release and has been working on getting his shots off faster all season long.

Sioux fans are spoiled?

I think as Sioux fans sometimes we take for granted that our team is going to be there in the playoffs year after year. Four Frozen Fours in four years, that is unprecidented. Michigan hasn’t been to the Frozen Four since 2003. Maybe we don’t realize how good we have it as Sioux hockey fans. I think it makes living up here in the frozen tundra more tolerable.

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I think people need to take a look at what this guy is saying, were are very close to electing a man that is of a very questionable character. The first clue should have been his wife’s statement this is the first tim in my adult life that I am affraid of my country. That is right in line with some of the other questionable stuff that is out there.

It should be a big warning flag that Barrack is not distancing himself from his racist paster. Even when he is asked the questions he is very evasive. People need to keep asking these questions.

I was checking out ESPNU/INCH’s seems as if the Fighting Sioux aren’t being given much of a chance of getting out of their Midwest regional this weekend only Jess Myers (INCH)and David Duffey (ESPN.com) are the only ones giving the Fighting Sioux a chance.

Apparently the Sioux’s loss against DU in the semis of the WCHA Final Five has basically given people the impression that UND has NO CHANCE of winning the regional. I just hope the Fighting Sioux hockey team is looking at this and will use this as an extra motivational piece. Lets not forget that UND beat DU 3 out of 4 games sweeping them in Grand Forks during the regular season. I guess that means nothing now. Actually UND owes Denver University for stealing a couple of rings off their fingers.

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(Clif Reeder/Michigan Daily
Here is something we could see a lot of come this weekend Jeff Frazee’s 2007 WJC back up Jeff Zatkoff getting scored on.

Talk about Sand Bagging: I can’t believe some moron picked these guys to finish 4th? WTF?

Andy Reid, Daily Sports Writer on 3/26/08

At CCHA Media Day in September, the Michigan hockey team was picked to finish fourth in the conference.

A lot has changed in 183 days.

The Wolverines, winners of both the regular-season and conference tournament championships, have been one of the biggest surprises in college hockey. And the national pundits aren’t the only ones scratching their heads at Michigan’s run to the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament.

Someone asked me tonight how the Goon’s daughter is doing? Well we are already working on her hockey allegiances, she hates the goofs and loves the Sioux. Abby is also growing up as a NHL hockey fan

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Seems as if our friend Elliot Olshansky is a little shocked about Oshie being selected for the Hobey Baker. While I do think Oshie is a good candidates I think the Hobey Baker committee has no intentions of giving the award to a North Dakota player this season. It wouldn’t matter if Oshie had 50 goals or Jean-Philippe Lamoureux had 10 shut outs the award is going to go to a player from the CCHA or Hockey East.

T.J. Oshie, North Dakota: Is anyone else amused that after all the hand-wringing over whether Nathan Gerbe should be considered for the award after his one-game suspension in the fall for an on-ice incident, he’s joined among the finalists by a player who was arrested this season? There’s no denying that Oshie is a great player, but if I’m a Michigan fan, I am livid right now, because this looks - shall we say, “interesting?” - in the wake of last season’s T.J. Hensick saga, not to mention the fact that Oshie beat out a very worthy Chad Kolarik, among others, for this spot. Is anyone else amused that after all the hand-wringing over whether Nathan Gerbe should be considered for the award after his one-game suspension in the fall for an on-ice incident, he’s joined among the finalists by a player who was arrested this season? There’s no denying that Oshie is a great player, but if I’m a Michigan fan, I am livid right now, because this looks - shall we say, “interesting?” - in the wake of last season’s T.J. Hensick saga, not to mention the fact that Oshie beat out a very worthy Chad Kolarik, among others, for this spot.

OK, enough of the controversy, although I maintain that I’m very surprised by the pick. Oshie is a great player at both ends of the ice, a player whose worth isn’t truly captured by his healthy numbers, and one of the biggest reasons that the Fighting Sioux are where they are right now. Not only that, he was part of the celebrated pact in the offseason that brought Oshie, 2007 Hobey winner Ryan Duncan, Joe Finley and Taylor Chorney back to Grand Forks. In this era of widespread early NHL signings, the sort of commitment that those players showed and the follow-through that Oshie and his mates have delivered deserve to be rewarded.

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The UND Fighting Sioux regained some momentum it lost yesterday by resoundingly beating the C.C. Tigers 4-2 in the third place game for the Final Five. In the past we have heard how the third place game is a meaningless game and there is no reason to play it. This afternoon that couldn’t be further from the truth as the Sioux locked up a number one seed with the win against WCHA regular season champion C.C. today, now the Sioux have to wait to see where they go next. Seems as if the Lets Go DU hockey blogger has taken great pleasure in the Tigers losing both its game in the WCHA Final Five this weekend.

Box Score

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1st Period (20:00)
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NDK-1 Taylor Chorney (2-Boarding) CC 0x1 2:40
CC 1 - 0 6x6 Chad Rau (28) (Mike Testwuide) 7:56
CC (+): 14,25,7,4,21,G30 NDK (-): 4,28,16,14,7,G1
CC-1 Jack Hillen (2-Holding) NDK 0x1 8:13
NDK-2 T.J. Oshie (2-Slashing) CC 0x2 9:24
CC-2 Ryan Lowery (2-Tripping) NDK 1x2 17:27
NDK 1 - 1 6x5 PP T.J. Oshie (18) (Taylor Chorney, Chris VandeVelde) 19:20
NDK: 7,4,29,28,16,G1 CC: 21,4,7,14,G30

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2nd Period (20:00)
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CC-3 Kris Fredheim (2-DELAY OF GAME) NDK 2x3 3:48
NDK 2 - 1 6x5 PP LL Chris VandeVelde (15) (Taylor Chorney, T.J. Oshie) 5:01
NDK: 29,4,7,28,16,G1 CC: 14,8,26,11,G30
NDK-3 Brad Malone (2-Kneeing) CC 0x3 8:10
CC-4 Jack Hillen (2-Interference) NDK 3x4 10:09
NDK 3 - 1 6x5 PP GW Chay Genoway (7) (Jake Marto, Brad Malone) 10:27
NDK: 5,25,8,10,14,G1 CC: 9,10,11,7,G30
CC-5 Nate Prosser (2-Slashing) NDK 3x5 12:28
NDK-4 Kyle Radke (2-Hooking) CC 1x4 15:06
CC 2 - 3 6x5 PP Jimmy Kilpatrick (15) (Brian Connelly, Ryan Lowery) 16:36
CC: 11,23,14,24,26,G30 NDK: 2,5,7,16,G1

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3rd Period (20:00)
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CC-6 Nate Prosser (2-CONTACT TO THE HEAD) NDK 3x6 2:45
NDK-5 Brad Miller (2-Roughing) 4:21
CC-7 Scott Thauwald (2-Roughing) 4:21
NDK 4 - 2 6x6 Darcy Zajac (3) (Kyle Radke, Jake Marto) 10:02
NDK (+): 11,26,25,6,21,G1 CC (-): 23,24,19,16,11,G30
CC-8 Nate Prosser (2-DELAY OF GAME) NDK 3x7 10:44
Timeout - Colorado College 18:35

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End of Game

I have to give credit where credit is due, that was a hell of a goal that buried my favorite team. That was a hell of goal.

Top 10 Hobey Baker Finalists

The 10 finalists are:

Nathan Gerbe, Jr, F, Boston College
Ryan Jones, Sr, F, Miami
Kevin Porter, Sr, F, Michigan
Jeff Lerg, Jr, G, Michigan State
Lee Jubinville, Jr, F, Princeton
Simon Lambert, Sr, F, RIT
Ryan Lasch, So, F, St. Cloud State
Jean-Philippe Lamoureux, Sr, G, North Dakota
T.J. Oshie, Jr, F, North Dakota
Kevin Regan, Sr, G, New Hampshire

Congratulations to Oshie and Lamoureux. My prediction for the Hobey Hat Trick will be Lamoureux, Jones and Porter.

Fighting Sioux players on All-WCHA Team(s)

First Team

F T.J. Oshie, Jr., North Dakota (27 gp, 12-17—29)
D Taylor Chorney, Jr., North Dakota (28 gp, 2-14—16)

All-WCHA Second Team

F Ryan Duncan, Jr., North Dakota (28 gp, 9-19—28)
D Chay Genoway, So., North Dakota (23 gp, 5-13—18)
G Jean-Philippe Lamoureux, Sr., North Dakota (18-7-3, 1.74 gaa, .929 sv%)

All-WCHA Third Team

D Robbie Bina, Sr., North Dakota (28 gp, 1-16—17)

There was much discussion over how many Sioux players would be selected to be on the All WCHA team(s). When your team gets second or first in the conference your team is going to get a fair number of players on the first three teams. From looking at the various teams the Fighting Sioux did put a fair number of players on the first three teams. I am surprised that Mannino getting third team over Zacharias?

4 Mike Zacharias Minnesota State 2.08 .924
7 Peter Mannino Denver 80 2.26 .916