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Junior Forward Ryan Stoa is gone for the year with a knee injury

pacman wrote:Junior Forward Ryan Stoa is gone for the year with a knee injury

Well, that just sucks. Why does this have to happen?

Unfortunate for Ryan and the Gophers. I read the strib today. Seemed like he worked his tail off to get ready for the season.

Is it an ACL? Anyone know?

WOW Thats unfortunate and a tough way to go out...hope to see him back on the ice for next season

can he take a redshirt season?

LetsPlayHockey22 wrote:can he take a redshirt season?

Good question, I bet GB can answer that. Gopher Blog...........where are you?

breakout wrote:

LetsPlayHockey22 wrote:can he take a redshirt season?

Good question, I bet GB can answer that. Gopher Blog...........where are you?

Yes, he can apply for a medical red shirt. If a player suffers a season ending injury and he has played in less than 20% of his team's total games for the year, he is eligible.

The question is whether it would be necessary given Stoa's future professional career. I think most people felt he would go pro after this season. With his injury, they might decide to push it back another year. Either way, a medical red shirt season would probably go unused seeing as his red shirt season would start two years from now. I doubt he'll still be playing college hockey at that point.

I am sure they will apply for one just so the option is there but I doubt it will ever get used.

This stinks! I read about Stoa's injury and hope he gets better soon. How much eligibility does he have left?

He has 1 year left. I'd say apply for it, it doesn't hurt you and just in case something freak happens he would then have options. Options are never bad.

The Golden Gophers fell tonight to the Michigan Tech Huskies by the score of 3-2 in overtime at Mariucci...it's getting to be more and more difficult to keep losing out on opportunities to gain points in the WCHA...when is the Don going to hit the panic button? Have you already hit it?

The Gophs are gonna have to "gut out" what appears to be a long season. They are probably a year or two away from being a national powerhouse.
Keep working hard- see what happens in March.
Go Gophers.

3-1 win for Lucia and the Gophers tonight, next week, BRING ON THE SIOUX!

They will pounded by a stampede! I see ROAD KILL ahead!

idk, the sioux arent great at all.

No team in the WCHA is all that great. They've all shown it. Just depends on who shows up to play.

nikebauer_07 wrote:No team in the WCHA is all that great. They've all shown it. Just depends on who shows up to play.

You said it.

CC has a nice lead but if they fielded the same team within the past five or so seasons, they'd probably finish in the middle of the pack in the WCHA. It is a down year in the WCHA. I thought the Sioux would be a dominant team but it hasn't happened to this stage.

I think the Sioux have been a bigger disappointment to this stage than the Gophers. The Gophers were bound to have some growing pains because of youth on the blue line. Although it has been a little rougher than I expected. But the Sioux had a lot of good fortune in the off-season and managed to keep many of their best pro prospects yet they have stumbled out of the gate as well. I expected the Sioux to roll to an easy league title. I was wrong on that. Neither team has much to brag about right now.

pacman wrote:idk, the sioux arent great at all.

Yea just better than the gophs....

since when do the sioux do well in regular season...more better than the average wcha team..but in the end..3 yrs in a row of frozen four appearances...speak for your self gopher fans...we are not dissapointed cause we all know how the outcome will be..NATIONAL CHAMPS!

SiouxRecruit wrote:since when do the sioux do well in regular season...more better than the average wcha team..but in the end..3 yrs in a row of frozen four appearances...speak for your self gopher fans...we are not dissapointed cause we all know how the outcome will be..NATIONAL CHAMPS!

If they are so good, why can't they get it done? Do you take pride in ND for hanging Frozen Four appearance banners?

Going to three straight frozen fours, while being in the same bracket as the Gophers every year is a great accomplishment. But the Sioux can't dwell in that. They need to find a way to win the big one without Dean Blais on the bench. The bottom line is, this is the best rivalry in the country (in my opinion) and it's going to be fun to watch. It's always great seeing dozens of Minnesotan kids playing in this game every year.

Wayne state should have won

SiouxRecruit wrote:since when do the sioux do well in regular season...more better than the average wcha team..but in the end..3 yrs in a row of frozen four appearances...speak for your self gopher fans...we are not dissapointed cause we all know how the outcome will be..NATIONAL CHAMPS!

The standards have definitely fallen if Sioux fans are simply happy to get there. They don't hand out trophies or banners for making the Frozen Four. You don't win anything for simply getting there and then losing. The Gophers have much more success in the last five or six seasons than the Sioux have. That is an undeniable fact. Look at the trophy case and it speaks volumes at how much more successful the Gophers have been in that time when compared to the Sioux.

All Gopher fans heard over the years from Sioux fans when Doug Woog was coach was that he couldn't get his team over the hump. "Woog can't win the big one" was the big rallying cry for Sioux fans as they mocked him. It is pretty ironic that they know use different logic when it is their own team that doesn't get over the hump when they make the Frozen Four.

nikebauer_07 wrote:Do you take pride in ND for hanging Frozen Four appearance banners?

Apparently so. Winning trophies (WCHA or NCAA) don't seem to matter as much to the UND crowd these days.

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