It's Friday, I'm in Love

Saturday, wait
And Sunday always comes too late
But Friday, never hesitate...

BADGER MEN v north dakota: FRI / SAT 7PM

• Ote co pketin we'tase Souix megatkiw'n mbozo shkote'tyabyan minnesota odanuk Wisconsin.....De'bwe nikan pkamakinMSUGUK winishkon mje'sh SchlitzMaltLiquor.....Lakotas kiwani nish. . . .
  
  Rough translation - This may be last time they let Brave Sioux Warrior ride team train thru shithole land of many little swampholes where yellow rat lives to land of Mighty Waters where RedBadger live.....Tell friend tomahawkBADGER have lots of SchlitzMaltLiquor ready.....Dakotas lose two. - Hatchet Joe's good friend, Great Potawatami Chief
  

• Let's get hostile, let's get abusive. - Chuck Schwartz

UW: 3-1-2 WCHA, 6-2-2 overall (last weekend 6-o, 3-3 (OT) @ mtu)
und: 4-2-0 WCHA, 5-4-1 overall (last weekend 4-2, 2-3 (OT) @ umd)


Gameday Links
TV:
- Friday: live - FSN Wisconsin; tape delay (11PM) - Wisconsin Channel
- Saturday : live - TVW, Charter Xtra, Time Warner Sports; tape delay (10PM) - Wisconsin Channel
Radio: Friday/Saturday WIBA 1310
Audio webstream: insideBADGERSPORTS ($9.95/mo)
Video webstream:
- Friday: tape delay (11PM) - wpt.com (free)
- Saturday: live (outside of WI) - insideBADGERSPORTS ($9.95/mo); tape delay (10PM) - wpt.org (free)
Live stats: CBSsports - Friday, Saturday
Live blog: - Capobianco (uwbadgers)


Weekly Shooutout Winner
This week, JUSTIN SCHULTZ won the shootout over Jake Gardiner

Previous Winners:
11/04 Scott Gudmandson
10/28 Ryan Little
10/21 Jefferson Dahl
10/14 Keegan Meuer

(Thanks to Paul Capobianco for posting the winners each week.)


MSUGUK Lines
EDIT: the link on madison.com now correctly leads to a preview of this weekend's hockey series rather than Tuesday's basketball matchup, and so I now have the lines. The Badger lines (as expected) look the same as last weekend.

Jordy Murray - Craig Smith - Mark Zengerle
Patrick Johnson - Sean Dolan - Ryan Little
Tyler Barnes - Derek Lee - Michael Mersch
Podge Turnbull - Jefferson Dahl - Jason Clark

Jake Gardiner - Justin Schultz
Craig Johnson - John Ramage
Joe Faust - Frankie Simonelli

Scott Gudumandson
Brett Bennett

Gavin Hartzog is out with an ankle injury.


disorderly conduct lines
Per Schlossman, Derek Forbort, Andrew MacWilliam, and Carter Rowney are still out, while Joe Gleason and Dillon Simpson are expected back.

Goon was nice enough to chime in with this expected lineup (now confirmed by Baggot) :

17 Jason Gregoire–10 Corban Knight–26 Brett Hextall
7 Danny Kristo–22 Brad Malone–21 Matt Frattin
19 Evan Trupp–29 Brock Nelson–11 Derek Rodwell
9 Mario Lamoureux–8 Mike Cichy–13 Brett Bruneteau

24 Ben Blood–5 Chay Genoway
3 Derrick LaPoint–25 Jake Marto
18 Dillon Simpson–20 Joe Gleason

32 Aaron Dell
31 Brad Eidsness

Series Previews
uwbadgers: preview, game notes
fighting sioux: preview, game notes
No Alibis, No Regrets: North Dakota Week (Chuck), What I want to see (Tex)
Goon's world: Weekend Match-ups (Sioux 7), sioux and Badgers week (Goon)
Baggot (WSJ): UW men's hockey vs. North Dakota
Adams (Daily Cardinal): Badgers set to renew North Dakota rivalry
Henson (Badger Herald): Men's hockey hosts deep North Dakota
Augustoviz (StarTribune): WCHA prognosticators keep picking even if gophers are idle
Berger (SiouxSports): UND at Wisconsin


Other Articles/Links
Lucas (uwbadgers): Hard-working Murray making most of opportunity
Baggot (WSJ): Mersch's plan for hockey is working fine so far
Baggot (WSJ): Five good minutes with Podge Turnbull
Holt (Badger Herald): Faust, Simonelli making impact on blue line
uwbadgers: Mike Eaves' weekly presser
uwbadgers: Zengerle named WCHA Rookie of the Week
Baggot (WSJ): Badgers will be tested in six-game homestand
Buckentine (USCHO): Wisconsin has options between the pipes
Schlossman (GF Herald): Four questions with Chay Genoway
Schlossman (GF Herald): Early signings a hot topic
Schlossman (GF Herald): Blue-collar attitude suits Rodwell
fightingsioux: Travel blog
fightingsioux: Inside Fighting Sioux Hockey


The Usual Suspects
CHN: Tale of the Tape
USCHO: This Week in the WCHA (Spisak), Weekend of Nov 5-6 (Spisak)
INCH: WCHA notebook, Friday Four-cast, First Shift
WCHA: This Week in the WCHA radio show


Who's going to lose control of this weekend's games?
Referees
3-Derek Shepherd; 4-Todd Anderson; 5-Justin Brown; 7-Don Adam; 8-Tom Sterns; 9-C.J. Beaurline; 10-Peter Friesema; 11-Tim Walsh; 12-Butch Mousseaux (R-L); 14- Brian Thul; 15-Marco Hunt; 17-Craig Welker; 18-Max Battimo; 20-Brad Albers; 21-Paul Depyudt; 22-Bill Mason; 23-Matt Ulwelling (R-L); 24-Jon Campion; 25-Mike McCreary; 27-Jonathan Morrison; 29-Scott Bokal; 31-Brett Klosowski; 33-Brad Shepherd.

Linesmen (at UW)
34-Ed Moberg; 38-Dan Carey; 42-Dan Dineen; 51-Mike Gulenchyn; 65-Matt Gerlach; 87-Brad Roethlisberger.