The Wisconsin State Journal this week has a detailed account of the mayhem the North Dakota Fighting Sioux directed at freshman phenom Kyle Turris of the Wisconsin Badgers this past weekend. Turris, the third overall pick of the 2007 draft by Phoenix, is an understandable target of old-time attention one month into the college hockey season: he’s been perhaps the most impressive and dominant first-year performer, piling up 14 points in 8 games thus far. He’s third in the nation in scoring, behind a pair of St. Cloud State teammates: Ryan Lasch and Vienna, Va.’s Garrett Roe, also a freshman. They have 17 points in 10 games.
The Fighting Sioux have their share of dominating forwards, including last year’s Hobey Baker winner Ryan Duncan. Nonetheless, they made like their namesakes last weekend, as the Journal notes:
“In the first period of the series opener Friday, won 4-0 by UW, Turris was walloped at the offensive blue line by Fighting Sioux junior defenseman Joe Finley, a fellow NHL first-rounder (Washington) who is listed at 6-foot-7 and 245 pounds . . .
“Things escalated in the second game . . . Finley literally tackled Turris along the right boards . . .”
Not content to make life miserable for skilled Badgers on the ice, Big Joe apparently got rough off it, too:
“. . . a UW official confirmed that Finley allegedly used his stick to smack Bucky Badger in the leg when the two passed one another on the runway to the dressing rooms Saturday night.”
He can’t get to D.C. fast enough for me.
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Thats the toughness on the blue line we need RIGHT NOW. I like this kid.
I believe I saw the hit in that saturday game and no way it was a tackle…that was a legit stevens type hit.
If he can throw the dukes, we have a steal.
Thanks usiel - It was a Wisconsin media outlet providing the reporting. Your analytical creds are better regarded here than theirs.
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