『FULL SHOW: Augie hockey coach Garrett Raboin and Thirsty Thursday Summit Hoops (& other local sports) with Trent Singer』のカバーアート

FULL SHOW: Augie hockey coach Garrett Raboin and Thirsty Thursday Summit Hoops (& other local sports) with Trent Singer

FULL SHOW: Augie hockey coach Garrett Raboin and Thirsty Thursday Summit Hoops (& other local sports) with Trent Singer

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 All of sudden, you wake up and it is February. In fact, Mid-February. If you're a winter sports fan that means bang, the stretch run is here. Over the next couple weeks, regular season conference championships and league tournament seedings will be sorted out, raising the stakes with each game. That means even more anticipation with each shot taken, each loose ball or puck lost, every timeout or foul called. It's not March Madness, but it is the push that will determine who will get to hunt down hardware next month. We'll call it February Fury — for Summit League, Northern Sun, and high school hoops. On the latest "Thirsty Thursday" Happy Hour chat, the host and Sioux Falls Live sportswriter Trent Singer dive into some of the teams and races involved — particularly the Coyotes and Jackrabbits men and women— and their upcoming tests. In Class AA boys, No. 1 Lincoln will lock horns with No. 2 Roosevelt in a potential state championship preview on Tuesday night. All of the Augustana and University of Sioux Falls basketball teams are home on Thursday and Friday with games that will go a long way in deciding if three of the teams — USF men, USF women, Augie women — will reach the NSIC postseason tourney. Augie's women will try to be the first team to beat Minnesota State (24-0, 11-0), the top-ranked team in the nation, in the Elmen Center on Thursday. For Augie's men (14-4 NSIC), a Saturday showdown with St. Cloud State (16-2) will pit the top two teams in the NSIC, with the Vikings holding on to slim hopes of a regular season title. And then, there's Augustana hockey. That squad is the only Div. I sports program that resides in Sioux Falls, and the Vikings, ranked No. 18 nationally and currently sitting in third place in the CCHA, host fourth-place Bowling Green at Midco Arena on Friday and Saturday nights. These are Augie's final two regular season home games, although the Vikings still have a shot at gaining home ice in the league's tournament, which starts in three weeks. Wins this weekend would go a long way toward that, plus an at-large berth in the NCAA Tournament — which would be an incredible feat for a third-year program. Which makes this the perfect time to sit down and chat with Vikings coach Garrett Raboin, a rising star in the college hockey world who spent this past Christmas break as an assistant coach for Team USA in the World Junior tourney in the Twin Cities with former Sioux Falls Stampede leader Bob Motzko, now the head coach at Minnesota and Raboin's mentor as both a player and assistant coach at St. Cloud State. Raboin regales with his memories of that event and what it meant to work with Motzko again. He also describes why his Vikings won eight of nine games since that Christmas break, a hot stretch that was cooled off by a couple road losses at No. 20 Michigan Tech last weekend. There's also an elite goalie, a top five (in nation) defense, and fresh faces for Raboin to glow about.
But what really gets Raboin revved up is talking about the electric atmosphere at Midco, the Swedish meatballs and street tacos his kids love to eat at the games, and the recent Nexflix "The Boys of 1980" documentary about the "Miracle on Ice" squad that captured gold at the Olympics that winter. Enjoy.
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