Okposo, Kupchella - We're Not Worthy

Here's a literary challenge. How does one describe The Goal by Gopher Kyle Okposo tonight on the way to a 2-1 win over Minnesota State?

Ok. So he's a right-handed shot coming across the crease from right to left. He's therefore on the backhand. As State's goalie begins to slide left, Okposo pulls the puck back between his feet, along with the stick, and shoots a forehand shot from between his legs into the upper right-hand corner, scoring the winning goal.

It pretty much left everybody speechless. (Photo source: College Hockey News, which also has a great article about Okposo.)

UPDATE: Thanks to Jeremy Ca. for pointing out the video. Click here, and go to "Video: Kyle Okposo gets the gamewinner."

In other hockey news, University of North Dakota president Charles Kupchella has found the time to respond to the embarrassing criticism his fine university has been subject to by politically correct weenies at Dartmouth (Page 1, Page 2). Most notably, the Dartmouth athletic director's ridiculous apology for inviting the Fighting Sioux hockey team to a Dartmouth tournament. The issue, as always, is UND's team name.

Kupchella, who can count this blogger amongst a cult following who love a good smackdown, responds in part:

Based on recent reports we have seen on the American Indian enrollement at Dartmouth, apparently we have nearly three times more American Indian students enrolled ay UND - even though your charter indicates a special obligation to American Indians.
The weak apology by the athletic director isn't overlooked:

To call what we do here as wrong, in some blanket way, is outrageous. To have placed herself above the majority of indian people and above the Spirit Lake Nation is nothing short of patronizing.

He goes on to site a recent poll of American Indians in North Dakota showing that Native American reaction to a name change would be nonexistent to negative, before delivering the coup de grace:

Ironically, your situation at Dartmouth takes away the argument that changing a nickname somehow makes racism go away. I understand you changed your name some thirty years ago and still are having the kinds of incidents occur on your campus that we read about.

As John Hinderaker put it at Power Line, touche. It's time for the NCAA and spineless academics to leave UND alone. Then again, Kupchella has developed a reputation for being able to take care of politically correct apologists quite nicely. Were guilt ridden leftists to stop attacking his fine university, we would no longer have the pleasure of reading his excellent responses.

Having said all that, I still hope we kick the ever-loving crap out of his squad in January.