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Jim Olander on Stampede's heartbreaking 2OT loss yet wildly successful season
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What a comeback season! What an agonizing way for it to end.
The Sioux Falls Stampede and their fans were ready to celebrate a Game 4 USHL playoff series win in Waterloo on Tuesday night, up by a goal with a minute to play in regulation before the Black Hawks gamble to leave the net open paid off to send the game into overtime.
That turned into double overtime, where a "puck luck" goal robbed The Herd of a chance to win the series in a deciding Game 5 in Sioux Falls on Friday.
Team president and radio Voice of the Stampede Jim Olander joined Happy Hour after a not-so-happy bus ride that finished just after 5 a.m. on Wednesday morning to describe the heartbreak of the final chapter of an otherwise fascinating and uplifting story of the 2024-25 season.
The Herd won 40 games, contended for the regular season's Anderson Cup for the team with the best record in the USHL, and hosted a playoff game for the first time in six years, when they won their third league title.
How'd they do it under first-year coach Ryan Cruthers, and what is to be expected now that the organization's bar has been so mightily lifted?
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