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Aaron Marvin stepping up

When Aaron Marvin was in high school in Warroad he wasn't the highest scoring player in the state. He wasn't the fastest skater or biggest hitter. Yet almost every scout on and off the record thought he had the most NHL potential of any player in Minnesota at the time.

Marvin is improving in the WCHA and those scouts are beginning to look like they knew what they were talking about.


Pasted below is a nice Kevin Allenspach column from the St. Cloud Times on Marvin's progress.

To view the article go HERE

Hockey isn't a lot like riding a bike, except in the sense that once you learn to score goals you never forget how.

Sometimes you just hit a slump, that's all.

Ask Aaron Marvin. Last time out he scored twice in an eight-minute span of the second period to help the Huskies sweep Alaska Anchorage. It started with the first short-handed goal of his career and, a couple shifts later, he netted the game-winner.

This wouldn't rate such big type except for the fact that Marvin, St. Cloud State's junior alternate captain, hadn't scored in 21 games — since Feb. 14.

"It takes some pressure off a little bit," Marvin said. "It's nice to score. It makes you feel like you're contributing to the No. 1 goal, and that's team success."

A third-round pick of the Calgary Flames in 2007, he scored 10 goals last season and the hope was he would assume a role right behind Ryan Lasch and Garrett Roe as SCSU's most dangerous forwards.

Instead, the first half of the season must've felt like a detour through the ditch. He helped the Huskies by centering a line with Lasch, who's on a team-best eight-game point streak, and killing penalties with Jordy Christian, who scored a shortie last Friday with Marvin assisting before the reversed roles Saturday.

"They were a couple of garbage goals, but that's just what I needed," Marvin said. "The first one, Jordy made the play to get the puck on net and I just whacked away at it. The second one, (Lasch) just passed it to me in front. They weren't pretty, but sometimes those get you going."

With sixth-ranked Colorado College visiting the National Hockey Center this weekend, Marvin and the Huskies — who've won three straight and five of their last seven — can't afford to slow down. It's their last series until after New Year's Day and it could go a long way toward setting up the second half. No. 17 SCSU is in a three-way tie for third in the WCHA and, on Sunday, could be in first or sixth.

"These are going to be the two toughest games we've played yet," Marvin said. "CC's going to battle to continue the start they're on, so this is going to be a big test.

"The goals maybe haven't come like we thought they would so far, but we're still building and we've done OK. It's a long season. We just need to take what's happened and learn from it."

That's to say, keep on pedaling.

www.stcloudtimes.com

Microsoft marketing Vista hard

Taking a page out of Apple's playbook Microsoft has had commericals on nearly every channel lately. The push is clearly on for Microsoft in a second attempt to get consumers to ignore the negative attention Vista has received and generate a movement to Vista and away from XP. As of now systems can still have XP, but that won't be the case forever.

Here's a link to a commercial called the "Mojove Experiment" where users were shown with video cameras sharing their positive experiences of using Mojove and then having it revealed that they are in fact using Vista.

Another recent Microsoft commercial campaign features two commericals with Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfed.

First Commercial

Second Commerical

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