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After scoring the series clinching OT goal tonight, Blake is now tied for second in NHL playoff scoring with 11 points in 8 games. A 22-yo 4th rounder.

The national tournament currently runs over three weekends. I'm proposing four. Take one weekend from the regular season or add it in April. One weekend doesn't seem very very anything.

I'd like to move beyond one-and-done. Due to hockey's randomness, a series would potentially yield a more worthy victor. The current schedule's off week makes it more possible, because you'd only need to add one more week of national postseason play, trimming the regular season by one weekend. First round, week one, best of three at eight host sites (something like highest seed) Second round, week two, best of three at four host sites. Third round, week three, best of three at two host sites. Fourth round, week four, championship, best of three at a national location, similar to the Frozen Four today. It's a lot more hockey, but that's a feature.

These are good questions. One can only conclude they do like this guy better, or maybe this was plan B after A fell through. It might just be the former. It's not unusual for the commitment list to change with new coaches. It is funny that the board was pretty excited about getting Gretzky, Lemieux and Orr, and they got Gretzky's brother instead.

Yes. Not that Switzer was an admirable guy, but they churned out the tailbacks in those days. Fun archaic offense.

To each their own, but I pull for NHL teams because they have UND players, and against ones with former rivals. Big Ottawa fan currently. As a kid I was an Oklahoma football fan (born there), so I became a Browns fan when Greg Pruitt went there, then pulled for the Lions and Billy Sims. Etc.

Although I generally agree, and there's room for some small guys on a team, the WI game made me want the team to be sturdier on its skates.

About Malinoski and faceoffs, I was curious on his usage against Q a few weeks ago, and let's just say he had a rough game. According to the box score, he was 1-15 in the dot. He was fourth in TOI among forwards, so that's good.

He didn't win it. He was on a 3-on-5 PK and the forward got kicked out of the dot. He's still insanely good.

I can't say I watched much of ASU, but Boser was impressive in their games against UND, among their best players. I doubt he's coming to sit in the stands. I can only assume the coaches thought he was a better option than the UND guys portalling out, unless those departures were surprises.

If I have this right ... Hak took his first team to a national title game loss, and never got that far again. Berry took his first team to a national title, and never got that far again. Jax took his first team to a national semifinal loss. C'mon, break the streak!

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It's not like they dominated and lost, which feels worse. The better team won. I don't think it was because UND didn't show up. Wisconsin was big, strong and fast, and they just didn't allow much of anything. Tonight they played like Mankato, but this time Mankato had much better athletes. It stinks to have wasted a great goaltending performance, and also a rare game where the stripes were on your side. Coulda used a touch of puck luck to get them going.

I saw somewhere that DuPont said one of the players he models his game on is Buium. Gave me a bad feeling.

Michigan impressive, more than their other recent all-star teams. They take away space the way Duluth usually takes it away.