The Sicatoka

I gave my thoughts in a different thread: Why not let the #1 seeds host with the requirement that they must host in an arena that holds at least 7000 people. Before the season every team would have to declare where they'd host if granted a #1 seed. If your home rink holds 7000, host there. If not, a team would have to declare where they'd host.

Why not let the #1 seeds host with the requirement that they must host in an arena that holds at least 7000 people. Before the season every team would have to declare where they'd host if granted a #1 seed. If your home rink holds 7000, host there. If not, a team would have to declare where they'd host.

The question I have to Nelson and Kristo: Were you as dominant this year as Gregoire was last year? Gregoire hasn't stuck with his NHL squad. And MacWilliam and Forbort? MacWilliam needs to work on his offensive game or he'll never see the NHL. Forbort needs to figure out how to play at his highest ability level consistently. (Mattson and Simpson were getting power play time in front of him. That doesn't say "NHL ready".) Dell? He's the wildcard. He could go. He could stay. All I know is that I've seen a lot of very good WCHA goalies leave early and that I've never seen them since.

So on April 5 it's Union and Ferris State and then the night game is Minnesota and BC. Brad Schlossman's Tweet on topic is ... Dead. On.

Attendance at these regionals is embarrassing. There's nobody in GB for Corn/FSU. The eastern rinks are as bad or worse. And the X was not even completely full today. The sport and the teams deserve better.

That was the mask Dell has worn all season.

Wow are the boards terrible at the two eastern rinks. 14 to play in regulation and Cornell and Ferris tied at 1.

If they had done that: - there'd be no 12:30 pm game on Sat, Mar 24, as the NCAA would advance WMU and forfeit UND out of the tournament - UND'd be on a bus back to Grand Forks - UND'd be getting a bill for the expenses incurred by the NCAA to bring them to the West Regional That's exactly what the letter from the NCAA to UND a couple weeks ago said. Worth it? Mario Lamoureux would tell you, "No."

As I watched games yesterday, played by Spartans, and Dutchmen, and a team with a tribe's name on their shirt (Miami), I harkened back to this .... The NCAA's original policy targeted "race, ethnicity, or national origin" based monikers. They're going after the Native American monikers first. And they added words to the Settlement Agreement (same link as above) with UND about removing the "tribal approval" clause. That tells that they'll be coming for more later. How much more? Well, read the original Aug 5, 2005, words ("race, ethnicity, national origin"). The rest of the schools out there should be taking note. I'm pretty sure the like-minded elitists at the NCAA would love it if we all were Harvard (a color, no mascot, a letter mark logo) or Stanford (a color, and a tree, a letter mark logo) or Syracuse (a color, a fruit mascot). If feels like they're targeting UND. But we're the first big rock they have to crack to get to where they really want to be. And given that they make the rules ...

Seeing Michigan get rope-a-doped by Cornell the same way Michigan rope-a-doped UND last year made me smirk. The look on Red's face after the game? Priceless.

Everyone on the other side of the bracket is salivating.

The lead-based paint is only on Amelia Earhart's airplane so it'll be easy to get out of there.

And Union scores on the rush on the powerplay. Union 3-1 (1:18 to play)

Michigan State takes a hook in the offensive zone with 90 seconds to play and down a goal (well, tied, but the refs have one of MSU's goals).

Union fails to convert on a 3-0 breakaway. MSU comes right back to score (iron and in). Union 2-1 with 38.7 left in second.

The settlement ended it. Al Carlson tried to renege on a deal (a legal contract). That's not how North Dakota works. Shame on Al.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Tech_Red_Raiders

Who wants to bet that Shepherd and Hunt are in their room realizing they missed at least a minor (if not a penalty shot) and are deciding how many penalties to call on Union to start the second? I predict the next three are on Union.

A Union player dislodged the net to stop an MSU scoring chance? Isn't that a minor penalty? Shepherd. Hunt. Any questions?

Wow. I think Michigan State just got jobbed out of a goal to tie. (Referee's name? Derek Shepherd.) Union 1-0 late first.

If the autobids and KRACH were used to seed the tournament (and not accounting for conference match-ups, etc.): BC v. USAFA Maine v. BU Mich v. Union WMU v. Minnesota UND v. NMU UMD v. DU Miami v. Mich St FSU v. UMLowell Better?

Boston College - North Dakota

Is anyone at that game?

They sometimes have "live box" and radio links on the scoreboard here: http://www.collegehockeynews.com/schedules/scoreboard.php

Texas Tech was something other than the Red Raiders? That I did not know.