The Sicatoka

Lemmiwinks has nothing to do with hockey.

In this scenario (UND wins autobid), not likely. Mn and Q seem locked in 1/2. DU and Mich seem locked 3/4. UMn gets seeded first, but not Fargo. Q gets seeded next, out east. Whoever is 3 visits Scheels in this scenario, and in the scenario DU loses to UND, so Mich is likely 3 and "gonna go-tah North Dakota ... "

Did "dad" know? We'll never know apparently; the media has lost interest. Did the TM possession move from "negotiating" to "turned over to UND" in a day when it came out? Yup. That sounds like "dad hammer", whether he knew or just found out. But if UND was "negotiating" why wouldn't it get back to him if he didn't know before. Questions ...

PWR goes 16 --> 14.

Dare I say many guys in the portal have nil value.

Just finished footnotes.

... until SCSU pulls down three with six left.

Who terminated a UND season from 1997 on, for example read 2017 as "UND ended by BU who was ended by UMD who was ended by Nat Champ DU". (italics signifies DNQ for NCAAs) 1997 - National Champion 1998 - by Mich 1999 - by BC by Maine 2000 - National Champion 2001 - by BC 2002 - by Minn* 2003 - by Ferris State by Minn 2004 - by Denver 2005 - by Denver 2006 - by BC by Wisc 2007 - by BC by Mich St 2008 - by BC 2009 - by UNH by BU 2010 - by Yale by BC 2011 - by Mich by UMD 2012 - by Minn by BC 2013 - by Yale 2014 - by Minn by Unioin 2015 - by BU by Prov 2016 - National Champion 2017 - by BU by UMD by DU 2018 - by SCSU by USAFA by UMD** 2019 - by DU*** by UMass by UMD 2020 - < bleep > Covid 2021 - by UMD by UMass 2022 - by Notre Dame by Mankato by DU 2023 - TBD The last team mentioned on each row was the National Champion. Not sure where Covid hangs its banner <- that's rhetorical. *in WCHA opening round, Minn won NC **lost to SCSU in NCHC semi (season effectively ends), won 3rd place game over UMD for all the good that did ***in NCHC quarters

They waived the other three off?

So Niagara is their "Canisius"?

Every off-season it seems. KRACH is pure analytic. It's based off Bradley-Terry modeling methodology.

They "adjust" the weightings of WinPct, OppWinPct, and OppOppWinPct in RPI frequently; RPI is a key factor in PWR. They have "good road win" fudge factors that they've brought in to the RPI also. They used to use a "Last 16 games" comparison in PWR (besides RPI, ComOpp, and H2H).

NDSU is looking for a new "voice". Rob Hipp lasted one season. https://www.bison1660.com/2023/03/10/nationwide-search-beginning-for-ndsu-radio-play-by-play-voice/

Anyone know if we can borrow a former MN Governor's St. Paul street map? Seems the appropriate one to use on St. Pat's.

Thirty seconds of thought had UND/SCSU as the late game. Denver as the 1 seed gets longer rest (assuming they win) Relatively local teams' fans are more likely to attend a night game Relatively local teams will have the arena looking better on primetime TV

It's too objective and analytic. No knobs to twiddle like PWR and RPI, so no "twiddle the criteria" committees and you have to have twiddle committees.

It's March; no surrender is what to give and expect.

You wear green on St. Patrick's Day in St. Paul. Next question. If they had green buckets to match the green roads you'd set the black hats aside for a day! Anyone have green stick tape?

They've won the games on their schedule and it's good enough. If there's a problem with PWR it's that they have to tweek it annually for "good road win" and other nonsense, plus they can adjust the weighting factors. KRACH is a better, more truly objective criteria, that should be used instead of PWR. I don't always agree with CollegeHockeyNews.com but on this I do.

62 of 67 for 0.925.

DeRidder went 62 of 67, 0.925. That’s about what I predicted it would need to be to win in three.

Double-double!

On an NHL rink.

Please show a picture of Coach G.

That’s three for James on breaks over that glove in two weeks.