Kevin G

Michigan Tech v BC at 1pm CT MTU's most important player might be the referees. Tech needs to pound BC without taking penalties, while Pietila stands on his head.

Here's hoping Tech shocks the world and beats BC tomorrow.

Omaha was a much better team this season than I expected them to be. This was a coulda-shoulda-woulda game for them.

Dang. Let's hope not.

Feels like the Gophers will get three if they get one.

Grammar lessons from gfhockey was not on my bingo card for the day.

Working his dream job in Cornell's admissions department.

David Carle really wants to move the regional games to campus sites. I'm guessing if DU loses today as a #1 seed playing a de facto road game across the country, Carle will be on fire regarding this issue. Go UMass.

No worries. The last I had heard was speculation that he was dealing with a nagging injury. In any case, I'm hoping Ludvig is 100% on Friday. We're gonna need him at his best for the next four games.

He was sick? I hadn't seen that reported anywhere.

Here's a goalie comp between the presumed starting goalies, Barczewski and Persson: Barczewski, 25 yo, Gr, 34 Games, 2.83 GAA, .907 SV%, 2 SH Persson, 24 yo, Sr, 33 Games, 2.47 GAA, .906 SV%, 5 SH IMO, they're pretty similar except for the accent (Barczewski is from Missouri). They're both about the same age, they're both about the same size, they both have a lot of college experience, they're both at their second school, they both have similar numbers, and they've both been good-but-not-great. (Nationally, the median team SV% this season was almost exactly .900. and the median GAA was almost exactly 3.00.) The biggest question around the goaltenders appears to be the mystery surrounding Ludvig and his situation.

Also FWIW--and even more off topic--I swear the Kool-Aid Man was based on Fat Albert. Or the other way around.

FWIW, there used to be a Kool-Aid Man comic book.

Well we’ll just have to wait and see about that.

A small price to pay so small eastern schools don’t have to play regional games at big mean schools.

This was an exercise of heart over head.

I like Bucci’s enthusiasm for college hockey. But I wish they’d keep him in the studio and away from play-by-play duties.

He’s totally ready. Should probably sign before the sun goes down.

That's the hole in the illness theory for sure.

I haven't seen anything but positive comments on Persson's attitude, so this must be nagging illness or nagging injury, right? We've had influenza going through the house. It's bad, then kinda goes away, then comes back and hangs on for awhile. Maybe something like that?

LFG!

I don't think this can happen...but is there a scenario where a UND win over Omaha makes Omaha a #4 seed while UND remains a #1 seed, thereby resulting in UND getting placed somewhere other than Sioux Falls? If so, that would result in an apparent conflict of interest, in that it might be to UND's advantage to lose in order to gain a preferred regional destination.

Zmolek did get robbed.

USCHO's latest bracket Providence, R.I. 1. Boston College 6. Maine 9. Wisconsin 14. Colorado College Maryland Heights, Mo. 4. Denver 7. Quinnipiac 10. Michigan 13. Western Michigan Sioux Falls, S.D. 3. North Dakota 8. Minnesota 11. Omaha 15. RIT Springfield, Mass. 2. Boston University 5. Michigan State 12. Massachusetts 16. Bemidji State

Hey man, thanks for stopping by. The BGSU job has at least one huge advantage over the Miami job: a reasonable path to conference championships and the NCAA tournament. Bowling Green can more easily compete at the top of the CCHA; at the very least no one looks to be running away with the conference anymore. Miami however is far behind the top of the NCHC; they’re even far behind the middle of the conference. So Miami has a longer and more difficult path to success than BGSU, in my opinion. (Plus I’m not sure that folks in Miami are content with their conference affiliation. That’s probably not an issue at Bowling Green.)