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State and Augustine choking again?!?!!!

Hastings needs to recruit more high end scorers and be willing to live with the ups and downs of inexperience

Higher end talent for State. Wisconsin in a world of hurt now

I hope this game goes to OT, need an OT game

Just hasn't gotten enough high end forwards for me to be confident in their team year to year

State of Wisconsin doesn't produce that much talent and the Granato years turned many in state kids off of the Badgers

If the Badgers win this, I'll gladly eat crow for what I've said about Hastings so far at Wisconsin. Just been confused by a lot of their roster construction & been skeptical

Wonder if Stramel will show up and have a big night in the Stramel Bowl right now

Penn State's 2024 Frozen Four run and getting Gavin McKenna & Jackson Smith means they're serious about competing short & long term. They will continue to get talent, which means their roster won't just be a bunch of relatively random lower-mid tier players like they used to have

Pegula spent that $750k, which is merely a rounding error to him. The Penn State University administration didn't take $750k out of their athletics budget to give to McKenna. Seems like a bunch of fans across the country (disproportionately Gophers fans) keep bringing up the money without the context. It's odd but whatever

Wisconsin Michigan State really intrigues me. If State looks how they did for long stretches against UConn, I like Wisconsin's chances. But if this gets above 3 goals, I think State has it

Shut down Verreault & Vidicek and I think North Dakota gets a dub tonight. Wyttenbach will get his chances, shut down their other top guys.

Cooper Simpson another dart

Do we consider Penn State "Eastern" when they play in a Central/Western conference? They don't really fit the geographic description of being Eastern, Central, or Western tbh

Not that surprising. The 2 best Eastern teams played each other in the 1st round and the one with 3 of the best freshmen producers (Wyttenbach, Verreault, Vidicek) is the one still alive

Yeah, he doesn't watch much NCAA in general besides some Hockey East and maybe an occasional B1G game. He's only watching the NHL most weeks

Not watching live, what did he say?

Not as bad as 2023, but with Hockey East being so down and ECAC being pretty meh besides Quinnipiac meant B1G and NCHC were going to be quite favored

Feel like this tournament has been fairly easy to predict so far based on roster composition and SOS. Only 2 games I didn't have a great read on were Quinnipiac-Providence College and Penn State-Minnesota Duluth upcoming.

I hope Minnesota Duluth gets destroyed personally.

Moldenhauer, 3-0 Michigan

On Bentley

This regional should be at Yost if the NCAA did things the right way

Jake Fisher goal on his birthday