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A little history here: Back in the 80's and before, the Frozen Four played a semifinal game on Thursday and the other Semifinal game on Friday with the championship game on Saturday. After analyzing the stats they decided to move both semifinal games to Thursday because they discovered that the Thursday winner ended up winning over 65% of the championship games no matter their seeding due to the extra day of rest. This concerns me about the game against Duluth Saturday. They have had the rest whereas UND has not. Of course Sandelin was whining that they didn't get to play to prepare his team for the final but really? Who wouldn't take a walkover in a national championship tourney. But due to a 4-0 lead I think this game was well managed by the coaches and except for Gaber no one got hurt. They ran four lines the entire game which I am hoping helps them with Saturday's game. Time to stop hearing about the two time defending champ by beat Duluth tomorrow!

This happens every year. For example. Fargo Force played a game last Saturday (3/20). They took the ice out on Sunday (3/21). NCAA came in and put down their logos on Monday and put down new ice. Only way the new ice is decent at all is if it is set up for at least 4-5 days without high humidity or temps. never happens. I heard the temps in Bridgeport were in the 70s so the ice never truly set up. Net result the regionals ice is almost always bad. It was bad two in Fargo two years ago when AIC beat SCSU which slowed down SCSU.

As soon as the show went off the air Buccicross hightailed it to the Wisconsin locker room so he could make out with Caufield. Bucci was ridiculous today. " Caufiled, the eventual Hobey Baker winner" etc. Caufield had 152 shots during the season; in comparison Pinto had 84. Caufield had 44 points and Pinto had 30 points. Do you think Pinto would have more points than Caufield if he had another 68 shots? These guys on ESPN give no credit to hard working teams like Bemidji State but they pretty much dominated Wisconsin most of that game.

So last time the regional was at Scheels the ice was terrible. It was one of the main reasons AIC was able to win against a much faster team in St. Cloud. I am expecting it to be terrible again. The Fargo Force had a game on Saturday night March 20th. Best case scenario the NCAA came in and took out the ice on Sunday but more likely on Monday. Put down their logos and then put down new ice. That gives it most likely three days to firm up. Typically not enough time for good Ice. Plus we play the second game which makes it even worse. So we can hope that we can score the first goal so AIC can't slow it down on crappy ice. Only ice worse than NCAA regionals was when they had the Frozen Four at Ford Field (Indoors football field) in Detroit.

Collin Adams

Riese Gaber

Grant Mismash

Shane Pinto

Riese Gaber

Jordan Kawaguchi

Shane Pinto

So what was with all the chirping and hand waving bye bye by the Denver players on their way to the locker room? Anyone?

There has been talk already that the European teams are having a hard time with Covid and some nations may not be able to send their teams to the World Juniors. Essentially they are all waiting for the OK before committing

Well as you saw I would have picked Senden and he didn't score either. Besides I missed the 3:05 deadline. Got to stick by the rules. Looks like we have a winner in Game 1 so I can play in Game 2 on Thursday so don't forget to make your picks there too. Tough game to lose with that 5 minute major with 6 1/2 minutes to go but you don't win a lot of games only scoring 2 goals.

Good luck guys. I forgot about it today and I'm too late. Just watch and Senden will score too.