RedFrog

If anyone is eager to run some scenarios, here is an early predictor tool: https://www.bcinterruption.com/boston-college-bc-eagles-mens-womens-hockey-ranking-calculators/51511/what-if-the-2026-ncaa-mens-hockey-tournament-npi-predictor-frozen-four

Ohhhh ... no Zellers or Strinden (or Klee) tonight due to illness.

Rickwood

How many Grade A opportunities did Zellers have on Saturday? He was so snake bit that he scored the game winner for Western in OT.

Strinden ... OVERDUE!!

Good Lord, I just don't want to see this team playing for overtime in a tie game with more than 2 minutes left in the 3rd period ... if even then. Play to win. Someone else said it somewhere ... but I am glad Arizona State has something to play for. Not only do they need wins to avoid the 9th place elimination spot, but they have some opportunity to move up as high as 6th. Maybe they can sneak a game or at least a point or two from Denver this weekend. Ultimately, I'm happy that we have a 5 point lead going into the final weekend. The last couple of weeks have been dog fights and I think will help this team realize what it takes and that teams are going to be giving you all they have in the playoffs. I'm optimistic they'll be able to take another step forward this weekend and gain at least a split v WMU.

While the playoffs don't officially begin for another week this is, in all reality, a playoff series. This weekend will go a long way to showing if this team is a legitimate title contender or if they are just a good team that has a chance to make a run. Question for the group: Is this WMU team as good as last year's WMU team? Don't they have a couple key D-men out with significant injuries?

I would be agreeable to this as an alternative to campus sites and the current neutral site format.

Honestly, I think the way this year is shaping up is giving more fuel for those who want to keep it the way it is by having neutral regional sites. With the top 4 seeds all likely being from the west there will be the argument that there wouldn't be any games in the east.

Being toward the top of the rankings also provides more opportunities to fall than to rise, which also applies to the Michigans above us. First thing first ... take care of business against St. Cloud.

I don't know ... I understand what you are saying, but I think it is harder to change when it is chalk to the rankings (1 v 8 v 9 v 16). Maybe not harder to change, but more easily justified? This is the problem with the "neutral site" system that is currently in place. If the desire is to have the #1 overall seed to have the advantage, play the games in a system where higher seeds host games on campus. Until they are willing to do that, I don't think there should be any consideration to "protecting" the seeds.

Dylan James

Ollie Josephson

Thank you for the clarification ... would have been ice if the article had stated that.

https://www.uscho.com/2026/02/02/walter-brown-award-names-25-semifinalists Is the Walter Brown award an East Coast only award? Hard to believe that the NCHC and B1G don't have a semifinalist for the "best American-born Division I college hockey player."