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  1. Here's the whole list of WCHA teams that have won the regular season title and the national title.

    1952-53 Minnesota/Michigan

    1956-57 Colorado College

    1957-58 North Dakota/Denver (These teams actually faced each other in the national title game)

    1959-60 Denver

    1960-61 Denver

    1964-65 Michigan Tech

    1967-68 Denver

    1976-77 Wisconsin

    1979-80 North Dakota

    1986-87 North Dakota

    1989-90 Wisconsin

    1996-97 Minnesota/North Dakota

    2004-05 Colorado College/Denver

    You can add the 1962-63 and 1981-82 North Dakota clubs to this list. They were regular season champs, but didn't win the MacNaughton Cup because from 62-65 the Cup went to the playoff champ and the 1982 championship occurred during the Cups dark time in the CCHA.

  2. UMass gets an empty netter to go up 5-1 after Jack Parker had pulled one from the Blais playback and pulled the goalie with 6 to go and on a power play. About 2 minutes left now.

    Maine still up on Vermont 2-0 with 15 left in the 3rd. If that holds Maine will still trail UMass by 2 points for the final playoff spot in Hockey East. If Maine can get to 8th, I have a feeling they will give UNH all they want in that 1st Round series.

    The Vermont and BU losses will help the WCHA bubble teams.

  3. Some scores from out east

    Merrimack 1 UNH 0

    Maine 2 Vermont 0 15 to go in the 2nd

    Umass 3

    BU 1

    late 2nd (this one is on free webcast at www.cn8.tv)

    Providence 2

    BC 2

    in the 2nd

  4. The current PWR could realistically provide the following brackets

    Colorado Springs

    1 Colorado College

    16 Bemidji St.

    8 Clarkson

    9 Minnesota St.

    Albany

    4 North Dakota

    13 Army

    5 Miami

    12 Minnesota-Duluth

    Worcester

    3 New Hampshire

    14 Minnesota

    6 Denver

    11 Boston College

    Madison

    2 Michigan

    15 St. Cloud State

    7 Michigan St.

    10 Wisconsin

    Very few changes necessary from the actual rankings. Army and St. Cloud switch to avoid a first round matchup between UND and St. Cloud and BC and Mankato Switch to avoid a Denver Mankato matchup. These pairings would result in pretty strong attendance as well. The only thing I don't like is having the only two hockey east teams together. Ideally I would switch BC and Clarkson in this situation, even though technically Clarkson is a 2 seed and BC is a 3. You could also switch St. Cloud and the Gophers if you wanted a Big 10 regional in Madison.

  5. The amazing thing is that the Gophers and Bulldogs are currently separated by 1 ten-thousandth of a point in RPI. UND's win over Bemidji was enough to flip the comparison back to the UM-D. That's how volatile things are with PWR.

  6. After coughing up a 4-1 lead, Maine wins in overtime over UMass. That knocks UMass from TUC status and puts Minnesota on the happy side of the Pairwise Mendoza line, while UMD is now on the outside looking in.

  7. I hope the Sioux end up out east. I don't really want any part of an olympic rink. It's much easier for a team to go into a slowdown mode and stifle offense and also puts too much of a premium on the power play. The latter could be a problem for UND if they get a ref that doesn't like physical play. Worcester has been kind to the Sioux in the past and while they dropped a heartbreaker to BC in Albany, they also took out Hobey Ryan Miller there that year.

  8. Since the current PWR doesn't really reward schedule strength, the smartest thing would probably be to schedule some Hockey East patsies like Lowell and Merrimack (only about 15 miles apart). That is also a huge benefit in common opponents if you sweep, since all the Hockey East teams would have to go 6-0 against them to equal us. Similarly, finding out the weak sisters that are in the Michigan-Michigan State cluster would be very beneficial for the pairwise.

    Of course, I don't really want that. I like that we will go anywhere to play anyone. This year the top 3 teams in Hockey East, the second place team in the CCHA and the CHA leader. Next year at the GLI versus the current top team in the nation. If the hosting Cornell rumors are true, I would mind adding a trip to Orono to play the Black Bears. Haven't yet gotten to Alfond and I'd really like to go there. And a trip to Lynah for 09-10 would be pretty cool.

  9. Yep. My thanks too to RedFrog and AZSioux. I was fully expecting Duncs to bag the empty netter to keep this alive another night. It's funny that we both could have survived by doing nothing since Trupp scored. Good luck to everyone on the next go round.

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