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http://www.ncaasports.com/broadcast/tv/March
More will be added through out the week. It is live in Tulsa as of right now...
The good news is that some outlets will show it live, which makes it more likely it will be available at sports grill/bar near you.
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Has anyone seen any post - game quotes from Hak - other than -
"A heck of a play, a big-time play," Sioux coach Dave Hakstol said.
"It was a hard-fought game," said Hakstol, whose team was 12-1-4 in its previous 17 games. "It was everything it was billed to be."
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/sports/16927730.htm
Did he speak after the game to TH on the radio?
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I think the team will be just fine. I do not feel this is anything more than a bump in the road to number 8. If the Gophers would have won in regulation I would have been more upset. These teams can play period.
I think the Gophers played a "10" and a the Sioux a "7-8". We took to many "away from the puck" penalties last night. We need to play more disiplined (Radke/Chorney).
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Did any of you see this
http://board.uscho.com/showpost.php?p=3069...p;postcount=175
Re: UND vs Minnesota WCHA Championship Game
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Originally Posted by Bertogliat
My tickets are right behind the Sue family seats. During the awards ceremony and while UND was still on the ice, Dave Hakstol comes running by me and goes right to 2 family members and pulls them out of their seats. I don't want to say that he had a look of panic on his face, but he definately had a serious and concerned look. I hope everything is all right.
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From today's Strib
http://www.startribune.com/512/story/1058468.html
"The Gophers will be playing on an NHL-sized rink for the first time since Jan. 5 at Minnesota State, Mankato, so Lucia took advantage of available ice time at Xcel Energy Center on Wednesday and Thursday to get his team acclimated to the change."
Did all teams get 2 practice sessions at the X???
Conspiracy!!!
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Let's also not forget the quality of goaltending in the WCHA this season and Duncan's ability to consistently score goals on the top goalies in the league. Who on UND's team could do that? Who in the WCHA could do it? What college player in the nation could do it?
He made Goepfert and Elliot look bad last year at the F5.
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Not sure I completely trust the pwr predictor tool on USCHO. I ran a number of comparisons prior to the play-in game that had Wisconsin winning the WCHA tourney, and there were scenerios where UND would just miss the NCAA tourney. Can't seem to find any now.
How about this for a conspiracy theory, lets plug in these results in the tool:
- CCHA Semifinal #2: Michigan State defeats Michigan.
- CCHA Semifinal #1: Lake Superior defeats Notre Dame.
- CCHA Championship game: Lake Superior defeats Michigan State.
- CCHA Consolation game: Notre Dame defeats Michigan.
- ECACHL Semifinal #2: Dartmouth defeats Clarkson.
- ECACHL Semifinal #1: St. Lawrence defeats Quinnipiac.
- ECACHL Championship game: St. Lawrence defeats Dartmouth.
- ECACHL Consolation game: Clarkson defeats Quinnipiac.
- Hockey East Semifinal #2: Boston College defeats Boston University.
- Hockey East Semifinal #1: Massachusetts defeats New Hampshire.
- Hockey East Championship game: Boston College defeats Massachusetts.
- WCHA Semifinal #2: St. Cloud State defeats North Dakota.
- WCHA Semifinal #1: Wisconsin defeats Minnesota.
- WCHA Championship game: Wisconsin defeats St. Cloud State.
- WCHA Consolation game: Minnesota defeats North Dakota.
- Atlantic Hockey Semifinal #2: Army defeats Connecticut.
- Atlantic Hockey Semifinal #1: Air Force defeats Sacred Heart.
- Atlantic Hockey Championship game: Air Force defeats Army.
UND ends up with the 12th seed and there are 4 auto births below them. The team at #13 is Maine which owns two road wins against the Sioux and wins the head-to-head comparison. Now, in an effort to avoid subjecting hockey fans to the "hostile and abusive" UND name and logo the NCAA selection committee decides to give Maine the last spot instead of the Sioux. Can't happen ? After seeing how the football team dropped from #2 to #3 I wouldn't rule it out.
If pwr is strictly used and the predicator tool is accurate I can't seem to find any possibility of the Sioux getting knocked out.
I emailed Jason Moy to see if we could still drop below 12 with the MTU loss. He said the below results put UND 13 in the PWR and out of the tourny with 4 autobids below them. Highly unlikely but still possible.
CCHA Semifinal #2: Michigan State defeats Michigan.
CCHA Semifinal #1: Lake Superior defeats Notre Dame.
CCHA Championship game: Michigan State defeats Lake Superior.
CCHA Consolation game: Michigan defeats Notre Dame.
ECACHL Semifinal #2: Clarkson defeats Dartmouth.
ECACHL Semifinal #1: Quinnipiac defeats St. Lawrence.
ECACHL Championship game: Quinnipiac defeats Clarkson.
ECACHL Consolation game: Dartmouth defeats St. Lawrence.
Hockey East Semifinal #2: Boston University defeats Boston College.
Hockey East Semifinal #1: Massachusetts defeats New Hampshire.
Hockey East Championship game: Massachusetts defeats Boston University.
WCHA Semifinal #2: St. Cloud State defeats North Dakota.
WCHA Semifinal #1: Wisconsin defeats Minnesota.
WCHA Championship game: Wisconsin defeats St. Cloud State.
WCHA Consolation game: Minnesota defeats North Dakota.
Atlantic Hockey Semifinal #2: Army defeats Connecticut.
Atlantic Hockey Semifinal #1: Air Force defeats Sacred Heart.
Atlantic Hockey Championship game: Army defeats Air Force.
- CCHA Semifinal #2: Michigan State defeats Michigan.
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Elliott is the player of the game and UW shows why I wanted MTU to win. Their defensive strategy works well in the playoffs. Of course, two fluke goals and two defensive breakdowns never hurt.
MTU's crashing the corner strategy just doesn't work. Period. Gorowsky scored, sure, but there were TWO Badgers open in front of the net. If Teslak made the save it surely would have resulted in a goal anyhow as that other Badger would have knocked it in.
Put away your Homer hats, guys, we want the Gophers to win tommorrow.
Eliot looked good against a hard working team with no goal scoring talent to speak of. They created some chances but then proceeded to shoot the puck right at Elliot.
The Sioux have solved Eliot before (F5 last year) and I don't think they fear any team/goalie right now.
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Don't know about that, dagies. Maybe he wasn't at his best but really... how good was JPar or Lammy when he had nothing in front of him? His team didn't show up for most of the game. By the time they did they couldn't figure Elliott out so it was too late.
Really, the goals scored were bad defensive breakdowns (Geoffrion, Gorowsky), nasty deflection (Joudrey), and fluke (Davies). Not much to blame Teslak for there.
I hope UW goes into tonight's game thinking they can score four goals against the Gophers and then find the Gophers noncompliant. Basically, if the Sioux win this afternoon, I want the Gophers to win tonight. If the Sioux lose, I want the Gophers to lose. I don't want to play UW. Period.
The Sioux made Elliot and WI look terrible last year at the F5 - why should this year be any different?
I don't think the boys fear anyone/anyteam/anywhere right now - no one wants to face the Sioux.
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Imagine if you will what the 2009 Sioux could look like, Kristo,Chichy,D. Toews,Ness,LaPoint,Frattin,Landman,Genoway,Duncan and maybe Nash.
Expect LaPoint to be a 2 year guy. Don't forget Gleeson from Edina.
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I'm starting to think the same thing.
After his perfomance in the MN ST, we need an early committ from Ness ASAP.
I also heard that DT is pretty much a done deal.
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Michael-Lee Teslak, Bobby Goepfert and Phil Lamoureux are the first, second and third best WCHA goalies respectively in the second half of the season. Goepfert's numbers are a hair better than Lamoureux's. What does Lamoureux have that none of the top three have? A .800 winning percentage. Goepfert is at .667 and Teslak is at .692.
In the second half of the season, Briggs would be the seventh best goalie in the WCHA. He has a .533 winning percentage.
I know which goalie I'd rather have at this point of the season -- the one that wins the most.
I thought someone posted Lammy's 2nd half stats on this board - does anyone remember? Maybe it was Brad on his blog?
Edit - from the UND/MSM pregame last week:
Goalie Philippe Lamoureux (Jr., Grand Forks, N.D.) has now started 18 consecutive games since Christmas, posting a 12-2-4 mark along with a 2.03 goals against average and .926 save percentage in those games.
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I believe cfm knew that; he'd just like to know which end the home team defends twice.
They will be shooting (often) at the Zamboni/East end of the arena. 123/C36/226,227 are directly behind the goal.
http://wild.com/arena/ArenaDiagram.html
Will we be wearing the lucky black/fit jerseys Fri? We must wear green on Sat - St Patty's day.
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It looks like a UMass win of Hockey East would be beneficial (since it would hurt BC, BU and UNH) and paired with St. Lawrence win of the ECACHL could get the Sioux up to #3 overall.
Also, it appears losing the 3rd place game would hurt St. Cloud a ton, so that's something else to pull for.
But first things first, and that's the Sioux winning Friday and Saturday night. If that doesn't happen, then the rest doesn't really matter.
Because of Denver/CC's demise, having NH and us as #1 seeds would be great. They would have to put NH at home, leaving us to be the #1 in Denver, with no local team to influence the crowd unfairly.
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Thanks for posting - after playing with the scenarios, it looks like we need our ECAC buddies Dartmouth to help if we want to get a #1. Wondering if you see any "must win" games elsewhere for a #1 to work.
One scenario on the USCHO that puts UND as a #1 seed would be for HE/ECHL/CCHA tournaments go to chalk and UND to win the f5 and SCS losing twice. That puts the #1 seeds as Nortre Dame, Minn, NH and UND, in that order, which would probably put us in Denver. Our bracket would have Clarkson and Maine/Mass and/or St. L.
Not out of the question.
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mankato drops as a tuc so that affects it, its pretty complicated so i wont go there... not big deal, we will float around as a 2 seed when its all said and done...
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I don't know how everyone else feels on this issue, but I am going to be rooting for either St. Cloud or Minnesota to win their game tonight. If they both happen to lose, that bumps Wisconsin automatically into the semi's, and I don't want them to only have to win 2 games to get into the NCAA's because Wisconsin can do that. Winning 3 games is a completely different deal. I don't want to see Wisconsin in the national tournament at all. If they have to play on Thursday and then play UofM or St. Cloud on Friday followed by a potential game against UND on Saturday, I just can't see them winning all 3 games. They are just too damn scary of a team for me.
Also - have you seen our PWR today - we moved back to 8th - due to Mankato dropping out as a TUC. I know some of you are rooting for SCS and UMinn to lose game 3 today but it would help our RPI if we beat a higher ranked team in the F5. If they both lose, we would be the highest RPI team in the F5, with not much chance to move up in the PWR.
If the NCAA started today we would probably have to play Mich in GR, with the winner playing UMinn, unless they get beat by Sacred Heart.
Regardless of the numbers, we are a team no one wants to play right now.
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Actually, Denver is in danger of not making the NCAA. They need to win their playoff series this weekend, and possibly a win at the frozen five. But you are right, the chances of us getting to Denver are slim. I think MNtc goes there as the #1 seed and we get sent out east as a #2, which is ok, it is all about who you play. I agree that I don't think we have a shot at a #1 unless one of the top seeds has a major meltdown this weekend and we win out, but hey it would be sweet if it happened. Also, can someone tell me why the BU loss hurts us? I'm not that smart, sometimes I need things spelled out for me.
It would be good if Dartmouth stays in the top 15 in RPI so our win in Dec gets us bonus points. Vermont is currently 16th in RPI one position behind Dartmouth and if they beat BU again they could move ahead of them. We are 7th in the RPI without the bonus, 6th with the bonus.
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I wonder if aquiring road win RPI bonus points goes into the scheduling strategy? This year we only had 2 chances for those points (Dartmouth/BSU). Minnesota has a nice situation getting Mich/MSU on the road every other year. Neutral site tournaments really don't help us re: bonus points. Where would our bonus points opportunities be next year?
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Headline: Badgers hope hard-fought scoreless tie provides
boost 
entering playoffshttp://www.madison.com/tct/sports/uw/index...585&ntpid=1
When is a 0-0 tie vs. ninth place UMD a boost when you are defending nat. champs? I have to laugh.
Embarrassing - kind of like Lucia still blaming the WJC for the 2nd half swoon.
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Great point. We may enter a situation where the matchups are forced regardless banding. In addition, Denver will be in Denver and 99% Michigan will be in Grand Rapids. That tells me that HE is coming West and greatly increases the chances of UND going East.
Maybe they would do this: BU/Den, Miami/Maine, BC/Mich, which would leave us to play StL.
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I know the Pairwise rankings will change in the next 2 weeks prior to the tournament, but here's an interesting situation for the NCAA.
If you add the bonus, BU/BC/Maine are currently ranked 8/9/10, which could make it difficult to avoid a Hockey East matchup in round 1, which the committee always tries to avoid. It gets even more complicated because Miami/Michigan and UND/Denver bookend the group in the middle, and they would have to avoid those matchups as well.
I will be interested to see what Jason Moy at USCHO comes up with for this weeks bracketology.
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According to Hockeydb.com, Iwabuchi wore the #1 jersey... Stankhoven (sp?) wore #30. Hockeydb has been known to be wrong occasionally in the past, though.
I do remember Stankoven in goal at Williams Arena to clinch the WCHA title, though.
Breaking News - Denver Regional
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If we win Sat - we end up 7 and MN drops to 2, which would put is the same region anyway.