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Western Michigan looking like an NCAA Tournament team tonight. All over Omaha. 3-0 after two.

Upset watch: Quinnipiac 3, Cornell 0. early 2nd period.

If there's still time to take Kierstad out of your fantasy team, it seems like a good idea. Bummer, though: https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/hockey/4888738-UND-may-be-without-back-to-back-NCHC-defenseman-of-the-week-against-Colorado-College

Who stands to benefit from framing a UND hockey player? Colorado College. Who knows UND well enough to do the framing? I suspect Chris Wilkie. * * with no evidence whatsoever.

Speaking of hockey down south, is there any possibility of UND / NCHC hosting a Frozen Four in Nashville? Hmmmm.

Well, Athens, Georgia is a few hundred miles west of Allentown, PA.

I wish Michaud was wearing a mike this weekend.

If there was ever a weekend to stay out of the box, this one is it. UMD PP cruising along at 27%. As long as it is 5x5 hockey I like our odds of winning.

Makes me appreciate even more the excellence of the CBS Sports Pair of Holden and Starman.

"Gray business suits?"

As a tie-breaker for conference championship and playoff seeding, I like shootouts better than what we used to use (and which are still backup tiebreakers). Goal difference, total goals in head to head games, etc.

Meanwhile, that Wisconsin team with all the first rounders gets crushed by Michigan State 0-4 .

The NCHC meat grinder tonight - all three of our Pairwise top ten teams failed to win against teams In the bottom half of the league. Omaha 1 Denver 1 SCSu 2-1 over UMD and UND -Miami. it’s never easy.

Credit to Bergeron for not whining about a call that didn’t go his way.

I enjoyed the interview with Bergeron - and the one fan right behind him wearing a SIOUX jersey.

Depends on whether "ballot harvesting" is allowed.

On Wednesday, Omaha's basketball team shot 43% from the floor. On Friday, Omaha's hockey team shot 46%.

If there's going to be college hockey at Target Field during Winter Classic, its not imaginable the Gophers aren't in it. Perhaps the Mariucci Classic gets played outside? Gophers, UMD, Mankato, St Cloud ...

Very good night for NCHC, and also UND's strength of schedule: Denver 4-2 over U Mass Western Michigan goes into Notre Dame and gets a tie. "Lowly" Omaha goes to Maine and gets a tie. Oh, even Canisius got a result - a t tie at RIT. MSU and Bemidji both won, not surprisingly.

JBD with Canada's third. Sweet toe drag and then wrister up high. 3-0

Playing a rivalry game over New Year week would certainly run contrary to the scheduling of recent years, where UND has successfully avoided playing big games without players who are at World Juniors. It makes for a long, boring holidays - but its better than the old WCHA days where big games got scheduled the first weekend of January.

Russia moves to the semis with a 3-1 win over Switzerland. Canada - Slovakia is just 53 seconds in and Canada takes a major penalty (soft, but that's what was called). Wondering when IIHF moves into the 21st century with giving referees video review ability.

Probably not what the USA wanted either.

Agree. Meanwhile, on the other extreme, Canada's Veleno gets a game suspension for a light helmet to helmet tap. https://www.tsn.ca/team-canada-s-joe-veleno-suspended-one-game-1.1419713

Going with Hennessy tonight: https://www.iheart.com/live/961-the-fox-1681/