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ASU moves up to #5 in the Pairwise with that win.

Faceoff stats from the box score: UND 28, Miami 17. Gardner 14-6 and Jones 9-3 were most of that. Another reason we seemed to have the puck all night. EDIT: Oh, and we had 25 blocks, from 15 different guys. Nice sign everyone's getting on board.

I'm really happy with how sound the team hockey play has been. Excellent positional play, guys find the open man, cover for each other on D, and all that makes us hard to play against. Only 17 SOG for Miami tonight. Faceoffs also a measure of team chemistry, but I didn't see that stat yet tonight. Well done boys. The weekend's work is halfway complete.

Happy that their video quality is nicer than Oceanside Arena. (Free feed:) https://thesundevils.com/schedule.aspx?schedule=437

Every one of their wins is a little brick in the Pairwise wall.

The thing I don't get about Chicago firing Quenneville ... what did they learn in the first 15 games of the season that they didn't learn during his first 1000 games behind the bench? Leadership could have talked him into it during the long summer, and messaging about how he was looking for some time on the beach after working for so long... and the team would have benefitted from new coach and approach during training camp. This seems like a leadership screw up. (And yeah they can straighten their tie in the reflection of 3 Stanley Cups in their offices, but still ...)

#SImpleMath https://www.collegehockeynews.com/ratings/ncaapwcr.php

Chicago is like every other major city in North America - if you stay in the right part of town, you're likely to be just fine. For example, Las Vegas has a higher rate of violent crime than Chicago, but I didn't hear of any incidents affecting UND fans. https://www.bestplaces.net/compare-cities/las_vegas_nv/chicago_il/crime

Starting to get enough games played to see trends emerge re conference strength: https://www.collegehockeynews.com/reports/standings-interconf.php?s=20182019 NCHC as usual with the best inter-conference winning percentage at .684, which would be hyuge if that continues (6 in the Tourney?) WCHA much improved so far, at 19-21-3. Big Ten with a losing record vs both WCHA (4-7-1) and NCHC (4-6-1). Boosted to over .500 by a large cushion vs the East. A good start to the season if you're a western college hockey fan. And that one independent, Arizona State, at 7-3, sits in the (way too early) top 10 of both KRACH and RPI.

Yes indeed. He and Archibald were teammates at Moose Jaw in juniors before moving on to college. But it was John Newberry that started with the water bottles.

And on the other side of the ice, Wisconsin had several future NHL'ers. Most notable on their side was Chris Chelios.

sounds like an over-reaction to me ...

Northeastern 5 BU 4, 8 minutes left. Free video: https://portal.stretchinternet.com/northeastern/portal.htm?eventId=453973&streamType=video

Including One More Shift for Jim Archibald. That oughta get people fired up ... https://fightinghawks.com/news/2018/10/31/mens-hockey-former-captain-jim-archibald-to-return-for-one-more-shift.aspx

New personal record today: "Fastest to Ignore". (it joined just 3 hours ago)

Top Ten Reasons the Gopher fans didn't come: 10. Too busy rowing at the football game. 9. There's a lot to do on Saturday's in Minnesota; hockey just doesn't matter. 8. There was a Wild game on Thursday. 7. There's an election coming up in 10 days. 6. Vegas isn't any fun anyway. 5. Mourning the departure of Lucia. 4. They are so stoked for Big Ten season that nonconference games are just meh. 3. Their most dedicated fans were told by Twin Cities police not to leave town. 2. There's beer and gambling in Minnesota too, doncha know. 1. Maybe all their fans did come.

Fabulous, smothering hockey played by the boys, starting at the end of Minnesota's major powerplay. Statistics sometimes mislead, but tonight I think the SOG for MN tell the story: At the end of MN major, they had 13 shots on goal (first 28 minutes). The next 30 minutes of play, just 2 SOG. We were smothering them, and it was great to see, for a long stretch, this UND team show just how good they can be. Well done.

https://thesundevils.com/ Link to video in the top events bar.

In other news, MSU 4 Alaska 0. Alaska mustered 6 shots on goal for the whole game.

UMD closes it out strongly, final 3-2. Textbook play with a one goal lead as the clock ran down, vs a top tier opponent.

In other Big Ten news, Tech 4, Wisconsin 1, halfway through. Very good night - so far - for the WCHA.

For those needing a college hockey fix and have access to NBCSN, UMD takes on Notre Dame starting in a few minutes.

St Cloud State doing their part for the NCHC non conference record: SCSU 7, @ BC 0. #YowserYork

I also got an e-mail, reminding me as a Champions club member ... so all I can think of is double checking the link to your Champions club membership and the e-mail account associated with it. Beyond that, call the ticket office first thing tomorrow morning .. Good luck.

From the Home page (after you log in), there's a list of upcoming events. A link to buy west regional tickets showed up in that list.