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It is remarkable--and good for the game.

Is this directly from gf's source, or are you channeling through gf?

Or, "Oh, they lost? I really only follow the Wild now."

I think we needed serious luck to win out even with Sanderson. This team has moxy, though.

I don't know The Lord Almighty very well, but I'm a little nervous that ND might have the advantage on matters of chance, like bounces, deflections, etc.

For all practical purposes, we are working with someone else's tool now. UND hockey's rep is that it provides top notch development for the player and that it takes professional level care of the product for the team that drafted him.

Same with Michigan hockey: 6 of their 9 titles between 1948 and 1956 and one in '64. 2 Banners in the last 57 years. Mich, though, probably deserves powerhouse rating based on overall tournament performance.

Sure, it all seems so obvious now.

How would you feel when their goalie skated the length of the ice and deked Driscoll for # 86?

WMU plays well and wins it 86 - 0. UND gets its first shot on goal late in the third when the game was pretty much out of reach at 75 - 0. Good thing Driscoll was hot.

A tinge of disappointment there?

You always want to win, but what’s at stake this weekend is minimal compared to the following weekends.

Tim's the best, but does he still have Ole as his color guy? I just have to get past some of his habits to appreciate him.

Over the course of their careers, you want to see if these kids can play dinged up. When it's a week before NCAAs though, it's a different calculus. I suppose winning two more games against the best NCHC teams could get them a 1 seed, which would help, but they are probably not going to slip to 3 with a loss against WMU. Not sure whether there is much difference between a 2 and 3 seed, matchup wise.

While he is here, though, Kleven has to be smarter. He seems like a great kid, but he doesn't help his team sitting in the box (or locker room) thinking, "That wouldn't be called at the next level."

At least nobody would be able to know he had depends on under his breezers.

gfhockey said Caggiula put his pants on two legs at a time, whereas Costantini uses the traditional method. Never got to ask him how he knew this.

What the coaches accomplished in the WMU and UMD series alone, with that roster and at crunch time, pushes Berry over the top, IMO.

So much goes into success, it would be fitting to call it Coaching Staff of the Year. But assistants don't take all the heat when things go badly either.

UW has a wonderful hockey tradition; anyone who saw a game at the Dane or the Herb in the earlier years would attest to that. But their FB and BB success under Alvarez, first as coach then as AD, will keep him in good standing with the majority of Badger fans. Their football program used to be pitiful.

That and I don't recall gf ever adding content about the game of hockey itself--only about banner tallies. He may never have even watched a game in any color glasses.

UND

One will be 3+ goal margin

CC has a great history. I believe I recall seeing the inaugural WCHA game in the old Ralph between the Sioux and a Jeff Sauer-coached CC. But it could have been drugs and booze and STIGA hockey.

And that's as it should be. Despite the way NCAA does business, this is an institution of higher learning first, athletic team second. And hopefully that will not change.