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
Denver and CC were co-champs in 04-05, and Denver won the national title.
In 96-97, UND and UM were co-champs and UND won the title.
89-90, Wisconsin won the Cup and the national title.
86-87, UND got both
(Unless I missed something)
What channel?
EDIT: Nevermind, found it.
Actually, I thought this channel was supposed to be showing this weekend's UND/UMD series. That's what Charter Mainstreet said a few weeks ago when they showed UND/MSU-M
Kneeing
SECTION 33. A player shall not use the knee in such a manner as to foul
an opponent.
PENALTY: Minor or major or disqualification at discretion of the
referee.
In case anybody was curious.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who has noticed that. The last one I saw had our guy completely out of the crease (he had just skated through as the whistle was being blown), and after clearing the crease he took a shot from a UMD player.
As far as I understand, yes, just a week or so, of training camp.
Seems to me like the best training facilities would be top of the list when it comes to choosing a place to practice.
It's not all moot, though. If they are going to be somewhere other than "home" for training camp, why wouldn't they want the best of facilities to train?
Being that it's the Minnesota Wild means it would make just as much sense to go to REA as it would to go to Kohl Center. Except when it comes to training facilities, REA has most places beat. Or is it common to have a 10,000 square foot weight room?
That's what I thought, too. The RNC is Sept 1-4, and the hockey season doesn't start until the end of the September at the earliest. I can't imagine it would take longer than that to convert the boxes from TV studios back to suites.
I'm sure the players would enjoy the facilities offered right at the arena. They seem to enjoy playing the exhibition there every fall. Except for scheduling conflicts I don't know why they'd pick anywhere else, except travel time/distance to deal with.
I seem to recall that it used to be that "bad wins" actually hurt you during the regular season, and were only negated during conference playoffs, since the best teams are playing the worse teams. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't remember the asterisk showing up throughout the entire season in the past.
Remember how hard the trips to Alaska always are. Tough to play UAA in Alaska, and it always makes the following weekend difficult as well, it seems.
Plus, they've still got guys recovering from the walk back from the World Jr Tournament.