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Harvard is amazing at shooting directly into opposing players' legs. The BC defenders just stand there and block it.

I think it has more to do with Harvard's dmen look incredibly slow. How many times can they get beaten to the outside? Melrose has such a chubby for BC, it's quite humorous.

I would agree. I just don't want to see the Connor line light it up with a little more space. ND was all over them all game and they only managed to break out at the end. Granted, if the UM defense plays like it did against ND, it might not matter. I'm hoping for a nice beatdown to avenge the Frattin senior year, end the B10 season, and propel this team to the F4!

Now if only Harvard could win...Hockey East could have 4 of their 6 teams gone after one day!

That was a horribly long review for a puck that didn't even come within a foot of the net.

Saved by a golden helmet.

Wow is Michigan's defense horrible. They just run around. Notre Dame should have 2-3 more goals right now.

Compher stoned on a breakaway.

These two teams are turnover machines. Just throw it away with no care.

Maybe a big push from the CCM line this period? They've been non-existent all game. Credit to ND defense for bottling them up.

Watching this UM/ND game, I like our chances regardless of opponent. Anything can happen, but if UND plays like they did against NE I think they'll be ok.

Notre Dame getting some chances after it was all UM to start.

End of 1st, 0-0 between UMD and Prov Duluth looked good.

Go Duluth!

One down, three to go.

Great dominating win! Killed them in every facet of the game. Faceoffs, shots, time of possession. Great game taking out the hottest team in the nation and Hockey East champs. Hopefully more Hockey East teams go down now...their smugness might have gone down a bit after this. Remember the guy that said UND wouldn't even be a 7th place team in HEA?

Alright. Let's do this, Sioux. 4 to go. It starts with one.

I've had enough of gfhockey, him and his drunk cronies sat behind me at the Frozen Faceoff.

http://undhockey.areavoices.com/?p=102755

It was during the first period. UND was up 1-0 at that point...right after UMD killed off the UND PP.

That's too bad if true, but oh well. I was just selfishly hoping that ASU would join NCHC so I could see UND come down here every season for a series. Notre Dame would have probably won B10 this year with how inconsistent UM and UMN were.

I think we're in a regional with 3 not very defensively sound teams. CBS and others should hopefully be able to take advantage. Boeser was especially snake bit during the Frozen Faceoff. He had a lot of pucks hop over his stick and (especially) UMD knew to put a body on him instantly when he got the puck in the offensive zone. I expect Boeser to break out a bit with a few goals this regional.

Notre Dame as well with a flight. Yeah, I saw that stat too on BC...pretty crazy. I'm interested to see how UMD and DU do in their 1st round games against Prov and BU as well. I haven't seen either Prov or BU play yet this year, so not sure what to expect against two very strong NCHC teams that are both playing well. If BU makes it out of their bracket, they'll have earned it by beating two of NCHC's best (assuming SCSU gets past FSU).

Man, reading the comments on the USCHO articles, the Hockey East backers are extremely confident/cocky. Some are saying that it will be an all-HEA F4 and dismissing the fact that the NCHC had 6 teams in last year but didn't end up winning the title. It's ridiculous. Here's hoping that UND, Denver, Michigan, Yale, Duluth, and Harvard can shut them all up on round one. I'm liking the chances of at least 3-4 of them going down in the first round. I think BC or UMass has the best chance of the HEA teams at advancing out of their regions...but hopefully the majority of the rest perish in the opening game.

It seems that most in the Eastern part of the US already have. That's fine. I think it should be a good game. It'd be nice if UND came out firing on all cylinders and shut them up promptly.