brianvf

Time left in the 2nd? Sorry, stuck at work.

How many of UMD's goals have been on the PP?

Bad goal? Or just the lack of defense?

Don't be so bitter. Nothing like cheering for a CCHA team if your team doesn't make it. If UND loses and UMD wins on Thursday, I'm all for the Bulldogs.

Great stories farce! Please keep them coming if you don't mind writing them.

I liked this part too: JT and Rocco are going to be fun to watch on the team next season.

He's a good guy when you meet him in person, but he does like to get opposing fans riled up on message boards (and evidently, on the radio). His usual targets are SCSU fans. What was said about Kristo?

If you listen to the USCHO Hobey Podcast, it sounds like it is Miele's award to lose: http://www.uscho.com/podcasts/2011/03/30/uscho-com-hobey-watch-2011-podcast-episode-11-hobey-hat-trick/ And as petey23 said, I would be alright with it too if Miele won the award. Do I want Frattin to win? Absolutely. But with those two players so close, I think Frattin's past trips him up and it goes to Miele. A deserving award to either of them though...

Those are my seats for the F5 each year.

If I'm not mistaken, I believe the final voting has already taken place. The voting takes place just a couple days after the regionals are completed, and then the Hobey Hattrick is announced (essentially just the top 3 vote getters). Then they just wait to announce the winner until the F4. Agreed on Atkinson though...kind of a dumb thing to announce already when it hasn't been officially released.

According to Cam Atkinson's twitter (http://twitter.com/CamAtkinson13), he is one of the Hobey Hattrick, which will officially be announced on Thursday. So he will be the sole Eastern player...with the other two being Frattin and Miele. Frattin is the only player of those three still playing...and neither of the other two advanced past the 1st round. That has to increase his odds a bit.

That's too familiar to the now infamous DU checklist from last year. Chambers and the DU blog had that checklist going pretty early in the year. Once they hit the F5 and beyond though...didn't work out so well for them.

No doubt. If Gwoz agrees to let us wear black, I'm all for it!

From Brad: Not sure if any opposing coach would agree to have UND wear the black at this point.

The business suits are retired for the season at this point. The Sioux are the highest seed remaining in the tourney. So they are the home team from here on...

Updates are going on right now in the NCAA thread...

Omaha already up 1-0 on Michigan?

I think Yale can give UMD a good game. I just think that UMD can take them, especially if the Connolly line has a good game. Definitely agreed though. UMD has by far the easiest road to the F4 of any WCHA team.

WOW. Boatload of penalties. Doesn't Union have one of the best PP in the nation too? ECAC, of course, though.

Nice work UMD! Keep it up!

Any updates would be greatly appreciated. I'm stuck here at work.

It doesn't matter for UMD though, since that line is on the ice every other shift anyway.

Something tells me that DU will beat WMU. I would be very surprised to see DU exit in the 1st round for a third straight season... Especially with how well they played on Saturday against UND. I think a DU/UND rematch (should UND beat RPI, of course) would be a toss-up. I still think that UND hasn't played their best hockey yet against DU, and if they did they should be able to beat them. But anything is possible in a one and done.

I got shafted.

Western? You think DU will lose in the 1st round again?