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"all ultimately ended up in disappointment". This is just me but there's no difference whether the disappointment happened in the Frozen Four or earlier. You seem to be putting lots of stock in Frozen Four appearances and NCAA tournament wins. I'm not sure I agree. Personally for me, the barometer is winning national titles. Everything else is secondary. Honest question .. would you rather have your team have won a title 8 years ago with little postseason success since, or be like our friends to the East who have several NCAA tournament wins and some Frozen Four appearances over the past several years, but haven't hung an NCAA banner in over 20 years.

Here's to both of you officially moving on about 5 minutes into the game.

2,500 seats is pretty ridiculous for a college hockey regional, but this arena in Maryland Heights looks very nice. If it wasn't Easter weekend, I'd be tempted to make the trip if we got placed there. The atmosphere would be pretty cool.

No doubt. It always used to be Sunday morning.

5:30 pm CT, ESPNU.

Connelly (USCHO) & Schlossman have the same projected brackets. I would agree with these. I think you can almost lock them in. Anybody planning on making the trip to Maryland Heights?

UMass & BU can't play each other in the first round.

At the time I would have never guessed we would be a 2 seed. I thought it was possible Omaha would get in as a 4 seed, which would have pushed us out of SF.

If the top seeds win tonight, UMass gets in ahead of CC. If That happens I have this same bracket with UMass replacing CC, and we'd be playing in Springfield. On a side note, I hope @scpa0305didn't head to Vegas with their kid's college fund to make that wager on UND in Sioux Falls.

Played us like Western Michigan a few weeks ago. The difference is Omaha has guys who can bury the puck. I expect we'll see the same style from anybody we match up with next weekend.

Perron

My fear is in this scenario they would keep bracket integrity as much as possible and send UND out East with UMass. Many of the Sioux Falls tickets have already been sold so I doubt they'd be that worried about attendance.

They tend to keep bracket integrity if they can, so they wouldn't necessarily put them with UND unless the layout of the brackets had them matched up naturally. (Example - UND is #4 & Denver is #5).

Saturday tickets are sold. Still 2 available for Friday.

I have 2 tickets available for Friday and 4 available for Saturday for the first round of the playoffs. Section 316 Row G. Asking $40 per ticket. View from the seats below. PM me if interested.

I am definitely hoping we can jump BU to get the 2 seed. There are no guaranteed wins but a regional semifinal against either the Atlantic or CCHA auto-bid would be ideal.

I can't wait to watch that 4th line tonight.

Same here. Felt like I was jinxing the team by attending. That 2016 win was a huge relief. The post-party across the street was insane.

Just saying .. no guarantee UND plays in Sioux Falls. UMass or Omaha could mess up our plans.

Omaha is the host of the Sioux Falls regional this year.

Strinden

Blake's 5-point night moves him up to a tie for 4th in the nation in scoring.

Sent you a PM.

Tonight's USCHO Bracketology should be pretty straight forward with no movement needed to accommodate host schools, etc. Here's my guess: Providence Regional 1 BC 16 Bemidji State 8 Quinnipiac 9 Minnesota Springfield Regional 2 BU 15 RIT 7 Maine 10 W. Michigan Sioux Falls Regional 3 UND 14 Cornell 6 Wisconsin 11 CC Maryland Heights Regional 4 Michigan St. 13 St. Cloud 5 Denver 12 Providence

I like the lineup changes. Also, getting Hunter back in the lineup can't come soon enough.