Some teams can't afford bad losses if they want to stay ranked high or move up in the PWR (Merrimack, Providence, UMass-Lowell). Those are potentially crippling losses (and obviously benefit a certain team whose name rhymes with Shinnesota.
Makes total sense, Mariucci. The Islanders, for example, were very enthusiastic about Kyle Okposo's development while at the University of Minnesota. Oh, wait...
Very sad news. Condolences to the coach and his family. Someone earlier suggested it and I hope it is done tonight at REA - a moment of silence would certainly be a nice gesture on the part of the University of North Dakota and Ralph Engelstad Arena.
St Cloud at UMD and Providence College at Notre Dame on TV tomorrow night.
Bantam A hockey also available on the B10 Network as Wisconsin takes on Ohio State.
Michigan also plays at Minnesota. Go Blue!
UConn defeated bubble-team Merrimack College last night.
Did anyone here know that just two days after beating the Soviets in game 8, Canada had to play the Czechoslovakian team in Prague? This article gives a good description of how that went... http://www.1972summitseries.com/czechoslovakia.html
Stan Mikita's real name was Stanislav Gvoth and that he was smuggled out of Czechoslovakia to Canada as a young boy - without his parents. Incredible story.
Lots of amazing hockey bits from that era...