MafiaMan
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Updates rolling in here but NBCSN on my iphone Dish app is on constant commercial!
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Game on NBCSN?
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Sweden, Russia, Canada, USA
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The 1992 team? Oh wow. I was at te Minot/Bismarck title game...unreal. I talked with one of the players from Belfield's '86 boys basketball state runner-up team a couple of years ago at my class reunion (he married a girl from the '88 class)...22 years later and he said losing to Newburg STILL pops into his mind every spring when the Class B tournament rolls around.
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Bucky Effin' Dent...Johnny Effin Gaudreau...coincidence? I think not.
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I'm saying it's a factor. I'm hoping we're the Boston Red Sox of NCAA hockey...unlucky over and over and over again and all of a sudden, we pull off a miracle NCAA title...and then another...and then another...
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Yep, that too. I was at that tournament...the building was STUNNED when Michigan lost to BU.
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Agree 100%.
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Minnesota - lucky enough to have a Frozen Four in St Paul, a nice no-call slash on Adam Hauser in OT five seconds before Maine is called for a penalty that ultimately decides the game AND... ...lucky enough to have UNH's best player injure himself in the semi-final game and not be available for the title game in year two of the back-to-back. Denver - lucky enough to miss the WCHA Final Five and STILL make the NCAA tournament. A week to rest up and get healthy while the rest of the league dukes it out in a barn-burner Final Five playoff. Wisconsin - lucky enough to have a regional in Green Bay and a Frozen Four in Milwaukee. Didn't even have to leave the state of WIsconsin. And who says some luck ISN'T needed to win a national championship?
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I'm saying that while UND was taking a bus from the hotel room and changing into their hockey gear in tents just prior to taking the ice (1998 Yost Regional), other teams were enjoying all the comforts of a home venue. How much fun did BC have traveling to Colorado a few years ago? The Tigers mopped the ice with the team most folks thought was a shoo-in to repeat as NCAA champions. Instead of having to worry about a long flight and all the logistics of that hassle, the jet-lag, etc, BC teams have typically been sleeping comfortably in their dorm rooms at mommy and daddy's house before taking a 45-60 minute bus ride to Worcester. I'm not talking BC having an easier road to all those Frozen Fours...I'm talking BC being eliminated BEFORE the Frozen Four if they were made to travel a bit further than the equivalent of Grand Forks to Fargo.
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You forgot to carry the 1, but still arrived at the correct answer of 4 teams in each region.
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Double not-so-fast, my friend on Slovakia over Czech Republic. Latvia over Switzerland though...NAILED IT!
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You see, Oxbow, first they divide the 16 teams into 4 sections of 4 teams each, which they call "regionals." From there, each region whittles down to one team, which is called the regional champion. The regional champion is sent to what we call "the Frozen Four"...from there, the national semi-finals...
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Not-so-fast, my friend!
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He usually likes maple syrup, but he decided on Sunday that he wanted strawberry syrup, so I had to run back to the store and get some.
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UND's last title was before the implementation of the 16 team, 4 region tournament. The 4 region tournament practically guarantees a region within close proximity of Boston College. Just sayin'...
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I like bananas on my waffles!
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Fail.
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So far...so good!
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But...but...but...we have a $100 million recruiting gem...the best tradition in the history of college hockey...the best fans ever in college hockey...it's far EASIER to win a title now as opposed to the 1990's or earlier...it's not fair that Hakstol hasn't given us a championship yet. I demand excellence as I've spent money on watching this team and cried over their losses!
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I guess my point is that this thread or the game-day thread tend to blow-up with anti-Hakstol comments after ANY loss, regardless of whether it would be an NCAA Frozen Four loss or a mid-season exhibition game defeat. I would agree in your assertion that this place will absolutely nuke itself if this season should end with anything other than a national championship game victory.
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My post meant absolutely no disrespect to literate and sober roughnecks everywhere in SW and NW North Dakota.
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West side boyzzzzzzz...Mandan, Minot, Century, and Bismarck...it's time.
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QB problem? If I'm AP, I'd be more concerned with his kids' daycare costs, which seem to be rising every day. Cassel for the next two years is the best option the Vikings have at winning...
