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schlossman didn't sound exactly overly positive when talking about this team stating their is a 50/50 chance this weekend goes three, a 25% chance of winning the final five and he can see them getting bounced in the first round or winning it all. wonder if he will get crucified at the herald or on their message boards for not stating positive things about this team all the time. or if jayson will ban him from the live chat this weekend.

not by any stretch of the imagination have we had a horrible feb/early march. but looking back some teams had horrendus play down the stretch and have gone on to win it all. BC was 5-6-1 heading into the HE tournament in 2008 and went on to steamroll their way to a NC and Duluth was 3-4-2 heading into the WCHA playoffs two years ago.

not if you are trying to tell your team they are better than their opponent .

I just have this feeling that if we make it pittsburgh we won't be let down this year. now getting there is the tricky part.

yep and maybe the last shot he takes wins the NC for us in OT.

don't forget they have made bigger strides than us this second half and have played cc and scsu tougher than we have .

you have to figure the law of averages at some point will tilt in our favor.

maybe the oh-so-closes will all go in the next four weekends. ifso, well win every game by 5 goals

I don't know if I could say we played our best before x-mas. I think the best we looked all year was in omaha, and yet I can't say that was our best hockey. the inconsistency of this team is frustrating to say the least. but all it takes it getting hot the last weekend in march and second weekend in april. this team definately has the capability to do that, but will they remains to be seen. I'dlike to say they come out on friday and blow the doors off of tech, but that isn't the makeup of this team. they do everything the hard way. like I said before I think it will take us three games to get this done, hopefuly I am wrong. I am not trying to be neagative here, just being realistic.

I don't know about that he missed a WIDE open net in the sat night game against bemidji

a bigger net? smaller goaltender?

I don't buy the attendance issue. the committee pays very little reagard to this. besides my bet is minny and western michigan end up in grand rapids. miami in toledo, obviously new hampshire in manchester and qu in providence, so attendance issues will be negated a little bit. if the ncaa really cared about attendance they would go back to having regionals on on campus sites.

I think even if they were to lose this weekend to BSU they still would be a number one seed.

I'm not sure I would write this game off just yet, but you are correct in the work that lies ahead for next year. if you have two of the best women players on the planet on your team and just manage to "sneak" into the playoffs that can't be a good sign for what lies ahead for this program.

I'm probably in the minority in this in that I do not want them to be in grand rapids with minnesota. I will take our chances elsewhere. If we do happen to make that run and win a 4th broadmoor we end up in manchester as the fourth number one seed in all liklihood, anything else and it is either toledo or grand rapids as a two seed.

parker averaged one every 13 years, so hak has a few more years of a grace period.

this is a what if scenario. what if the boys didn't put as much stock into winning a cup or for that matter really worried where they finish. not saying they didn't want to, but instead took this last weekend to try a few different things knowing they were going to make the NCAA. they tried a few different line combos from what had worked the last month, came a way with a split without a whole lot of offense and now they go back to what had worked and flip the switch for an epic playoff run.

we beat tech in three, beat duluth on thurs at final five, lose friday to a well rested minny team. go to toledo as the number two seed, beat niagara, then beat miami in a classic to advance to frozen four, beat minny in thursday semi final and then beat SCSU for number 8.

sweeping the huskies would be huge consdering we would play next thurs. that being said this years team does nothing easy so I will say we will win in three.

that has been a problem all year. hopefully, in the next few weeks they can figure that out.

I don't have a problem with the split, I thought going in that is what would happen. my problem or concern is the effort and lack of emotion being displayed other than tears shed after last sat. over the last two months it has happened way to frequently(not showing up). both cc games, fri at minny, fri at home scsu, fri wisc, fri denver, fri bsu, both msum. it is an alarming trend. now maybe they plan on flipping the switch come friday night as maybe theur entire focus has been a playoff run without much regard for the regular season. let minny celebrate with the cup, we have bigger fish to fry in piitsburgh..

golly gee, that wasn't good. guess it is a good thing we didn't have anything on the line tonight...oh wait.

where did I say it was terrible? and where did I say it was the worst coaching staff ever? tell me this, going back to our last titles in 2000 or 1997 or 1987 were we still messing with top line this late in the season? if we were then i will just shut up on the sublect then.

could someone please tell me what the hell hak was doing taking rocco off the top line replacing him with a true freshman who hasn't done a whole lot this year except for a three game stretch in december. typical hakstol always playing with line combos despite having only one loss in the last month. this truly is sad to be still messing with them and to have not settled onto a top line. no need to guess where the inconstistency of this years team comes from, the top.

I know that can happen, I just don't see minny not winning tonight.