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I didn't have a problem with moy's first bracket and 3 wcha teams in it-what I don't like is the prospect of having to face BU in the first round.

I think that should we get by tech whether minnesota plays a friday game against us or anyone else we will play that night regardless. the majority of tickets have already been sold and we have proven to be damn near as big a draw as minnesota at the final five.

if the top two teams get byes then there is a form of reseeding going on because if the brackets are preset and there is no flexibility then if tech were to beat us then they would get a bye into fridays games.

I do believe reseeding will occur after the first round and if I recall someone stated last year or the year before that the "minnesota rule" doesn't exist anymore and the highest remaining seed after the first round will play on friday night.

first this isn't the NFL where you start sitting players as NCAA positioning is still happening. second you can only bring three extra players one of which is your backup goalie. so with two extra players I don't think you'll see wholesale changes. that and we don't know the staus of rowney plus with kristo and chay being out we don't have a lot of reserves left to begin with. a loss will kill our rpi which in effect could keep us from being a number one seed down the road. that said I do expect to see Eids start on sat.

that was 2004.

not that it would happen but I'm thinking the thought was to present it to us when we have it all to ourselves without the possibility of sharing it with someone else. I have no problems with waiting another two weeks to get it all to ourselves and I'm guessing Hak and co were asked about this scenario heading into the weekend.

UNH has to stay in manchester as they are the host.

nor would it help if bemidji, uaa or robert morris fall out of TUC status which all three are right on the cusp right now. in which we are 8-0-1 against those four teams right now.

yale doesn't have enough games against TUC's left that they can lose. best we can hope for is us winning the final five and they lose in the ecac semi's against a TUC(they wouldn't face any before that) and then we would still fall about a half a percentage short of flipping that comparison. I really don't think if it comes down to that the committe would put us number one based on their past history. best we can hope for is the number two overall seed. unless jim can come up with other scenario. another possible scenario is there be a surprise champion in in say the ecac where a non tuc or dartmouth wins it. then we would avoid the likes of facing a bu or even maine in the first round.

Gregoire did leave about midway through the third and missed a couple of shifts and then came back. not long after gregoire left I saw poolman come up and mention something to hak. I also noticed that rowney was absent for about the last 5 minutes or so and wasn't there for the handshake.

just how bad is tech? if things go as normal this weekend, even if tech loses to us next weekend their RPI will go up. that my friends is bad.

I'd love for our first game to be a title rematch between the Sioux and BC and BC has to watch us raise #8-that would be one incredible evening.

my question is, due to family obligations(another child) I will probably be unable to renwew my tickets for next season-can I still get my seats for the Ice Breaker though?

there is a major announcement coming today at 1:30 in regards to the 2011-2012 schedule. I would be willing to bet this is what it is.

not a very accurate statement as the Frozen Four is already sold out and sells out every year. so this committee conspiracy stuff doesn't pan out and won't as the committee has proven over the past however many years they go straight by the pairwise rankings for the field and placement of the field with the exception of minor tweak here or there.

I believe so.

denver did in 2005 as well.

what I liked about the win was at the end of the second period when the penalties began to come-we didn't lose our composure like we have in a few other games this season(at maine and fri night uno at home). maybe this team has matured.

and doing it the other way didn't work out to well two years ago. so it really doesn't matter.

if we sweep and denver, omaha and duluth all lose as least once, would the Cup be presented after Sunday's game?

as long as we win our rpi will stay the same or rise a little bit. if a win against say tech would drop our rpi that game would not be counted in rpi. on the other hand any loss in the next 4 games will drop our rpi big time.

If the Sioux are there I will be there, if they aren't we'llsee.

or you could just log into the live chat with Brad and Jayson.

we don't even get those games here, we get lousy womens's basketball one night.