If BU is the top seed they will not end up in either minneapolis or manchester as the committee set precidence last year by protecting the top 2 seeds from having to possibly play a host team on their home ice.
beings this will be our first week in USCHO's bracketology. here's my thoughts:
west regional in minneapolis
Cornell vs UMD
Northeastern vs Minnesota(host)
Midwest Regional in Grand Rapids
Notre Dame vs RIT
Michigan vs. Princeton
East-Bridgeport
BU-Bemidji State
Denver vs. yale(host)
Northeast-Manchester
Vermont vs UND
miami vs new hampshire(host)
maybe I was dreaming but I thought I saw on one of threads here awhile back that UND or someone was looking into to doing a charter for the AA series, what ever happened to that? like I said maybe I was dreaming.
this weekend will be a very interesting weekend for us in the pwr and we don't even play. I know Jim had this in his blog but games of interest for us are:
du/umd- a denver sweep helps us in the pwr but but duluth wins will help us in the wcha race.
notre dame/ohio state- a notre dame sweep will flip our comparison with osu which we are now losing.
bc/umass-a umass win keeps this comparison in our win column, however a bc win flips it to bc
yale vs harvard/dartmouth-2 yale losses would flip this comparison
princeton vs colgate/cornell-as soon as we catch princeton in rpi in all liklihood we flip this comparison. that being said a cornell win helps us in two ways(rpi and cop).
minnesota/wisconsin-root for a split as this helps us in both the pwr and wcha race.
maine/nh-a maine sweep would probably flip the nh comparison.
they aren't and it is a legit discussuion but you could probably go to at least 3 or 4 different threads over the last two weeks and find the same discussion. and this discussion is like the old saying beating a dead horse.
I'm going to predict that by the time next friday rolls around this thread will be at least 20 pages long with people bitching and moaning about shep and mcclueless.
Goon,you shouldn't get so worked up over something you know probably isn't going to happen in the first place. on a side note,didn't Gerbe get suspended last year by York or Hockey East for something that happened during a game?
I'm not that hip on UMass beating BC as they couldn't beat Maine yesterday. problem for us is in all liklihod the COP with BC will end up being tied at thend of the year as they will proabably beat UMass,lose to BU and we'll split with Wisc. If we're going to flip this comparison it needs to be with the RPI.