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UMD just gives one away shorthanded, now 3-3. 7th shorthanded goal Duluth has allowed this year.

Denver scores, now 3-2 UMD about 8 min left 2nd period. CC 4-1 over UW after 2.

UMD adds a PP goal 3-1 with 14:55 left 2nd period.

Mankato wins in ot 2-1. Duluth leads Denver 2-1 15:40 left 2nd.

Tech-Mankato 1-1, heading to OT. Very boring game.

CC now up 4-1

Denver scores on PP to tie it at 1. UNH beats Maine 2-1.

UMD scores short handed with 2 min left in 1st, lead 1-0. CC 2-1 over UW end of 1.

Current WCHA scores: Denver-UMD 0-0 6:30 left in first CC 2-1 over UW in first Mankato and Tech tied at 1 after 2.

It's now 6-1 Gophers

4-1 Gophers 15 sec left in 2nd.

another goal, now 3-1 Gophers

Gophers score 2-1.

Gophers tie it at 1.

Denver wins 5-2

CC wins 2-1 in OT. Denver scores 4-2 over UMD with 4 min left.

CC-UW heading to OT.

Duluth just scores 3-2 Denver 13 min left CC scores to tie it 1-1.

UW leads CC 1-0 after 2.

Mankato/Tech just ended 2-2.

Duncan is now listed. Just gave him vote #1.

INCH is basically saying that in a best of 7 series on nuetral ice they would lean towards taking Niagara over the Sioux. OK, sure. Idiots. If you had to bet $10,000 on one of the teams, who in their right mind would really select Niagara ? In a single game anything can happen (see Holy Cross) but there is no way in he!! Niagara would beat the Sioux in a best of 7. KRACH has the Sioux at 6 and Niagara at 20. RPI it is 9 and 15. Strength of schedule is 3 and 45 (according to KRACH). I would love to see INCH's rational for the rankings; by what objective measurement is Niagara better than UND ? I guess they have a better winning % (15-11-2 vs 17-8-3) so I guess they are better BTW, what happened to Colgate ? They had a #1 vote in the pre-season polls. Let's check...#34 in KRACH. Excellent pre-season poll.

The "experts" at INCH moved us all the way up to #15 from #17. I guess we would have dropped out of the rankings if we would have only split on the road to the #1 team. MN gets swept at home handily and drops from #1 to #3. The best system, IMO, is KRACH and the Sioux are at #6. Really doesn't matter anyway, the only thing that matters right now is the pairwise and making the NCAA tourney. Wonder if the NCAA committee will find a way to screw the hockey team like they did the football team if we are somewhere around #12 in the pairwise come selection time.

Good question. Depends on the score and the type of game that is going on. Also depends on how each player is performing that night. At this point I would prefer Finley on the ice if the Sioux are leading late in the game over Lee. I am not arguing that Finley is the best defensive player but I also do not think he is the worst or a liability. If the Sioux are trailing then I would prefer to see Chorney and Bina on the ice as we are going to need to score one or more goals.

If line matchups were a big factor in the +/- differences between Lee and Finley I would expect to see that show up to some degree in the home/away stats. At this point Lee is -1 in road games and 0 in home games, while Finley is a +3 at home and a +7 on the road. Since the home team has last change I would expect to see a worse number for Finley on the road. If we assume that Lee and Finley were playing equally as well (or bad) defensively, wouldn't you think that Lee would have a better +/- than Finley since he has better offensive skills ? You can belittle the +/- stats all you want, but Finley is at +10 while the next best defensemen is Genoway at +3 (not sure what it is if you take out the games he played forward).