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Like the draw we got and that we play the late game. My predictions were pretty close just had Minnesota in South Bend, BC in Manchester, and Harvard in Providence. With the other moves the committee made I don't get why they didn't also swap Minnesota with Harvard.

I just hope to see the Caggiula-Schmaltz-Parks combo back together. The other 2 lines could be pretty interchangeable but I'd go with these lines Friday: Caggiula-Schmaltz-Parks OD-Gaarder-Pogo Chyzk-Johnson-St.Clair Pattyn-Simonson-Poolman

Avoid a 1st round matchup between 2 NCHC teams which doesn't have to be done but is likely.

My Predictions: South Bend 1. Mankato vs. 16. RIT 8. Omaha vs. 10. Minnesota Fargo 2. UND vs. 14. Quinnipiac 7. Michigan Tech vs. 12. St. Cloud Manchester 3. Boston U vs. 13. Yale 6. Duluth vs. 11. Boston College Providence 4. Miami vs. 15. Providence 5. Denver vs. 9. Harvard

Brad E. Schlossman ‏@SchlossmanGF 37s38 seconds ago Barber out for celebration, being carried by teammates, no weight on left leg. May have been costly for Miami could be without Barber and Coleman next week.

I saw it thought it was a dumb player and was fine with the 5 but would have been fine if they called it a 2 also.

Not surprised with the 3 misconducts just based on the way he ran around against us.

Is Miami the 4th #1 no matter what the pairwise predictor won't load for me anymore? If that is the case and they keep Providence in Providence my guess is Mankato would then probably stay in South Bend so that they would still face RIT while Miami would go to Providence to face Providence.

The question will be how many attendance purpose moves they will make like will they keep Providence in Providence?

Refs have been very questionable both ways in that game. They let guys cross check each other for a period and a half in front of the net and then decide to call one random cross check later. There is no consistency at all from the refs in that game.

I only had radio so I really don't know how he played today was more just going off of what I've seen of him earlier this year and the fact he hadn't played in a long time.

Brad E. Schlossman ‏@SchlossmanGF 1m1 minute ago Reading between the lines, UND will likely get Colten St. Clair back next weekend. Found the replacement for Murphy.

Agreed and I do believe they will win Wilcox will be the difference.

Only listened to TH today so can't say much about the performance. Not gonna read a whole lot into today anyway with the little motivation there was and I'm sure the team won't spend much time dwelling on this weekend either. Would expect a few lines to be adjusted and would guess either Olson or St. Clair if he gets healthy enough to play will be in for Murphy. Time for the team to regroup, refocus and have great week of practice heading into the win or go home scenario in what should be a great atmosphere. One weekend doesn't change the whole season and I still fully expect this team to get to the Frozen Four.

I think next year they are just going back to calling the actual first round the first round and the other the first four or something.

So basically Minnesota is in even with a loss I don't think it will may matter because I think they will beat Michigan anyway and get the autobid.

Can't see those lines happening and I don't see Poolman moving back to D until next season which is the right move because Jordan shouldn't come out nor will he unless he is injured.

Did a little bit on the pairwise predictions looks like if Mankato losses tonight we pretty much lock up the #1 overall seed and we could still get it by winning tomorrow and Mankato falling in the WCHA championship.

We got beat because we didn't get enough pucks to the net despite plenty of zone time, a bad minute or so at the end of the 1st period, and not being able to capitalize on some very good chances like Johnson walking in alone and Poolman not being able to finish when Lindgren got caught out of the net.

The ice was horrible but it didn't factor in like on only one horrible game deciding bounce for either team it was just bad all around for the whole game and both teams.

That would be Olympic ice though so I don't know if they would want to do that or not. Seems like Omaha does host a couple rounds quite often would the new arena be big enough to host there?

I agree on getting out of Target Center but wouldn't move it to Denver. Ideally the NCHC and Xcel would get together but if that wasn't available I would probably opt for a rotation between Grand Forks, Omaha, and Denver since those arenas probably could handle the crowds the best.

I guess we must have watched a different game than. I thought the effort was fine today except on the powerplay where I did think the guys got kinda lazy on those opportunities. The connection was a little bit off today and we were a little sloppy at times and a big part of that was due to the crappy ice conditions but that went for both teams. Biggest issue was not getting the puck to the net we dominated puck possession and we were the better team most of the game.

No I don't care about posting some negative stuff but the typical playoff effort and we have no chance to win a championship now and stuff like that is just ridiculous. The squad wasn't terrible at all today either they dominated puck possession and had a bad last minute of the 1st period. They needed to get more shots on net and play more aggressive to get to the middle of the ice more but it wasn't the horrible nobody showed up effort some people are making it out to be.