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This seems like a very good idea to me, and practical! Paging Oshie, Toews, Parise?

Isn't Hakstol's record when leading going into the 3rd period impeccable? Can't remember the stat but I seem to recall his teams being very good at finishing games. Also, let's not pretend like our defense played terrible. Zane let in a goal from the half-wall and one from below the goal line. I thought our defense played very well in the 3rd period. Zane let in 2 bad goals by his standards and we had a good goal waved off. Realistically this game should have been a 5-2 or 5-3 win at worst. All of the above things combined vs. a good top 10 Denver team will result in giving up a 2 goal lead. I don't think our issue was going into a "defensive shell".

We played well enough to sweep this weekend but that BS no goal call really screwed us over. 4-2 game changes everything. The play is really promising from the team though.

Which suite?

I do miss this part of college hockey too. I remember as a kid either Mike Commodore or Lee Goren got into a fight behind the net I was sitting at in the Old Ralph. When all was said and done, their was blood splattered all over the glass. As a kid, I thought this was the coolest thing ever.

I thought that was Testwuide

I would have responded with how ugly her face was... because I'm really mature when it comes to people talking bad about my hockey team Seriously though, I would've said it.

I've never considered Michigan much of a rival. Don't play them often enough and '11 felt like it was more us that lost that game rather than them winning it, if that makes sense? Plus they lost the next night to UMD anyways. UMN, DU, BC, WISCO

8 vs. 7 us after this year

This is why I advocate for doing #1 seeds hosting and straight pairwise with no swaps, even for inter conference match ups Brackets would look like this: Verizon Wireless Center (Mankato, MN) 1 Mankato 16 RMU 8 Bowling Green 9 Denver Ralph Engelstad Arena (Grand Forks, ND) 2 UND 15 UMass-Lowell 7 Miami 10 Providence Agganis Arena (Boston, MA) 3 Boston University 14 Minnesota 6 Michigan Tech 11 Boston College Century Link Center (Omaha, NE) 4 UNO 13 Quinnipiac 5 UMD 12 Michigan Did I mention fans would be at all of these games so there's no BS attendance boosting swaps?

Split more likely 3 than 2 but yeah, we need at least 1 win! So a sweep will be just fine.

Lol, that is more than a little misunderstanding. That makes all of the difference in the world.

What's your source on BC being considered for the NCHC? This makes zero sense from both parties' perspectives.

Glad you caught my drift

New ASU commit, Justin Emerson tweeted that Gage picked ASU over UMD and Boston College. They must've given him quite the recruiting visit... http://www.houseofsparky.com/2015/2/9/8007651/asu-arizona-state-hockey-gage-mackie-sun-devils-nhl-draft

Is it a nice selling point? Yes, but does it trump or even come close to everything UND has going for it? No way

Cute little story on ASU hockey http://www.si.com/nhl/2015/02/09/arizona-starte-sun-devils-college-ice-hockey-ncaa

It will be, both games sold out save a dozen or so single tix on Saturday.

That's a good point, 2 games seems a lot less taxing the Final Five 3 game weekend did.

Do we cheer for Wisco as we played them? Even still, I'll probably pull for the Nittany Lions.

Agree completely, where did you find that information?

THIS^

I guess my response then would be to tell those teams to have a better season and win more games so they earn home ice lol Is it fair that the Wild have to play the Blackhawks the majority of playoff games in Chicago? Yes IMO because the Wild are, so far, inferior during the regular season. I understand where the hesitation would be from smaller schools, but I don't believe it to be warranted or due to an unfair advantage for the simple fact that they're a small school. I believe we are on the same side of the issue but understand you're just playing devil's advocate.

Why would our advantage be bigger than MTU or BGSU? because they have less seats? because our team is consistently better and more often a #1 seed?

Is the word fart censored?