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Sort of. He obviously chose his words very carefully, as he has done in some other interviews. He never specifically refers to the college path, and when comparison numbers are used, it's always against the USHL. But then he'll add in little asides like "the CHL is still the best direct path to the NHL." I personally think the CHL is making a huge mistake, one which I sort of think they'll be dragged kicking and screaming into changing. They should more directly target the USHL, because the USHL is going to end up as their main competition. They should be publicly stating that if you want to play college hockey, your best path is through the CHL, not the USHL or high school hockey.

It was a fun game to watch. Also pretty fun to see the head of the CHL during the second intermission try to convince, himself(?), that the CHL is still the premier path to the NHL. I would have loved it if College Hockey, Inc., during that intermission, had run an ad that said, "Twenty-seven of the forty-five players you are watching tonight have already committed to playing college hockey. More to come. Will you be next?"

Fortunately for them, after tomorrow they get two against MN, two against RIT, two more against MN and two against Notre Dame. Five of the eight at home.

The USCHO Weekend Review podcast guys are pumping up the NCHC, and UND, DU and UMD in particular, to a level I can’t recall eastern guys doing before. We’re probably due to fall on our faces. 🤣

Here's a semi-amusing stat. If you look at the Top 50 players in scoring in the country right now, only a handful have a "minus" for a +/- rating. Two of those are the worst, at -4 on the season. McKenna and O'Mac.

Shocked that a bunch of one goal wins at home against the likes of Stonehill and LIU didn’t have PSU ready to go for MSU.

MN is a very slight favorite Friday on FanDuel. Moneyline Minnesota. -120 North Dakota. -110

All speculation, of course, but I have to disagree. Berry always had the problem that some people looked at the 2016 title and saw Hak's team. But by 2020, it was Berry's guys. That coupled with the fact that we would have been the first program to catch Michigan at 9 titles, I think that leash would have been quite a bit longer.

I expect MN to be pretty desperate this weekend. The last thing they want to do is leave GF sitting at 1-4-1 on the season, with four games played at home. It will take a monster effort by UND to come away with a sweep, but we can hope.

I was looking at Dave Berger's article, and all of the links in it, earlier today. One that I watched was the November 2019 Thanksgiving beat down of MN. As I was watching it I was thinking, "my goodness this team was stacked. How did we not win it all that year?" I was just about to do some digging into what happened that post-season, when suddenly I was like, "oh, yeah...."

Dad got his hot dog and soda. I know they were consumed. No idea how many cards were.

Since we've gotten off track with the discussion of cashless transactions, I'll pile on. When we were in Nashville for the PSU game, my dad left his credit card stuck in the machine at one of Bridgestone vendor booths. He didn't realize it until we were at a bar later that night. We walked back over to Bridgestone and were able to find a gate where security would let us in and sent us to a lost and found room. We told them what had happened, and they guy walked into a back room and came back with a large box that had, at a minimum, 300 debit and credit cards in it. He said, "these are from tonight, let's have a look." We found it in there.

Pretty "meh" in my opinion, just looking at them in the Siouxshop email.

PSU is the pretty heavy favorite on the Draft Kings site (+400) with BU at +800, followed by MSU and Michigan at +900. Fan Duel doesn't have their odds posted yet, that I've seen. I actually thought the article was pretty fair and well written. The eyes of college hockey are going to be on PSU, and honestly, they've shown nothing in their past that suggests they will thrive with that kind of scrutiny. Teams that come to town with that target on their back almost always face the best by their opponent. It'll be interesting to see. They sort of snuck up on people last year. That won't happen this year.

One? C'mon, where is the greed? Two guys. Two spots. You have to admit there is a certain symmetry there.