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Bottom line: CC needs better players and it’s clear that with the occasional skill player, they aren’t able to recruit the kind of talent necessary to compete with the likes of the top teams.

19 blocked shots for CC is the telling stat for me. Outmanned and outnumbered, they played their hearts out. Nothing to be ashamed of for CC. So proud of them despite the lopsided shot differential and play being mostly in the Tiger end.

If the Tigers didn’t already have trouble enough scoring goals, now they’ll be missing some of their best players. I’ve had beer league games like this where we’d be running a short lineup. If I’m CC, I play somewhat conservative so as not to burn the players out too early in the game. Hope to h-e-double hockey sticks they not fall behind so as to have to be chasing the game early and really burning themselves out. Keep the shifts very very short too.

Get out and vote! Kawaguchi is a finalist for the Senior CLASS Award! So far, he only has 5% of the votes! https://fightinghawks.com/news/2021/3/3/mens-hockey-kawaguchi-selected-finalist-for-senior-class-award.aspx

I’m in Colorado Springs but I could still probably get to the Pepper and back by the time they finish.

Great. A review. I think I’ll go out and get a pizza.

Here’s some insightful commentary from DU’s Puck Swami... https://letsgodu.com/2021/03/01/the-billups-experiment-is-over-at-du/

My understanding is that Miami finishes as the 8th seed regardless so we wouldn’t have played CC anyway.

The CC/DU series for this weekend has been cancelled and will not be rescheduled. https://cctigers.com/news/2021/3/1/mens-ice-hockey-upcoming-colorado-college-denver-series-cancelled.aspx?fbclid=IwAR0B5kybLxjgP8J5ljZJwjAc1A6yP_swf9RduETobEKItpMAJZxd4gw3rLI

It’s amazing how talented this team is. I tend to focus on the D core when watching games and I think, “I loved how JBD, made that little head fake or shoulder drop to get the defender to bite and over commit in order to generate space to get off that shot; I’m going to try that later in my beer league game.” And then I’m out there on the ice and I can’t possibly replicate what someone like JBD (or insert any other UND D man’s name here) actually did! But it’s fun to mentally think these things as I’m watching! Kinda like what you think about if you won the lottery.

Carter Savoie for DU got hurt late in the game. Looked serious too. Had to be taken down to the locker room by the trainer.

Perfect write up. Couldn’t agree more. Textbook interference on Omaha down the stretch there and the refs had been calling that all night both ways so they stayed consistent.

He may or may not have sold it but the intent of the Omaha player clearly indicated he was trying to interfere with Hain. Regardless, nice gutty win!

That’s about as obvious of an interference as they come!

Did anyone happen to post the lines for tonight?

Uconn and BU losing can’t be good for their tournament hopes.

So if the Bemidji goalie made the save and the puck went out of play as a result of the play, what is Serratore upset about? Makes sense to me that the Faceoff be in the O zone.

Yah, this is primarily on the guys in front of him. Pull him, for his sake, this is ridiculous.

Typical second period swoon for the Tigers. Haviland born with a silver horseshoe up his rear. Gets a contract extension and pay huge raise for going 15-17-5.

CC’s power play has been so bad this season that even though they might be making one too many passes, I do like how they appear to have gone “back to basics” by working the puck around and up to the points for shots. Now, if we could only take away Chrona’s eyes, some of those point shots might go in.

CC has been buzzing this period but yah, DU looked like they were sleep walking the first 17 minutes.

Ha! Ha! Classic! ”Daniel Simpson Day has no grade point average” (sorry-I couldn’t resist. I hope this doesn’t get reported to the moderators for going off topic)