yzerman19

The TUC factor right now is no where near as important as RPI for us. RPI weighs heavily on winning %. We are currently losingthe PWR to OSU by .0005(can flip it tonight) and to New Hampshire by .0010 (also flippable) we need to win, not worry about the TUC factor down stream.

With regard to Toews. Is Shattuck not what it was a couple years ago? I mean the team that fielded Crosby, Parise, Toews, Okposo, Brady Murray, Drew Stafford, Jack Johnson etc

ughhhh I really wish we had Jones tonight. I have to wonder how he hurt himself. As for the little Toews, what is his deal? He has put up decent numbers when he is on the ice, but he gets benched a lot. I kinda believe in getting the man some ice time. He is a third round draft pick and all. He had some good chemistry with Kozek. Is he a head case or a loafer in practice or something?

The probability analysis reinforces the fact that this team needs to treat the stretch run like playoff hockey, because it is.

I thought I remember that part of the deal with us going to Chestnut Hill last year was that BC agreed to come to Gf in 2009. I have been wrong before though.

The worst part about that is that it doesn't just count as a zero for the team without enough wins, but it throws the whole category out in the indivdual PWR comparison. Say a team ends up 4-4 against TUCs and is compared to a team that is 11-7 against TUCs, it doesn't even factor in.

I think BC is coming to the Ralph next year... Do you think that the reasoning behind the adjustments was due to the dominance of a handful of teams residing in Hockey East, the WCHA and the CCHA? I could see some idiotic reasoning that it is good for the game to have more teams than the usual suspects having NCAA runs. Imagine UND finishing on a roll, losing the F5 championship game to UMD, being ranked say 7-9 and not making the NCAAs due to a loss the first weekend of October, and two 1 goal losses in a tournament? It would be a travesty.

I do feel that the PWR must be revamped. As I look at Air Force and the EZAC teams with only a handful (or less) games against TUCs. I contend that your TUC record should carry more weight than say COP. I also contend that RPI is not the best measure, as any stat that must be adjjusted to reflect wins against bad teams is ridiculous. Do wins against those same bad teams count in COP? They sure do. Now some of this is sour grapes from this Sioux fan, who if the season ended today would have to pick Vermont or some other team I really don't care about and invest myself in them for April. No one wants to play UND right now, but because of three bad losses: Mass, Mich State, and Michigan Tech we are on the outside looking in. I don't have the time to do this at work today, but I wonder what the PWR would look like if instead of winnning % vs TUCs, you counted wins vs TUCs or a derivative of total wins vs TUCs (say each TUC win is worth .25)...this would favor teams that play a lot of TUCs, and would weigh very heavily towards selection time. Time to stop pontificating and go back to work.

AZ, I think i deserve a prize... btw are you coming to the F5?

Does this mean I wrecjed it?

TJ OSHIE

exactly> Watch the wjc> That will tell you NHL contract status

SOme Gopher fans can be true hockey fans like us...old time hockey...Braden : ) Anyway, MN is having a once a decade stretch of bad hockey. tDon is a good coach, the program is elite. If I'm a big time recruit ala Parise, Toews, Kessel, etc MN is definitely on my list. No team I enjoy beating more, but I won't pile on them. The rivalry is great, because BOTH programs are great. How many WCHA programs do you think Hockey East and CCHA coaches have on their radars from the drop of the puck in October? MN will be just fine. There will be many more big games that end with Chris Porter on a wraparound or Blake Wheeler chipping the puck

malcolm parks

We want a BU over BC beanpot title. Go BU today, Go BC tonight. Go terriers on the 9th. A BU win over BC flips the PWR vs BC.

One win helps, but two wins is big. They each have 1 game remaining with Harvard and COrnell. We have to assume that they win both to keep fate in our hands. With Princeton, if they win both and we sweep MSU-M we still tie in COP and lose the PWR.

Its gotta be a sweep against MSU-M. COP for Yale and Princeton.

The PWR is fickle. Chances are good that if we sweep the Land Cows they will no longer be a TUC. However a sweep is our best chance at flipping both Princeton and Yale (COP). The biggest problem this year is that we (UND) and the rest of the WCHA haven't performed out of conference. We have a losing record against Hockey East and the CCHA which hurts. We have a winning record against the EZAC, but numerous EZAC schools appear to be benefitting significantly from not playing anyone. Most PWR vs EZAC are not counting the TUC category, because the EZAC teams haven"t played 10 games against TUCs. While this helps them get in, it should lead to 1 and done once there.

All things staying somewhat constant, that WI series is going to be the biggest series of theyear as with COP for NH and BC as well as the rest of the WCHA teams ahead of us.

I have to believe that both Shattuck and USNTDP do not count as "high school". Mattson has very good skill, but he is not an NHL first rounder like the Osh and Kessel and Parise and Toews. I think that a year in the USHL would make a big difference in his case.

I bet the over too. I think we've got too many weapons for Clown to handle. Much like MN, their first line can play with anyone, but after that it will be all Sioux.

Garrett Roe draws 4 penalties due to his incredible diving, on the fifth attempt he falls onto his own stick, near the Sioux net, rupturing his spleen and causing him to miss the rest of the season. Finley, despite being on the bench at the time, is given a game misconduct for spearing. Despite these issues, the Sioux suck it up and pull of a tough 4-3 win. The icing on the cake is when Motzko being quoted as saying, "What can anyone expect when you have to play the Fighting Sioux and the officials?"

"Sioux FIghters" and minor league entertainment? All I can say is wow! Losing 3 out of 4 points really hurts, eh?

sorry jim, I hadn't looked that closely. SS lays out in order using tie breakers (rpi) uscho simply counts PWR wins. The guts are the same. UND and BC both have 11 PWR, labeled as T-14 by uscho. BC has a higher RPI, so is 14, und is 15

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