yzerman19

I hate having Sioux hockey put back in our face. Sandy does that. congrats to the Dawgs

A lot of high end coaches I know preach this: you simply can’t control how many you score, but you can absolutely control how many you let in. It’s this idea of a perfect coaching game winning. I believe the players win the game, and you play to win

We played their game tonight. That was the issue. Played to try win a 1-0 game...that isn’t this team. We were beat before we stepped on the ice

The covid bye sucks

I give no team props that gets run out of the building and their respons is head hunting and diving. If it was t NCAAs there woulda been a brawl

Berger gave a complimentary tweet about AIC...ummmm...must not have been watching the game I was. That team was weak and classlesss.

AiC is absolute garbage- what a joke

Right on....it’s beautiful and fleeting.

Keep the love of the game

I’ve never seen a squirt C game....it sounds horrifying

Pinto should offer to sign his jersey for these jokers

Zero. Say again, zero respect for AIC. Outclassed team that turned to hacks, divers, and cheap players. Bah bye...

It’s the science

So if there is an ounce of bracket integrity, he has moved Mankato to the overall 8th seed...for the team that is #1 in the PWR, won the regular season in their conference, and had 20+ wins....

Now let’s place- fargo: UND/St Lawrence LSSU/BU loveland: Minny/Omaha SCSU/UMD albany: Mankato/AiC WI/MI Bridgeport: BC/BSU uMass/Quinnipiac swap UMD and MI and you are done! fargo: UND/St Lawrence LSSU/BU loveland: Minny/Omaha SCSU/MI albany: Mankato/AiC WI/UMD Bridgeport: BC/BSU uMass/Quinnipiac now will the committee Jack around with this bracket due to travel, etc...once the smoke clears from the back room and you can see the red leather chairs, we will know!

So here it goes....start with quality win adjusted RPI and then add or subtract bonuses based on strength of conference. NCHC gets +.03, Hockey East and Big10 gets +.02, ECAC and WCHA get no adjustment, Atlantic get -.03. your top 16 teams in order: UND, Mankato, Minny, BC, UMass, WI, SCSU, LSSU, BU, UMD, Michigan, BGSU, AIC, BSU, Quinnipiac, Omaha. so, pressure test the conference factors. I think we’ve been too generous with the WCHA with them getting 4 into the top 16. So let’s go to PWR to compare teams in same conference. This gets really hairy between BGSU and BSU. BGSU has the better PWR, but BSU won the season series head to head. BGSU also never beat Mankato nor LSSU. Therefore Bemidji is in, BGSU is out. St Lawrence is the 16 seed with a losing record, but an autobid out of a decimated conference. so now I have: UND, Mankato, Minny, BC, UMass, WI, SCSU, LSSU, BU, UMD, Michigan,AIC, BSU, Quinnipiac, Omaha, St Lawrence ive got 4 NCHC, 3 Hockey East, 3 Big 10, 3 WCHA, 2 ECAC, and 1 Atlantic. that corresponds pretty well with my conference point adjuster, the only real argument here is does CT or Providence bounce Bemidji? CT has a losing record. They are out. Providence went 11-9-5, BSU went 15-9-3. I’m giving it to the Beavers. Again pressure testing my adjusters, I think you swap positions of AIC and Quinnipiac. I also think Minnesota’s BiG10 title boosts them ahead of Mankato. Therefore my 16 seeds in order: UND, Minny, Mankato, BC, UMass, WI, SCSU, LSSU, BU, UMD, Michigan, Quinnipiac, BSU, AIC, Omaha, St Lawrence.

I of course jacked up my placement last night by not putting Quinnipiac in Bridgeport. They will be there. I’m going to give a different approach here in a minute...I’m sure you are all on baited breath hahaha

Fargo: UND vs St Lawrence Michigan vs UMD Loveland: Gophers vs AIC SCSU vs LSSU Bridgeport: BC vs Omaha Wisconsin vs BU Albany: Mankato vs Quinnipiac UMass vs Bowling Green

You have Wisconsin hopping Mankato into a 1 seed?

St Lawrence will displace Bemidji. UND should draw them in the first round, as they should be #16 seed and we should be #1

St Lawrence and Quinnipiac headed to OT

I don’t if it is a merit based selection. If they get in, they will bounce teams with winning records who finished higher in both the conference tourney and the regular season. just like I don’t think they take 5 from Hocjey East, I don’t think they take 5 from the NCHC

I can’t see a scenario where they take 4 teams from the WCHA, so Northern absolutely holds the fate of Bemidji in their hands. It’s Mankato, LSSU and either BSU or Northern. I also can’t imagine them taking 2 from Atlantic hockey, so that tourney is really win or be done. AiC or Canisius. they also aren’t going to take 5 teams from hockey East, so if Lowell pulls it off, I think that torpedos Providence. BC, UMass, BU and either Providence or Lowell. the ECAC is interesting. Quinnipiac is in. So if St Lawrence wins, they will likely send 2 teams. It’s either Quinnipiac or Quinnipiac and St Lawrence. big 10 should be set with Minny, WI, and MI. NCHC has UND, SCSU and UMD. Omaha is firmly on the bubble. LSSU, Omaha, Bemidji and Providence are firmly rooting for Quinnipiac and UMass

Bemidji lost their tourney slot tonight

yikes! I also seem to remember a game where they put Archie with Brennan and Dachyshyn too...I don't know if I'd want to play if I saw that trio across from me