yzerman19

Fixed your post

Bench a freshman first rounder for a turnover (potentially), but let Gardner slide for his penalties or the entire forward group for poor play...makes sense to me

Yes, we can. $400k per average is nothing in a budget the size of UND's...it's 4 analysts with benefits

JBD is the only NHL player on this year's team...

Says something that my immediate support is for JBD, not Bubbs...

I actually really like it. RPI is huge and should be the number one determinant, but I love that you can crush it with common opponents and head to head results. It is a solid system. Only negative is that winning percentage is still king in RPI, so your strength of schedule is somewhat discounted. All in all, it is fair.

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Exactly. Its 113bps to Harvard...a miracle run without a conference title and we might find ourselves all the way up to 15 and praying for no upsets... And...if we play Western in the first round, it will be both teams' seasons on the line, most likely.

6 losses or ties giving up 2 or less 11 giving up 3 or less. should win at least 4 of the first 6, and half of the incremental 5. an average offense and pp and we have 6/7 more wins and are sitting pretty. Reality sinks in...you are what your record says you are, and we have zero offense

Wow- that big an RPI hit...incredible...

How do you come up with that? It would be an adjusted RPI due to defeating a weaker opponent...

Just splitting with Canisius and we'd have 42 maybe even 43 and be sitting 17/18 with more hope

So if by some miracle we run the table, the point is moot- we're in. The scerario you suggest would be the RPI play, which is fluid, because it moves based on the outcome of virtually every game. We have 40 PWR wins...looks like 47 gets you to number 13, 46 to number 14. If the hockey Gods favor us, and the right teams win and lose and we sweep out then go 1-1 in St Paul, I see the possibility of getting to 45.

And honestly...does this team deserve a date at the big dance???

It is possible to go on a little run and fall just short where our RPI could ultimately flip Lowell, Penn State, Norte Dame, bowling green, and Western (depending on how they all do). i don't think anyone else is flippable. bottom line is Buffalo killed us of all hope except an autobid

Didn't matter. The 3-1 H2H with them makes a sweep a draw. Best case scenario is we sweep next weekend, they get swept, then we sweep them in playoffs- this would result in us winning COP, a draw in H2H, and us losing In RPI (most likely) which still gives them the PWR win, because RPI is the tie breaker.

RPI is what has ASU so high. Your winning %, your opponents winning %, and their opponents winning %

I just looked at our PWR...there are really only 3 flippable comparisons, which still leaves us outside looking in. Team has to win it...even a sweep of Western in the playoffs doesn't flip our PWR with them.

Only guarantee is to possibly flip a H2H, which can have you steal a pwr win against that team. RPI won't move much, likely COP won't move you much unless it's vs s conference opponent

Boeser had a major wrist injury he was dealing with

Have to believe that a player of JBD's stature just voiced frustration and tried to lead....

Love the analogy; difference is I cried for Old Yeller

Absolutely no reason on an olympic sheet why you don't just crank the afterburners wide then dip your inside shoulder and drive the net- put a shot low far side for a rebound, weakside winger and center should be hell-bent to the blue paint to tap it in.

saw that. During both those sequences, I was looking for someone to get into a soft spot to get off a good shot and/or someone to drive the net...alas...no such luck

I think the sad thing is we're used to the team building and building and building throughout the whole season. I don't think any Bubba teams have steadily improved as the season went on the way Hak's teams did. That 16 team was loaded and was just ready for the puck to drop...