Benny Baker

That’s what I would think too. This can’t be the first time Berry encountered a “hockey parent” while recruiting. I wasn’t there though, but makes me wonder how difficult he must actually be.

So this is co-hosted by AIC and UMASS? If AIC won Atlantic Hockey, who is the 4th seed in this regional?

Thanks! Wasn’t trying to be critical of the “didn’t want him statement”. I knew full well what you meant. lol. Just always found it weird having read the “dad is crazy” comments on here but never having heard the full back story.

I see people make that general statement on here all the time. I’ve never heard anyone make a specific statement about how he is nuts; if not, so nuts that he (as a player’s parent, no less, living in a different time zone) would outweigh a perennial 30+ point performer from the blue line. But hey, at least we got that Johnson kid to take Morrow’s spot.

Schools can host on campus if there are no other bids. Notre Dame hosted a regional on campus (2015, I believe) because no one else bothered to put in a bid.

1-8 against Omaha and CC 25-3-2 against everyone else. hopefully they get shipped out East as a #2 seed, and they might be better off for it than losing to Omaha for the 4th time this season next weekend in Sioux Falls.

Colten St Claire and add the “A”. Although he technically did not play a game in a Sioux jersey, he was a redshirt member of the 2011-2012 team, which kind of makes him the final player at UND to have worn a Sioux jersey. I’m guessing there’s a team photo of him wearing it something.

I thought the perennial powers were in favor of onsite regionals (im thinking UND, Minny, Michigan, BU, BC, etc) but it’s the other 50 or so schools who are against it? For example, the Yale’s, Union’s, and Providence’s of the college hockey world probably don’t win national championships the last decade if they have to go into Grand Forks to win national tournament games. They have better odds beating UND in Toledo, OH in front of 1,166 generic fans instead 11,667 Sioux fans in Grand Forks.

Quinnipiac’s won 8 of the last 12 ECAC regular championships. In that same time, they have 1 conference tournament championship. I’m taking Dartmouth, who was 0-1-3 against Cornell and Quinnipiac, as my dark horse.

Yes. They can’t hang in the NCHC. They’re a pairwise killer. Let them leave without the exit fee. NCHC will be better as an 8 team league with ASU anyway.

Take out CC and Omaha, and North Dakota is 25-3-2 against the field. Not bad.

“Berg chin-tucked comes into the circle low and slow—the true veteran that he is—wins the draw back to Livanavage who claps an absolute bomb that goes bar down for the 1-0 lead.”

Midco needs to splurge on about 10-round trip Allegiant tickets a year and fly in Jordan Schmaltz from Scottsdale as the new analyst.

Sometimes it looked like the CBS line played cat-and-mouse with other teams. They would lose the puck only to see how quickly they could take it back from the other team. For all their scoring accolades, their back checking is what set them apart, in my opinion.

Jost played his first NHL game a few days after his 19th birthday. Blake will at least be 21 by the end of this summer. Hoping he comes back too.

Too much Penna Rosa last weekend? Ask Michael Scott, last night is what ends up happening when you carbo-load on pasta.

Of course he does! After all, I think I pointed out he scouted for Hak—in the same NHL you’re talking about. I just disagree that a winner in hockey is 95% determined by talent on the ice. I think it is much more a combination of talent, luck, mentality and determination, teamwork, goal-setting, leadership, coaching, physical endurance, etc. than any one predominant factor. Some nights, some factors play a larger role in who wins a hockey game. And that’s what makes hockey fun, and that’s why they play the game instead of deciding the winner based upon roster talent alone, or at least just for 95% of the games.

Well, former scout—even for Hak! Hey, I like the guy but I disagree with that comment.

My comment was tongue-in-cheek, Brendan Morrison. ‘97 Sioux deserved their title just as much as the Bulldogs deserved theirs, but certainly more than your Wolverines did, even if you were “the best team” out there that year! Hey, I like listening to Starman, too. But I also believe he’s a goalie coach for an NA3HL team, so I’m not granting him the word of gospel when it comes to hockey just quite yet.

And let’s not forget 1997, when (6) Cornell knocked off (3) Miami, giving UND an easier route to the frozen four to play (5) Colorado College who knocked off (1) Clarkson, before UND played (2) BU who knocked off (1) Michigan. Yes, upsets happen. North Dakota did what they had to do in those circumstances, but you can’t deny the good fortune UND had that led to their 1997 national championship.

All valid points. Unlike the on-ramp Gasparini, Blais, and Hakstol provided Berry, Mike Sertich’s lack of any success his last 15 years makes Sandelin’s 5 trips to the last 13 frozen fours fairly impressive. Sandelin had to build his tracks and steam engine from the ground up; Berry just needs to keep his from going off the rails.

Just curious. How is head to head tied when they beat us in regulation and we beat them in OT? Isn’t an OT win technically .55 is a win (or whatever) in college’s weird hockey rules?

Hey, I’m game with that. However, thought RPI was only part of the calculation for PWR comparison. In other words, you can have a higher RPI but still lose the comparison. (UND and CC, for example).

Right, but pairwise is based on how many comparisons you win against every other team. Right now, UND wins 60 comparisons, BU wins 62. Hey, I’m hoping for #2 overall too, but those CC loses could really come back to bite.

Are they though? Isnt UND (60) 2 comparisons back of BU (62)? I fear the comparison loss to CC will prevent UND from reaching #2 in PWR. The 0-4 record against them is a pairwise killer.