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Wait a minute now, WMU has never finished at the bottom (though we did have a couple of tough years early on finishing 7th). The rest of the time we've usually been in the top 4, with a couple of 3rd place finishes in there. I don't think Tech or Bemidji would have done any better than that. We just haven't had any success in the post season (ncaas or frozen faceoff) and so it's easy to forget about those teams.

I wouldn't mind seeing SCSU take the title as they were a late comer to the NCHC (along with us). I'm really fine with anyone winning as long as it's not Mankato. There is a very vocal minority of WMU fans who think we should have gone to the WCHA, and a WCHA national title will finally give them some positives about that conference to bring up.

This exactly. We'd trade anything to have had 1/10th of your success. WMU is rarely in the NCAAs, and we've never won a game when we've been in. It's literally been nothing but an occasional conference championship and some pretty close "almost" moments. Enjoy what you have.

It was the most "western" way to lose a game ever. Oh well, maybe next year.... ugh....

I agree that WMU - UMD is a toss up. I would have rather played SCSU to be honest, but oh well. For WMU Bussi is back in the lineup and looks to be healthy and we're getting hot at the right time. It's been too many damn years since we last lost in the 1st round of the NCAA tournament. I'm hoping we make a little run this year and sneak in.

Only family members. We're keeping things as safe as possible over here.

Can we play these games at Lawson instead of the Ralph? .... please?

After their first series with Arizona State, I saw some Michigan fans saying they could have the best college hockey team ever assembled..... Those guys are simply the worst. But I hate Minnesota now too because of fleck, so eff em both! I hope Mninnesota goes undefeated and loses to AIC or Colgate or something in the 1st round of the tournament (if we have one this year).

I'm not sure which fan site you were looking at, but most of us believe the NCHC is the right place for the program. There is one idiot who keeps talking about how he wanted us in the WCHA, but the NCHC has really given the program an opportunity to grow. No way we would have been able to bring in the talent we've been bringing in if we were playing LSSU and Bemidji every night. The team last year had the talent to beat any team in the country (and with a Detroit frozen four anything was possible). I'm still upset at the timing of this whole Covid thing cancelling the season last year.

He's out the entire pod, so yeah..... this is going to be a fun couple of weeks....

They had a similar thing with us when they left the CCHA. Red wouldn't schedule us unless we played both games at Yost. Murray told him to F off and so we only got to beat them when we were invited to the GLI. That changed when Red retired.

That sounds good but why stop there? Let us also prevent Michigan from getting in while we're at it.

Hopefully we win the next four games and one in the Frozen faceoff. I'm thinking that should be enough to get us in the NCAAs barring something unexpected. Do they still have a third place game this season?

How about we let you count the Friday goal, and you let us count the Saturday goal?

Yeah, this one hurts. The Friday call was weak but those are different scenarios. Saturday the WMU player was pushed into the goalie. I get that the refs don't want the game to end on a bad call so that's likely why they let the teams continue to play on, but if WMU doesn't end the year on a run, it'll be a tough one to look back on in this in the offseason. It was a tough week for officiating as a WMU fan. This happened as well https://thecomeback.com/ncaa/louisville-levi-usher-second-ball-western-michigan-logan-hudson.html

If you have a passport or global entry ID those will also work.

Lions fan here, What the hell is the NFC Championship game? Seriously though, come to Detroit. It's going to be crazy with all the WMU fans who are going to be there supporting their team!

We've only got like 6 banners.... might need to get those eyes checked

He certainly did get a penalty for it, whether it was a dive or not is open to interpretation... lol

Hey now, nobody raises participation banners better than us.

I don't under stand why Ferris hasn't. They needed to capitalize on their NCAA finals run at the end of the CCHA. They could have been a force in college hockey if they really wanted to be but they seem to have let that pass them.

I can't speak for Miami, but there's no way WMU moves into the new CCHA (which is what I'm calling it) as long as our AD is still around. She absolutely wants WMU hockey in the highest tier conference they can be in. She want's WMU to be in a conference with schools that are all Div 1 or at the very least teams that have a huge commitment to hockey. The only team in the new CCHA that fits that profile is BGSU. We were fine playing the LSSUs and Northerns of the world when we also got to play Michigan, Michigan State, and Notre Dame all the time, but there's no way we'd voluntarily move our team down to play with a bunch of Gliac schools. The travel isn't really the huge issue that others make it out to be for WMU. Kalamazoo has an international airport (with another a short drive away in Grand Rapids) and supplements athletic costs by playing money games against B1G teams in football and charging students an athletics fee. Also despite what others say, I would also expect there to be an attendance hit if WMU left the NCHC. Sure, LSSU, and Northern are from the same state, but they traditionally haven't drawn well when playing in Kalamazoo. We get much more excited to play Denver, SCSU or You guys than the teams from the UP (although we draw well for Ferris usually).

I get that, we have a history of not doing anything. I'm drinking so much koolaid though, we're going to have more talent then we've ever had. No goalie, but it's not like we had a world beater last year. That said, if we have a great year I can totally see us SCSU-ing it and losing in the 1st round against a #4 seed. That's just how we roll.

It's fine, We'll just prop him up and play pre-recorded sounds of him yelling at the refs.

Oh man, I hope there isn't some clause in the MAC where 6 teams creates a new conference automatically like there was with the Big 10. We'd still be a couple teams away, but man that would suck.