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I almost ran over Rico Blasi in 2012 at Joe Louis Arena before WMU's CCHA championship game against Michigan. I was hurrying and it was dark as the roadway went underneath the arena. He didn't look both ways (was probably half asleep from having to play BG for 3rd place) and I had to slam on my brakes to avoid making a blasi mark on the pavement. Anyway, we beat Michigan to take the title later that evening (which is pretty much the best feeling in the world) and I almost forgot about that "incident".

lol @ Andy's boys. Now I'm picturing this on the bottom of all the player's skates.

That's a really good point actually. They had to split the "groups" somehow, but it was rather uneven this year. It would have been helpful for you guys if you would have had the opportunity to play the top teams in our league more than just a handful of times. That said, I'm thankful that WMU wasn't stuck in a group with SCSU, Duluth, AND North Dakota.

6 of WMUs 10 wins came against frozen four teams. But there were some pretty bad losses early in the season that knocked them out of the discussion.

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.