Dustin

To me, there's no reason why the win streak can't start now. You've got conference playoffs in your home rink. The NCAA regional venue is in a neighboring state. And, oh yeah, you're the host institution at the first ever Las Vegas Frozen Four.

They were the lower seed (#3). Quinnipiac was #1 overall.

I had the same thought.

Can UND just request to wear green for any game, regardless of home/away/seed? The other team has a say about agreeing to it, right? How about when NCAA time comes? I am trying to think of a time when a team wore a jersey that was the opposite of their seed (higher seed = home, lower seed = away) in the NCAA.

Where did you see this?

I was thinking about this. If our time in the NCAA tournament is short-lived, and we ask the question "was the season a success?" I would confidently answer "YES!" I know we measure success by Nattys, but to be NCHC regular season champs and (almost) guaranteed #1 seed (possibly the overall #1 seed), with what the program was 11 months ago, all of that would have seemed very far-fetched. Unbelievable job by the everyone involved.

I wouldn't doubt our whole staff is being eyed, especially with a regular season conference championship executed in a one-year rebuild.

What's the story here?

Same as NCAA playoffs. 5x5 OT until a winning goal.

You must have missed my post back on page 162.

I've been looking at the formats for the other conference tournaments: As aforementioned, the Big Ten plays another weekend of regular season series, then single-game quarterfinals mid-week, then the semi-finals and championship are at home sites of the higher seeds. The CCHA uses the same format and schedule as the NCHC. Atlantic Hockey actually starts their playoffs this upcoming Wednesday, which serve as play-in games to the quarterfinals, so they have 4 rounds of playoffs. Games are played at home sites of higher seeds. The ECAC is similar to AHA in that they have play-in games to the quarterfinals, but those games are next weekend, not mid-week. They accomplish this by hosting the semi-finals and championship on the same weekend at a neutral site (Lake Placid), much like all conferences used to do. And lastly, Hockey East still has another weekend of the regular season, then mid-week play-in games to the quarterfinals, then single-game quarterfinals at home sites, then the semi-finals and championship at the TD Garden in Boston. I don't know if any one of these formats is inherently better than any other. A lot of it has to do with how many teams are in the conference and their proximity to a good neutral site venue. It would be nice to whittle down the conference playoffs to 2 weekends. It just seems odd that a conference tournament needs to take longer than the NCAA tournament. Maybe reduce the number of teams that make the conference tournaments? It would place more emphasis on the regular season if only semi-finals and championship games were played.

Looks like the Big Ten has mid-week, single game quarterfinals. So, it only shaves off a few days of a team not playing if they happen to lose their quarterfinal game but still eligible for the NCAA.

What was the reason to sit livanavage? Is he nursing something or Just saving his minutes for the stretch run?

That’s the worst part of this setup. did the Big Ten change their post season tournament format? They still have one weekend left of the regular season, so their conference tournament is only 2 weekends, as opposed to our 3. But i thought the Big Ten used to have a 3 week tournament, because I seem to remember there was a team that lost their quarterfinal series but was still an at large bid, meaning they didn’t play for a couple weeks until their NCAA game.

If you think our breakaways Need work, it took Michigan State and Ohio State 13 rounds of shootout to get a winner.

It’s possible that UND can get to the Frozen Four without leaving the Dakotas.

Not a lot to gain playing Minnesota, but plenty to lose.

I'd rather end Omaha's season than Miami's, so Go Redhawks.

So we will get the loser of Miami/Omaha?

So did the announcers.

Michigan State just scored to tie at 3 with 13 minutes left in regulation.

UMD and CC went to OT, so CC will stay at #6. SCSU will be #5. Only 7-8-9 left to determine.

Hooray for no more 3X3!!

Poor Zellers! Him getting Ot winner would have been a great story.