UND-RedSox fan

Not to just point you out Fetch, but I find these posts to be some of the most idiotic things I read. Do you really think the guys on the team don't care about winning a championship? Do you think they are going to magically move on to the next level without improving every year? Does having talent mean you can't be a hard worker? Well which one does Toews have, hard work or talent? Same with Parise. Take a look at every national champion in the 2000's. Every single one of them had a future NHL player. Most of them had multiple guys go on to the NHL. Look at those BC rosters, or 2006 Wisconsin roster, or the Denver roster in those back to back years, or 2009 BU. Just because Yale won it 3 years ago, it doesn't all of a sudden mean their way is the only way to win. They are much more the exception than the rule.

CC and WMU would both need to win the NCHC tournament to make the NCAA tournament. Miami and Duluth can't afford to lose many more games if they want to be automatic bids. Duluth has less room for error. Miami could maybe lose 1 or 2. Omaha and Denver just need to play around .500 hockey the rest of the way to be automatic qualifiers. UND and SCSU would need to have meltdowns of epic proportions and still would likely make it.

Omaha 3 series left: SCSU-UND-@Denver Duluth: @UND-@SCSU-Miami Miami: @WMU-CC-@Duluth WMU: Miami-Denver-@UND CC: Denver-@Miami-SCSU Best and worst case scenarios for each team CC: Can finish 4th-8th. Winning out gets them 31 points on the season. If Omaha loses out, Duluth loses out, Miami only beats Duluth, and WMU doesn't win out; CC can get to 4th. Most likely finish is 7th or 8th. WMU: Can finish 4th-8th. Winning out gets them to 32 points. Omaha loses out and Miami and Duluth split but win no other games; WMU gets to 4th. Again pretty much locked into 7th or 8th Miami: Can finish 3rd-8th. Winning out puts them at 40 points. If SCSU and UND win out and Denver wins <2 games then Miami gets to 3rd. Most likely finish in the 4th-6th spots. They have the most favorable schedule of those 3 teams fighting for the last home playoff spot. Duluth: Can finish 1st-8th. Winning out puts them at 43. SCSU and UND would both need to lose out, Omaha loses at least one point to Denver, and Denver winning less than 3 games; Duluth gets to 1st. They could fall to 8th if CC wins at least 5, WMU wins at least 4, and Miami gets at least 4 points. This is possible. Like Miami; they most likely will finish between 4th and 6th. They have a more favorable schedule than Omaha. Omaha: Can finish 1st-8th. Winning out puts them at 43. If SCSU and UND both lose out, Denver wins 2 or less games, and Duluth drops a point against Miami; Omaha gets 1st. Similar situation as Duluth puts them in last. Most likely will finish 4th-6th and have the most difficult schedule of the 3. Denver: Can finish 1st-6th. Winning out puts them at 53 points. They can only finish 6th if they lose out, Omaha wins out, Duluth and Miami split, and then win the rest of their games. They are more than likely locked into 3rd at this point. SCSU and UND: Can finish 1st-5th. Winning out puts them at 59 points. Either team finishes fifth by losing out and Omaha and Duluth winning out. They're both likely locked into 1st and 2nd with pretty much the same remaining schedule. Both go to Omaha and host Duluth. SCSU goes to CC and UND hosts WMU. That is pretty much a wash.

They've never switched sites for #1 seeds plus if Minnesota makes the tournament, they are guaranteed to be in St. Paul since they host. The NCAA will leave St. Cloud in St. Paul since they will still get some fans plus they will be hoping Minnesota makes it. If they do they won't care about anything else for attendance and St. Paul.

and both CC and Miami in the NCHC playoffs two years ago...

and Bemidji last year...

We lost to Wisconsin this year...

This might sound stupid but I am not sold on that line. They put up decent but not great stats to start the year and then suddenly became the best line in the country once Big 10 play started. I wonder why that is. I watched a lot of the Wisconsin-Michigan game and it looked like both teams were skating in slush and Michigan's defensemen are clueless.

Granted Thompson looked awful on the highlight reel for last night's game

Honestly the last loss I watched where I thought the effort was there was last year against BU. But to be fair I didn't see the SCSU loss or either game this weekend. No one will ever convince me the Wisconsin and Omaha losses weren't terrible this year. Everything I read about last night's game sounds like we played well though. Its pretty difficult to double up the shot attempts on your opponent and place as bad as everyone makes it sound on this board. Buccigross called the most entertaining game of the season.

Arizona State has a sold out crowd of 500 people tonight. One of the smallest barns I've ever seen and that includes North Dakota high school rinks.

They definitely haven't been playing too well since Christmas. 7 overtime games in their last 10 games. They've only lost one of them but that many OT games is definitely not a recipe for success since OT games are pretty much 50-50.

Thanks for pointing that out. I knew that so I don't know why I typed that.

I can understand high expectations because I have them. The Friday loss to Wisconsin was a bad day to be around me. But tonight on the live chat is insanity. Those people honestly think these guys don't know how to play in front of scouts. They've played hundreds of games in front of scouts in their careers. At least have your chicken little sky is falling reactions not be 100% stupid.

Omaha 6-3 win over WMU #1 Quinnipiac wins in OT #2 SCSU doesn't play #4 BC ties #5 Providence wins Badgers tie #6 Michigan tonight #7 Notre Dame wins

The people on the live chat make it almost impossible to follow. Denver is a damn good team and people are acting like the only we could possibly be down is players are thinking about going pro or that they're trying to showoff for scouts (whatever the flying f*** that means). The game is 2-1. We've lost 4 games all year. And a one goal deficit makes people lose their minds.

I think its still 2-1 Denver

You're off by a day

I'm nervous about tonight. The second night in high altitude is usually more difficult than the first since the guys won't regain energy as well as the Denver guys. We still have the better team, but I wouldn't be surprised to see some guys with dead legs. I'll predict 3-1 for us though. Stecher, Boeser, and Caggiula score and Nick has a couple assists. Cam Johnson makes a handful of big saves.

This response should say all you need to hear about Fat Barry. Thank God we don't have an AD like him!

Thank you. That's what I thought but USCHO had 7:00 CT as start time on their scoreboard. I've found that CHN is generally more reliable for live scores.

So is the game at 7 or 8 central time? Someone on here and CHN say 8 but USCHO says 7.

400,000 or 4,000,000 the only difference is a 0. That's pretty much nothing

I would be pissed if I was a fan of any of Wisconsin's programs. He basically said he doesn't care that they have lost something like 4,000 season tickets in the past 2 years. What does a season ticket cost? $1000? So he doesn't care about the $400,000/season he has lost in revenue due to not caring about hockey. Bo Ryan doesn't like him either, right? And they lose football coaches every year because of him. Sounds like a bad AD to me.

You're right on with the Pairwise comment. If the Gophers win the Little 6, I might be nervous being in St. Paul as a 1 seed. We have lost to a bad Little 6 team on a Friday this year before