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Once again it's Denver that is the benificiary as they play Minn next week and UND the week after that. I think I smell a conspiacy.

St. Cloud was the first Sat night road win that we didn't wear the blacks. Prior to that it was Green on Friday (lose) - Black on Sat (win). I just want the extra insurance.

Not that it means anything cause it's not used, but Krach has 7 WCHA teams qualifying for the tourney (first 14 spots stay the same and the last two are filled by the conference leaders of the two conferences not currently represented in the top 16, assuming that conference leaders win conference tournaments). This is supposedly a better "judge" of where teams should actually be rated, but just looking at it, it will never be adopted because the NCAA would have an absolute cow having to put 7 WCHA teams in the nationals. Rk Team KRACH Record Sched Strength Rating RRWP Rk W-L-T Pct Ratio Rk SOS 1 Miami 965.8 .8760 1 25-3-0 .8929 8.333 28 115.9 2 Michigan 832.5 .8602 2 22-3-2 .8519 5.750 22 144.8 3 Colorado College 622.6 .8252 3 19-7-1 .7222 2.600 3 239.5 4 Denver 582.7 .8164 4 18-7-0 .7200 2.571 4 226.6 5 North Dakota 563.5 .8119 8 17-8-1 .6731 2.059 1 273.7 6 New Hampshire 422.6 .7701 6 16-7-1 .6875 2.200 11 192.1 7 Notre Dame 363.7 .7463 7 20-9-1 .6833 2.158 13 168.5 8 Michigan State 360.0 .7446 5 17-6-5 .6964 2.294 17 156.9 9 Wisconsin 297.6 .7124 22T 12-10-5 .5370 1.160 2 256.5 10 Minnesota-Duluth 244.5 .6772 24T 10-9-6 .5200 1.083 5 225.7 11 Minnesota State 229.7 .6657 20T 12-10-4 .5385 1.167 10 196.9 12 Boston College 227.4 .6638 12 12-6-7 .6200 1.632 23 139.4 13 Northeastern 223.9 .6609 13 12-8-3 .5870 1.421 16 157.6 14 Minnesota 212.6 .6511 26T 12-12-5 .5000 1.000 9 212.6 15 Providence 211.0 .6497 17 12-9-2 .5652 1.300 15 162.3 16 Mass.-Lowell 207.9 .6468 14 12-8-4 .5833 1.400 21 148.5 17 St. Cloud State 198.1 .6376 30 11-12-3 .4808 .9259 8 213.9 18 Clarkson 190.0 .6295 11 15-8-2 .6400 1.778 31 106.9 19 Michigan Tech 184.7 .6240 33T 10-12-3 .4600 .8519 7 216.8 20 Massachusetts 179.2 .6181 26T 9-9-6 .5000 1.000 12 179.2 21 Alaska-Anchorage 145.1 .5761 45T 7-12-6 .4000 .6667 6 217.6 22 Quinnipiac 134.9 .5614 9 15-7-3 .6600 1.941 46 69.51 23 Princeton 134.7 .5610 19 11-9-0 .5500 1.222 30 110.2 24 Nebraska-Omaha 132.4 .5575 26T 12-12-3 .5000 1.000 25 132.4 25 Bowling Green 130.2 .5541 24T 13-12-0 .5200 1.083 27 120.2 26 Cornell 124.4 .5449 15 10-7-3 .5750 1.353 37 91.98 27 Boston University 111.1 .5216 45T 8-13-4 .4000 .6667 14 166.6 28 Union 110.3 .5202 18 12-9-3 .5625 1.286 39 85.81 29 Vermont 110.2 .5200 42T 6-10-7 .4130 .7037 18 156.6 30 Maine 110.2 .5200 42T 8-12-3 .4130 .7037 19 156.6

Just for a little extra jump and insurance, let's break out the black swifts.

Just looked through the box scores and Schmidt didn't ref last night. Does anyone know if he is still suspended or just had the weekend off?

Hey, let's work together on this tonight. We'll beat the gophers again for you and you can beat Denver again for us and we'll all be happy.

Would Lucia actually start Frazee tonight? Kangas played well. Even though the goofers lost, he kept them in the game until the end.

I just didn't wait long enough. Rk Team PCWs W-L-T Win % Rk RPI Rk 1 Miami 24 25-3-0 .8929 1 .6110* 1 2 Michigan 23 22-3-2 .8519 2 .6044* 2 3t Colorado College 21 19-7-1 .7222 3 .5915 3 3t Denver 21 18-7-0 .7200 4 .5867 4 5t North Dakota 20 17-8-1 .6731 8 .5834 5 5t New Hampshire 20 16-7-1 .6875 6 .5728* 6 7 Michigan State 17 17-6-5 .6964 5 .5597 8 8 Clarkson 16 15-8-2 .6400 11 .5390 12 Edit: Now we just need to have Miami and Michigan show their true colors.

I am SHOCKED!!!!! We played IN Minnesota and we ended up with 4 powerplays (not that we necessarily did anything with them) and MN ended up with 3. Has that EVER happened before? I have a feeling heads are going to roll tomorrow.

How come we didn't move at all in the pairwise with Michigan tying to a much lower team and DU losing to a much lower team (I know it was great for us that Mankato won to keep them as a TUC)?

A little off topic, but who drew the short straw and ended up with Randy Schmidt? Was it a one goal game?

Can you post a link to the article - I didn't see that.

Gonna need your "help" tonight guys. Have to go watch my nephew's bantam game so I'll need you all to take good "notes". Thanks

http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2008/02/01/72165290 Quote: "But there is a difference between being physical and being cheap, and Bickel is the former. " Really?? That's not what I've seen watching him!!!!!!!

I'm starting to feel good about Friday's game. My horiscope this morning said "Tonight: ENJOY THE MOMENT"

Oshie's on a mission - I'll take him.

I wonder why I don't have the animosity against Vanek that I have against Kessel.

I remember a couple of years ago when our powerplay was absolutely horrendous (can't remember the year exactly) and when a penalty was called on the opposing team everyone in my section would yell "WE DECLINE"

I really miss it also. I always remember too late on Wednesdays and I miss it. I went over to USCHO to look for his recap over there but couldn't find it. Very easily could have missed it though.

Just checked the Hawks site for an injury update on Jon. Said he was expected to start skating on his own today, probably join the team in Calgary next week and could possibly back in the line up Feb 13 against Columbus. Hurry back Jonny - We miss ya dude.

Watching the Ducks vs Wild on VS and saw Jonathon on a VS commercial. A rookie and the kid is already doing comercials for the league and the TV network broadcasting it. The kid is doing WELL!!

Boy, I sure hope those numbers translate over to D1 WCHA.

Also Commodore with an assist. (Travis also had a goal last night, unfortunately it counted for Pittsburg )

http://www.uscho.com/news/college-hockey/i...yJan292008.html Both Michigan and BC in our bracket this week. How lucky are we (we just seem to have a lot of history with these two teams.)

Often a hard thing to do against the Gophers - especially if Campion or Shepard are reffing. (Anybody have any inside info on who the refs will be?)