Great Lakes Invitational

[dagies]

Anyone have thoughts on the GLI?

If I read right, the first games are UND/UM, and Tech/State.

I would predict State would win that battle, and you have to give UND a chance to beat UM because they are losing 3 good players to the world junior? tournament.  In addition, they are somewhat like the Sioux this year in that they have a young team.

That being said, I would say that the Sioux have a good chance to have a top 2 win.  State might like to take a bit of revenge for the Frozen Four loss from last year, so they would be hyped I think if the Sioux should win.

I'm predicting:

State

Sioux

Tech

UM

How about that?

[Wilbur]

what players is mich losing??

[dagies]

Cammalleri, Helminen and Komisarek

[Wilbur]

I'll give the nod to UND then.  Cammalleri is pretty good, so we should be playing on Saturday night!

[ScottM]

We should have a chance against Michigan if we actually show up to play a full game.  I'd like to think that the SLU series would give the boys some confidence to go against Michigan full-bore.  However, if they play like they did against Mankato, St. Cloud, etc., it could get pretty ugly.

[jk]

Actually, Michigan's Eric Nystrom was a late addition to the U.S. team, so Michigan is without four players.  As with SLU, this really is a game UND should win.  Whether they will or not, I don't know.  But you need to take your breaks when you get them, and getting Michigan without it's best forward and best defenseman, plus two good contributing freshmen forwards, is a break.  I'm hoping they come out with some real jump.

[Prof Plum]

I think that 3 of the 4 players are centers off Michigans team.  Might win some faceoffs.

[choyt3]

Quote: from Prof Plum on 1:57 pm on Dec. 21, 2001

I think that 3 of the 4 players are centers off Michigans team.

[dagies]

I don't know what it takes to win face-offs but if practice helps I hope Blais is drilling them.