MafiaMan Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share Posted March 16, 2015 Atlantic Hockey semi-finals on Friday: Mercyhurst vs Robert Morris RIT vs Canisius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cberkas Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Providence and UNH heading to overtime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cberkas Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Yale got a 5 with 5 minutes left in the 1st overtime. Yale and Harvard heading to a 2nd overtime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siouxczech29 Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 I can't wait to pay Mr. Brodzinski back! GO SIOUX! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cberkas Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 UNH beats Providence 2-1 (OT) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MafiaMan Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share Posted March 16, 2015 UNH beats Providence 2-1 (OT) Groan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MafiaMan Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share Posted March 16, 2015 Hockey East semi-finals: New Hampshire vs BU Vermont vs UMass-Lowell 3 of those 4 teams pretty much need to win the tournament to make the field of 16. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cberkas Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Harvard beats Yale 3-2 (2OT) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jk Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Hockey East semi-finals: New Hampshire vs BU Vermont vs UMass-Lowell 3 of those 4 teams pretty much need to win the tournament to make the field of 16. Lots of BU fans next weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MafiaMan Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share Posted March 16, 2015 ECAC: Harvard vs Quinnipiac Colgate vs St Lawrence Again, looks like 3 of these 4 absolutely must win the conference tournament to make the NCAA's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirtcoach Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 ECAC: Harvard vs Quinnipiac Colgate vs St Lawrence Again, looks like 3 of these 4 absolutely must win the conference tournament to make the NCAA's. So, you are saying those three teams are in the same boat as all the teams in the Big Ten? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MafiaMan Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share Posted March 16, 2015 So, you are saying those three teams are in the same boat as all the teams in the Big Ten? You wanna see 13 on down freak out? Then cheer for Ferris State and UNH to win their conference tournaments. Anyone but Minnesota in the B10 would also cause a PWR mess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keikla Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Wow. I just realized that Huntsville finished the season with twice as many wins as Wisconsin... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ringneck28 Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 I can't wait to pay Mr. Brodzinski back! GO SIOUX! I know we are all disappointed that Mac is gone for the season, but there is no payback for the injury needed. That was just a dumb luck injury with Mac doing what any of the players would have done in a 5 on 3 PK. If I remember right, we did beat them 3 out of 4. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirtcoach Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Wow. I just realized that Huntsville finished the season with twice as many wins as Wisconsin... Yeah, but the level of talent they played against... Wait, never mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keikla Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Yeah, but the level of talent they played against... Wait, never mind. Hahaha that's exactly how that went in my brain too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MafiaMan Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share Posted March 16, 2015 If the Gophers don't make the NCAAs the PWR will be tweaked you can bet on that. I read that as ***** meaning if the Gophers don't make the field this year after winning the Big Ten this season, they would tweak the Pairwise for next season. Not inconceivable. I understand the added incentive of winning the tournament to get the automatic bid, but the degree of difficulty winning the league - any league - is much more difficult and more deserving of an automatic bid. The problem is that if you award the automatic to the league winner, the tournament becomes a waste of time. I've always been in favor of the league winner getting the automatic. ******* nailed it. It isn't even about Minnesota it is about the fact that a major conference outright regular season champ will miss the tournament. The Big Ten is not Atlantic Hockey the NCAA will not like that...They change the pwr all the time they will change the rules again if it happens you can bet on it. I bet said tweak would drive the Nachos crazy. Blow up the wcha to form a super conference, and a "Gopher Rule" goes into effect to make sure the B1G is still represented Here's a Gopher fan trying to explain the rationale behind the PWR needing tweaking so conference champions are guaranteed an NCAA berth...and the reaction of everyone else... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoneySIOUX Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Here's a Gopher fan trying to explain the rationale behind the PWR needing tweaking so conference champions are guaranteed an NCAA berth...and the reaction of everyone else... Do these guys seriously believe all this crap? Man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MafiaMan Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share Posted March 16, 2015 The Gophers might not make the tournament! Change the Pairwise formula! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bale31 Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 WCHA this Friday: Bowling Green vs Michigan Tech Ferris State vs Minnesota State If there's a cinderella team that could advance, I think it is Ferris State. CJ Motte is more than capable of stealing two games in a row in this tournament. The question is whether they can score more than a goal against an other goalie in the tourney. Cj motte is probably the third best goalie I the tourney (maybe 4th). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mariucci Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 After CC won the MacNaughton in '95 but missed out on the NCAA's, they actually did change the rule the following year so that the league champ received an auto-bid but IIRC it didn't last long and it didn't really work. Conference tournaments need to mean something so they kept the auto-bid for that as well which meant there were too many auto-bids and the logistics just didn't work. I think too many at large teams got screwed that way. I'm just basing this off memory so maybe others remember it differently but I think that's basically what happened. But there's no way that rule will change and it shouldn't. Bottom line is the Gophers put themselves in this spot, it's there job to get out of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MafiaMan Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share Posted March 16, 2015 Mariucci, you're referring to 1993-1994, not the following season. CC went 23-11-5 but did not make the NCAA tournament after losing to #10 seed Michigan Tech in the first round of the WCHA playoffs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiouxFanatic Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 After CC won the MacNaughton in '95 but missed out on the NCAA's, they actually did change the rule the following year so that the league champ received an auto-bid but IIRC it didn't last long and it didn't really work. Conference tournaments need to mean something so they kept the auto-bid for that as well which meant there were too many auto-bids and the logistics just didn't work. I think too many at large teams got screwed that way. I'm just basing this off memory so maybe others remember it differently but I think that's basically what happened. But there's no way that rule will change and it shouldn't. Bottom line is the Gophers put themselves in this spot, it's there job to get out of it. Good post, Mariucci. I agree with you. I'll go as far as saying that Minnesota doesn't have total fault for the position they are in. Big Ten's horrid overall OOC record isn't doing any team a favor in that conference. Yes, you can go with the "just win" argument but that's easier said than done. There was/is very little room for any team in the Big Ten to stumble. I only see Minnesota getting into the tournament. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mariucci Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Mariucci, you're referring to 1993-1994, not the following season. CC went 23-11-5 but did not make the NCAA tournament after losing to #10 seed Michigan Tech in the first round of the WCHA playoffs. Yep you're right, it was the 93-94 season. Jamie Ram stood on his head for MTU ending the WCHA champs season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MafiaMan Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share Posted March 16, 2015 Yep you're right, it was the 93-94 season. Jamie Ram stood on his head for MTU ending the WCHA champs season. LOL! I wish I had read your post before having to google search trying to figure out who that goalie was. Yea, Ram was amazing, and then Minnesota put up I believe 10 goals on him in the championship game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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