HAWKS VS red cows (GAME THREE)

[stoneySIOUX]

19 minutes ago, MafiaMan said:

Soo…like a season or two ago?  Which game?

Yes, two seasons ago. The regional final specifically.

Is this a super controversial take based on the past two seasons?

[Goon]

Here’s the UNO coach’s post-game comments. 

 

[stoneySIOUX]

1 minute ago, Goon said:

Here’s the UNO coach’s post-game comments. 

 

So, culture?

Jk... kind of ... hats off to Omaha. Good season. A lot to look forward to with them, methinks. 

[Goon]

2 minutes ago, stoneySIOUX said:

So, culture?

Jk... kind of ... hats off to Omaha. Good season. A lot to look forward to with them, methinks. 

You caught that?

I gained a lot of respect for their program this year. They’re a miserable team to play against. They play fast. 

[petey23]

13 minutes ago, stoneySIOUX said:

So, culture?

Jk... kind of ... hats off to Omaha. Good season. A lot to look forward to with them, methinks. 

Should be either him or WMU coach for Coach fo the year in the conference.

[Kevin G]

1 hour ago, mikejm said:

I wonder why NCHC.TV isn’t doing the Frozen Faceoff? Look like CBSSports does. 

How does a cord cutter watch that?

Hulu With Live TV carries CBSSports, in case you’ve any acquaintances who have Hulu With Live TV. (It’s around $80/mo in case anyone is wondering.)

[GDPritch]

2 hours ago, ND_Texan said:

Do we have a shot at an at large bid if we beat Clown in the semis?

Such a joke that Alaska-Fairbanks with their lack luster schedule is rated like 12th in the PW well ahead of UND. Believe half their wins easily have been vs teams ranked 35 -60 in the PW.  Guessing NCAA brass is in on that. Lost a bit of confidence in PW calculation process/objectivity.

[tnt]

7 minutes ago, GDPritch said:

Such a joke that Alaska-Fairbanks with their lack luster schedule is rated like 12th in the PW well ahead of UND. Believe half their wins easily have been vs teams ranked 35 -60 in the PW.  Guessing NCAA brass is in on that. Lost a bit of confidence in PW calculation process/objectivity.

It is what it is.  If we are o.k. with it only when it turns out well for us, then we are hypocritical.  They beat Denver, we didn’t, they swept Arizona State, we didn’t. We needed to take care of business in those games and we would be in.

[GDPritch]

2 hours ago, gfhockey said:

And bar owners in grand forks rejoice

I would think NCHC brass also rejoice mightily in terms of frozen face off attendance numbers.  Without Duluth being there it would have just been Clown there for numbers with Mavs, CC, and  Pios having just a few thousand combined IF THAT at  best. 

[brianvf]

11 minutes ago, GDPritch said:

Such a joke that Alaska-Fairbanks with their lack luster schedule is rated like 12th in the PW well ahead of UND. Believe half their wins easily have been vs teams ranked 35 -60 in the PW.  Guessing NCAA brass is in on that. Lost a bit of confidence in PW calculation process/objectivity.

To their credit, they went 5-1 against ASU and DU, two teams that we went 0-5 against.

[brianvf]

Just now, GDPritch said:

Without Duluth being there it would have just been Clown there for numbers with Mavs, CC, and  Pios having just a few thousand combined IF THAT at  best. 

The CC and DU fans are busing up from Colorado together.  All 8 of them.

[Kevin G]

2 minutes ago, GDPritch said:

I would think NCHC brass also rejoice mightily in terms of frozen face of attendance numbers.  Without Duluth being there it would have just been Clown there for numbers with Mavs, CC, and  Pios having just a few thousand combined IF THAT at  best. 

Spot on.

[Blackheart]

5 minutes ago, brianvf said:

The CC and DU fans are busing up from Colorado together.  All 8 of them.

Looks like both DU fans are on their way...

[tnt]

I think CC may give Denver a run for their money if they can keep getting decent goaltending.  I think their confidence is growing, and both St. Cloud and UND fans will be firmly behind CC.  Hopefully a 5 minute major will go their way against Denver.

[cowboys5xsbs]

Does Saint Cloud have anything to play for?  They seem pretty locked into where they will be come the big tournament.  We might be able to get a lead early and have them pack it in for the tournament.  

[MafiaMan]

36 minutes ago, GDPritch said:

Such a joke that Alaska-Fairbanks with their lack luster schedule is rated like 12th in the PW well ahead of UND. Believe half their wins easily have been vs teams ranked 35 -60 in the PW.  Guessing NCAA brass is in on that. Lost a bit of confidence in PW calculation process/objectivity.

4-0 this season against Arizona State and beat Lindenwood 4-1 and 8-0.

[Dave Berger]

12 minutes ago, cowboys5xsbs said:

Does Saint Cloud have anything to play for?  They seem pretty locked into where they will be come the big tournament.  We might be able to get a lead early and have them pack it in for the tournament.  

 

One key storyline next weekend is that Denver is absolutely locked in (100% of all scenarios) as the #3 overall seed in the NCAA tournament and St. Cloud State is nearly locked in (98%) as the #7 overall seed.

 

By contrast, Colorado College and North Dakota need to win two games at the X to keep playing.

 

Dave

 

[brianvf]

15 minutes ago, tnt said:

Hopefully a 5 minute major will go their way against Denver.

Hahaha!  

At least the games aren’t in Denver where DU gets all the calls. 

[SiouxFanatic]

55 minutes ago, GDPritch said:

Such a joke that Alaska-Fairbanks with their lack luster schedule is rated like 12th in the PW well ahead of UND. Believe half their wins easily have been vs teams ranked 35 -60 in the PW.  Guessing NCAA brass is in on that. Lost a bit of confidence in PW calculation process/objectivity.

You play the schedule you’re given and the simple fact is UAF won the games they needed to, to be in a spot to earn an at-large bid. Honestly, good for them especially with being an independent. 

[petey23]

The potential field for the NCAA Tournament is quite a bit smaller after the weekend.
11 teams are in.--
Minnesota
Quinnipiac
Denver
Michigan
BU
Harvard
SCSU
Penn State
Ohio State
Michigan Tech
Western Michigan
1 Team will have conference auto bid...Atlantic Hockey
Holy Cross or Canisius
2 teams are all but in. Would take an extraordinary set of circumstances to not get in.
Cornell
Minnesota State
2 Teams hanging on...have to hope their are no conference upsets. For Alaska it also means they need Merrimack to lose.
Merrimack
Alaska

Teams still in contention. Teams with * would be stealing a spot from the teams at bottom of list above if they win their way in.
B10
Michigan vs. Minnesota
Hockey East
Providence* vs. BU
Mass-Lowell* vs. Merrimack
ECAC
Colgate* vs. Quinnipiac
Cornell vs. Harvard
NCHC
Colorado College * vs. Denver
UND* vs. SCSU
CCHA
Northern Michigan* vs. Minnesota State

Potential for only the top 11 being in the Tournament.

[Wildfan]

 

In this clip you see the Deritter player down but not how he went down for Klevin interference on 1st goal, but it sure looks like the UNO player gets up and throws Frisch on top of Deritter. He wraps his arm up high and seems to twist to throw him down.

[brianvf]

6 minutes ago, Wildfan said:

 

In this clip you see the Deritter player down but not how he went down for Klevin interference on 1st goal, but it sure looks like the UNO player gets up and throws Frisch on top of Deritter. He wraps his arm up high and seems to twist to throw him down.

Sure looks like that.

[GDPritch]

9 minutes ago, Wildfan said:

 

In this clip you see the Deritter player down but not how he went down for Klevin interference on 1st goal, but it sure looks like the UNO player gets up and throws Frisch on top of Deritter. He wraps his arm up high and seems to twist to throw him down.

WEE caliber takedown. 

[siouxnatty#8]

6 hours ago, tnt said:

It is what it is.  If we are o.k. with it only when it turns out well for us, then we are hypocritical.  They beat Denver, we didn’t, they swept Arizona State, we didn’t. We needed to take care of business in those games and we would be in.

Pairwise is the same criteria for every team. We just basically did not win the games we needed to to be higher in the pairwise.  Maybe our tam is not a first or second half team but a whatever you call a team that gets better when the playoffs start.

[tnt]

8 hours ago, cowboys5xsbs said:

Does Saint Cloud have anything to play for?  They seem pretty locked into where they will be come the big tournament.  We might be able to get a lead early and have them pack it in for the tournament.  

I am sure a chance to end our season is enough of an incentive for them, just like we would love to end theirs if given the chance. Since St. Cloud has had a stretch where they haven't won as many games, I think they would want to be going into the tourney on a good streak, and they sure don't want to go into the tournament with a "pack it in" mentality, because if they get behind in a tourney game they would have a recent positive to draw from if they came from behind. Also, any kind of championship for them is building to their eventual end goal of winning a National Championship.