cberkas Posted January 21 Author Share Posted January 21 14 to 16 I feel will all be taken by team outside the top 16 PWR that wins the conference tournaments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siouxfaninseattle Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 42 minutes ago, cberkas said: 14 to 16 I feel will all be taken by team outside the top 16 PWR that wins the conference tournaments. 15 and 16 for sure, and 14 is puckering up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gfhockey Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 3 hours ago, farce poobah said: Anyone who is bored on Sunday afternoon, or who wants to watch the nation's #1 goaltender, Jakob Hellsten, can watch U Conn vs New Hampshire on espn plus. (Or NESN for the New Enlglanders.) We didn’t want him 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusinessSiouxt Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 1 hour ago, brianvf said: I wonder if any suspensions will come of that...possibly DU a little short-handed next weekend? DU shorthanded? No way… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post The Sicatoka Posted January 22 Popular Post Share Posted January 22 A brawl in the NCHC and neither team wore green? That's inconceivable! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sicatoka Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Personally, I don't believe you are PWR safe unless you are locked in at 12 or better before conference tourney play. AHA, and then get surprise winners in CCHA, ECAC, and B1G, and 16-13 are in trouble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jk Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 1 hour ago, The Sicatoka said: Personally, I don't believe you are PWR safe unless you are locked in at 12 or better before conference tourney play. AHA, and then get surprise winners in CCHA, ECAC, and B1G, and 16-13 are in trouble. The CCHA is in the same boat with AHA this year, so 15 and 16 are out for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianvf Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 This is a pretty poor rebuttal to Schloss' article IMO by CHN / Wodon: https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2024/01/21_Commentary-Keep-Neutral-.php I think Schloss made some very good points and had excellent reasoning for the argument of moving to campus sites. Wodon just says we should improve the current format, but only offers one suggestion on a way to do that: Quote What we should be doing, instead, is making improvements to current format. Let's make it so that a host school only gets to play at that Regional if it's a 1 or 2 seed. Let's stop the Committee from giving 4 seeds de facto home games at nearby Regionals just to help attendance, when there are other options. I don't mind making tweaks to help attendance, but not ones that are unfair to other teams. The rest of his arguments are kind of nonsense. Trust the PWR to pick the field, but don't trust it enough to pick home sites? What? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cberkas Posted January 23 Author Share Posted January 23 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nodakvindy Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 16 hours ago, The Sicatoka said: Personally, I don't believe you are PWR safe unless you are locked in at 12 or better before conference tourney play. AHA, and then get surprise winners in CCHA, ECAC, and B1G, and 16-13 are in trouble. No CCHA team will get close to top 16. That league is below AHA this year. ECAC always seems to have an upset, so if Q doesn't win, top 13 seems almost a certain requirement Would really need an unlikely Cinderella run in Big10 or HEA, but can't rule out a Duluth or possibly CC with their goaltending. Should be an interesting second half. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin G Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 On 1/22/2024 at 3:58 PM, brianvf said: This is a pretty poor rebuttal to Schloss' article IMO by CHN / Wodon: https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2024/01/21_Commentary-Keep-Neutral-.php I think Schloss made some very good points and had excellent reasoning for the argument of moving to campus sites. Wodon just says we should improve the current format, but only offers one suggestion on a way to do that: The rest of his arguments are kind of nonsense. Trust the PWR to pick the field, but don't trust it enough to pick home sites? What? I tried to read Wodon’s piece but couldn’t get past the fourth paragraph. It’s just word salad in defense of the status quo—with the absurd suggestion that host schools only play in the regional that they’re hosting if they are a #1 or #2 seed. Schlossman on the other hand is doing yeoman’s work on this topic. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jk Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 2 hours ago, Kevin G said: ... with the absurd suggestion that host schools only play in the regional that they’re hosting if they are a #1 or #2 seed. Who would bid? Even in a sport such as men's hockey, the NCAA likes money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nodakvindy Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 One thing that Brad has left out, is that with the neutral site regionals, they have usually tried to then seed the tournament as completely as possible, with every regional seeded 1-4 based on PWR, so effectively the tourney is seed 1-16. I think if they went to a seeds hosting, it would be like FCS or any of the other sports, where only the top 8 get seeded, and then it's regionalized from there, so depending on who is close by to minimize travel among the unseeded teams that's who'll you get. I don't think there would end up being many east-west matchups, which would be a real shame. And with the games over spring break, I'm not sure that even home rinks would necessarily get the great attendance Brad predicts, especially when tickets are at NCAA prices. Part of the problem is everyone would rather go to the Frozen Four, hoping their team gets that far. Not sure there is any easy solution to this "problem". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianvf Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Another bracketology from USCHO: https://www.uscho.com/2024/01/24/bracketology-week-1-with-a-couple-of-regional-hosts-in-the-picture-seeding-teams-for-ncaa-regionals-might-not-be-easy/ One issue: Quote We can look at the field and notice we have two regional host teams in the field: North Dakota which hosts in Sioux Falls and Massachusetts which hosts in Springfield. Both of those teams are required to play in the regions they host. UND isn't hosting Sioux Falls this year, UNO is. Current bracket would have us playing Michigan first round followed by a DU/Prov winner if we got past the Wolverines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nodak651 Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 41 minutes ago, nodakvindy said: One thing that Brad has left out, is that with the neutral site regionals, they have usually tried to then seed the tournament as completely as possible, with every regional seeded 1-4 based on PWR, so effectively the tourney is seed 1-16. I think if they went to a seeds hosting, it would be like FCS or any of the other sports, where only the top 8 get seeded, and then it's regionalized from there, so depending on who is close by to minimize travel among the unseeded teams that's who'll you get. I don't think there would end up being many east-west matchups, which would be a real shame. And with the games over spring break, I'm not sure that even home rinks would necessarily get the great attendance Brad predicts, especially when tickets are at NCAA prices. Part of the problem is everyone would rather go to the Frozen Four, hoping their team gets that far. Not sure there is any easy solution to this "problem". But FCS playoffs lose money don't they? Football teams are probably much more expensive to fly, and fcs is supposedly going to 16 seeded teams nextvyear. I think I read or heard somewhere that a Penn State staffer crunched the numbers and this system would generate an extra million or so a year, on average, as well. I think there's a strong argument to seed 1-16. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burd Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Interesting weekend in the B1G 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianvf Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 UMN must have brought the home refs with them to MSU. UMN with only one penalty...MSU with five. Doesn't matter, MSU overcomes a 2-0 deficit and scores with 4sec left to win 3-2. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuvHockey Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Just looking back on Harvard pre season high ranking. So far 3-11-3 and 52 in pairwise. Just how much bias went into that early ranking? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burd Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 I don't think Harvard benefits from a lot of hockey bias, does it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin G Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 #2 BC beats #1 BU 4-1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cberkas Posted January 27 Author Share Posted January 27 That was quick, CC beat Western Michigan 2-1 OT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlphaMikeFoxtrot Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Our non conference opponents are having a rough night. Purple Cows down 2-1 at home to NMU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin G Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 SCSU and Omaha combine for eight goals in the second period tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cberkas Posted January 27 Author Share Posted January 27 Goaltending optional in St. Cloud 5-4 St. Cloud after 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToDaClub Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 I just love how the entire game is "who's offense is better". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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