College Hockey This weekend

[scsavre]

I am surprised that the Huskies are not doing better. Sioux are about where I thought they would be. Another roller coaster in the making. Hopefully they arent on the way down immediate after the WCHA tourny, like usual. I am pheasant hunting in ND this weekend, I better not bash em.

I am surprised by UNO, but I think they will fall some.

Gophs and UMD are right about as I expected too.

[archerystud]

Easy for you to say Solbes, the Dogs are looking very good right now!!!

But yes, I remember too many years where the Huskies looked unbeatable in Dec./Jan only to limp into the playoffs by March.

[solbes]

Predictions again for this weekend? Hoping to improve over my last effort:

Mich Tech vs Minn Duluth: Brooms for Dogs (excorsizing more demons)

North Dakota vs Wisconsin: Split-skis (could there be a red sweep on State Street?)

UNO vs St Cloud: Split also, but pulling for Huskies

Alaska Anch vs Bemidji State: Time for Bemidji to get rolling, 3 points

Mankato State vs Denver: Denver sweep

Gophers are off and C.C. plays Yale/Air Force.

[fishingMN4eyes]

I'm going to go out on a limb and saying the Gophers won't get any points this weekend, but they won't lose either . Bye is always a tricky opponent. I hope they get their [PoorWordUsage] together after a week off though.

The series that intrigues me is UNO@SCSU. SCSU has been in the tank at least one night every weekend it seems like. UNO has only played 4 WCHA game but they are still unbeaten in their new conference. UND vs sconnie, sue vs becky, is there any way both teams can lose in that series?

[cbrooks]

Denver sweep, UMD sweep, and the rest are splits

[scsavre]

UMD sweep

Cloud sweep

denver sweep

bemidji sweep

Wisc 1 win and a tie over UND

NO loses for the Gophs this weekend.

[archerystud]

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Cloud sweep

Wish I were that optimistic!!!

[Shorelunch]

UNO - SCSU: UNO 3 pts

BSU - AA: BSU 3pts

MTU - UMD: UMD sweep

ND - WI: Split

MSU - DU: DU 3pts

MN - Bye: Split - Bye wins Fri, Gophs on Sat

[Bryce]

Bring on Dunwoody... Welcome to the WCHA Bemidji

[solbes]

UNO just keeps on marching. Maybe tonight they will have their first WCHA loss? C'mon Huskies!

[solbes]

Fresh set of match ups this week. Here's my predictions in no particular order:

Minn at Mich Tech: Sweep for Maroon and Gold. Tech started out hot but has struggled against WCHA.

Duluth at Wisc: Split, Dogs usually lose Friday and win Saturday at Kohl Center. Hoping they follow UND's lead instead of keeping tradition.

St Cloud at AA: Split, tough travels to the great north for SCSU. But a sweep would get them moving again.

Bemidji at Denver: Split, Denver's due for a loss. I'm not convinced they are that good.

North Dakota at Neb Omaha: Blais bowl Nebraska style; MATCHUP of the WEEK. I've been waiting to see what happens between these two. Honestly I have no idea, but I guess that tells me to go split. A sweep by either team would be huge!

Looking back I can't believe the only sweep I predicted is the Gophers... Weird.

[Shorelunch]

My predictions FWIW . . .

Minn at Mich Tech: MN 3 points

Duluth at Wisc: UMD 3 points

St Cloud at AA: SCSU sweep

Bemidji at Denver: Split

North Dakota at Neb Omaha: Split

Three great series this weekend.

[gwiff100]

GO DOGS!!!

Its great to see the canadians doing well, axiously waiting to see how they play against the sconies and goofs,

Anyone else suprised at UNO?

That is all from this UMD Alum.

[fishingMN4eyes]

If the Gophers don't sweep, the season is over.

Looking forward to seeing the results of tDogs vs sconnie and UNO/sue. Both should be fun series.

[cbrooks]

I will predict

Sweeps for Minnesota, SCSU, and UMD.

I'm also a little surprise by UNO. Wish they had that game on TV

[solbes]

Had a great time last night watching the Bulldogs slug it out with the Badgers on FSN. Switched over to the Wild in HD on 45. Two overtime wins! Tough win for the Sioux it sounded like too.

[scsavre]

What is with that UND TV schedule. I was in the center of the state 2 weeks ago and couldnt find a game. Now I will be there over the hoiliday weekend. What channel do they play on? Ill be in Harvey pheasant hunting, they have FSN and a UND channel, but i never find the games.

Sounds like UMD and UND both had awesome series against WIS and UNO.

[cbrooks]

UND is on channel 27 in Grand Forks. I think they carry UND games on a Bismarck station atleast they did a year ago.

[Shorelunch]

"]What is with that UND TV schedule. I was in the center of the state 2 weeks ago and couldnt find a game. Now I will be there over the hoiliday weekend. What channel do they play on? Ill be in Harvey pheasant hunting, they have FSN and a UND channel, but i never find the games.

UND has been on the road the past few weekends (WI and Omaha). They were Fox College Sports Central Friday vs. WI. Omaha doesn't broadcast their games on TV.

UND broadcasts all home games, like this upcoming weekend vs Notre Dame. You can find them on the Fighting Sioux Sports Network (FSSN) and Fox College Sports Central. I'm sure you can Google whatever cable system Harvey, ND has and find out the channels.

[solbes]

I wish you could watch more college hockey on cable/dish. Or I wish there were more deals like Charter has where you can buy a package. It would help get more exposure to the sport.

5 teams are starting to separate from the pack. UNO has surprised everyone I think. So has Denver to a lesser extent. The Gophers are putting together a solid start to the season with Patterson in goal. I'd like to see them stay on track, as I think the whole state benefits when the Gophers play great hockey.

I can no longer hold back my enthusism about UMD's season. A split in UND was great, but taking 4 from Bucky on State Street was awesome. I won't knock the end results, but it sure seems like it would be easier to put teams away than to keep playing these crazy overtime games.

[cbrooks]

In my opinion. The teams that face UND the last two weekend(Wisconsin and UNO)are over rated. UND should have sweep UNO. It sounded like they outplayed them the one game they lost. They did everything but scored that game. Denver is not that good. I'm waiting for SCSU to come around. I'm confident it will happen sooner or later. The two teams thats been surprising me is Minnesota playing better than I expected and I thought BSU would do better.

The game I really want to see next week is the BSU/UNO. I want the Beavers to sweep. I don't think it will happen.

I'm not surprise that UMD and UND success. I see UMD has the #1 ranking in the NCAA. How many games has UMD won in overtime this year? I know they took one from UND. The problem with UND is there goaltending. They had a problem with Mono on the team as well. It started when they went to Maine which explains why they played so poorly that weekend. I know that UND and UMD wouldn't be the leaders in this league if Wisconsin and Denver wouldn't have lost alot of there underclassmen coming in this year. Overall this is probably one of the weaker WCHA conferences in recent years.

[scsavre]

UND and and Gopphs must be sharing sweethearts, Gophs lost a guy to mono too.

I am a little surprised about UMD, I didnt think their games would be so close. 7 OTS, with all that scoring power. They are doing real well, hopefully they improve as the year goes on. WHich I am sure they will.

I thought UND would be a little more unstoppable, too. Hard schedule early should lead to a pretty good team down the stretch.

I agree Brooks, I thought Bucky was just average at best. Gophs were terrible when they played.

Gophs have been a pleasant surprise, I think they should have a better record though. Get rid of Lucia, Patterson hasnt lost, but they still try to play Kangas. I hope that trend is over.

Brooks who do I cheer for this weekend. Sioux or Dame. I hate the Sioux, but I am not a fan of a bunch of spoiled Irish kids either.

I might as well cheer for the Sioux, I will be in ND pheasant hunting so there is a chance that I will have my UND sweatshirt handy, to wipe my hands and knife after cleaning birds of coarse.

[OnAFly]

UND or ND, that is a tough one for me too. I also have a never ending hate for the Sioux, but my cousins wife went to ND and her bragging about ND makes me throw up in my mouth a little bit . I guess I'm forced to go for ND, as UND is in the WCHA. The fewer wins they have the better.

[solbes]

Duluth's problem is not scoring. And it's not the defenseman giving up scoring chances either. They have 2 problems. Giving up goals in the last 3 minutes of regulation. And goaltending kicking out ridiculous rebounds. Seems like nothing is swept or kicked to the boards, it's all straight back out. Crandall is playing better than Reiter right now, but I think we need both of them to pick it up a little. Crandall's GAA is great, but I think the Dmen are propping him up a bit. And yes the overtime games are getting pretty excessive. I think they already have set their own record for overtime wins in a season before Thanksgiving. And gotten their first ever overtime sweep in Wisconsin.

Gopher's problem is not scoring either. Why the Gophers continue to play Kangas is beyond me. Someone's drinking some KoolAid there.

I keep saying Denver is not that good, but they keep winning. I wasn't that concerned about playing them in Duluth, but now I think it'll be a tough series. Last series ever at the old DECC, so they have some things planned for that weekend. They are honoring the all Decc squad on Saturday night which will include the 4 Hobey winners. Some good names in there from the past:

Matt Christensen, Keith “Huffer” Christiansen, Dan Lempe, Mark Pavelich and Derek Plante, wingers John Harrington, Brett Hull, Walt Ledingham, Junior Lessard, Chris Marinucci, Shjon Podein and Bill Watson, defensemen Curt Giles, Guy Gosselin, Brett Hauer, Jim Johnson, Tom Kurvers and Norm Maciver and goaltenders Bob Mason, Glenn “Chico” Resch and Alex Stalock.

[cbrooks]

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Brooks who do I cheer for this weekend. Sioux or Dame. I hate the Sioux, but I am not a fan of a bunch of spoiled Irish kids either.

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Don't have to jump on the band wagon yet. You and Bear be doing that at the end of the year . Don't think I forgot. Let us know how the pheasant hunting went.