Re: UNH Wildcats 2013-14 Season Thread (Part 2)
It's a fairly reasonable goal, I think. This is nowhere near a Frozen Four team, and I think we all realize by now it would be a pretty surprising development (albeit a pleasant one) for this team to make the NCAA's. Despite what some folks on here might think, I'm a pretty optimistic person, but I also take some pride in my sanity, so I'd say UNH's chances of an NCAA berth are about 10-15%, and FF chances cannot be anything more than 1-2%. On the other hand, UNH should have a 70-80% chance of avoiding the play-in game, and if that's the case, they should have a winnable best-of-three series (most likely on the road) with UMaine, Providence or Northeastern.
It's an attainable goal - one that is made more attainable by who they are playing over the next three games, and also by a 4-2-0 HE record against those three most likely QF round opponents (despite 4 of those 6 games having been played on the road).
Or they can just revert to being a .500 team by losing two of the next three, and then subject us to the predictable 2-2-0 postseason *run* as I've previously predicted. Coming up a game short of Boston.
We'll know two weeks from tonight how the first part of the puzzle has played out ... but realistically, I expect the answer to arrive tonight at BU amidst their own Senior Night, tributes to Coach Parker, and a highly motivated Terrier squad (including the guys in the vertical stripes).
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It's an attainable goal - one that is made more attainable by who they are playing over the next three games, and also by a 4-2-0 HE record against those three most likely QF round opponents (despite 4 of those 6 games having been played on the road).
Or they can just revert to being a .500 team by losing two of the next three, and then subject us to the predictable 2-2-0 postseason *run* as I've previously predicted. Coming up a game short of Boston.
We'll know two weeks from tonight how the first part of the puzzle has played out ... but realistically, I expect the answer to arrive tonight at BU amidst their own Senior Night, tributes to Coach Parker, and a highly motivated Terrier squad (including the guys in the vertical stripes).
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