WCHA 2019-20 season: We Can Do Better Than Two Bids and a First Round Exit

[Shirtless Guy]

Re: WCHA 2019-20 season: We Can Do Better Than Two Bids and a First Round Exit

There will be no fans at this weekend's games for the WCHA if the games happen at all.

[beaverhockey]

Re: WCHA 2019-20 season: We Can Do Better Than Two Bids and a First Round Exit

Every goals is automatically reviewd in the playoffs...no challenge needed

[JohnsonsJerseys]

Re: WCHA 2019-20 season: We Can Do Better Than Two Bids and a First Round Exit

I’m annoyed with them reviewing obvious goals when coaches desperately try anything to get a goal not to count.

I'm sure this is why there is a limit of one coach's challenge. They don't have to use it on a close play. Sometimes after a key goal, the coach just wants a timeout, but you might as well make the challenge because who knows what the refs might see or think once they start looking. Worst case, you get the time out you wanted anyway. Best case, you still get the time out, and you might get a game changing call to go your way out of blind luck (and you get your time out back).

[lakersparty]

Is it just me or are the refs getting worse and not better during the playoffs. I'm pretty sure Fairbanks is unhappy with how things went last night and I know Tech is unhappy.

I’m annoyed with them reviewing obvious goals when coaches desperately try anything to get a goal not to count. Replay was intended to see if a puck crossed the goal line instead of all the nonsense that exists now.

[manurespreader]

Re: WCHA 2019-20 season: We Can Do Better Than Two Bids and a First Round Exit

Is it just me or are the refs getting worse and not better during the playoffs. I'm pretty sure Fairbanks is unhappy with how things went last night and I know Tech is unhappy.

[Shirtless Guy]

Re: WCHA 2019-20 season: We Can Do Better Than Two Bids and a First Round Exit

You know the WCHA is more than 7 years old, right? ****, I'd think you would have remembered the Tech over CC 10 beating the 1 back in '94 that kept the Tigers out of the NCAA's and necessitated the rules change for autobids...

Why do you seem to have an attitude lately? Nothing before the reshuffling really matters. You can count it all you want but I focus on the reality that the nWCHA is nothing like the previous edition. Pardon me for not making that perfectly clear in my post that I was talking post realignment. Honesty I don’t know why you fee the need to argue this point. It’s not really relevant.

[MTUHuskies]

Re: WCHA 2019-20 season: We Can Do Better Than Two Bids and a First Round Exit

while that is true, I think the WCHA has only ever had 1 road team win a series and that was MTU 2 years ago...and they did it twice...so its still an upset, even if they're mild ones.

The only Tech upset this year would be winning at the Mac [emoji1787]

Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

[moose97]

Re: WCHA 2019-20 season: We Can Do Better Than Two Bids and a First Round Exit

while that is true, I think the WCHA has only ever had 1 road team win a series and that was MTU 2 years ago...and they did it twice...so its still an upset, even if they're mild ones.

You know the WCHA is more than 7 years old, right? ****, I'd think you would have remembered the Tech over CC 10 beating the 1 back in '94 that kept the Tigers out of the NCAA's and necessitated the rules change for autobids...

[Hockey John]

Re: WCHA 2019-20 season: We Can Do Better Than Two Bids and a First Round Exit

sorry, I was quickly judging things and knew there weren't any upsets in the 1st round last year. Still the only team to win as a 5-8 seed.

Also a #4 seed Bowling Green team beat the #1 seed Bemidji State in two games a few years ago.

[Shirtless Guy]

Re: WCHA 2019-20 season: We Can Do Better Than Two Bids and a First Round Exit

Hmmm I do believe BG went to Northern last year for the semi finals and sweep them. So no tech isn’t the only one to win a series on the road.

sorry, I was quickly judging things and knew there weren't any upsets in the 1st round last year. Still the only team to win as a 5-8 seed.

[BgHockey05]

while that is true, I think the WCHA has only ever had 1 road team win a series and that was MTU 2 years ago...and they did it twice...so its still an upset, even if they're mild ones.

Hmmm I do believe BG went to Northern last year for the semi finals and sweep them. So no tech isn’t the only one to win a series on the road.

[Shirtless Guy]

Re: WCHA 2019-20 season: We Can Do Better Than Two Bids and a First Round Exit

Can either one really be called an upset? With 3-6 being so close this year, I would not be surprised by any of the four beating any of the other three. Home or away.

Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

while that is true, I think the WCHA has only ever had 1 road team win a series and that was MTU 2 years ago...and they did it twice...so its still an upset, even if they're mild ones.

[aparch]

Can either one really be called an upset? With 3-6 being so close this year, I would not be surprised by any of the four beating any of the other three. Home or away.

Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

Agreed. The fight for the last couple home ice sports were so tight.

[MTUHuskies]

Re: WCHA 2019-20 season: We Can Do Better Than Two Bids and a First Round Exit

2 upsets brewing after Friday night with MTU and BGSU winning on the road.

Can either one really be called an upset? With 3-6 being so close this year, I would not be surprised by any of the four beating any of the other three. Home or away.

Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

[Shirtless Guy]

Re: WCHA 2019-20 season: We Can Do Better Than Two Bids and a First Round Exit

Friday Night Scores

Mankato 8, Anchorage 1
Bemidji 2, Lake State 0
Tech 4, Northern 1
Bowling Green and Alaska tied at 0 in the first.

2 upsets brewing after Friday night with MTU and BGSU winning on the road.