Jack Hanson
Active member
Just announced, Leaman is HEA Coach of the year. Congratulations!
I think this stays chalk and we are in Sioux Falls....With the only thing left of the season now the NCAA tournament announcement and games, here's the 16 that qualified:
1. Michigan
2. North Dakota
3. Michigan State
4. Western Michigan
5. Denver
6. Dartmouth
7. Providence
8. Minnesota Duluth
9. Penn State
10. Quinnipiac
11. Cornell
12. Wisconin
13. Minnesota State
14. Connecticut
15. Merrimack
16. Bentley
I know the committee tended to flip some numbers to keep conference opponents apart from matching up in regionals. By conference you get
3 Hockey East
4 NCHC
4 Big 10
3 ECAC
1 CCHA
1 ATLANTIC
If they do it strictly by the numbers, Providence is going to Sioux Falls. Denver is obviously staying in Colorado, I don't know if they would flip Western for Michigan State to avoid conference matchups in a regional, being that each conference has 4 teams. Same with Dartmouth and Cornell at 6 and 11 would be a first round matchup. Providence would be a 2 at 7, but Denver has one spot so that leaves three other regionals to dump them in. I think a 2 would be given a little more favorable destination travel-wise than if they were a 3. Thoughts?
NO OT PLEASEGlad that Sawyer is back, he is a clutch player . Centrella would have been great too, but the drop off in talent to the Dman replacement isn’t as great. I like our chances against QPac. Would be especially interesting in this part of New England if Merrimack upsets UND so we could get a rematch of the HEA tourney game. Could you imagine if Sawyer got the gwg in OT!
Hardly any respect given on the so called “selection show”, but this is our chance to walk the walk and I hope we will.
I’d be OK with that, how about a last few second gwg in regulation?NO OT PLEASE
Glad that Sawyer is back, he is a clutch player . Centrella would have been great too, but the drop off in talent to the Dman replacement isn’t as great. I like our chances against QPac. Would be especially interesting in this part of New England if Merrimack upsets UND so we could get a rematch of the HEA tourney game. Could you imagine if Sawyer got the gwg in OT!
Hardly any respect given on the so called “selection show”, but this is our chance to walk the walk and I hope we will.