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2012 Northeast Regional: Boston College, Air Force, Maine and Minnesota Duluth

Re: 2012 Northeast Regional: Boston College, Air Force, Maine and Minnesota Duluth

According to the Mainuh thread it doesn't look like he'll play which isn't surprising at all. From the support he needed to get off the ice to the replay it looked like a brutal concussion. Harsh reminder of the dangers but it's not worth it for him, he has a future ahead of him.
 
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claver2010 said:
According to the Mainuh thread it doesn't look like he'll play which isn't surprising at all. From the support he needed to get off the ice to the replay it looked like a brutal concussion. Harsh reminder of the dangers but it's not worth it for him, he has a future ahead of him.
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Actually from the latest hubbub it looks like he will be playing. He was given the green light by team doctors and just needs to get cleared by the NCAA. He's been practicing.
 
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Biddco said:
Great point. He was playing with arguable the best UMD player in history in Mike Connolly, and Justin Fonatine who was one of the better UMD players of the last decade (I forget where he has ended up in points all time at UMD)

I thought for sure Jack would have a slump in points, yet without those guys he should set a career high. Give him the Hobey! :p


If Abbott doesn't play, this presents an opportunity for him to become the national leader in ppg.
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As UMDBHIK already said, great sentiment and perhaps the best Bulldog player you have had the privilege of seeing, but tUMD has had some pretty good players http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/sports/college/UMD-names-All-DECC-mens-hockey-team-106999393.html

Now hopefully tDogs can bring their A game and stay out of the Box this weekend and somehow make it through to Tampa.
 
Zim said:
As UMDBHIK already said, great sentiment and perhaps the best Bulldog player you have had the privilege of seeing, but tUMD has had some pretty good players http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/sports/college/UMD-names-All-DECC-mens-hockey-team-106999393.html

Now hopefully tDogs can bring their A game and stay out of the Box this weekend and somehow make it through to Tampa.
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Well I did say arguably. :p Definetly the best player I've seen play, but that's a very small sample size at 6 years
 
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Biddco said:
Well I did say arguably. :p Definetly the best player I've seen play, but that's a very small sample size at 6 years
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I'll play.

UMD's best hockey alum is Grant Standbrook - a 1961 graduate of the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Standbrook was a two-year letterwinner for the Bulldogs, scoring 22 goals and adding 24 assists in 31 career games as a center on the hockey team. The team lost only eight games during his junior and senior seasons. He also was a member of Minnesota-Duluth's track and field team.

He went on to having a mildly accomplished career after his playing days. He recruited for Wisco and was Badger Bob's sidekick during the Badgers' rise to glory in the 70s. He coached for the US Olympic team. Having had great success working with Bob Johnson at Wisco, Standbrook then decided to follow a fiery young coach to - of all places - Orono, Maine, to try to jumpstart a moribund D1 program. It worked. When that coach passed away, Standbrook stuck around to help out his successor, helping Maine to 4 more Frozen Fours in the next 6 years.

He was okay at hockey.
 
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Biddco said:
Well I did say arguably. :p Definetly the best player I've seen play, but that's a very small sample size at 6 years
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Hey Biddco, did you redshirt for 2 years :p
 
Re: 2012 Northeast Regional: Boston College, Air Force, Maine and Minnesota Duluth

...and this is why this time of year, which by all rights should be the best time of year, is the worst time of year. First off we have to put up with square-state/flatlander revisionism with UMD faithful looking askance at BC's performance and diminishing the team's accomplishment by virtue of the fact that Hockey East's cellar-dweller Vermont was on the late season schedule. Yet during the same time BC was putting together this late season run UMD was incurring losses to a mediocre St. Cloud State and a perennially horrible Alaska-Anchorage.

To compound matters, the NCAA continues to believe that "mixing it up" and putting eastern teams in the west and western teams in the east somehow enhances the viewing experience. Well I will be sure to put this notion to the test when I inquire of the bevy of empty seats that will invariably be located in my seating area at the DCU Center on Saturday. Truth is that if the NCAA really wanted to see people in the stands they would stack the Northeast and East Regionals with EASTERN TEAMS! Any match-up between BC, BU, Maine, UMass-Lowell, Union, Cornell would certainly create more "buzz" than matching up any of the foregoing teams with teams from the hinterlands. Live and learn UMD. No one in New England knows about your program or cares about your program despite the fact that you are defending champions. People here just want to see a BC-Maine final in Worcester on Sunday.

If the foregoing is not bad enough, we all have horrible television coverage to look forward to as provided by ESPN.

I really do hate this time of year.
 
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amherstblackbear said:
I'll play.

UMD's best hockey alum is Grant Standbrook - a 1961 graduate of the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Standbrook was a two-year letterwinner for the Bulldogs, scoring 22 goals and adding 24 assists in 31 career games as a center on the hockey team. The team lost only eight games during his junior and senior seasons. He also was a member of Minnesota-Duluth's track and field team.

He went on to having a mildly accomplished career after his playing days. He recruited for Wisco and was Badger Bob's sidekick during the Badgers' rise to glory in the 70s. He coached for the US Olympic team. Having had great success working with Bob Johnson at Wisco, Standbrook then decided to follow a fiery young coach to - of all places - Orono, Maine, to try to jumpstart a moribund D1 program. It worked. When that coach passed away, Standbrook stuck around to help out his successor, helping Maine to 4 more Frozen Fours in the next 6 years.

He was okay at hockey.
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Great factoid here. But because of who we are playing I am going to disown of him for this weekend ;)

RENCEB said:
Hey Biddco, did you redshirt for 2 years :p
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I did not. :p
BeloBrasil said:
...and this is why this time of year, which by all rights should be the best time of year, is the worst time of year. First off we have to put up with square-state/flatlander revisionism with UMD faithful looking askance at BC's performance and diminishing the team's accomplishment by virtue of the fact that Hockey East's cellar-dweller Vermont was on the late season schedule. Yet during the same time BC was putting together this late season run UMD was incurring losses to a mediocre St. Cloud State and a perennially horrible Alaska-Anchorage.

To compound matters, the NCAA continues to believe that "mixing it up" and putting eastern teams in the west and western teams in the east somehow enhances the viewing experience. Well I will be sure to put this notion to the test when I inquire of the bevy of empty seats that will invariably be located in my seating area at the DCU Center on Saturday. Truth is that if the NCAA really wanted to see people in the stands they would stack the Northeast and East Regionals with EASTERN TEAMS! Any match-up between BC, BU, Maine, UMass-Lowell, Union, Cornell would certainly create more "buzz" than matching up any of the foregoing teams with teams from the hinterlands. Live and learn UMD. No one in New England knows about your program or cares about your program despite the fact that you are defending champions. People here just want to see a BC-Maine final in Worcester on Sunday.

If the foregoing is not bad enough, we all have horrible television coverage to look forward to as provided by ESPN.

I really do hate this time of year.
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1. Seeing the stats of BC's streak, it is no fluke. PP is at 30%, PK is at 90, outscoring their opponent by so many goals. But in a single elimination tournament, anything can happen.
2. You are bad at Geography, Minnesota is no square state.
3. UMD hasn't played its best hockey down the stretch. It's no 15-0-0, but it is still very good. And as this year's post season mirrors last years, BC should be worried ;)
4. Its a tournament and it would just be stupid to totally regionalize it. I Believe the bigger reason that people avoid going to regionals is the ticket prices are too high. Single game tickets in St. Paul are 50 bucks.
5. Sure the TV coverage isn't that great, but at least its there. Be happy with HD you get :)
 
Re: 2012 Northeast Regional: Boston College, Air Force, Maine and Minnesota Duluth

Belo, I take it you're not a fan of the NCAA not wanting conference opponents playing in the first round? So, you'd have the Northeast regional as follows:

1. BC
2. Whoever
3. BU
4. Cornell

I don't want to see a rematch of the HE title game. If BC is fortunate enough to get by AF, I'd like to see UMD beat Maine. Not only are ticket prices high, but in a lot of cases, you don't know where your team is going until five days before.

I can assure you that BC has the utmost respect for UMD.
 
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BeloBrasil said:
...and this is why this time of year, which by all rights should be the best time of year, is the worst time of year. First off we have to put up with square-state/flatlander revisionism with UMD faithful looking askance at BC's performance and diminishing the team's accomplishment by virtue of the fact that Hockey East's cellar-dweller Vermont was on the late season schedule. Yet during the same time BC was putting together this late season run UMD was incurring losses to a mediocre St. Cloud State and a perennially horrible Alaska-Anchorage.

To compound matters, the NCAA continues to believe that "mixing it up" and putting eastern teams in the west and western teams in the east somehow enhances the viewing experience. Well I will be sure to put this notion to the test when I inquire of the bevy of empty seats that will invariably be located in my seating area at the DCU Center on Saturday. Truth is that if the NCAA really wanted to see people in the stands they would stack the Northeast and East Regionals with EASTERN TEAMS! Any match-up between BC, BU, Maine, UMass-Lowell, Union, Cornell would certainly create more "buzz" than matching up any of the foregoing teams with teams from the hinterlands. Live and learn UMD. No one in New England knows about your program or cares about your program despite the fact that you are defending champions. People here just want to see a BC-Maine final in Worcester on Sunday.

If the foregoing is not bad enough, we all have horrible television coverage to look forward to as provided by ESPN.

I really do hate this time of year.
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Your 2 cents? Nobody asked for them. Why don't you head back to your cave and keep working on that square wheel invention that's sure to be all the rage.
 
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J.D. said:
Belo, I take it you're not a fan of the NCAA not wanting conference opponents playing in the first round? So, you'd have the Northeast regional as follows:

1. BC
2. Whoever
3. BU
4. Cornell

I don't want to see a rematch of the HE title game. If BC is fortunate enough to get by AF, I'd like to see UMD beat Maine. Not only are ticket prices high, but in a lot of cases, you don't know where your team is going until five days before.

I can assure you that BC has the utmost respect for UMD.
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Perhaps my comments have been misconstrued.

First off I have the UTMOST respect for Air Force. I have seen them play live a few times and I know they can be giant killers. BC needs to be very wary of the Falcons.

Secondly, I have the utmost respect for UMD. A great team that just finished another great season! They are the defending champions so "ALL HAIL THE BULLDOGS".

Thirdly, I agree that ticket prices for the regionals are way too high and that fans are left scurrying at the last minute which clearly contributes to some low attendance numbers at the regionals.

However, I can recall specific instances in the recent past where the match-ups in the Northeast Regional were akin to a wake. By way of example I give you the BU vs. Ohio State game in 2008 and the BC vs. Alaska-Fairbanks in 2009. No buzz. No energy. It was particularly bad at the BC/Alaska Fairbanks game and there were loads of empty seats. Maine fans, BU fans, and Cornell fans are legion so if you just kept the eastern teams in the east/northeast the fans would show. No disrespect meant to UMD, but we "hardly know thee", but we do know Maine and they will bring in lots of fans, a great band, and a ton of energy - not to mention their desire for some payback for last weekend!
 
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The NCAA would be thrilled for the 6,572 at that BC/Alaska game. I'm not denying that an all eastern regional would be nuts, but how do you accomplish that? Sounds like you're looking for two eastern teams and two western teams to always advance to the FF. Attendance would greatly improve and it's not the worst idea I've ever heard, but the whole point of a tournament is to get away from your conference opponents and see how you stack up with teams from around the country. So, you tell me, what's your solution? How would you run the tourney?
 
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I enjoy seeing Maine play regional games against teams like Harvard and Michigan. I don't want the NCAA regionals to be the sequel to the conference tournaments. Simple as that.
 
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will the curtain "system" be up today? that drops capacity from 12,000 to i think 7300
 
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Gameday! Go Bulldogs!

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Re: 2012 Northeast Regional: Boston College, Air Force, Maine and Minnesota Duluth

Is it tonight yet?

Having regional game #8 of 8 has its disadvantages.
 
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