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2016-2017 WCHA Season Thread

Re: 2016-2017 WCHA Season Thread

I'm understand this question has no bearing on anything important in either the world of college hockey or Brexit, but does anyone know if LakerDude is running the WCHA Pick 'Em again this year? I hadn't seen anything yet.
 
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I will work on keeping track of this during the season.

2016-17 WCHA Non-Conference Schedule

The WCHA has 69 non-conference games this year, not including the one game between Alaska and Alaska-Anchorage.
27 Possible NCHC Games (0-0-0)
25 Possible Big10 Games (0-0-0)
8 Possible Hockey East Games (0-0-0)
8 Possible Atlantic Hockey Games (0-0-0)
7 Possible ECAC Games (0-0-0)

ALABAMA-HUNTSVILLE (0-0-0)
-2 at Connecticut
-2 at St. Cloud State
-vs. Massachusetts (Minneapolis, MN)
-vs. Minnesota/Mercyhurst (Minneapolis, MN)

ALASKA (0-0-0)
-at Alaska-Anchorage
-vs. Minnesota (Anchorage, AK)
-Canisius
-Nebraska-Omaha
-2 at Notre Dame

ALASKA-ANCHORAGE (0-0-0)
-Minnesota
-Alaska
-vs. Nebraska-Omaha (Fairbanks, AK)
-vs. Canisius (Fairbanks, AK)
-2 at Penn State

BEMIDJI STATE (0-0-0)
-2 at North Dakota
-2 with Princeton
-at Minnesota-Duluth
-Minnesota Duluth
-vs. St. Cloud State (St. Paul, MN)
-vs. Minnesota/Minnesota-Duluth (St. Paul, MN)

BOWLING GREEN (0-0-0)
-Western Michigan
-at Western Michigan
-Ohio State
-at Ohio State
-2 at Miami
-vs. RIT (Toledo, OH)
-with Mercyhurst

FERRIS STATE (0-0-0)
-Western Michigan
-at Western Michigan
-Michigan
-at Michigan State
-Michigan State
-vs. Robert Morris (Pittsburgh, PA)
-vs. Boston College/Quinnipiac (Pittsburgh, PA)

LAKE SUPERIOR STATE (0-0-0)
-2 with Michigan State
-2 at Michigan
-2 at Nebraska-Omaha

MICHIGAN TECH (0-0-0)
-2 at Minnesota Duluth
-2 at Michigan
-2 at Michigan State
-vs. Michigan (Detroit, MI)
-vs. Western Michigan/Michigan State (Detroit, MI)
-2 at Notre Dame

MINNESOTA STATE (0-0-0)
-2 with St. Cloud State
-Minnesota
-at Minnesota
-2 at Princeton

NORTHERN MICHIGAN (0-0-0)
-2 vs. Wisconsin (at Green Bay)
-2 at Wisconsin
-2 with Nebraska-Omaha
-vs. Colorado College/Cornell/Mercyhurst (Estero, FL)
-vs. Colorado College/Cornell/Mercyhurst (Estero, FL)
 
Re: 2016-2017 WCHA Season Thread

TalonsUpPuckDown said:
I'm understand this question has no bearing on anything important in either the world of college hockey or Brexit, but does anyone know if LakerDude is running the WCHA Pick 'Em again this year? I hadn't seen anything yet.
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I saw this question in the MTU vs. Duluth weekly thread, and wanted to post my response here as well:

I will not be running the WCHA pick-em this season. I am doing a NCAA pick em which will feature 15 random games spread throughout the conferences each week. The first week of games to pick for NCAA pick-em will be October 8-9. The link to that thread is: http://board.uscho.com/showthread.ph...k-em-2016-2017.

I figured trying to run a WCHA pick-em thread on top of the NCAA one would be to much. Anyone interested in running the WCHA pick-em thread is more than welcome to.

I have a spreadsheet set up to keep track of scoring, so I could modify it for this season and share it with someone if they are interested in running the WCHA pick-em thread.
 
Re: 2016-2017 WCHA Season Thread

I'd be willing to pick it up Laker Dude

Laker Dude said:
I saw this question in the MTU vs. Duluth weekly thread, and wanted to post my response here as well:

I will not be running the WCHA pick-em this season. I am doing a NCAA pick em which will feature 15 random games spread throughout the conferences each week. The first week of games to pick for NCAA pick-em will be October 8-9. The link to that thread is: http://board.uscho.com/showthread.ph...k-em-2016-2017.

I figured trying to run a WCHA pick-em thread on top of the NCAA one would be to much. Anyone interested in running the WCHA pick-em thread is more than welcome to.

I have a spreadsheet set up to keep track of scoring, so I could modify it for this season and share it with someone if they are interested in running the WCHA pick-em thread.
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If Huntsville beats Ferris even one game, they will be serving notice on the rest of the league. Good luck to all and I hope the attendance goes way up for everyone.
 
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manurespreader said:
If Huntsville beats Ferris even one game, they will be serving notice on the rest of the league. Good luck to all and I hope the attendance goes way up for everyone.
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I just checked the WCHA standings page on the website. They have Huntsville in first place. ;)
 
Re: 2016-2017 WCHA Season Thread

JohnsonsJerseys said:
But you have to admit, at that point, UAH was happy just to be in some kind of standings after their years of independance.
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Yes. That's not the case now. :) It would all start with a win on Saturday, which puts UAH at the top of its league standings for probably the first time ever in Division I.

[Cue UAHstatman to figure out if that's happened before.]

GFM
 
Re: 2016-2017 WCHA Season Thread

Why is Ferris opening with league games and not even an exhibition, nor a scrimmage? I guess UAH could be considered scrimmage material, but it still doesn't make much sense.

Tech is opening w/o an exhibition nor scrimmage this year, too, and they're opening at UMD, an even tougher opponent. What are thinking?
 
Re: 2016-2017 WCHA Season Thread

Dirty Dream No. 2 said:
Why is Ferris opening with league games and not even an exhibition, nor a scrimmage? I guess UAH could be considered scrimmage material, but it still doesn't make much sense.

Tech is opening w/o an exhibition nor scrimmage this year, too, and they're opening at UMD, an even tougher opponent. What are thinking?
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They're both thinking that since they aren't fully committed financially to playing division 1 hockey that they'll save money in any way they can. Not playing exhibitions = an extra buck three eighty in the bank.
 
Re: 2016-2017 WCHA Season Thread

Dirty Dream No. 2 said:
Why is Ferris opening with league games and not even an exhibition, nor a scrimmage? I guess UAH could be considered scrimmage material, but it still doesn't make much sense.

Tech is opening w/o an exhibition nor scrimmage this year, too, and they're opening at UMD, an even tougher opponent. What are thinking?
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Tech didn't play an exhibition or scrimmage 2 years ago, and instead opened up the season on the road at Lake State the first weekend of October. We ended up starting on a school record 10-0 run, and making the NCAAs for the first time in 34 years.

Last year, we gave up a home game to play Laurentian twice in two meaningless blowouts...and barely missed the NCAAs.

I'm hardly expecting a repeat of the 2014 start, but I'll take our chances playing games that count. :)
 
Re: 2016-2017 WCHA Season Thread

Dirty Dream No. 2 said:
Why is Ferris opening with league games and not even an exhibition, nor a scrimmage? I guess UAH could be considered scrimmage material, but it still doesn't make much sense.

Tech is opening w/o an exhibition nor scrimmage this year, too, and they're opening at UMD, an even tougher opponent. What are thinking?
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I heard that it has to do with the new playoff schedule and NCAA tourney so Ferris v. UAH was moved to other weekend (first was only open dates).
 
uaafanblog said:
They're both thinking that since they aren't fully committed financially to playing division 1 hockey that they'll save money in any way they can. Not playing exhibitions = an extra buck three eighty in the bank.
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Ferris/UAH got moved because of playoff related schedule compacting. Michigan Tech has 38 games on the schedule this year, including 24 by the time they finish the GLI. They play 24 games away from home and 14 at home. They have 10 games in October. Where would you like them to squeeze in an exhibition game? Yeah, they should have turned down the contract with Duluth to play Laurentian. Brilliant.
 
Re: 2016-2017 WCHA Season Thread

davyd83 said:
Ferris/UAH got moved because of playoff related schedule compacting. Michigan Tech has 38 games on the schedule this year, including 24 by the time they finish the GLI. They play 24 games away from home and 14 at home. They have 10 games in October. Where would you like them to squeeze in an exhibition game? Yeah, they should have turned down the contract with Duluth to play Laurentian. Brilliant.
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Not to mention, the way the PWR work, this type of schedule is beneficial. The more non-con games you have, the more chances you have to get QWB, and improve PWR. It is a bold strategy that may, or may not pay off. But, IMO, it is a much better plan than wasting potential PWR improvement opportunities and scheduling a Canadian exhibition game instead. We already did the number for last year. If, instead of scheduling a 2 game exhibition series, Tech would have scheduled a non-conference series, and won, even against a bad team, they would have been in the tourney.
 
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