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NCAA Hockey 2025- CHA now welcome

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Life of an independent. Just checked Alaska’s schedule and their regular season ends with a six game series against Anchorage stretched across the entire month of February.
 
They should both join the CIAU or whatever it's called now. Seriously. It would be better for them.

Who is the #3 AK hockey school? How far down are they?
 
Once I'm in the Billionaires Club, after a sizeable donation to my alma mater, I'm willing to help bankroll the UA schools and a team for UA-Southeast. :LOL:
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
Per wiki there is Alaska Bible College with a whopping 36 students.
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I was about to say I think we do but it’s very tiny.

There’s also Alaska Pacific University whose campus is right next to UAA and had a hockey team in the 60’s and 70’s. They don’t have athletics anymore but they do sponsor a ski club that has a bunch of Olympians.
 
If Dartmouth can win tonight, it'll be a 3-1-1 road trip which i would've taken 3 weeks ago given their road woes, but given how close they were to coming into tonight 4-0 on the trip with a chance to go 5-0, it's now just salvaging the trip.

A 2-1 finish to the regular season and making it to Lake Placid should be enough to get them in the tourney for the first time in 45 years, but really wish they weren't trying to go from safely in to on the bubble yet again. That does not go well for them historically.
 
unofan said:
If Dartmouth can win tonight, it'll be a 3-1-1 road trip which i would've taken 3 weeks ago given their road woes, but given how close they were to coming into tonight 4-0 on the trip with a chance to go 5-0, it's now just salvaging the trip.

A 2-1 finish to the regular season and making it to Lake Placid should be enough to get them in the tourney for the first time in 45 years, but really wish they weren't trying to go from safely in to on the bubble yet again. That does not go well for them historically.
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And they once again give up a 3rd period lead on the road. At least they hung on for the tie/SO win. A 2-1-2 road trip isn't the worst thing in the world, but 4-1 was within reasonable reach.

Hope they come out firing at home next weekend. I would prefer not to be on pins and needles the final weekend of the season.
 
UAA needs a win in regulation to keep its Governor’s Cup hopes alive…

And they’re down 0-2 after one while getting outshot 25-9.

Yay.
 
1. Michigan State vs. 25. Bentley
8. Duluth vs 9. Denver

2. Michigan vs 15. St Thomas
7. Quinnipiac vs 10. Cornell

3. North Dakota vs 14. UConn
6. Providence vs 11. Dartmouth

4. Western Michigan vs 13. Wisconsin
5. Penn State vs. 12. Boston College

An NCHC issue in the 8-9, and an ECAC issue in the 7-10. Let's flip Denver and Cornell to make that fit.

Conference breakdown: Big Ten - 4, NCHC - 4, ECAC - 3, HE - 3, CCHA- 1, AHA - 1
IN: NA
OUT: NA

CCHA now holds 15-18.
 
Big Ten could end with a three way share of the title if Penn State wins out with regulation wins, and MSU only picks up four points the next three games.

It then comes down to points percentage against the other teams for the tiebreaker, which is important with only the one seed getting a bye. MSU would be 17/24, UM 13/24, and PSU 6/24.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
Big Ten could end with a three way share of the title if Penn State wins out with regulation wins, and MSU only picks up four points the next three games.

It then comes down to points percentage against the other teams for the tiebreaker, which is important with only the one seed getting a bye. MSU would be 17/24, UM 13/24, and PSU 6/24.
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i mean, good thing you are playing us next weekend lol
 
so, there was a post in r/collegehockey about where ncaa players come from. Ontario 1, MN 2, rest not really close.

someone from Quebec commented that MN has never produced a quality player, we just do quantity. Now, while that's laughable (esp as this person claimed that a MN born player didnt play more than 4 mins/game in the olympics, um...) there was an interesting point there. We really don't produce superstars, and I really think a huge part of that is, we don't have our teens play anywhere near the amount of games that AAA teams do. Our high school teams play what, 25 games a year?
But the thing is, most of these players are excelling in other sports. Take the edina hockey team, again in the state tourney next week - nearly all of them were starters on the state title winning football team, like Mason West. Guys like Paul Martin who had long careers and made 3+ olympic teams - he was all state in 3 sports and still holds a state football record tied with Larry Freaking Fitzgerald. We don't push our kids here to specialize as much, and it's also one of the few places a non-wealthy family may make hockey work. It would be fun to produce more superstars, but I wouldn't give up the community model for anything.

The other places that do this, to my knowledge, are Norway and Sweden. No specialization until at least 15ish. Jonas Brodin, for example, played soccer and track until about 15, and at 16 he was already in the Swedish pro league.

also the funniest thing about the comment from the Quebec person is that there wasn't a single Quebec born player on team Canada this year
 
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