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University of North Dakota, version 2.0

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RinkPig said:
The best thing about the soon to be BTHC - It's 2 less times a year our great state of MN is infested by hicks from the north coming to town on their artic cats. No more games at Mariucci and I'd be willing to bet the X will no longer host the WCHA Final 5! :p gotta love it!
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Why bring SCSU into this thread? :confused:
 
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Too much stupid BTHC talk.
Everyone is making a big deal out of it, but we'll see what happens.
If anything, the big schools (UW, UMN, MSU, UM) will suffer more from joining that league.

Anyway...16 days until Sioux hockey!! :)
 
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brianvf said:
Heck yeah! :)

But hey, it should be fun for UW, MSU, UM, and UMN to beat each other up every season and then only 2 of them make the NCAA's each year. :D
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Prediction:

The Big Ten will go to the NCAA to make sure teams under .500 are eligible for the NCAA tourney.

In fact bank on it. ;)
 
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4four4 said:
Prediction:

The Big Ten will go to the NCAA to make sure teams under .500 are eligible for the NCAA tourney.

In fact bank on it. ;)
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That may very well be the case, but I don't see it making a difference. In the 10+ years of the pairwise, only 1 team ever made it in as an at-large with under a .500 record.
 
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4four4 said:
Prediction:

The Big Ten will go to the NCAA to make sure teams under .500 are eligible for the NCAA tourney.

In fact bank on it. ;)
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Much like FS23 said, it probably won't matter much.
The BTHC teams will kill themselves in the PWR for much of the season.

Fighting Sioux hockey is right around the corner!!
 
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I'm actually gonna go out on a limb and say that I can wait for sioux hockey season...

...I can't even say that with a straight face...
 
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Which one you bastages is coming to Orono?:D
 
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I got tickets to the Saturday Robert Morris game yesterday. It will be my kids first live hockey game.
 
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A quick BTHC comment...

At first I thought it would suck, but then I realized that we're still going to play MN and probably Wisco 2 times a year anyway... which is what we are often doing now anyway. As for the FF tourney, it will go in the toilet, and one logical central location to hold it would be in the Fargo Dome. Would that actually be that bad?
 
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gordwiser said:
A quick BTHC comment...

At first I thought it would suck, but then I realized that we're still going to play MN and probably Wisco 2 times a year anyway... which is what we are often doing now anyway. As for the FF tourney, it will go in the toilet, and one logical central location to hold it would be in the Fargo Dome. Would that actually be that bad?
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I'm not sure why they wouldn't hold it at Xcel. I seriously doubt Xcel will have the new Big 10 tournament, certainly not every year. In fact, they may not have a tournament at all, but just a series of playoffs on campus. If Xcel can't get the Big 10 tournament, I expect they'll make a push to keep the WCHA. It is a great venue.
 
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SJHovey said:
I'm not sure why they wouldn't hold it at Xcel. I seriously doubt Xcel will have the new Big 10 tournament, certainly not every year. In fact, they may not have a tournament at all, but just a series of playoffs on campus. If Xcel can't get the Big 10 tournament, I expect they'll make a push to keep the WCHA. It is a great venue.
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No better venue than the X... but in realty there are a lot of empty seats when the host school isn't there. Also, more emphasis is placed on the W(est)CHA when MN and Wisco aren't in the conference. Just thinking Fargo has an easy airport in and out that receives flights from everywhere, a lot of hotel rooms, smaller venue that may be easier (cheaper) to sell out. There won't be a FSN TV contract anymore (maybe a regional one, though). There will be major challenges to keeping the FF at the X. And I do very much think there will be a BTCH tourney. Big 10 TV, and already a conference tourney in other sports... I think a tourney for them is a given (but like you said, not at the X).
 
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gordwiser said:
No better venue than the X... but in realty there are a lot of empty seats when the host school isn't there. Also, more emphasis is placed on the W(est)CHA when MN and Wisco aren't in the conference. Just thinking Fargo has an easy airport in and out that receives flights from everywhere, a lot of hotel rooms, smaller venue that may be easier (cheaper) to sell out. There won't be a FSN TV contract anymore (maybe a regional one, though). There will be major challenges to keeping the FF at the X. And I do very much think there will be a BTCH tourney. Big 10 TV, and already a conference tourney in other sports... I think a tourney for them is a given (but like you said, not at the X).
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Why the EFF would anyone want to watch hockey in Fargo at the dome? Did you not hear the complaints after the NC game about the ice in a non-traditional hockey venue? There is no BTHC, no one is going anywhere and Penn State is going to get slaughtered for 5 years and then shut down their hockey program because paramedics will be tired of picking up the bodies.
 
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