Re: West Regional: North Dakota, Michigan Tech, St. Cloud State, Quinnipiac
Typical stupid st clood comment.
Typical stupid whiny WCHA response. You wanna paint us all with the same brush, turnabout's fair play.
True. Also true - you lost 14 of those games against tourney teams and also racked up another nice pile of losses to teams that missed the tourney (Colgate, Union, Western Michigan, Bemidji, etc...) Ok so SCSU is "battle tested"... well so was General Custer. UND was also less than impressive in their two tune-up games this past weekend. There isn't a team in that bracket MTU isn't capable of beating.
Ryan J
If you're gonna list all the losses we had against bad teams, why not add in Northern Michigan, Michigan and Wisconsin. Oh wait... that wasn't us. And there isn't a team in the bracket MTU isn't capable of beating. Same can be said for UND and SCSU for sure, and probably Quinnipiac too.
It appears to me that St Cloud thrives on the big ice surfaces and they don't do quite as well on NHL ice.
While I would agree with that, most teams play better at home than on the road. The only buildings we played in this year where we didn't pick up a win were Magness, the Ralph and Mariucci (one game, OT loss). And the previous year we swept at the Ralph and split at Magness (which we seem to do every year other than this year). We play better on big ice, but we still hold our own on NHL ice. And I agree with tommy, ticky-tacky calls could be as big of an advantage for us as playing away from Olympic ice is a disadvantage.
That's a bold statement from a team that isn't even the best within 200 miles of their own campus, to say nothing of the national picture.
This wins "has the least to do with anything relevant in this thread" award, or is at least in the clubhouse. Brilliant. So if St. Cloud were in Michigan and Houghton were in central Minnesota... that would mean what exactly?
All through this thread, people have been touting the NCHC. While good, some are over rated. Tipsy is convinced St. Cloud will beat Michigan Tech. They might. But, comparing conferences is a fool's gambit. NCHC teams are rated high in the pairwise because they feed off each other's high rating. Why I don't know. That is to say, why they are so highly thought of, I don't understand. Some are very good, to be sure. I just think it is inappropriate to trash another team, or conference for that matter. You can make the numbers say whatever you want. Check out the polls, and tell me how much better St. Cloud is. Friday will tell the tale. Any of the teams can win the regional. I personally think it is Tech, but then I am a Tech fan. Not running down any other team. Just believe my team will win.
I think Tipsy is confident SCSU can beat MTU, but is also trying to get you guys going... And if its so easy for teams to "just play in the NCHC and feed off each other's high rankings" what Regional did WMU and CC end up in? Face it... 6 of the top 16 teams in the country play each other in conference play. I think St. Cloud would have qualified for the tournament in almost any conference they played in, even if we played the Big10. The only exception might be if we were in the AHA... we'd have been a heavy favorite to do it, but when your only chance is to get an autobid, that makes it tougher and its hard to say what would have happened.
