Apology

I have been way into the NCAA Hockey Tournament and have not been reviewing much. There is a two week break before the Frozen Four so now you have all my attention back (for the next two weeks anyway).

Frozen Four is Set

The Frozen Four in Milwaukee, WI is all set. North Dakota will meet BC and Wisconsin will meet Maine to decide who will play for the National Championship.

The WI/Cornell game was a great battle of defenses and goalies. The Cornell goalie stopped over 60 shots in their 1-0 loss to Wisconsin (3 OT and the second longest game in NCAA Tournament history). It is behind great goaltending (Elliot) that Wisconsin should prevail in the NCAA Tournament. Maine is a goal scoring machine though so the big test is coming. Can Elliot make the stops when it counts? He sure did against Cornell. Elliot went 11 periods without letting a goal past. Maine has scored 11 goals while allowing 5 goals against and WI has scored 5 and let 0 past.

North Dakota will also be counting on Parise to stop everything thrown at him. BC is also another scoring juggernaut having placed 10 goals neatly in the back of opposing nets in two games and keeping both Miami and BU scoreless. North Dakota has also scored 10 goals in the first two games but Parise let 3 goals past him. This is going to be fun to watch!

NCAA Regional Finals Day 1

Boston College met, slapped around and embarassed Boston University today 5-0 to move on to the Frozen Four.

North Dakota and Holy Cross also went at it this evening but Holy Cross could not be the giant killer two nights in a row. They played a good game but in the end, NoDak won the game 5-2.

Tomorrow Wisconsin meets Cornell and Maine plays MI State.

NCAA 1st Round - Day 2

Six games today with one already finished up, two more in progress and three more later on the afternoon and this evening.

At 11am this morning Michigan State took on New Hampshire in the East Regional. Michigan State tallied their one and only goal at 2:14 into the first period. MONEY BACK PLEASE! Yawn. No other goals were produced and the Spartans move on with a score of 1-0 over New Hampshire.

Wisconsin is beating up on the Beavers 3-0 and it is heading into the 3rd periond. Those Beavers better get busy.

Harvard and Maine are in the middle of a game but at this point I do not have a score. Cornell and CC will play at 4:30pm as well as the two Regional final games between NoDak and Holy Cross and BU and BC.

NCAA 1st Round - Day 1

Who showed up to play Holy Cross tonight? I think it was the small fries that play between periods at the Gopher games. If it is true about what the coaching staff said, that the team had put the WCHA playoffs behind them, then you sure would not know it tonight? The Gophers lost 4-3 in overtime to Holy Cross. Holy Cross played well and the Gophers did not. No more to say. The #1 rated team in the country gets shot out of the sky and is the first #1 seed in NCAA history to lose to the 4th seed. Of course it is the Gophers this happens too.


North Dakota looks like the team to beat. They were very strong riding on goals from TJ Oshie and Drew Stafford (left) tonight. They stomped Michigan handing them a large plate of loss with a side dish of ass whooping. 5-1 was the final score from Grand Forks tonight. Holy Cross will meet NoDak tomorrow (well, tonight now) night but I think the anomoly that is Holy Cross will meet their doom. NoDak is just too good.

Elsewhere tonight more serious spankings were handed out by the two Boston teams in the tourney. BC clobbered Miami-Ohio 5-0 (why were they in the top 3 in the nation for so long?) and BU knocked down, stepped on and then wiped the ice with Nebraska-Omaha (bottom left) with a final score of 9-2.

BC and BU will meet tomorrow night at 5pm for the final of the Northeast Regional.

Other games tomorrow are the start of the Midwest and East Regionals. Wisconsin plays Bemidi State (1:30pm), Cornell goes up against CC (4:30pm), Harvard plays Maine (2pm) and New Hampshire plays Michigan State (11am).

I am not going to win my work pool...damn.