Running NCAA hockey thread

[micropolitan guy]

Regionals are underway. UMass and Denver in OT in the Springfield Regional.

 

[MileHigh]

Off to the second overtime.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Cornell-Maine to follow, and I am an ECAC guy.

This is like heaven. I am done for the day. I have off tomorrow (mostly) b/c of Good Friday. Flipping b/w college hockey and Yankeese opening day right now, and then have Rangers in Colorado tonight.

 

[MileHigh]

And the Pios survive.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Nice of the NCAA to give a No. 4 regional seed a home regional.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Go Denver. Unless they meet Cornell next round.

BU-RIT playing in South Dakota. You'd think BU would handle them easily, but they play the games for a reason.

 

[micropolitan guy]

RIT just died, 6-3.

 

[Azrael]

Go Gophers, etc.

Simple bracket for me to cheer this season.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Go Gophers, etc.

Simple bracket for me to cheer this season.

Go Gophers in the regional final! ... although, I'd root against BU if they were playing the Soviet Red Army team.

BC is easily the best team in the country, BU is probably second. Macklin Celebrini is likely going to be the top pick in the NHL draft and they are stacked beyond him. I don't know Minnesota as well, but I know they are stacked too. Jimmy Snuggerud, Oliver Moore. ... and my guy Jonny Brodzinski's kid brother. It should be a really good game, I think.

 

[Azrael]

Go Gophers in the regional final! ... although, I'd root against BU if they were playing the Soviet Red Army team.

BC is easily the best team in the country, BU is probably second. Macklin Celebrini is likely going to be the top pick in the NHL draft and they are stacked beyond him. I don't know Minnesota as well, but I know they are stacked too. Jimmy Snuggerud, Oliver Moore. ... and my guy Jonny Brodzinski's kid brother. It should be a really good game, I think.

One of my (several, abandoned) alma maters won the women's title last week.

Never discount Minnesota - or North Dakota - in the big tournaments.

But agree that BC and BU look semi-insurmountable.

Will hold Cornell in my heart throughout.

 

[Liut]

And the Pios survive.

Bounced back and forth between this game and MLB openers. Denver's goaltender (Davis, I think) was outstanding. 45 saves, IIRC.

 

[Liut]

Go Gophers in the regional final! ... although, I'd root against BU if they were playing the Soviet Red Army team.

BC is easily the best team in the country, BU is probably second. Macklin Celebrini is likely going to be the top pick in the NHL draft and they are stacked beyond him. I don't know Minnesota as well, but I know they are stacked too. Jimmy Snuggerud, Oliver Moore. ... and my guy Jonny Brodzinski's kid brother. It should be a really good game, I think.

IIRC, Snuggerud was a first-round pick of St. Louis a couple of years ago.

 

[da man]

One of my (several, abandoned) alma maters won the women's title last week.

Never discount Minnesota - or North Dakota - in the big tournaments.

But agree that BC and BU look semi-insurmountable.

Will hold Cornell in my heart throughout.

Far above Cayuga's waters
There's an awful smell...

 

[The Big Ragu]

BC has just been ridiculous with those US National Developmental team kids that all went there as a package. I have followed them all season, because the Rangers drafted Gabe Perrault and I wanted to get a sense of whether he's for real. He broke Auston Matthew's season scoring record as part of the Developmental team, but he dropped like a rock in the draft to the end of the first round -- he's too small, too slow, etc. After watching some of BC's games this season. ... he's one of those players where the eye test is inconclusive, but the results are the results. You can tell he has innate hockey sense and his passing ability is elite. It still may be deceptive, because he's playing on a line at BC with Ryan Leonard and Will Smith, who are both going to be NHL players, so you can't entirely rule out that they are lifting him rather than him lifting them. But they all were dynamic this season.

I found that BC team really impressive this year. ... they got a ridiculous freshman class of near NHL-ready players, but how many times have NCAA teams in the last few years gotten a class like that -- all the good players picking a program and deciding to commit together -- and underperformed?

 

[ChrisLong]

The Ducks can't wait for BC to lose so they can bring in Cutter. If BC makes it to the final, he can get one game for Anaheim ... at Vegas.

 

[micropolitan guy]

One of my (several, abandoned) alma maters won the women's title last week.

Never discount Minnesota - or North Dakota - in the big tournaments.

But agree that BC and BU look semi-insurmountable.

Will hold Cornell in my heart throughout.

UND has actually underachieved of late. No Frozen Fours since 2016, when it won its most recent title.

 

[Cosmo]

Why are they hosting an NCAA regional in suburban St. Louis?

 

[Starman]

At an NHL practice rink. With a capacity of 3,500. Which at this moment appears maybe a little more than half full.

 

[Cosmo]

Mike Knuble’s kid plays for WMU. Cool.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Every time I think of college hockey, I think "Why'd you wanna play college hockey?" in a Masshole accent.