Bracketology

Piggy-backing off my earlier post, the USCHO takes a look at the possible matchups if the selection was today (it's Sunday). Right now, CC would play Princeton and North Dakota would play cup-cake-conference Notre Dame. There is plenty of hypothetical reading for your enjoyment today.
Bracketology

Remaining Possibilities

DIY Pairwise predictor

New Rankings and the weekend wrap-up

Not much changed this weekend in the USCHO poll this week for the Tigers as they remained number 9 (same as the USA Today poll as well). Miami Ohio remained in the top spot while North Dakota fell from 2nd to 3rd, with Michigan leap-frogging to that spot. The Tigers opponent this weekend, Minnesota Duluth, is currently ranked 15th in both polls.
The WCHA blog takes a look at the WCHA this past weekend and the importance of the Tigers gaining the split in their "marquee matchup."

A quick look at the next games

As most of you know, the Tigers are taking on the rival Minnesota Golden Gophers this coming Friday and Saturday nights. Of course coaching is the underlying theme of this series since Minnesota's Don Lucia was the Tigers coach from 1993-1999. In that time the Tigers won the regular season WCHA title 3 times (his first three seasons). After Don's first season, the Tigers made the NCAA tournament every year for the rest of his tenure, they finished 2nd in 95/96 and 3rd in 96/97. The second place finish was the heartbreaking loss to Michigan. He has had even better success at the helm in Minnesota as the Gophers won the national title in 00/01 and again in 01/02. They have reached the NCAA tournament in all but his first season as head coach and have also won the WCHA tournament 02/03 and 03/04. Only this past season has he won the regular season title with the Gophers. Currently, the Gophers are riding a 2-game win streak after sweeping Alaska Anchorage 8-2 and 2-1. According to the USCHO poll, Minnesota is currently #2 in the nation with a record of 23-5-3. The Tigers dropped to 14th after coming off a 1 point weekend but do have the leagues best home record on their side. As far as conference standings, Minnesota is #1 with 33 points, followed by St. Cloud with 29, Denver with 27 and CC with 26. This weekend's games are extremely important in both the Pairwise rankings as well as the conference race for the MacNaughton Cup.

Monday work

As you can see I've given the site a bit of a cosmetic makeover. I was hoping that the left justified links would help with readibility since my entries are ragged on the right. I went hunting for CC videos on both google video and youtube and didn't find a thing. Even the cstv site didn't have anything CC, their college hockey highlight video had Air Force but no CC, what the heck?! As you know, I'm on a mission to find video of the Tigers so I'm still hunting. I did find a cool video about Marty Sertich from a few years ago hidden in the video highlights from USCHO, but the highlights are all over the place, no real nightly recaps. I did, however, find a fun video of a cheap goal by ND against the Gophers. Granted, it's not CC in the video, but hey, maybe it could happen this weekend!