Michigan State Wins Title

The Spartans were, to me, the biggest underdog in the tournament but seemed to have the most fight of anyone. I'm sitting here watching the BC players crying on the ice and looking like little cry babies (anyone notice the BC player break his stick hitting the goal when State put in the empy netter?!!). Anyway enough of that, Michigan State fought back from 1-0 to score late in the third and take the lead with 23 seconds left in a very exciting third period. The first two were fairly uneventful as both teams fought a physical battle that took 50 minutes to really get going. It's not the WCHA but I'm happy for em, good game and good tournament. One thing of big note, Michigan State was a very gracious winning team, complimenting their opponent and enjoying the win and not getting a big head. To me, that makes me happy that they won. I'll put the links up from the game as they come in later.

ND's Duncan wins Hobey

At least one thing went right for North Dakota and the WCHA. Ryan Duncan walked away with the Hobey Baker award for the best college hockey player in the country. By the way ESPN was talking about BC's team, one would have thought their entire team would have won it! As of Thurday night, it seemed that Notre Dame's goaltender David Brown would have had it because of their steller season, sitting at #1 for the last half of the season. Notre Dame is another team that I can't stand because of their unjustified media attention that seems to follow them everywhere (in football, when was the last time they won a bowl game?!) Air Force's Eric Ehn was also one of the final three. This suprised me because, being a Coloradan, one would think I would know who he was. Nope, never had heard of his Hobey qualities. Just a hunch but maybe the voters suffered from a similar lack of knowledge like me. The National Championship is tonight, pitting evil BC against Michigan State. I'm hoping the Spartans can pull it out because I don't think I could tolerate hearing about BC being national champs all summer long!

Spartans: 4 Bears: 2

My initial instinct and prediction about this game was wrong as Michigan State pulled out a 4-2 win against the Maine Bears. I thought that MS would show some fight and keep it close and they definately did just that. Maine pulled out to a 2-0 lead before the Spartans took over the game and finished it off. Hopefully tonight ND will take a cue from MS and beat the evil team from the East; BC