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New polls with a new numero uno

Previous number 1 North Dakota finds themselves dropping to number 2 in this week's USCHO/CSTV poll after falling to Teslak and Michigan Tech Saturday night. Miami of Ohio pounded UNO and jumped to number 1. I know nothing about this team (didn't really know they even had a team) so I will have to rely on the USCHO game stories to find out about them. Evil Michigan is number three (and deserves no link). After coming crashing back to reality this weekend, the Tigers find themselves at #9 behind Minnesota and DU at 8 and 7 respectively. Wisconsin rounds out the top 10 leaving the WCHA with 5 of the top 10 in this week's poll. Gotta love the WCHA, maybe we can get an all-conference Frozen Four again this year!!

	Team	(First Place Votes)	Record	Points	Last Poll
1	Miami	(39)	6-0-0	910	2
2	North Dakota	( 4)	3-1-1	833	1
3	Michigan		5-1-0	810	3
4	New Hampshire	( 3)	3-0-0	806	7
5	Boston College		3-1-2	722	5
6	Michigan State		4-1-0	682	8
7	Denver		4-2-0	591	6
8	Minnesota		4-2-0	589	10
9	Colorado College		2-2-0	522	4
10	Wisconsin		3-1-0	501	11
11	Clarkson		4-2-0	436	9
12	Maine		4-2-0	419	13
13	Michigan Tech		4-2-0	356	14
14	Notre Dame		4-3-0	344	12
15	Minnesota-Duluth		4-1-1	308	17
16	St. Lawrence		3-3-0	169	15
17	Rensselaer		5-2-0	134	NR
18	Niagara		4-1-0	83	NR
19	St. Cloud State		3-2-1	82	NR
20	Massachusetts		2-2-2	73	16
Others Receiving Votes: Dartmouth 51, Ohio State 45, Alaska-Anchorage 39, Air Force 36, Cornell 25, Mass.-Lowell 25, RIT 15, Holy Cross 10, Colgate 7, Quinnipiac 7, Vermont 7, Boston University 6, Merrimack 6, Nebraska-Omaha 3, Princeton 3, Northeastern 2, Robert Morris 2, Providence 1

Tigers Swept by UNH

A week after sweeping the highly-ranked Gophers, UNH returned the favor by sweeping the Tigers in their first road series of the young season. The Tigers have fallen victim to allowing a quick goal after their own 3 times already this season and last night was no exception. After CC tied the game at 2 at 9:52 with their second power-play goal of the game, the Tigers surrendered the go-ahead goal a mere 16 seconds later. CC has now lost 5 straight to UNH and will look to rebound this weekend when they travel to North Dakota to take on the Fighting Sioux who lived up to their #1 ranking after demolishing Michigan Tech.

Tigers fall 5-3

In the first road test of the season, the Tigers came out firing with 3 early goals. Unfortunately, UNH was able to withstand the early barrage and get 5 of their own with an 18-1 shot advantage in the 3rd period. The Tigers will look to rebound and get the split tomorrow night.

Connecting Across the Country

A blogger for the UNH Wildcats takes a look at the connection between CC, UNH, and a couple of kids in California.

DU impressed with Tigers?!

The Tigers were being made fun of and mocked by our rival blog LetsGoDU last week due to the whole blackface fiasco. This week, however, dggoddard seemed to be pretty impressed with the Tigers' sweep of the Gophers over the weekend. Could there be a little respect building?? Ha, I doubt it! But at least they have taken notice and realize that we may have something special brewing. How big are the games going to be over Thanksgiving with these guys?!!!

Tigers Jump to #4 in the national poll

The Tigers jump up to #4 in the polls after the weekend sweep and head to New Hampshire this weekend. The Wildcats are coming off an opening weekend win.

Tigers Sweep Minnesota

Chad Rau scores the game winner in OT to complete the sweep of the Gophers

CC flattens Minnesota 3-1

On the first night of the season, the Tigers looked to be ready to start the WCHA tournaments. The Tigers out-skated, out-hit and out-played the Gophers who looked worn out after the first period. Although they struck quickly after the Tigers first score (the PA announcer wasn't even through announcing the goal) they looked over matched the rest of the way. CC has always been know as a finesse, speedy team but there were numerous hip-checks that send gophers flipping faster than Eddi Murphy chase the rodent in "caddy shack". I was impressed with the team all the way around. The only downfall of the night was the World Arena was probably only at 75% capacity. The annoying old Minnesota fans behind me (that kept saying, "c'mon Gophs, SKATE!" something they didn't do well all night) was even surprised-he got his ticket the day they went on sale. Welcome to Colorado Springs, home of individuals. It also doesn't help that we have 2 D-I teams in the same city. But back to the game; by the third period, the Tigers were skating circles around Don Lucia's team...literally! Did anyone keep track of how long the Tigers were in Minnesota's end in that third period?!! Great game, great team, if they keep this up the 07/08 Tigers are going to be something special.

This is why people support the hockey team, not the college...

So I opened the paper today (yes some of us still get it at home) to see 4 CC players were suspended for blackface. WTF is blackface? I read the article and, in my head, it read "4 players were suspended for dressing up like TV characters". Um, what?! I read the story again online and looked up the definition for blackface. Ok, so the initial meaning was derogatory and meant to make fun of people who, basically, weren't the accepted status quo. Nothing wrong with that (the concern of the word, NOT the mocking), but dressing up as TV characters on a team outing away from the public is hardly mocking people. I wouldn't' view it any different than a kid dressing up as Garfield for Halloween. What's next, "look at that kid over there, he's dressed up as BUGS BUNNY! That is SO unacceptable, let's send him to tolerance school for the next 5 years" My reaction to this whole thing is "are you f*cking kidding me?!!!!" Everyone I have talked to today thinks its ludicrous. Most put it more bluntly than I just did, with many many more explicatives. I mean seriously, how the f*ck is this even a story? I read a recent comment that said "its official, the gayzette hates white people". I don't even see how this has anything to do with blacks because, helllo!, color doesn't freaking matter! How many people really walk down the street and think to themselves "uh oh, it's a mexican, I better cross the street" NO. We think, if anything, oh, there's a person walking by me. Who cares!!! So now our hockey players have to go through a laundry list of "diversity" activities to remedy the situation. Or as one poster on the Gazette put "brainwashing". What is CC thinking??? Are they taking the run toward being the number one pot school again too seriously?? First off, pretty sure they are not that diverse of a campus to begin with so why do they care? Of course it shouldn't matter anyway, it's not a freaking issue. And then you get the media jumping all over it and poof! national sensation over a non-issue. Crandall should have thought about how ludicrous this whole thing was before causing a national phenomenon. In the words of Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy "makes me wanna puke"

Season starts in full force

Well the 2 "pre-season" exhibition games are over and now the season starts in full force with national powerhouse Minnesota charging into town for the weekend. Should be a good opportunity to see what our Tigers are made of right out of the gate. Regardless of the outcome, this can't be a disaster for the Tigers, even if they are swept. Having an opponent of this caliber the first week will start them out high and prepare them for the rest of the season. Also, being the first weekend, there is plenty of time for the Tigers to come back if disaster strikes and they don't win a game. It will be a great battle and I'm sure there will be plenty of Minnesota fans descending on the Springs this week. I have never had the opportunity to be at one of these games so it should be a blast, great atmosphere and great hockey!
The Tigers won their two warm-up games and the young kids seemed to do pretty well.
You can find the quick recap of the games at the CC hockey page.

Look for a feature this week regarding the recent history between the Tigers and the Gophers. Thanks for your support of this blog and I'm looking forward to hitting the regular season strong!

Ask an Expert, CC style

Here is a great story from the Western Collegiate Hockey blog regarding the Tigers this season. It's an interview with Kate from the Gazette about the Tigers upcoming season.

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