Running College Hockey Thread

Then there was the afternoon game in Cinci where the coolant pipes got punctured and caused the delay for the night game for hours...

 

Wasn't there a point when it was 12 teams? Or am I just hallucinating?

And, yes, I agree, the break between the regionals and Frozen Four sucks. Women's hoops gets it as well in a way, since many of the conference tourneys are up to two weeks prior to the start of the NCAA Tournament.

Personally, I'd rather push the regionals back a week and make them all Friday-Sunday. Play the regional finals in the afternoon, leading up to the women's Final Four games and have the Frozen Four the following week. Just a thought.

 

Now that women's hoop is Sunday-Tuesday, why not go back to a Saturday afternoon final before the men's hoop Final Four? The last two times BU made the final (95 and 97), that's how it was. And I think the women's Final Four was Saturday-Sunday afternoons then, too.

 

Maybe TV dictates a prime-time final...

 

It was 12 teams from 1988-2002. Also, in the 1980s the first round of the tournament was a two-game, total goals series at the higher seed's rink. They went to best-of-three for a few years, then to the single-elimination regional format.

 

That was the last time Vermont was there -- never forget the sight of coolant percolating up through the ice like Jed Clampett's bubbling crude. Playing on a bumpy, swampy surface took away Vermont's speed advantage and they ended up losing in OT on a contested call.

 

The Hobey Baker finalists were announced, and I'll bet the winner is from Boston: BU's Colin Wilson and Matt Gilroy, and Northeastern's Brad Thiessen.

My vote's for Colin Wilson, probably the best all-around college player this season. (also the son of former NY Ranger/Calgary Flame/Hartford Whaler Carey Wilson) But I have a feeling it will be Matt Gilroy.

But I could be wrong ...

 

The Hobey Baker Memorial Award Foundation on Thursday announced the top ten candidates for the 2009 Hobey Baker Award, presented by Mazamba, honoring college hockey’s top player. Alphabetically, they are: Louie Caporusso, Michigan, Matt Gilroy, Boston University, Chad Johnson, Alaska Fairbanks, Zane Kalemba, Princeton, Jacques Lamoureux, U.S. Air Force Academy, Jamie McBain, Wisconsin, David McIntyre, Colgate, Viktor Stalberg, Vermont, Brad Thiessen, Northeastern and Colin Wilson, Boston University.

 

That was released last week. Finalists released yesterday at www.hobeybaker.com

http://www.boston.com/sports/colleges/mens_hockey/articles/2009/04/03/hockey_east_has_hobey_monopoly/

 

Miami downs Cinderell- I mean, Bemidji State, 3-1. And BU gets two goals from Colin Wilson to beat Vermont, 5-4.

Miami-Ohio vs. Boston U. for the national title on Saturday.

 

Go Redskins! errrr... Non offensive bland nickname school!

 

Red Hawks are going to get hammered on Saturday.