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Nissin Cup Nudist
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insert Penn State effort post here

B1G champs, yeah

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quote:

2017-18 BIG TEN PRESEASON POLL
1. Minnesota
2. Notre Dame
3. Wisconsin
4. Penn State
5. Ohio State
6. Michigan
7. Michigan State

Did the coaches fill out this poll before Bjork and Petersen left ND? Without those two, ND is nothing special. When Bjork was off the ice, all ND did was trap their butts off and stall until Bjork came back on. Bjork scored half that teams points and no one else came close. Da gently caress?

quote:

2017-18 BIG TEN PRESEASON WATCH LIST

Quinn Hughes, D, MICH
Will Lockwood, F, MICH
Josh Norris, F, MICH
Ryan Lindgren, D, MINN
Casey Mittelstadt, F, MINN
Rem Pitlick, F, MINN
TYLER SHEEHY, F, MINN
Jake Evans, F, ND
Jordan Gross, D, ND
Andrew Oglevie, F, ND
Mason Jobst, F, OSU
Matthew Weis, F, OSU
Peyton Jones, G, PSU
Denis Smirnov, F, PSU
TRENT FREDERIC, F, WIS
Kyle Hayton, G, WIS
Cameron Hughes, F, WIS

Unanimous selections in ALL CAPS


Who the fucks keeps voting Trent Frederic over Denis Smirnov? They did it last year with Freshman of the Year and it keeps on going. Smirnov was the highest scoring freshman last year in the entire NCAA and will score even more this year. Whatever nominal defensive contributions Frederic puts forward doesn't come close to the massive gap in offensive skill.

And Tony Grananto is massively overrated as a coach and in contributing to Wisconsin's return

Nissin Cup Nudist
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NCHC poll looks good at first glance. I would probably swap Miami and Omaha, but everything else checks out

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USCHO posted:

1 Denver (48)
2 Boston University
3 Minnesota
4 Harvard ( 1)
5 UMass Lowell
6 Minnesota Duluth ( 1)
7 North Dakota
8 Notre Dame
9 St. Cloud State
10 Penn State
11 Providence
12 Wisconsin
13 Boston College
14 Quinnipiac
15 Cornell
16 Union
17 Air Force
18 Minnesota State
19 Ohio State
20 Northeastern
20 Western Michigan

Who the gently caress gave Duluth a first place vote? That is nonsensical. Union, BC, ND, Duluth and Cornell are all way too high imo. Harvard could be but its close. Providence is too low. Everyone is high on St. Cloud but ranking them 9 after last season is very ballsy

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Teemu Pokemon posted:

penn state preseason top 10 end my life

I'm sorry Providence killed your program

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Teemu Pokemon posted:

you mean bu right

eh. What's another loss to hockey east teams between friends

Though a #1 seed having to play a virtual road game at #4 seed Providence will never not be funny


Teemu Pokemon posted:

penn state preseason top 10 end my life

If it makes you feel better, the R-Lam/Joe Meloni combo ranked PSU #2/#3 for their preseason rankings

Nissin Cup Nudist fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Sep 28, 2017

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Neodoomium posted:

Michigan is getting rolled by Clarkson tonight

PSU and Michigan both split the Clarkson/St. Lawrence games

Clarkson ... good?

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Please dont choke away a 3 goal lead PSU

:ohdear:

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PSU wins. PSU wins

:toot:

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DJExile posted:

it's fuckin' weird seeing B1G games this early on. Did the conference finally figure out nobody wanted to wait until like January to start conference play?

7 teams means funky scheduling. If they get to 8, I think conference play goes back to January

I don't mind PSU spending the first couple months beating the snot out of Atlantic Hockey

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Penn State wooooo

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DJExile posted:

congrats to penn state and all but lmao on what planet is ohio loving state #6

they have a top 5 defense somehow

Congrats to Rohlik, that's one hell of a coaching job

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Neodoomium posted:

Michigan is up 3-0 on Penn State, which is good because gently caress Penn State

At least we're not Sparty

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Penn State saved their season with a home sweep against Minnesota

by my advanced calculations, that means they host a 1st round conference series against Minnesota

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Hockey East is complete poo poo this year outside of Northeastern and Providence

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I hope NoDak sneaks in as a 4 and forces St. Cloud out to Worcester

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Meanwhile, the Lake State coach got an extension despite being just as bad

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PSU beats Minny for the 4th straight game, scoring a total of 21 goals, and advances to play ND (probably)

And almost certainly back to the Tourney

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The B1G rules, fyck y'all

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Aw yes, the conference that is gonna send 4, maybe 5 teams to the tourney is trash

This isnt a few years ago, B1G is legit


If Omaha/NoDak flame out in the first round, the B1G will have more teams than the almighty NCHC

Nissin Cup Nudist fucked around with this message at 06:59 on Mar 4, 2018

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Sorry you're still mad the CCHA doens't exist anymore

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lmao with what money

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B1G rules, 5 teams in the tourney woooo

The B1G'est problem initially was a 6 team league had three bad coaches and 2 first-years who needed more time. That problem is fixed now, B1G is good

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If you wanna bitch about the refs or the conference tourney sites or the tv deal, whatever I don't care about that

The actual quality of hockey being played is fantastic and the only people who can't see that are salty midwesterners mad the CCHA doens't exist anymore


e: I'm sorry Miami loses to a HE team every year in an embarrsing fashion, but that's not the B1G's fault

and 6-5 games owns, every game should be 6-5 with both teams posting 40+ shots

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lmao do you want to know how many lovely branch campus club games I went to? hint: a lot

Notre Dame sucks, but Jeff Jackson is a drat good coach and usually goes to the tourney. Not sure how that's an also-ran.

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An also-ran is a team like, Merrimack or soemthing

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Maybe I just have a different definition, but a constant playoff team is not an also+ran

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5 mins in and gently caress Notre Dane has been super flat, surprising no one

Go PSU

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Peyton Jones is so bad good lord

Time for ND to trap their butts off for 50 mins

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Jones made some pretty good saves after that awful 1st goal and ND kept the game wide open the entire time

And gently caress Notre Dame wins another goddamn 1 goal game

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lmao Mankato

WCHA gonna have two this year



merrimack fired their coach :rip:

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The locks on the last day of the season are

St. Cloud State
Notre Dame
Ohio State
Cornell
Denver
Minnesota State
Providence
Clarkson
Michigan
Northeastern
Penn State
Atlantic Hockey Champ
WCHA Champ

The only games that really matter are ECAC, Hockey East, and the NCHC 3rd place game

Peak comedy option: Princeton, BU, and Duluth all win which knocks Minnesota out. But if Duluth loses the 3rd place game, Duluth is knocked out instead. Wonder if the NCHC will do away with the 3rd place game if that happens.

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Lucia technically "retired" and will be a "special assistant" for his last year

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AsInHowe posted:

I am at a FIRST robotics competition and streaming Tech/Notre Dame. Lots of Michigan Tech fans here.

The robotics competitions has a bunch of nerds

i'm shocked


e: I swear I was able to get multi-game action on ESPN3

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Lmao St Cloud

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Drill (net pegs) Baby Drill

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What the hell was BU doing the first half of the year?

They're extremely good right now.

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Princeton came out of the break with a 5 on 3 (and some time on a 5 on 4) and did absolute nothing

Then OSU wasted a major penalty immediality after

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Terrible goal by Primeau


e: RIP Northeastern, they're gonna be so bad next year

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DJExile posted:

yeah absolutely go if you've got the chance. It's usually a great atmostphere

E: woof, Denver annihilated penn state

Denver is prob gonna repeat. Top down, they're the best team by a mile


I wish Air Force won. A Minnesota Frozen Four with 0 Minny teams would have been hilarious

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