College Hockey NCAAT - Thursday Open Thread
Go Terriers!
Duuuude ....
my man
Yes. Go BU, go Michigan (UM and BU alum here, hoping for a Boston-Michigan final and Michigan revenge for 1997).
〽️Go Hockey!
... but not until tomorrow evening.
Woof. Plenty of fans disguised as empty seats in Manchester. Good thing these regionals aren’t at the 1 seeds home arenas, hockey is better if it sounds like it’s being played in the Law Library.
Kudos to you. Similar thought at the same time with better execution
Careful. You might offend some Atlantic Hockey or ECAC team who thinks the only fair way to do this tournament is to remove any possible advantage a better team might have
This but unironically + fans. pack the law library full of bleachers and fans & $15 Bud lights and it'd be a religious experience
Estimate on how many hundreds of fans are at this BU v. WMU game?
You should just be able to hit pause and count them. And this is Manchester, which theoretically should be reasonably well-attended, in the hockey tradition-rich northeast, less than 90 minutes from BU.
I'm excited for the laugh I'm going to get when I see the "official" attendance.
As if putting games where no one goes to them wasn't evidence enough, the NCAA cares so little about hockey that this game hasn't even begun per the scores page.
Pretty sad, especially considering how close it is to BU's campus. Listened to a USCHO podcast the other day, and they were talking about how all the arenas are going to be packed. Umm, not so much...
They really need to get their heads out of their asses and go to home sites for the 1 seeds. There is no reason not to...
This place is rockin' like a burial cairn.
So UNH is the host of this regional. It is being played at SNHU Arena. So they are hosting at an arena named for another university.
It's not so strange (they can't host at their own arena after all), until you realize that it isn't SNHU's arena (the SNHU hockey team plays at something called the Ice Den apparently), but rather SNHU simply bought the naming rights. I've never understood schools buying the naming rights to non-school-affiliated venues (see also the former University of Phoenix Stadium)...
WMU jams one in, 1-0.
Soft-ass goal, but go Broncos!
Let's see if this review goes like other reviews for teams with Michigan in their name.
Yup. The only way it would have been more Michigan is if they had blown the whistle too early.
Holy shit! What a surprise!
Review. Looks like Bronco pushed on goalie's leg with his stick before getting to the puck.
I thought maybe because the puck was not visible. Did they give the reason for the overturn?
No reason was announced
Waved off.
Me every spring watching this stupid tournament again
Yep, my PTSD is being triggered just reading the blog.
Wait, the Frozen Four is in Tampa? And it's the third time since 2012? What the hell?
frozen, like a frozen margarita, not like, you know, an ice rink.
Last time I had frozen margaritas I passed out in, and then got kicked out of, BTB Cantina...
Hopefully not "frozen" like Cleveland Indians field when Michigan played there earlier this season.
It's actually quite a nice venue and location for a destination event. It's been well received which is why it's back. I sure could use an excuse to go to Tampa soon.
Bronco gets in on a mini break, hits the post.
These damn Michigan goalies pushing the net off the moorings.
mfan, I couldn’t believe the goals in the B1G Tourney Final at Minnesota. It shouldn’t be that tough of a problem to fix. Perhaps the U - Minnesota’s Engineering College isn’t that sharp.
I read somewhere that those aren’t the original moorings. They apparently shifted the goal location and they couldn’t go down as far as they wanted because they’d hit something in the refrigeration system, so they had to use the smallest pegs available. That’s why it only affects the goal in the away team end. There’s a big renovation going on in the off-season there, hopefully it gets fixed.
BU scores, 1-0.
Good job Western leaving BU’s most dangerous player alone at the bottom of the f/o circle
Coincidental minors [Holding on BU, Crosschecking on WMU] @ 19:30. 4-on-4.
1-0 BU after one. 1:30 of 4-on-4 left.
Go Broncos!
That was a bad icing call against WMU there. Refs' heads are up their asses.
And former NHL goalie Andrew Raycroft had a good explanation at intermission for why WMU's goal should not have been waived off. Puck was loose in front of goalie and then underneath him, so fair for WMU to whack at it.
Just whacking at the puck would have been fine, but the Bronco made stick to goalie skate (or lower leg) contact and pushed, moving the goalie's leg away from the puck. That's why I think it got waved off.
The call did not meet any of the NCAA criteria for instant replay review. Or was it a coach's challenge for goaltender interference? I didn't think it was a coach's challenge.
Would they not categorize that as a review for 'goalkeeper interference'?
Goalkeeper interference can only be reviewed by coach's challenge. It didn't appear to be a coach's challenge though--it appeared to be referee-initiated.
I could be wrong, because the announcers clearly had no idea what was happening.
BU pouncing on WMU DZTOs.
It's a good thing this isn't being played at Denver. There could be all sorts of unsightly things happening like full rows of seats! Or fans making noise! I tremble to think of such a universe.
BU scores again, 2-0.