Friday College Hockey Open Thread
OK we are roughly a month from the end of the regular season and Michigan NEEDS to bounce back from an upsetting trip to Minnesota last weekend.
Here are tonights games (including B1G matchups, Top 20 and non conference oppenents as well) and any television information I could find. (All rankings are Pairwise rankings as of start of play today)
6:30 #13 Minnesota @ #24 Penn State BTN (Dish 410)
7:00 #16 Michigan @ #41 Ohio State BTN Plus (BULLSHIT subscription service)
7:00 #46 RPI @ #30 Cornell
7:00 #37 New Hampshire @ #39 Connecticut
7:00 #14 Yale @ #10 Quinnipiac TSN2 (in Canada)
7:00 #15 Harvard @ #20 St. Lawrence
7:00 #44 Mass @ #10 Providence
7:00 #28 Merrimack @ #16 Vermont
7:00 #2 North Dakota @ #23 Western Michigan CBSSN (Dish 158)
7:00 #33 Northern Michigan @ #8 Bowling Green
7:30 # 16 UMass-Lowell @ #10 Boston College
7:30 #35 Notre Dame @ #3 Boston University
7:30 #20 Northeastern @ #41 Maine
7:30 #4 Minnesota-Duluth @ #6 Miami
8:30 #5 Nebraska-Omaha @ #19 St. Cloud State
9:00 #31 Michigan State @ #55 Wisconsin
9:30 #9 Denver @ #49 Colorado College CBSSN (Dish 158)
It should be obvious that Michigan needs to pick up 3 points tonight at the always empty Value City Arena. The Wolverines will not get a big boost from this game but they need to stop falling in the Pairwise. A big game goes down in "Hockey Valley tonight as well as the Gophers look to build off of their recent successes (6 straight B1G contests picking up a point including 4 straight Wins). I think Penn State winning would benefit Michigan as the Lions are the only team left on Michigan's schedule that could climb into the top 20 and they play twice on the road which provides the Wolverines two chances at big road wins (which are weighted heavier in terms of the Pairwise rankings).
RPI and NHU have chances to help Michigan's RPI ranking minimally with road contests Friday night but the biggest help could be provided by a team that Michigan is currently tied with in the rankings as UMass-Lowell travels to Chestnut Hill. Lowell is a team that Michigan beat earlier in the season and they have a chance at knocking off a top 10 team in Boston College who beat Micigan in December.
The night cap on BTN has the potential to be the most boring hockey game played as MSU's shitty/mind numbing style of hockey faces off against one of the worst teams in the country. MSU needs to win and climb back up the rankings as much as they can before Michigan travels to East Lansing March 13 for the last push of the regular season. One last interesting game to watch is Duluth at Miami as two top 6 teams meet up in Oxford.
SCORE UPDATES
Minnesota 2 @ 1 Penn State 16z;00 3rd
Michigan 2 @ 3 Ohio State End 2nd
Yale 2 @ 2 Quinnipiac End 2nd
North Dakota 2 @ 0 Western Michigan 6:00 2nd
February 20th, 2015 at 6:24 PM ^
So... anyone got a stream for this match that's not BTN+ itself...
February 20th, 2015 at 6:31 PM ^
February 20th, 2015 at 6:40 PM ^
February 20th, 2015 at 7:24 PM ^
February 20th, 2015 at 6:57 PM ^
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February 20th, 2015 at 7:00 PM ^
Let's Go Blue!
February 20th, 2015 at 7:01 PM ^
$10 for three games (this + both PSU) is a good deal
February 20th, 2015 at 7:02 PM ^
no video yet on BTN the ocho
February 20th, 2015 at 7:02 PM ^
Racine gets the start in goal.
February 20th, 2015 at 7:07 PM ^
Sounds like announcers are talking but it's completely drowned out by crowd noise
February 20th, 2015 at 7:14 PM ^
seems as though the video is the stadium feed and the audio is radio
February 20th, 2015 at 7:08 PM ^
Michigan already with a handful of good chances. Bad omen if youre a bucknut
February 20th, 2015 at 7:10 PM ^
Whatever sad OSU freshmen was forced to be cameraman for this game is awful
February 20th, 2015 at 7:10 PM ^
Larkin! 1-0 U-M!
February 20th, 2015 at 7:11 PM ^
Larkin 1-0
February 20th, 2015 at 7:13 PM ^
Sound going way in and way out - like from a whisper to STOP YELLING - and the camerawork is awful
February 20th, 2015 at 7:16 PM ^
So it's not worth the 10 bucks I take it?
February 20th, 2015 at 7:19 PM ^
It's definitely still worth the $3.33 I'm paying today. It's comically awful, but I can still see the puck about half the time
February 20th, 2015 at 7:13 PM ^
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA C YA!
February 20th, 2015 at 7:15 PM ^
No joy.
February 20th, 2015 at 7:16 PM ^
FUCK! They score, 1-1. Plus we're on the PK.
February 20th, 2015 at 7:17 PM ^
My BTN feed is now playing something from "movieclips.com". OSU media people literally drunk
February 20th, 2015 at 7:17 PM ^
And after a low hit by OSU, too. :P
February 20th, 2015 at 7:20 PM ^
Yay, PK!
February 20th, 2015 at 7:21 PM ^
Haven't been the same on offense since
February 20th, 2015 at 7:25 PM ^
Big time lag on the BTN Plus - I succumbed when Borden said that the Penn State games were on the same package.
February 20th, 2015 at 7:27 PM ^
I paid for it today so this $10 will cover this game and the two PSU games (which are our only remaining BTN+ games), then I'll just cancel the day after the PSU series ends.
Just set yourself a reminder to cancel since it auto-renews
February 20th, 2015 at 7:27 PM ^
Dammit, their goalie keeps making saves.
February 20th, 2015 at 7:28 PM ^
but great save by Frye.
February 20th, 2015 at 7:29 PM ^
Who seriously subscribes to BTN+? Is there really lost revenue from letting a BTN subscriber watch the UM-OSU hockey game? Screw you, Delany.
February 20th, 2015 at 7:31 PM ^
I'm certain WD has an account
February 20th, 2015 at 7:38 PM ^
February 20th, 2015 at 7:33 PM ^
Buckeye announcer said "[Michigan] has the ugliest helmets in all of college hockey" while presumably being subjected to the monstrosity that is OSU hockey uniforms week in and week out. His retinas must be scorched
February 20th, 2015 at 7:42 PM ^
February 20th, 2015 at 8:04 PM ^
You're right that PSU is already well on their way to being a better program than OSU. I have no doubt they'll be well ahead of them in a few more years
February 20th, 2015 at 7:34 PM ^
FUCK!! 2-1 them.
February 20th, 2015 at 7:34 PM ^
It's not "RAY-ceen" or "Nee-eh-VEEs"
February 20th, 2015 at 7:38 PM ^
or "ser-VILLE"
February 20th, 2015 at 7:35 PM ^
Offense has been totally bottled up for the second half of this period
1-2
February 20th, 2015 at 7:36 PM ^
I think if this guy calls Matt Johnson "Matty J" one more time, I'm going to get in my car, drive to Columbus and strangle this guy
February 20th, 2015 at 7:38 PM ^
I'm not good at analyzing hockey, but the offense was mostly non-existent in the 2nd half of the 1st except for Larkin doing great solo stuff. Seems like OSU always has 3 guys back so that may be part of it
February 20th, 2015 at 7:55 PM ^
Offense looking sharp again all of a sudden
February 20th, 2015 at 7:55 PM ^
Can't tell what's more entertaining the hockey updates or Bordon Gerenson's personal verbal war against Buckeye announcers...
February 20th, 2015 at 7:58 PM ^
Matty J is the most annoying sports nickname I've ever heard and this clown won't stop saying it
February 20th, 2015 at 7:59 PM ^
Hyman!! 2-2!!
February 20th, 2015 at 8:00 PM ^
HYMAN THANK YOU