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Top to bottom, this is the most competitive bracket I've ever seen. Cornell is a rough 1st round draw for Sparty.

I'll go BC, Denver (could go either way), Western, UMass, Maine, Quinnipiac, Sparty (an upset would not shock me), and tOSU. All of the 2vs3 matchups are pretty much coin flips though.
 

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misterchainsaw said:
Poor Aiden Hansen-Bukata. Ohio State got smoked worse by BU in the first round than RIT did last year :laugh:
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Sadly I was at work so I couldn't enjoy it properly...though I'm definitely glad I missed the 1st period...

Now I have no idea who to root for in the second game. On the one hand, f*** Cornell. On the other hand, MSU is a way better team, so avoiding them would be nice. On the third hand, being the ones to end Mike Schafer's career would be kinda cool, and f*** Cornell.

Decisions, decisions...
 
Cornell's my 2nd team (I went to Ithaca College for the second half of my college career, and RIT wasn't D-1 yet at that time), but it's not like I've watched a single second of theirs this year before today so whatever :laugh:
 
Is this a game where MSU absolutely owns the puck and shots but can't get the third goal? We've seen this before - single elimination with a team playing rope-a-dope to wind up winning in OT.
 
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That's the nature of single-elimination tournaments. I would love it if he has one more in him to upset the top of the bracket.
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I'd honestly be stunned if Bentley even made it a game. It was a down year for the AHA and Bentley wasn't exactly dominant inside of conference. They did beat Maine around the new year but I think that was during WJC. Don't know if Maine was missing anybody to that tournament.
 
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misterchainsaw said:
I'd honestly be stunned if Bentley even made it a game. It was a down year for the AHA and Bentley wasn't exactly dominant inside of conference. They did beat Maine around the new year but I think that was during WJC. Don't know if Maine was missing anybody to that tournament.
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Have you seen much for Stockfish from Holy Cross? I see him in a lot of the UDFA coverage and I haven't spent any time with my nose in front of games of theirs this year.
 
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Have you seen much for Stockfish from Holy Cross? I see him in a lot of the UDFA coverage and I haven't spent any time with my nose in front of games of theirs this year.
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Not a lot, to be honest, Holy Cross only played RIT one weekend and the first game was over after the first period :laugh:

I will say HC's best offensive player is without a doubt McClinsky, and it looks like they broke up Stockfish and McClinsky towards the end of the season (I suspect to get more balanced scoring) - so at some level he was either benefiting from not seeing top defenders or benefiting from playing with the leading scorer in the AHA this season.

Looking at his numbers he was a 0 +/- on a good AHA team, so he wasn't exactly territorially dominant out there either. I struggle to see that translating into the NHL level. But I'm not a scout lol or terribly good at projecting players to different levels.

I wonder if NHL teams will ask him to transfer to the Big Ten/NCHC/Hockey East to play better competition ala Carter Wilkie, Hansen-Bukata, Scarfone, etc. last year. Or if HC will pay him the NIL money everyone suspects they paid McClinsky to not transfer this past year.
 
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The non-contact foot coming up to eye level as he went down looked like someone trying to sell a call. I have no dog in this fight, just commenting that it looked like he sold that hard.
 
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