Midday Links Game Day DU and UND

This was on Brad E. Schlossman’s blog and it’s a very good break down of the wins for the WCHA teams the last 10 years. You can see that Denver and UND have had the best records the last 10 years in the WCHA.

Wins since 2003-04 (last 10 years)

250 — North Dakota
236 — Denver
221 — Minnesota
205 — Colorado College
198 — Wisconsin
179 — Duluth
177 — St. Cloud State
172 — Bemidji State (most games were played in CHA)
161 — Omaha (most games were played in CCHA)
136 — MSU-Mankato
105 — Anchorage
90 — Michigan Tech

Here is UND’s record before Christmas and after Christmas, since Dave Hakstol has been the head coach of UND. Since the hockey season is turning to the post-Christmas time, will UND make another second half run?

2004-05: 13-7-2 (.636) - 12-8-3 (.587)

2005-06: 12-7-1 (.625) - 17-9-0 (.654)

2006-07: 7-10-1 (.417) - 17-4-4 (.760)

2007-08: 8-6-1 (.567) - 20-5-3 (.768)

2008-09: 9-8-1 (.528) - 15-7-3 (.660)

2009-10: 9-6-3 (.583) - 16-7-2 (.680)

2010-11: 13-5-2 (.700) - 19-4-1 (.813)

2011-12: 9-8-1 (.528) - 17-5-2 (.750)

2012-13: 7-5-2 (.538) - ?

Totals 87-62-15 (.576) - 133-49-18 (.710)

There are a few things of interest today.

A Tradition of Excellence has his morning links up.

Joe Paisley and Tyler Buckentine have their weekly predictions up and they’re both predicting a split in this weekend’s series.

Now I am worried, Roman Augustoviz has his WCHA picks up and he has been wrong just about every weekend when it comes to the UND series. This weekend, Roman picks a UND sweep.

Chris Dilks of Western College Hockey has his weekend preview up.

The Hockey Writers – Combine has my feature on Drake Caggiula.