I have been a regular listener and critic of the INCH pod casts because of their blatant bias and love for the eastern and CCHA schools. On a recent pod cast Joe Gladziszewski Jeff Howe and Mike Eidelbes went so far as to say that the WCHA schools do not travel and they play all if not most of their non-conference games inside their own building because they throw big money at the visiting teams to show up and that is the reason the WCHA strength of schedule is so inflated.
In looking at the 2008-2009 Fighting Sioux non conference schedule it appears that claim is false and if UND does well during their nonconference schedule they will have a strong strength of schedule again.
Oct. 10-11 — Ice Breaker Invitational at Boston University. (BU, UMass, Michigan State)Boston, Mass
Nov. 28-29 — EZAC CORNELL, Grand Forks, ND
Dec. 5-6 — at EZAC Harvard (Cambridge Mass)
Dec. 26-27 — at Great Lakes Invitational (Michigan, Michigan State, Michigan Tech)
Joe Louis Arena, Detroit Michigan
Jan. 2-3 — at Bemidji State/BEMIDJI STATE
Wow; out of 10 nonconferene game the Fighting Sioux will only play 3 of those games at home and they will make the trip to the Boston area twice.
Any plans for a trip to the Joe, sounds fun.
ReplyDeleteJonathan Toews must have sneezed around 4:30 and 10:15 this morning cause the ground shook here in Illinois, either that or the earthquake that was reported.
No Joe trip for me but there is a small chance that I will go to one of the following cities: Mankato, Duluth and or Bemidji, Mankato depends depends if I am going to be hunting Ducks and or pheasants or not? Bemidji is proably the best chance.
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