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Chris Dilks from Western College Hockey is reporting that Mike Guentzel has been hired as the assistant coach at Colorado College it will be interesting to see how Mike fits in at C.C.

Guentzel To Join CC Coaching Staff
September 2nd, 2008 -- posted by kcrandall

Mike Guentzel, who resigned from Minnesota coach Don Lucia’s staff in April, will be named an assistant coach Wednesday, a source close to the program said Tuesday.

Guentzel spent the last 14 seasons coaching Gopher defensemen, but will be on the bench as his son, Gabe, starts his career as a Tiger defenseman this fall.

Guentzel replaces Norm Bazin, who left in August to become head coach at Division III Hamilton College and was responsible for recruiting some of CC’s top talent. Though his particular duties have yet to be spelled out, Guentzel adds his knowledge of Minnesota talent to CC’s staff.

His hiring is marks the first major change to coach Scott Owens‘ staff since Owens hired Bazin and Joe Bonnett after his first season at CC.

Over at the Blog that Yost Built Packer487 covers the subject of No Yost Regional in 2010 or 2011 and there are some really good points in the comments section of this blog post. I don't think people are buying the reasons Minnesota is getting two regionals in their own back yard two years in a row. You want to talk about an unfair home field advantage, I give you the Saint Paul and Minneapolis Minnesota. The NCAA has probably just given Minnesota a ticket to the Frozen Four. It will be interesting to see the teams the NCAA stuffs in the two regionals in Minnesota. You will probably have some farce like last years Madison regional.

I believe this is a conflict of interest because the athletic director for the University of Minnesota Joel Maturi is the chairman Ice Hockey Committee and he is looking out for his schools own best interests first. On top of that Maturi is trying to sell is notion that the Xcel Energy Center is neutral site. I say bullshit I mean bravo sierra. The Xcel Energy Center is not a neutral site it is 7 miles from the University of Minnesota campus.

Packer487 said...
It wouldn't shock me a bit if the "We can't host a regional because of the cya chant" thing was slightly embellished to try to get the students to cut it out.

Even the NCAA official being quoted indicated it wasn't a major factor and simply pointed to Michigan having a competitive advantage at Yost.

Plenty of other schools have hosted, but it seems Michigan is being penalized for actually taking advantage of our opportunity when we did host.

I have no sympathy for DU missing the tournament when they hosted in Denver, or when CC missed it a year or two back when they hosted. It ain't our fault that Wisconsin didn't come out of their regional this year, they still got the home crowd.

If you're getting away from campus sites, so be it. But don't shove a line of bull like "We're going for neutral sites" and then throw a regional in St. Paul.

If you're not allowing teams to have a "competitive advantage" then go to all neutral sites or take out the rule that automatically lets the host play in that regional.

If you're ok with teams having a competitive advantage (with Minnesota at XCel) then let's have some campus sites instead of the horrible selections of St. Louis and Ft. Wayne.

I don't have a problem with it either way, but let's be consistent.

I do like the idea of only playing on NHL sized rinks though.