NCHC
STANDINGS 2013-2014
Team………………………W-L-T………Points
Colorado College………...1-1-0…….….….3 Miami……………………….1-1-0……….….3
Minnesota-Duluth…………1-1-0……….….3
North Dakota………………1-1-0……….….3
Denver…………………..…0-0-0…………..0
Nebraska-Omaha…………0-0-0…………..0
St. Could St……………….0-0-0…………...0
Western Michigan………..0-0-0…………...0
NCHC
Games
Nebraska-Omaha
@ Denver
Last weekend the Mavericks were swept by Cornell
(5-3, 4-3) in Omaha. The Pioneers beat
Niagara 5-1 and lost to Canisius 4-1 last weekend in Denver.
Last season in the WCHA the Pioneers took three
points from the Mavericks in there only series in Denver. I know past performance does predicted future
performance, but I like Denver at home.
PIONEERS 3-PTS
#9 St.
Could St. @ #5 North Dakota
Last weekend the Huskies swept Colgate (4-2,
4-3) in St. Cloud. NoDak “unofficially” beat
the US U-18 team (4-1) in Grand Forks.
Last season these teams split a series in St.
Cloud and SCSU took three points in the series in Grand Forks. NoDak has typically had “average” first
halves of the season and then done much better after Christmas. With that and the fact that we have a series
between top 10 teams, I’m going the easy way.
SPLIT
Colorado
College @ Western Michigan
Last weekend the Tigers were swept by Clarkson
(1-2L, 0-1) in Potsdam, NY. The Broncos
were not playing last weekend.
The Tigers head east this weekend to Kalamazoo (it’s
fun to say Kalamazoo, isn’t it!) and hit the ice at Lawson Arena, which NHL
sized. Being early in the season, it
makes it difficult to make an educated prediction. But hey, let’s make a prediction anyway. I’m picking the Tigers to win on Friday and
the Broncos to win on Saturday. SPLIT
Non-Conference
Games
Canisius
@ #6 Miami
Last weekend Canisius lost to Air Force 3-2 and
beat Denver 4-1 in Colorado. The RedHawks
lost and tied the Providence Friars (2-3ot, 4-4ot) in Rhode Island.
The Golden Griffins surprised us last weekend, I
would have picked them to beat AFA and lose to DU, not the other way around. But Canisius has a much stiffer test this
weekend when they travel to Oxford, Ohio.
It’s hard to pick against Miami in this series. RedHawks SWEEP.
#20 Minnesota-Duluth
@ Ohio State
Last weekend the Bulldogs split with Notre Dame
(3-2L, 4-1W) in Duluth. The Buckeyes swept
Robert Morris (5-3, 4-3) in a home-home series last weekend and beat Bowling
Green (5-3) on Tuesday night in Columbus.
This isn’t hockey related, but the OSU marching
band did an amazing performance the other weekend at the football stadium. Now on to hockey, the Buckeyes hockey program
is not the football program, but they are both now in the big ten
conference. OSU and there new conference
will need to pick up wins against quality teams, if they want the big ten to
succeed. I don’t think that will happen
this weekend. BULLDOGS SWEEP.
