Maine Black Bearsvs. Michigan St. Spartans4PM, ESPN/ESPN 2Boston College Eaglesvs.North Dakota Fighting Sioux7PM, ESPN/ESPN2The Frozen Four has arrived basketball fans. Tomorrow it begins, if you like hockey at all I suggest you watch it. I am a broadcast journalism student at the University of Maine and we are covering this on our campus radio station. I'm doing the pre-game show/intermission reports for it. If you guys have any freetime and want to hear a BBW member live over the airways you can listen online at www.umaine.edu/wmeb .
damn you got to talk to Mr. Lif? lucky bi*chI don't follow college hockey honestly..because has a solid team tho
I don't really follow college hockey. On a national level. Idk who is good and who is not. But I go to our college hockey games. I love them. They arnt D1 though
All four of those teams I posted are ridiculous. Unlike the NBA, the NHL drafts kids then lets them go to college. There are so many future NHL players playing in D1 college hockey, for instance, half of Maine's roster is already drafted.
North Dakota is probably the best team left. They are playing extremely well right now and just took off the top team in the tournament, Minnesota. Also, history is on their side as a WCHA team has won the title each of the past 5 or 6 seasons.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>North Dakota is probably the best team left. They are playing extremely well right now and just took off the top team in the tournament, Minnesota. Also, history is on their side as a WCHA team has won the title each of the past 5 or 6 seasons.</div>good points, I'm scared as hell of ND. Both of these games are going to be unbelievable. Maine and Michigan St. was a barn burner last year in the Regional Semis. It's going to be a great re-match. Also, I'm dead serious when I say this, Maine has played the best hockey the past two games that they've played all season. They lost to UMass the last 2 games of the season and then lost to them in the Hockey East playoffs. Then they beat them 3-1 last week. Maine is the sleeper team of this Frozen Four.
Yeah I don't doubt Maine after that AWESOME 2002 National Championship game in St. Paul. I don't know diddly squat about Eastern hockey, so I can't say how good they are this year. But that game in '02 was unbelievable. Luckily, I was on the winning end of that :yahoo:
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (WELCOMEtotheJUNGLE @ Apr 4 2007, 09:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>All four of those teams I posted are ridiculous. Unlike the NBA, the NHL drafts kids then lets them go to college. There are so many future NHL players playing in D1 college hockey, for instance, half of Maine's roster is already drafted.</div>just like college baseball..even high school baseballI think in the MLB if you're good enough you can be drafted at 16 years old and play in the minor leagues but realistically won't make the MLB team until your about 18-21the reason basketball and football are different is there's more exposure to those sports and more people in the media putting pressure on the prospectshonestly unless your a college baseball/hockey head you probably don't even know who the #1 player in the nation is..not as much exposure and pressure on the kids to make the jump
My english teacher was watching the MSU game after school because he went there for college and they were up 2-4 in the 3rd period, that's all I know.
f*cking Maine, they jump out to a 2-0 lead then completely fell asleep after that. Michigan St. has a great defense but I think Boston College is going to run the table against them. It was a good season for Maine though, they weren't even slated to make the tourney and they made it to the Frozen Four. I feel bad for our goalie Ben Bishop, he's from St. Louis and that's where the Frozen Four was this year. Good season Black Bears.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>honestly unless your a college baseball/hockey head you probably don't even know who the #1 player in the nation is..not as much exposure and pressure on the kids to make the jump</div>Yeah exactly. Also it's a little bit different with hockey. There really isn't a right out #1 prospect unless it's like the next Gretzky like Sidney Crosby. That only happens once every 20 years also. Kids go to college after playing in Junior leagues and some prospects emerge from being so-so into great players. A freshman on Maine named Teddy Purcell emerged into a great prospect over the course of his junior league career. He's a a 21 year old freshman on Maine and he was 2nd in points this year, he was also Hockey East Rookie of the Year. He'll be a captain one day at UMaine.
University of Minnesota had the #1 overall pick in the NHL draft last year, freshman defenseman named Erik Johnson. I only know that because I'm from Minnesota.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (WELCOMEtotheJUNGLE @ Apr 6 2007, 11:15 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>f*cking Maine, they jump out to a 2-0 lead then completely fell asleep after that. Michigan St. has a great defense but I think Boston College is going to run the table against them. It was a good season for Maine though, they weren't even slated to make the tourney and they made it to the Frozen Four. I feel bad for our goalie Ben Bishop, he's from St. Louis and that's where the Frozen Four was this year. Good season Black Bears.</div>After the first 5 min, Lerg stood on his head.That Main goalie is really really tall. And Jeff Lerg is really really short.GO STATE!
Boston College lost. Further adding to their stigma of not winning a big game in the last decade or longer. F*ck its so frustrating to be a fan when they can't win the big games in ANY sport. Oh well though, even though I really don't follow college hockey, great to see them go far and rep Boston well.
