Sunday, March 27, 2005

The WCHA Invitational

This year I am calling the NCAA Frozen Four "The WCHA Invitational." All four teams in the national semifinals - Colorado College, North Dakota, Denver University, and Minnesota - are from college hockey's greatest conference, the WCHA.

The North Dakota Fighting Sioux will be facing off against hated rival Minnesota Golden Gophers in one of the semifinal games. The other will feature hated rivals Colorado College and Denver University. This is going to be so f**king awesome!

My team, the Sioux, trounced all over Boston University (4-0) and #1-nationally-ranked Boston College (6-3) over the weekend to earn a trip to The WCHA Invitational. And the games were in Worcester, Mass. In your face, Hockey Least!

CC knocked off Michigan in the state of Michigan. Denver knocked off New Hampshire in Amherst, Mass. Minnesota stayed in their home rink and their scoring outage continued, but they gutted out a couple of overtime wins. I thought Cornell was going to pull the upset this afternoon, but one of their players kept trying to freeze the puck in his own zone. He didn't get a whistle, but kept trying to freeze the puck. The Gopher forwards made him pay. See ya later EZAC!

Now I'm off to daydream about making "WCHA Invitational" teeshirts to sell online. This is the surest money-making scheme since Robbie Halvorson's idea to put a Red Pepper stand in the Xcel for the WCHA Final Five.