2016-2017 NCAA Hockey Thread

[l3ulvl]

Quote: Originally Posted by ImTellinTim

The final of the North Star Cup tonight isn't even being shown on TV. But the 3rd place game is. Glad this blatant Gopher money grab is going away. Good riddance. The trophy is made of wood, so whoever wins it tonight should light it on fire.

Throw it in the forest so it can be with its family

[gopher_guy]

Quote: Originally Posted by ImTellinTim

The final of the North Star Cup tonight isn't even being shown on TV. But the 3rd place game is. Glad this blatant Gopher money grab is going away. Good riddance. The trophy is made of wood, so whoever wins it tonight should light it on fire.

I was kinda bummed that it never took off. I thought it was a cool idea. But I guess I can't blame the other MN schools wanting to give it up so they can cash in on having the Gophers come to town to play them.

[ImTellinTim]

Not necessarily just the Gophers, but any non-conference opponent the extra weekend was taking up.

Gophers sold it in their season tickets, other teams couldn't do that. Gophers made the other schools pay television expenses even though it's their tournament and should be their expense. That is why only the Gopher games were televised this year. It's a cool idea if it's fair to everyone, which it really wasn't. It simply wasn't worth it for the rest of the schools. It was a good attempt to try and generate some excitement after realignment, I will give it that. But even Gopher attendance and excitement isn't what it used to be since realignment. It's hard to get excited about B1G hockey when every year half the conference sucks, and no one here even cares about half the teams in it (MSU, OSU, PSU).

[gopher_guy]

Gophers set an NCAA record with their 6th consecutive conference championship!

[ImTellinTim]

No metro teams playing in either final today in Minnesota. Glorious.

[Psyblast]

Absolutely ****ing pathetic. What a horrendous joke this conference has been.

[gopher_guy]

Quote: Originally Posted by Psyblast

Absolutely ****ing pathetic. What a horrendous joke this conference has been.

I don't even know why they do it in Detroit. Even when the Michigan schools are good the fans there don't come to watch.

The B1G has been far from a joke. It's a brand new 6 team conference, it was always going to take some time to establish itself. I'm intrigued with Notre Dame coming in next year, hopefully they get a strong 8th member as well. Once you get to 8 members it'll start feeling like a real conference.

[ImTellinTim]

Reward for being 1/2 basically all year and winning the conference tournament is a possible matchup with North Dakota in Fargo.

Cool story.

One day maybe they'll realize that the 1-seeds should host the regionals.

At least Ohio State's headhunter, who's now been suspended 5 times for bad hits will be sitting out.