The NCHC Year Two: Haters Please Form A Queue to the Right

[Tipsy McStagger]

Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Michigan State have more combined national championships than any other conference. The Big Ten had one bad season, that is all. Hope you haters enjoyed that while it lasted, because it will be the premier conference in the nation more seasons than not.

Wisconsin and Michigan State programs are in terrible shape, Michigan hasnt been very good recently, and Minnesota is losing half of their team. Other than that the B1G is looking great though.

[The Rube]

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Y'all are just as obsessed as you claim the "Butt hurt" crowd to be. Just sayin'.

[Red Cows]

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Wisconsin and Michigan State programs are in terrible shape, Michigan hasnt been very good recently, and Minnesota is losing half of their team. Other than that the B1G is looking great though.

An interesting sidebar to this is that I think that the University of Nebraska moving to the Big 10 has hurt it from a baseball perspective (as it has Creighton's baseball team by moving to the Big East).

Both teams moved to something that isn't a baseball conference and both teams would seem to be playing down to the competition level that exist in their new leagues (which is not good).

That is the problem in the Big 10 hockey conference. Nobody is going to want to play at Minnesota or Michigan if the other conference teams stink. And, a 6 team league doesn't work. Ask the CHA about how that's working out for them these days . And Michigan and Minnesota run the risk of "playing down" to the other teams in the conference who, outside of Michigan State and Wisconsin, who are both, currently, at very low points, have no track record of previous hockey success.

Michigan and Minnesota best be begging NCHC and Hockey East teams for games to potentially make them more Pairwise relevant because, I think if they don't, they are going to have more seasons as a conference that look like this past one did.

Gopher fans pooh-poohed me championing the fact that UNO signed 4 different Mr. Minnesota Hockey Finalists last year (including the winner), two that played this season and the other two arrive this fall, but, who played in the Frozen Four and who did not this year? Their contention was that no decent player sticks around to be a high school senior hockey player in Minnesota. Apparently, we now have some evidence to the contrary. UNO is going to be a legitimate title threat next season with who we have coming back and who is arriving. Barring pro defections and/or Dean Blais not being able to find somebody to play in goal, at least serviceably. UNO is a top 10 team, pre-season next season.

Are the Gophers?

The Big 10 needs to add a couple teams, desperately.

[Tipsy McStagger]

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Y'all are just as obsessed as you claim the "Butt hurt" crowd to be. Just sayin'.

Yes. As everyone knows from this board, anytime you say anything negative about something else, you have to be trolling, obsessed, or butthurt.

[Dirty]

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I know that when I'm in a thread that is about NCHC teams and respond to a fan from a B10 team, I am typically butthurt. Why else would I, as a fan of a NCHC team, be in a thread about the NCHC?

[Biddco]

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I know that when I'm in a thread that is about NCHC teams and respond to a fan from a B10 team, I am typically butthurt. Why else would I, as a fan of a NCHC team, be in a thread about the NCHC?

Makes total sense to me.

[BroncoFever]

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I think we will soon find out how valuable Massa was to UNO's success this year. Some big shoes to fill

[Speed Kills]

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Right now they've got one title appearance to NCHC's zero and they're both tied at zero. Last year wasn't very good either and it's clear that the conference's big talk before the last couple years isn't going to be as great as once thought. They've got an uphill climb, not many players want to be play in some of their lackluster buildings and programs. I believe you're a gopher fan so you're probably not enjoying playing teams you don't care about. Have fun with 4 pm games at OSU.

What are you talking about? The Gophers aren't playing teams I don't care about. I care about all of the Big Ten teams more so than I care about any of the Gophers' former WCHA conference mates. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the WCHA very much. But the creation of the Big Ten hockey conference was a step towards much bigger and better things. Don't let a single down year distort the big picture.

[Biddco]

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What are you talking about? The Gophers aren't playing teams I don't care about. I care about all of the Big Ten teams more so than I care about any of the Gophers' former WCHA conference mates. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the WCHA very much. But the creation of the Big Ten hockey conference was a step towards much bigger and better things. Don't let a single down year distort the big picture.

You're the only one who believes this. How is the conference going to be better for those teams?

[Dirty]

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You're the only one who believes this. How is the conference going to be better for those teams?

Because if they were in the CCHA and old WCHA they wouldn't even make the NCAA tournament. At least now with their inferior league one of their terrible teams has to make it.

[LSSULaker889294]

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Conference composite schedule released:
http://assets.ngin.com/attachments/d...games_only.pdf

[Speed Kills]

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You're the only one who believes this. How is the conference going to be better for those teams?

It is better in two ways:

1. Hockey is now consistent with all other sports on campus in regards to conference affiliation.
2. Other Big Ten schools (like Illinois, Iowa, etc...) are now much more likely than they to start up D1 hockey programs within the relatively near future.

[First Time, Long Time]

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It is better in two ways:

1. Hockey is now consistent with all other sports on campus in regards to conference affiliation.
2. Other Big Ten schools (like Illinois, Iowa, etc...) are now much more likely than they to start up D1 hockey programs within the relatively near future.

1. Most fans don't care and many Gopher fans I know actually hate that it is all the Big Ten now.
2. According to whom? Remember, they can't just start a men's team because with Title IX, a women's sport must be added as well. Good luck getting the money to do it.

[Biddco]

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It is better in two ways:

1. Hockey is now consistent with all other sports on campus in regards to conference affiliation.
2. Other Big Ten schools (like Illinois, Iowa, etc...) are now much more likely than they to start up D1 hockey programs within the relatively near future.

1. How does that matter?
2. You can thank the NCHC for that one

Those are some pretttyyyy pretttyyyyy preetttyyyy weak excuses.

[Speed Kills]

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1. How does that matter?
2. You can thank the NCHC for that one

Those are some pretttyyyy pretttyyyyy preetttyyyy weak excuses.

While I certainly respect your right to an opinion, that doesn't mean I have to agree with it. I stand by what I stated previously.