While I follow hockey in general only a little more than, say, rollerderby, I do get a little excited over WCHA puck.  Partly because it’s really good hockey (sorry, NHL fans – I’ve always preferred college puck, albeit in the same way that I prefer being shot to death by a crazed fan to being trapped in flaming diesel oil), and partly because it’s a sport where my native NoDak kicks butt.

Chad from Fraters – who’s a hockey fanatic, but usually sober and with a mostly-full mouth of teeth – makes his calls for the WCHA tournament:

he WCHA team that I think is playing the best hockey right now is the extremely politically incorrect University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux. They shouldn’t have too much trouble putting SCSU down 5-3 in the Friday semi.

* I have no confidence in this Gopher squad and their silly hair-dyeing ways. Shaky goaltending and a young team does not usually get you far in the playoffs. I wouldn’t be shocked in the Gophers fell on Friday, but I gotta think that they should have enough to get past Tech 4-3 in the other semi.

* That sets up a UND-Minnesota final. The Sioux dominated the Gophers in a late-season sweep at Mariucci and I think they will do the same on Saturday, something along the lines of 4-2.

I pick the Sioux for the same reason I pick the Bears; I always do.  But I’ll go along with Elder.

I do want to note that Mark Yost, “pride” of Brooklyn, is picking a St. Cloud State–Wisconsin final. We’ll see who has the true hockey cred after this weekend.

Uh huh.

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