the Providence Friars were the only team in Hockey East to sweep their quarterfinal opponent. Each of the other 3 series will be going to a sudden death 3rd game in their best of 3.
There will be some tired ass teams playing this afternoon too. The Northeastern vs New Hampshire game went to 4 overtimes last night, so this is pretty much their 4th game in 3 nights.
Vermont and UMass Lowell should also be tired as they went to double OT yesterday.
I'd like to see Vermont pull off an upset to create an easier path to the Hockey East Championship for either Boston College or Providence (if Vermont wins and BC loses, then PC becomes the top seed)
Also interesting to note is looking at the pairwise standings, it appears the loser of the BC/ND game today will likely still get into the tournament.
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