NCAA Tournament (formerly Hockey East Playoffs)

[Alberta_Beef]

Updated for the NCAA tournament, and road to the Frozen Four.

Last night (March 24th) The NCAA released the brackets for the road the the Frozen 4.

East Regional
1. Quinnipac v. 4. Canisius - Mar 30th 3:30pm
2. Boston College v. 3. Union - Mar 30th 7:00pm
Regional Championship - Mar 31st 4:30pm

Midwest Regional
1. Notre Dame v. 4. St. Cloud State - Mar 30th 11:30am
2. Miami (Ohio) v. 3. Minnesota State (Mankato) - Mar 30th 3:00pm
Regional Championship - Mar 31st 2:00pm

Northeast Regional
1. UMass-Lowell v. 4. Wisconsin - Mar 29th 2:30pm
2. New Hampshire v. 3. Denver - Mar 29th 6:00pm
Regional Championship - Mar 30th 4:30pm

West Regional
1. Minnesota v. 4. Yale - Mar 29 12:00pm
2. North Dakota v. 3 Niagra - 3:30pm
Regional Championship - Mar 30th 2:00pm

Frozen Four:

Winner of East Regional vs. Midwest Regional - April 11th
Winner of Northeast Regional vs. West Regional - April 11th

[Alberta_Beef]

Flames Prospects to watch:

Boston College

#13 - Johnny Gaudreau


#24 - Bill Arnold


Providence College Friars

#10 - Mark Jankowski


#32 - Jon Gillies

[Vulcan]

Here's the U of Vermont site which should show the video against BC.

http://www.nsnsports.net/index.php/nsn-channel-6

[Alberta_Beef]

Games start Thursday (sort of - only UMass Lowell & Main play Thursday), and the series will all be wrapped up by Sunday. So if any series goes the distance these kids could be playing 3 in 3.

BC Sked
Fri - 5pm mt
Sat - 5pm mt
Sun - 2:30pm mt (if needed)

PC Sked
Fri - 5pm mt
Sat - 2pm mt
Sun - TBA (if needed)

[Robbob]

Anyone know if any of these games will me televised?

[Hockey]

You can probably find them online.



And Go UNH!!!!!

[Flame19,289]

The Friday night game between the Vermont Catamounts and the Boston College Eagles will be on NBC Sports Network (formerly Versus).

[Pierre "Monster" McGuire]

Who's excited about NCAA playoffs tonight? I know I am.

So Vulcan gave a stream to watch BC, but the game isn't on there tonight. It's on NBC Sports Network.

Can anyone help me out with what channel NBCSN is or if we even get it in Canada? Is there a legal stream to watch?

[Enoch Root]

really hoping we can see some of these games.

A Providence - BC final would be awesome.

[Enoch Root]

Providence up 2-0
BC up 1-0

Both games in the 2nd period.

No points for anyone important, but Gillies has kicked away 21 shots so far.

[Enoch Root]

2-1 now. sorry Gillies, talking penalty on my part

[gargamel]

BC just got a powerplay goal to go up 2-0. Gaudreau and Arnold were both on the ice, but neither got an assist on it.

[J epworth]

BC winning 3-0 now and Providence just got the lead back, 3-2 now in that game in the third.

[gargamel]

Gaudreau just got an empty netter to seal it up for BC.

[BloodFetish]

DeBlouw with the opening goal as Michigan State leads 2-0 over Miami, late in the third.

[Pierre "Monster" McGuire]

Man I love it when our prospects make an impact on their respective teams.

[Alberta_Beef]

----------- In Hockey East Action -----------

Gillies stopped 35 of 37 shots tonight and Jankowski was held off the score sheet in a 3-2 victory in Game #1 over New Hampshire.

Gaudreau had an empty netter in a BC's 4-2 win in the first game of their series.

UMass Lowell has already swept their best of 3 series against Maine, winning 4-2 on Thursday and 2-1 in Double overtime Friday.

BU put up a 3-0 victory in their first game.

----------- and in other NCAA action -----------

John Ramage assisted on the game tying goal and scored the game winner to lead the Wisconsin Badgers to a 3-1 win and 1-0 series lead (best of 3) in the first round of the WCHA playoffs.

Matt DeBlouw scored the game winner in Michigan States 3-0 win over Miami of Ohio, giving the Spartans a 1-0 series lead in the CCHA quarterfinals.

In their 1st round series the Spartans upset Alaska with a 2-1 series win. DeBlouw had 1 goal and 0 assists in the series, his only goal being the game 1 overtime winner.

Nick Larson was held pointless in Notre Dame's 1-0 overtime win in the first game of their CCHA quarterfinal.

Notre Dame had a 1st round bye as a top 5 seed in the CCHA.

----------- and in NCAA tourney news -----------

It looks like the NCAA tournament is a 16 team tournament, the 5 conference winners earn an automatic berth and there are 11 wildcard teams. Assuming the NCAA uses their rankings to fill the remaining 11 spots the Boston College (#5), Notre Dame (#12) & Wisconsin (#14) should make the tournament.

Providence was rated 17th, so a strong playoff and series win over #7 ranked New Hampshire should build a solid case for them earning a tournament berth.

Michigan State didn't receive a single vote in the NCAA ranking so I would think they would have to at the very least reach the WCHA championship game to qualify for the NCAA tournament. But upsetting the #1 seed (#3 in the country) in the 1st round should raise their stock should they win 1 of their next 2 games.

[devo22]

very encouraging that Deblouw already makes an impact. Has had a very nice freshman season for a 7th round pick, that's for sure.

nice to Ramage lead the way too. He has scored some clutch goals this season, I believe he even had a weekend where he scored two overtime goals in a row.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Deblouw has been overlooked by the continued success of the little guy, the amazing freshmen season of Gillies and the the obvious watching of Jankowski our top pick from last year but he seems to be doing very well himself.

[Alberta_Beef]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

Deblouw has been overlooked by the continued success of the little guy, the amazing freshmen season of Gillies and the the obvious watching of Jankowski our top pick from last year but he seems to be doing very well himself.

After the Jankowski & Seiloff picks the DeBlouw pick was my favorite. Obviously since then Gillies has just way up, but DeBlouw has Stephane Yelle potential.