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Pardon the lack of pre-season action on my usual hockey stats front; it's been a crazy few months for me.

As usual, most of the charts will be a bit wonky early in the season until the data starts flowing.

Considering our awesome win over BGSU last night I'd expect to see us receive some votes next week. In the meantime, here's where things stand three games into the season.

Go Broncos!

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WMU is currently unranked (no votes) in the USCHO poll and unranked (no votes) in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll.


Note: vertical axis is divided in 5-place increments; 20th is at the bottom, 1st is up top.

NCHC Teams:
#1 - North Dakota ............... 1/29, 1/30, @3/4, @3/5
#3/#4 - Omaha ................... 10/30, 10/31, @2/12, @2/13
#5/#8 - Denver .................. @1/15, @1/16, 2/26, 2/27
#7 - Minnesota Duluth ........... @12/4, @12/5
#12 - St. Cloud State ........... 11/13, 11/14, @1/22, @1/23
#18 - Miami ..................... @11/6, @11/7, 2/19, 2/20
Unranked - WMU
Unranked - Colorado College ..... 12/11, 12/12


Other 2014-2015 Opponents:
#8/#5 - Harvard ................. 11/28* (TBD)
#10 - Bowling Green ............. 10/13 (4-1 W), @12/30
Unranked - Notre Dame ........... 11/28* (TBD), @1/8, 1/9
Unranked - Clarkson ............. @10/23, @10/24
Unranked - Rensselaer (RPI) ..... 11/27*
Unranked - Ferris State ......... 10/9 (3-2 W), @10/10 (1-1 T)
*In-season tournament game






Note: vertical axis is divided in 10-place increments; 50th is at the bottom, 1st is up top.


NCHC Finish/Playoff Probabilities:


Source: http://www.playoffstatus.com/nchc-hockey...dings.html


Source: http://www.playoffstatus.com/nchc-hockey...ities.html

I hate off weekends. Wish we had a couple games every weekend. Hate it in football too. Especially when we are rolling pretty good.

(10-16-2015 06:13 AM)brovol Wrote:  I hate off weekends. Wish we had a couple games every weekend. Hate it in football too. Especially when we are rolling pretty good.

I'm really worried brovol, as I find myself agreeing with you alot this year....

The one good thing for off weekends, it gives me some more time to watch some other NCHC games:

Last night I caught #7 UMD @ #15 Gophers, UMD won 3-1, pretty much controled the entire game from the moment puck was dropped. Once again, Gophers are sooooo overrated and should not of been ranked #9 in the preseason and they are no where near a top 20 team (at least last night they weren't). UMD top line is good. I like Welinski, Soucy (he was out due to suspension) and freshman Poienk lood good. After that, there d-core is supect. Gophers fail to preasure them and Kaskisue was never tested. We match up very well with UMD

Caught the last half of the third period #14 MN State @ #12 SCSU. SCSU won 4-0, but from the sounds of it the game was nowhere near a 4-0 game as SCSU Lindgren pretty much stole the show.

Trying to decide what game I watch tonight, ND vs BSU or SCSU vs MN State?

NCHC did pretty good last night, prolly the only time I cheer for each of those teams as our collect non-conf results are so important to all the NCHC teams in the pair wise:

UMD 3- MN 1 (UMD 1-1)
SCSU 4- MN State 0 (SCSU 3-0)
UNO 4- Vermont 3 (UNO 3-0)
DU 4- MSU 2 (2-1-1)
ND 4-BSU-4 (ND 1-0-2)
CC 2- Umass Lowel 3 ( CC 0-3)

Broncos 2-0-1

Interesting that besides CC, ND the number the #1 team in the country has the 3rd worst non-conf record with two ties vs un-ranked teams