College Hockey and maybe anti-Avs banter - Page 2

seventwenty · #21 Posted **Mar 27, 2016, 12:51 AM**

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Originally Posted by bunt_q

At 5-0 going into the third, I assume you've decided to root for DU?

Sioux advancing over the best of the worst (Michigan). Really hoping for a Duluth upset over BC too. If an NCHC team wins every regional they were seeded to... well, screw you Big 10. Screw you Notre Dame for your like-mindedness with them (like-minded must mean "big schools with mediocre hockey programs"). And preemptively, screw you Arizona State for making a decidedly bad choice to go to the Big 10 instead of the NCHC. Bad bad choice, if they do it. They'd be such a better fit with us.

Off soapbox.

I was rooting for the school I don't owe loans to and Michigan. Now rooting for Minnesota's best hockey team. The East Regional apparently has a few goalies who may be NHLers as of Monday.

EDIT: IT TOOK ALL SEASON BUT WE NOW HAVE A MULTI-PAGE THREAD!

bunt_q · #22 Posted **Mar 27, 2016, 1:06 AM**

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Originally Posted by seventwenty

I was rooting for the school I don't owe loans to and Michigan. Now rooting for Minnesota's best hockey team. The East Regional apparently has a few goalies who may be NHLers as of Monday.

EDIT: IT TOOK ALL SEASON BUT WE NOW HAVE A MULTI-PAGE THREAD!

F*** Michigan. F*** the Little 6 (err, 7).

bunt_q · #23 Posted **Mar 27, 2016, 1:09 AM**

You know what can ruin an otherwise nice, chill, obscure Saturday night college hockey game between Minnesota Duluth (who?) and Boston College? Barry f'in Melrose. Will he ever die?

Also, nice attendance, Worcester. Are there no hockey fans in Massachusetts?

seventwenty · #24 Posted **Mar 27, 2016, 1:11 AM**

Oh you know, that team that outscored your team 11-0 a few months ago.

bunt_q · #25 Posted **Mar 27, 2016, 1:17 AM**

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Originally Posted by seventwenty

Oh you know, that team that outscored your team 11-0 a few months ago.

Did I miss that?

seventwenty · #26 Posted **Mar 27, 2016, 1:21 AM**

Yup.

November 20-21, 2015.

bunt_q · #27 Posted **Mar 27, 2016, 1:27 AM**

Oh, over two nights. And that was Duluth. I don't expect them to travel. Where are the Boston fans - it's like 40 miles. Are there any?

seventwenty · #28 Posted **Mar 27, 2016, 1:31 AM**

BC actually has a good following, but no one goes to Worcester when they can avoid it. Plus Spring Break I'm betting.

seventwenty · #29 Posted **Mar 28, 2016, 3:11 AM**

DU v UND? Well I'm solidly back on the DU bandwagon.

bunt_q · #30 Posted **Mar 28, 2016, 6:07 PM**

I'm pretty indifferent between those two. As long as whoever wins that game wins the national title, I'm good. I was raised to hate DU. Despite having given them a lot of money and living here now, it's still hard to cheer for them. Easier to cheer for the league. And I've always liked watching the Sioux, and now, they're the marquis team that isn't off in the f'in Big 10, so I feel I owe them some allegiance for sticking around.

wong21fr · #31 Posted **Mar 28, 2016, 6:26 PM**

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I'm pretty indifferent between those two. As long as whoever wins that game wins the national title, I'm good. I was raised to hate DU. Despite having given them a lot of money and living here now, it's still hard to cheer for them. Easier to cheer for the league. And I've always liked watching the Sioux, and now, they're the marquis team that isn't off in the f'in Big 10, so I feel I owe them some allegiance for sticking around.

See, I never even knew that CC had that much of a following in the Springs. It seems like CC was the snobby liberal arts school that was tolerated and everyone flocked to AF for sporting events because the Springs is 'merica.

DU all the way here. One has to root for the one decent sports school in the state that actually understands winning.

bunt_q · #32 Posted **Mar 28, 2016, 6:56 PM**

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See, I never even knew that CC had that much of a following in the Springs. It seems like CC was the snobby liberal arts school that was tolerated and everyone flocked to AF for sporting events because the Springs is 'merica.

Two different Springs. CC's support is old Colorado Springs - old money, business interests, both liberal and conservative - the downtown, west side, Cheyenne Mountain/Broadmoor crowds. Real Colorado Springs. Plus the south/southeast, Fountain and Widefield crowds, which are also good CC hockey country. (To the limited extent the Army/Fort Carson crowd has any interest in hockey or the affairs of Colorado Springs, they actually align with this group.)

Air Force is the newer, more evangelical religious, more conservative crowd. A lot of middle class, some upper middle class, but the city's elite are generally not in this group (they use this group to get elected). Northern springs, as well as northeast and eastern parts of town.

Interestingly, a lot of Monument falls into the first group, because a lot of those people moved up there a decade-plus ago - moving far out, not Briargate-suburbia newcomers. It's why Lewis-Palmer got seeded with such a strong hockey program.

That's my perception, at least.