{"id":95452,"date":"2009-03-30T11:04:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T16:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/blogs\/college-hockey\/paula\/20090330\/too-much-for-two-days.html"},"modified":"2009-03-30T11:04:27","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T16:04:27","slug":"too-much-for-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2009\/03\/30\/too-much-for-two-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Much for Two Days"},"content":{"rendered":"
My head is still spinning from the two days in Grand Rapids that changed the history of college hockey.\u00a0 A hearty congratulations to the Bemidji State Beavers, who earned every bit of their trip to the Frozen Four.\u00a0 What a great thing for that program, the incredible people associated with it and for college hockey. What an exciting thing to have witnessed.<\/font><\/p>\n And to those complaining about how this affects television ratings, go suck a lemon.\u00a0 Yes, bigger names like Notre Dame and Denver bring in more viewers, which allegedly helps us keep this sport afloat.\u00a0 But after this weekend, I’m just not buying it.\u00a0 I don’t think that spotty NCAA regional coverage \u2013 so much depending on local cable providers and the whims of people who don’t give a fig about college hockey \u2013 does anything for the sport we love, and an eclectic Frozen Four field may have less of a ratings impact than, say, general apathy towards college hockey.<\/font><\/p>\n As a fan of the CCHA, I was disappointed in the performance of two of the conference’s four teams.\u00a0 Both Michigan and Notre Dame played flat, emotionless, tentative hockey.\u00a0 Neither team seemed to show up for its game.\u00a0 That, my friends, is the essence of disappointment.<\/font><\/p>\n Of course, I’m thrilled that the Miami RedHawks are making their first trip to the Frozen Four \u2013 thrilled that the CCHA has any representation in D.C. at all.\u00a0 And it’s good for the league to send its fourth different team in three years to the FF.<\/font><\/p>\n And how about those Buckeyes?\u00a0 Sure, they lost to Boston University 8-3, but they never gave up and they scored two more goals in that game than the Wolverines and Fighting Irish did in their single appearances, combined.\u00a0 What a great experience for a team with three seniors and a junior on its roster. <\/font><\/p>\n There is so much good stuff to share from the Midwest Regional that I just couldn’t write up because of the Saturday-Sunday schedule, but I will get to it all this week.\u00a0 Stay tuned.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My head is still spinning from the two days in Grand Rapids that changed the history of college hockey.\u00a0 A hearty congratulations to the Bemidji State Beavers, who earned every bit of their trip to the Frozen Four.\u00a0 What a great thing for that program, the incredible people associated with it and for college hockey. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1425],"tags":[1443],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n