{"id":98744,"date":"2017-10-20T11:23:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T16:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/nchc-blog\/?p=683"},"modified":"2020-06-22T04:31:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T09:31:16","slug":"weekend-picks-oct-21-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2017\/10\/20\/weekend-picks-oct-21-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend picks: Oct. 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew and I picked two series differently, but ended the weekend with the same 7-5-2 ho-hum record. On the year, I am 13-9-3 while Matthew is 11-11-3. We&#8217;ve got an old WCHA rivalry highlight the offerings this week, as North Dakota hosts Minnesota.<strong>Friday-Saturday, Oct. 21-22<\/strong><strong>Lake Superior at No. 1 Denver<\/strong><strong>Candace:<\/strong> Look for Denver&#8217;s potent offense to lead the Pioneers to a sweep as they raise last season&#8217;s championship banner. <strong>Denver 4-1, 4-1<\/strong><strong>Matthew:<\/strong> Tough to see anything other than a Pioneers sweep here. <strong>Denver 4-1, 4-2<\/strong><strong>Miami at Maine<\/strong><strong>Candace:<\/strong> I thought Miami would do better last time out. Both teams were off last weekend. I&#8217;m calling for Miami to sweep hoping I get one win right. <strong>Miami 3-2, 3-2<\/strong><strong>Matthew:<\/strong> I like Miami to get its first counter win of the season, but I&#8217;m not confident enough to call for a sweep. <strong>Miami 3-2, Maine 3-2<\/strong><strong>No. 13 Boston College at No. 3 St. Cloud State<\/strong><strong>Candace:<\/strong> St. Cloud has shown it can score in bunches, which is good, since the Huskies also give up lots of goals. I&#8217;m going to go for the league homer sweep pick. <strong>St. Cloud State 4-2, 5-4<\/strong><strong>Matthew:<\/strong> This might come back to bite me in our predictions contest, but I like the Huskies to sweep here. <strong>St. Cloud State 3-2, 3-1<\/strong><strong>Merrimack at No. 9 Minnesota Duluth<\/strong><strong>Candace:<\/strong> Minnesota Duluth has struggled out of the gate, but I think home ice will help. <strong>Minnesota Duluth 3-1, 3-1<\/strong><strong>Matthew:<\/strong> I&#8217;ll take the Bulldogs to get back on track here after a difficult series with Bemidji State. <strong>Minnesota Duluth 3-2, 3-1<\/strong><strong>No. 8 Minnesota at No. 4 North Dakota<\/strong><strong>Candace:<\/strong> I&#8217;m going out on a limb here and picking North Dakota to sweep. <strong>North Dakota 3-2, 3-2<\/strong><strong>Matthew:<\/strong> Minnesota has made an early pattern of ending weekends better than the Gophers have started them. Don&#8217;t be surprised if that happens again here. <strong>North Dakota 4-2, Minnesota 3-2<\/strong><strong>Colorado College at No. 17 New Hampshire<\/strong><strong>Candace:<\/strong> The Tigers have started strong, but I think New Hampshire is on a mission in coach Dick Umile&#8217;s last season. <strong>New Hampshire 3-2, 3-2<\/strong><strong>Matthew:<\/strong> Colorado College has started the season well, but hasn&#8217;t yet faced a team as good as UNH. I want to say CC will steal a win here, but I don&#8217;t know that it happens. <strong>New Hampshire 3-2, 3-1<\/strong><strong>Arizona State at Omaha<\/strong><strong>Candace:<\/strong> Omaha looked good against Lowell, and I think home ice will help the Mavericks to a sweep. <strong>Omaha 3-2, 3-1<\/strong><strong>Matthew:<\/strong> ASU played Air Force tight twice last weekend, but Omaha might be a tougher test.<strong> Omaha 4-2, 3-1<\/strong><strong>Michigan State vs Western Michigan (home-and-home)<\/strong><strong>Candace:<\/strong> The Broncos haven&#8217;t looked great since their opening win, but I&#8217;m going with the league homer pick. <strong>Western Michigan 3-2, 3-1<\/strong><strong>Matthew:<\/strong> I tend to go with the home teams in these sort of series, but I&#8217;m going to take a small leap and go with a Western sweep. <strong>Western Michigan 3-2, 3-2<\/strong><span class=\"fix\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew and I picked two series differently, but ended the weekend with the same 7-5-2 ho-hum record. On the year, I am 13-9-3 while Matthew is 11-11-3. We&#8217;ve got an old WCHA rivalry highlight the offerings this week, as North Dakota hosts Minnesota.Friday-Saturday, Oct. 21-22Lake Superior at No. 1 DenverCandace: Look for Denver&#8217;s potent offense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"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":[1425,934],"tags":[1264,1507],"coauthors":[813],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Weekend picks: Oct. 21 - College Hockey | USCHO.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Matthew and I picked two series differently, but ended the weekend with the same 7-5-2 ho-hum record. 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