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Minnesota beat North Dakota on a last second goal last night in the Frozen Four.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story ... econd-goal

These two were huge conference rivals until MN joined the new Big Ten hockey league this year. Lots of rabid hockey fans in these parts.

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Championship game has been 10 different kinds of exciting.

damn it. MN lost.

I know this post is like 10 days late, but I forgot there were college hockey fans on here. Anyway, as an alum of tiny Union College I went to the Championship Game in Philly and it was incredible. Lots of alumni turned out to support the school. Just for a frame of reference, there are half as many living alumni from Union College as there current students for Minnesota. So to see a big Union College crowd was great to see. The game was sooo exciting, fast paced, made watching the NHL playoffs look much slower. I picked Union as a school knowing/assuming that I would never have the chance to see big-time athletics, but I was pleasantly surprised. They have come a long way from when I used to do color commentary for a team that had never even won a single conference tournament game.

Definitely a fantastic story, esp since these days MN is a perennial title contender. I'm only a casual fan but want to make it a point to go to more Gopher hockey games. The women are fantastic and it's still pretty easy to get tickets to see them. The men's games can be a tough ticket - esp when they play North Dakota and Minn-Duluth and the other MN state schools.

Wisconsin has lost 7 in a row to start the season, 8 in a row if you include being upset in the first round of the tournament last year. The coach won the NCAA title in 2006 and hasn't done a good enough job since, but fans and bloggers defend him. It's unbelievable. I've been banned from jsonline, Madison.com and buckys5thquarter for complaining.

I just signed up for buckys5thquarter with a new screen name. We'll see how long I last.

slide_into_first wrote:Wisconsin has lost 7 in a row to start the season, 8 in a row if you include being upset in the first round of the tournament last year. The coach won the NCAA title in 2006 and hasn't done a good enough job since, but fans and bloggers defend him. It's unbelievable. I've been banned from jsonline, Madison.com and buckys5thquarter for complaining.

I'm a St. Louis transplant from Madison. When I left WI I just assumed, quite fairly, that the Badgers were eternally unbeatable. Since I don't follow college hockey anymore I had no idea they've fallen on hard times. What a shame.