College Hockey

Let's talk about something else for a change, shall we?

Been getting back into college hockey this year after ignoring it for several seasons.  Since college, or just after, really.  Can't really catch Hockey East games on the west coast, for some reason.

I'm a big supporter of New Hampshire (duh) (Hockey East, the only conference that matters, IMO), but campus is a bit far, so have been catching some closer games.  Have been to Dartmouth twice (ECAC), Franklin Pierce (Northeast 10), Umass Amherst (Hockey East) and even caught the local high school team for a game.  Great games all.  Only saw NH play one game up in Dartmouth, which was great, but not a conference game.  They won that one, by the way.

NH was in a 3 way tie for first place in the conf until last week.  A few ties in their last couple of games brought them back down to 5th.  Edit:  now in a 3 way tie for third http://www.hockeyeastonline.com/men/standings.php Not sure what changed there.

Which meant that instead of home ice for the conf. quaterfinals, which I could have made it for a game or two, they would be playing in Providence.  Getting to Providence was going to be logistically impossible.

They lost the series, despite outscoring PC 8-7.  Just did not get the goals spread out across all 3 games when it counted.  Got to watch the last game from the bar, at least.

As my team was out, I had a bit less invested in it, but have been keeping up on the semi, and tonight the finals.  I'm without cable here, which is fine, as I never watch tv.  But there are 2-3 nights a year I wish there was such a thing as on-demand cable.  Not worth paying $44/month for 6 hours a year though.  CBS has a live-stream kind of thing for the BC games, and I kept on that game via that.  It was cheesy, but I could not make it out to watch a game.

Unfortunately, BC got dropped by Umass Lowell ( don't get me started), and the final this evening is not even covered by that.  I've been relegated to constantly reloading a box scores page to see what is going on.  And this one looks like it's headed into overtime.  Drat!!!