An Off Year

So Puck Daddy is representing the NCAA Hockey Tournament, which starts today. Its good to see some publicity for this event, since there usually isn't ANY. Anyways, today's article about the Top 10 things for college hockey nerds to watch for in the tourney had some good quotes about Michigan Tech and the WCHA as a whole. Both of them absolutely true.

And then there's always one guy, from like, Michigan Tech, walking around the host city by himself and wearing the full get-up. And you see that guy EVERYWHERE. Go to the zoo on the off-day? There he is feeding some seals. Go to a restaurant down the street from your hotel? He's drinking heavily and eating three plates of mozzarella sticks at once. And at the actual games? He's ALWAYS sitting next to you, talking your ear off about how his team has an outside chance to make it there next year.

No they don't, you creep. Stop following me.

Honestly though, its pretty demoralizing to walk into MacInnes Ice Arena and see all the banners from the '70s when Tech was actually awesome.

Fans of most conferences will generally root for their fellow Hockey East or CCHA teams until they come in direct conflict. "If it can't be Vermont, what the hell? Go BU!" That kind of thing. But I don't know what it is about WCHA fans that makes them hate everyone in the country that isn't them. You've never seen people more pleased with a bounce that goes against the Sioux or the Pios than a Minnesota or Wisconsin fan. Everyone else can be civil, but not the WCHA.

God damn right I will cheer against every other WCHA team (except obviously, Michigan Tech...they're not exactly a threat anyways). Fuck UMD, but especially fuck the Sioux.

That is all.