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Ohio State Men's Ice Hockey (2019 B1G Champions)

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Hockey team lost both games to SCum over the weekend. Very poor showing by the pucksters. They go to ORD's favorite place this coming weekend for 2 games and need to get some points to obtain home ice for the beginning of the playoffs.
 
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I know that I wish for too much, but Dear Lord let the Buckeyes rip the candy away from the baby.

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ORD_Buckeye said:
Buckeyes rolled into Oxford and took down Fredo 3-0.
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Depending upon the Ferris State/Sparty game and tonight's game this could have very good implications with regard to home ice advantage for the Buckeyes in the first round.

EDIT: the Bulldogs lost last night so that should seal home ice advantage for us in the first round.
 
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LitlBuck;2310429; said:
Depending upon the Ferris State/Sparty game and tonight's game this could have very good implications with regard to home ice advantage for the Buckeyes in the first round.

EDIT: the Bulldogs lost last night so that should seal home ice advantage for us in the first round.
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Yep....all wrapped up. If we beat Fredo and Western wins, we'll deprive them of a CCHA title in the conference's last year. I'm hoping for the best, but Rumpelstilskin is too good of a coach to not have Fredo come out focused after getting their asses kicked last night.

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Oh well...que sirah, sirah. As glorious as gutting Fredo in our last CCHA game would have been, it is but an insignificant blip on an otherwise brilliant future, for we move on to bigger and better things. Next year the BTHC begins, and we join a league with more national championships than all others put together. Our matches will be on national television every single week.

Fredo goes off to join the Island of Misfit Hockey Programs. They may call themselves "national," but what they really are is a collection of bankrupt athletic departments that nobody gives two [Mark May]s about clinging to hockey as their only hope at relevance. We'll see how long that's a stable or viable model.

Ever thus to backstabbers, Fredo.
 
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Hockey Team Begins Playoff Run

Drop the Puck
The Ohio State men?s hockey team (14-15-7, 13-10-5-1/4th CCHA) hosts Ferris State (15-14-5, 13-12-3-1/5th) in a CCHA tournament quarterfinal series this weekend. The No. 4-seed Buckeyes will take on the No. 5 Bulldogs in a best-of-three series at 7:05 p.m. Friday and Saturday (and Sunday if necessary) in the OSU Ice Rink in Columbus. The series winner advances to the CCHA Championship at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit March 23-24.

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Ohio State/IMG Radio will carry the action between the Buckeyes and Bulldogs over the air in Columbus on 1460 AM and live online on ESPNColumbus.com, with Herb Howenstine and former Buckeye John Mowat calling the action.

All quarterfinal games in the OSU Ice Rink will be streamed for free online through Buckeye Vision.

As always, links for audio, video and live stats are on the Buckeye Hockey Gameday page (go.osu.edu/mhkygameday) and the men?s hockey schedule page on OhioStateBuckeyes.com. In-game updates are also on Twitter: @OhioState_MHKY.
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A hockey goaltender never takes anything for granted from one puck to the next, not even Brady Hjelle of Ohio State. The light ginger scrub he is growing on his chin, the game’s don’t-shave homage to the playoffs, is a great example.

“I should put a little Just For Men in there … jet black,” Hjelle said, smiling.

Letting it grow shows how seriously the Buckeyes are taking the final Central Collegiate Hockey Association playoffs before the conference disbands. As the fourth seed, they play fifth-seed Ferris State tonight in the Ohio State Ice Rink in the first game of a best-of-three, second-round series. And knowing the Buckeyes have Hjelle, the fourth Ohio State goalie to be named first-team all-CCHA, is a motivating thought, coach Mark Osiecki said. The playoffs are the time when teams from pee-wee to the NHL lean on their goalies to be the difference.

“When you have a goaltender your team is confident in, it allows you to play on your toes,” Osiecki said. “When you have a goaltender you’re questioning a little bit, you’re going to play on your heels. … “Brady allows us to play on our toes. We can take a few more risks, a little bit more chances here and there, understanding that he’s back there, and he’s a brick wall.”

Osiecki has been mostly pleased with the way the five other players on the ice have performed in the defensive end, too, and that has an effect on Hjelle.
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http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/con...15/goalie-gives-osu-edge-at-playoff-time.html
 
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Details of the victory over the Bulldogs:evil:
Ohio State won the first Central Collegiate Hockey Association tournament championship in 1971-72.

It still has a chance to win the last after defeating Ferris State 3-2 in the third and deciding game of a CCHA quarterfinal series last night at the OSU Ice Rink.

Freshman forward Anthony Greco scored the winner in the third period and senior goaltender Brady Hjelle made a career-high 47 saves to help send the Buckeyes to their first CCHA championship weekend since 2005.

“A huge step for our program,” Ohio State coach Mark Osiecki said. “We haven’t been there in a while. This team, we’re awfully young and still learning how to play big games, how to close out weekends, how to win in general.”

No. 4 seed Ohio State (16-16-7) will play No. 2 Notre Dame (23-12-3) in a semifinal on Saturday at Joe Lewis Arena in Detroit. The winner will play the winner of a Michigan-Miami University semifinal on Sunday.

Hjelle entered the game ranked eighth nationally in save percentage (.933) and is a finalist for the CCHA Player of the Year award. But his performance in the elimination game last night was “the most exciting by far,” Hjelle said.

“There was a lot on the line, and our team came to play,” he said. “We’re going to the Joe, so we’re really excited about it.”

Ohio State sophomore Max McCormick extended his points streak to nine games with a power-play goal at 1:32 of the first period. But Ferris State took a quick 2-1 lead with a pair of goals less than a minute apart. Andy Huff, elevated to the top line for the series finale, tied it at 1 at 13:31 of the first.

Cory Kane gave the Bulldogs (16-16-5) their only lead when he finished a scramble in front of the net at 14:30. Ohio State defenseman Curtis Gedig tied it at 2 when he scored the Buckeyes’ second power-play goal at 18:50 of the first.

Hjelle was huge in a frantic second period for Ohio State. He made 21 saves in the period, including a sliding pad stop of a breakaway attempt by Eric Alexander. But Greco sparked the Buckeyes at 3:33 of the third, burying a rebound of a Ryan Dzingel shot that deflected off defenseman Zach Dorer.
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