Terrific win for the Bobcats. Garteig made some huge saves in the last few minutes - I'm thinking of the one where he basically jumped out to meet a shot from the point and the save with the glove batting at another labelled shot with about 7 seconds left. Anas looked good even if he was not on the scoresheet. I'm happy for St Dennis having a big game, too, because he gets a second shot at the frozen four final. The Cliftons looked great, too.
It's funny that, other than maybe Harvard, the ECAC seems to have a lot fewer NHL draftees on their better teams. This leads the ESPN guys to often to start with a belief that the opponent like BC should be favored regardless of how the teams performed during the year. I recall this sort of line about the Union team that won when it was a clear #1 in the polls and in the Pairwise the second half of the year. The QU team in 2013 was also a clear #1 but they were the #1 seed most picked against to come out their regional (certainly not Minnesota
) . This year's QU team has been right around the top all year, too, but they were already being called the underdog against either Denver or NoDak as soon as they beat BC. NoDak is very deserving, and Denver had a great 2d half, so maybe that is correct, but there was not much analysis behind the statement when it was made by the desk guy.
