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Most of the games left are against the bottom 4 teams in the WCHA. A tough road trip to NMU and road games at Bemidji State.

We're 15-5-3, 10-4-2. How many wins will get us in the NCAA's, if at all, if we don't win the WCHA tourney? PW ranking of 10 right now but will that fall due the competition left on the schedule?

GO BG

Gonna be tough. I think 23+ regular season wins is absolutely something be should be striving for this year. 12 games left - plenty of wins left to pickup. All starts next weekend at Fairbanks.

Just win and we won't have to worry about it.

Excluding the conference tourney, 9 wins would put us in a decent spot. We could make it with 8 plus a whole lot of help. 7 and we have no chance.

A win against a lower tier opponent does not count against you in the pairwise so as long as we win we should be good.

My take on the current top 4 the rest of the way:

Mankato (39 points): LSSU, at Northern, Huntsville, at Tech, bye, at Alaska, Bemidji
- No more than two losses between LSSU, Northern, Tech, and Bemidji. I think the Mavs have this one sewn up.
Northern (36 points): bye, Mankato, Bowling Green, at Huntsville, at Bemidji, LSSU, home and home with Tech
- Lose at least three between Mankato, us, LSSU, and Tech
Bowling Green (34 points): at Alaska, Ferris, at Northern, bye, Alaska, at Bemidji, Huntsville
- Lose two between Northern and Bemidji and one more between the other 8 which will be a PWR killer. Likely 3rd. Again...
Michigan Tech (32 points): at Bemidji, at Anchorage, bye, Mankato, at LSSU, Anchorage, home-and-home with Northern
- Lose at least one at Mankato, and three between Bemidji, LSSU, and Northern. LSSU may catch them. Tech has the toughest schedule.