{"id":97976,"date":"2014-03-21T02:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/hockey-east-blog\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2014-03-21T02:00:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T07:00:20","slug":"hockey-east-picks-march-21-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2014\/03\/21\/hockey-east-picks-march-21-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Hockey East Picks &#8211; March 21-22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surprisingly, I had a half-decent record in the crazy quarterfinal round of games, thanks in large part to picking the entire New Hampshire-Northeastern series correctly. And with a .670 winning percentage entering the final weekend of games, I can now <em><strong>officially<\/strong><\/em><strong> <\/strong>claim domination over Dave. I had him beat when he went on injured reserve and I kept going with a percentage vs. percentage race. But even there I slaughtered him.<\/p>\n<p>Jim last week: 7-4<br \/>\nJim to-date: 157-70-28 (.670)<br \/>\nDave to-date: 123-65-24 (.637)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, March 21<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hockey East Semifinals<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>No. 8 Notre Dame vs. No. 2 Massachusetts-Lowell<\/strong><br \/>\nJim&#8217;s pick: This is such a difficult game to pick. Throw out the head-to-head, which Lowell leads 2-0-0, as Notre Dame was missing a ton of players that weekend. This Irish team is so red hot it&#8217;s difficult to pick against them. Yet I&#8217;m going to do just that.<br \/>\n<strong>UML 3, ND 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No. 4 New Hampshire vs. No. 3 Providence<\/strong><br \/>\nJim&#8217;s pick: If Jon Gillies can carry this Providence team and the PC power play can remain hot, I think they win.<br \/>\n<strong>PC 4, UNH 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday, March 22<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hockey East Championship<\/strong><br \/>\nJim&#8217;s pick: Though I picked a Lowell-PC final, below I will pick all of the possible games. What it comes down to for me: whichever team wins the first semifinal wins the championship.<br \/>\n<strong>UML 2, PC 1; UML 3, UNH 2; ND 3, PC 1; ND 4, UNH 2<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprisingly, I had a half-decent record in the crazy quarterfinal round of games, thanks in large part to picking the entire New Hampshire-Northeastern series correctly. And with a .670 winning percentage entering the final weekend of games, I can now officially claim domination over Dave. I had him beat when he went on injured reserve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1425,934],"tags":[721,1236,1490],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hockey East Picks - March 21-22 - College Hockey | USCHO.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Surprisingly, I had a half-decent record in the crazy quarterfinal round of games, thanks in large part to picking the entire New Hampshire-Northeastern\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97976\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hockey East Picks - March 21-22 - College Hockey | USCHO.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Surprisingly, I had a half-decent record in the crazy quarterfinal round of games, thanks in large part to picking the entire New Hampshire-Northeastern\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97976\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"College Hockey | USCHO.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialUSCHO\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-03-21T07:00:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/uscho_featured-1.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jim Connelly\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@USCHO\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@USCHO\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jim Connelly\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2014\/03\/21\/hockey-east-picks-march-21-22\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2014\/03\/21\/hockey-east-picks-march-21-22\/\",\"name\":\"Hockey East Picks - March 21-22 - College Hockey | USCHO.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2014\/03\/21\/hockey-east-picks-march-21-22\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2014\/03\/21\/hockey-east-picks-march-21-22\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/uscho.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-03-21T07:00:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-03-21T07:00:20+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/78e7586ae2a624c3924d9ed406596f54\"},\"description\":\"Surprisingly, I had a half-decent record in the crazy quarterfinal round of games, thanks in large part to picking the entire New Hampshire-Northeastern\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2014\/03\/21\/hockey-east-picks-march-21-22\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2014\/03\/21\/hockey-east-picks-march-21-22\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2014\/03\/21\/hockey-east-picks-march-21-22\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/uscho.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/uscho.jpg\",\"width\":1175,\"height\":763},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2014\/03\/21\/hockey-east-picks-march-21-22\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Hockey East Picks &#8211; 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