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First of all, 3\/5 last weekend at the Final Five. Thursday games hurt, but Saturday ended out the way I predicted, so whatever. I’ll take it. *grins*<\/p>\n

We’re officially done with picks (YAY), but I figured I’d toss out my regional predictions just for the heck of it.<\/p>\n

1. I’m not offering insight behind my picks.
\n2. Picks are partly rational, partly emotional.
\n3. If what I pick actually<\/em> happens, I’m buying Powerball for Wednesday.
\n4. It’s a bracket … I’m of the opinion that it’s best to have fun with these things. Thus why I haven’t entered an official pool (either a pay one with friends on Facebook or a non-pay one with my colleagues here at USCHO). But harmless picks here? Why not?
\n5. These will ONLY be regional picks. I’ll do later Frozen Four ones before that comes around. I’ve predicted the Frozen Four outcome correctly once on my own back in college, in 2004 … although that was more of a, “I hope THIS happens” type of thing.<\/p>\n

East Regional:
\n<\/strong>Air Force over Yale
\nUnion over UMD
\nUnion over Air Force<\/p>\n

Northeast Regional:<\/strong>
\nMerrimack over Notre Dame
\nMiami over New Hampshire
\nMerrimack over Miami<\/p>\n

Midwest Regional:<\/strong>
\nNorth Dakota over Rensselaer
\nWestern Michigan over Denver
\nNorth Dakota over Western Michigan<\/p>\n

West Regional:
\n<\/strong>Michigan over Nebraska-Omaha
\nColorado College over Boston College
\nMichigan over Colorado College<\/p>\n

So my picked-out Frozen Four here is … Union, Merrimack, North Dakota and Michigan. Probably unlikely, but meh. I’m going with it.<\/p>\n

Edited at 3:40 p.m. MDT:<\/strong> Obviously<\/em> I know what I’m talking about as one of my proposed F4 teams has been knocked out. Since they’re out … Air Force all the way! Woo! (that’s purely an emotional pick.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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