{"id":98296,"date":"2013-01-08T07:16:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T13:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wcha-blog\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2013-01-08T07:16:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T13:16:05","slug":"wcha-pick-no-1-vs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2013\/01\/08\/wcha-pick-no-1-vs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"WCHA pick: No. 1 vs. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No. 2 Notre Dame at No. 1 Minnesota<br \/>\nJoe: Coming off a 24-day break should mean some rust for the&#160;CCHA-leading Irish who cannot afford a slow start. The Irish are&#160;12-0-0 when they get the first goal and 2-4-0 when the opposition&#160;scores first. &#160;It seems likely Minnesota will come out strong at home&#160;and take an early lead. Gophers win.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler: On paper, it looks like this clash of the titans will be an all-out defensive battle with the Irish defense ranked second (1.61 allowed goals per game) and the Gophers fourth (1.84 GAA). These two teams have a lot of talent and the Notre Dame offense will get a huge lift with Mario Lucia returning from World Juniors. He&#8217;ll be the only Irish player fresh from competition since the team hasn&#8217;t played since Dec. 15 and the Gophers will be ready. Minnesota win<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. 2 Notre Dame at No. 1 Minnesota Joe: Coming off a 24-day break should mean some rust for the&#160;CCHA-leading Irish who cannot afford a slow start. The Irish are&#160;12-0-0 when they get the first goal and 2-4-0 when the opposition&#160;scores first. &#160;It seems likely Minnesota will come out strong at home&#160;and take an early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"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":[773,1503],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WCHA pick: No. 1 vs. 2 - College Hockey | USCHO.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"No. 2 Notre Dame at No. 1 Minnesota Joe: Coming off a 24-day break should mean some rust for the&#160;CCHA-leading Irish who cannot afford a slow start.\" \/>\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\/98296\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WCHA pick: No. 1 vs. 2 - 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