{"id":98709,"date":"2016-12-28T10:54:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T16:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/nchc-blog\/?p=580"},"modified":"2016-12-28T10:54:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T16:54:08","slug":"nchc-pick-dec-28-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2016\/12\/28\/nchc-pick-dec-28-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NCHC pick: Dec. 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Minnesota-Duluth&#8217;s win on Saturday against Bemidji State right before the holidays gave me another game on Matthew. I went 1-0-1 (.750) in that series, and Matthew went 0-1-1 (.250). On the year, I am 51-33-16 (.590) while Matthew is 41-43-16 (.490).<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see how we do as we end 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, Dec. 28<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Florida College Classic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Colorado College vs. Merrimack<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Candace:<\/strong> The Tigers have been slightly better than the Warriors on the road, but Merrimack has done slightly better against common opponents. I&#8217;m tempted to pick the league homer, but I think Merrimack has been a better team so far. <strong>Merrimack 3-1<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Matthew:<\/strong> CC has been better away from home this season and Merrimack hasn&#8217;t. Defend the realm, Tigers. <strong>Colorado College 3-1<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Minnesota-Duluth&#8217;s win on Saturday against Bemidji State right before the holidays gave me another game on Matthew. I went 1-0-1 (.750) in that series, and Matthew went 0-1-1 (.250). On the year, I am 51-33-16 (.590) while Matthew is 41-43-16 (.490). Let&#8217;s see how we do as we end 2016. Wednesday, Dec. 28 Florida [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"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":[1264,1507],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NCHC pick: Dec. 28 - College Hockey | USCHO.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Well, Minnesota-Duluth&#039;s win on Saturday against Bemidji State right before the holidays gave me another game on Matthew. 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