{"id":98762,"date":"2018-01-12T09:53:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T15:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/nchc-blog\/?p=746"},"modified":"2018-01-12T09:53:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T15:53:38","slug":"weekend-picks-jan-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2018\/01\/12\/weekend-picks-jan-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend picks: Jan. 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew and I went a middling 3-3 (.500) last weekend, moving us to 66-39-16 on the year, not stellar by any means. Oh well. Don&#8217;t look at us before you go to Vegas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday-Saturday, Jan. 12-13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No. 15 Minnesota Duluth at Colorado College<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Candace:<\/strong> Duluth impressed last weekend, and with its missing players back from the World Junior Championships and the team healthy, I favor the Bulldogs. <strong>Minnesota Duluth 3-2, 4-2<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Matthew:<\/strong> CC is rested, and UMD&#8217;s just been OK on the road this season. Split. <strong>Colorado College 4-2, Minnesota Duluth 3-1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No. 12 Western Michigan at No. 1 St. Cloud State<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Candace:<\/strong> If this was at Lawson, I&#8217;d look at it differently. <strong>St. Cloud State 4-2, 4-2<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Matthew:<\/strong> A split here really wouldn&#8217;t surprise me, but I like the Huskies at home. <strong>St. Cloud State 3-1, 3-2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No. 20 Miami at No. 17 Omaha<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Candace:<\/strong> Both teams are starting to come on strong. I like a split in this one. <strong>Omaha 3-1, Miami 3-1<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Matthew:<\/strong> I like UNO to get back on the horse after getting blown out last Saturday at North Dakota, but I don&#8217;t know that there&#8217;s a sweep here either way. <strong>Omaha 3-2, Miami 3-2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No. 7 North Dakota vs Bemidji State (home-and-home)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Candace:<\/strong> Bemidji State has started to play very well. These games won&#8217;t be easy, and I&#8217;m tempted to pick Bemidji at home, but I like the Fighting Hawks to establish some consistency right now. <strong>North Dakota 3-2, 4-2<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Matthew:<\/strong> UND should sweep this series, but Michael Bitzer is something else and, being from about an hour away from Grand Forks and with this being his senior season, he&#8217;ll be up for this. Bemidji will be not be an easy out. <strong>North Dakota 3-2, 3-1<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew and I went a middling 3-3 (.500) last weekend, moving us to 66-39-16 on the year, not stellar by any means. Oh well. Don&#8217;t look at us before you go to Vegas. Friday-Saturday, Jan. 12-13 No. 15 Minnesota Duluth at Colorado College Candace: Duluth impressed last weekend, and with its missing players back from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"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":[813],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Weekend picks: Jan. 12 - College Hockey | USCHO.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Matthew and I went a middling 3-3 (.500) last weekend, moving us to 66-39-16 on the year, not stellar by any means. Oh well. 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