Thursday, October 13, 2005

Everybody's Working for the Weekend

This week's installment of "Let's Play Hockey" will be coming sometime tomorrow in the late morning or early afternoon, but in the meantime, you can read what other bloggers are writing about their games this weekend.

We'll start with the UAF Hockey Blog's preview of The Nanooks trip to Minnesota. One note he mentions at the end is that sophomore Aaron Lee will be returning to the 'nooks lineup and will play on the first line rather than sophomore Kyle Greentree. That allows Greentree to move down to the second line with Ryan McLeod, giving the Nanooks two pretty dangerous scoring lines. It may not be enough to upset Minnesota at Mariucci, but the Nanooks could surprise a lot of people in the WCHA.

The LSSU Hockey Blog has their preview up of LSSU's series against Colgate. Last year, Colgate swept the Lakers in back to back one goal games. The Lakers are looking to get off to a good start under new coach Jim Roque with a pair of wins over an NCAA tournament team from last season. Also, Saturday night is Patriot's Night in Sault St. Marie, meaning any active or retired member of the military gets in for free.

The LSSU Hockey Blog also gets the award for Most Unfortunate Entry Title Ever.

Finally, Let's Go DU did a pretty thorough preview of the #5 Pioneers trip to Maine. This should be a great test to see where Denver is at at this point in the season. Personally, I'm not totally convinced they are as strong as last year, but a couple impressive performances could help sway me.

Also as part of his preview for the series, Let's Go DU had a nice scouting report on Maine freshmen goalie Ben Bishop.

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