Frozen Four (last one I promise)

The national championship game was tonight...Wisconsin won by a score of 2-1 against Boston College. Not a lot to say about this game. Here are my thoughts:
-Robbie Earl should really look into the Diving team at Wisconsin. He is such an excellent diver that I feel quite confident in his abilities to rank high amongst college divers. But seriously, I have never seen a player dive as much as the Spawn of Satan does...He is my very most despised college hockey player, which is really saying something because that list also includes (in no particular order) Brett Sterling, Brian Salcido, Chris Porter, Ryan Potulny, Danny Irmen, Phil Kessel, etc, etc.

-Cory Schnieder was amazing in goal! This was to be expected. He made 37 saves on 39 shots! He is so completely underrated.

-Wisconsin became the first team in NCAA history to have both its Men's and Women's hockey teams win the national championship in division I in the same year. What's even cookier than that is that Adam and Nicki Burish (siblings) were on both those teams...That's probably a first too, siblings winning a national championship in the same year for different teams.

-Wisconsin also became the first team to ever win a national championship without leaving their home state throughout the NCAA tournament. I wonder how the Athletic director paid to have that...

-Chris Collins (and several other members of the BC team) cried on camera after they lost. They were completely classy though, they actually sat there through all of Wisconsin's celebrating (not surprising that they made BC wait so long as they are completely devoid of class or sportsmanship) so that they could shake hands with Wisconsin and salute the 250 BC Fans (out of 17,000 fans at the game, so much for a neutral site. Out of those 250 fans, 50 of them were members of the BC pep band).

-Mike Eaves (a native of DENVER, CO!!!), coach for Wisconsin became the 4th person to win a national championship as both a player and as a coach. Let's not forget that Coach Gwozdecky did that only better. He was the 1st person to EVER win a national championship title as a player, assistant coach, and as a head coach, then he did a second year in a row. Fun facts: Coach Gwozdecky and Mike Eaves played for Wisconsin in the 1976-1977 season when they won the national championship together. The next season, Coach Eaves played with Mark Johnson at Wisconsin, Mark (a native of Minneapolis, MN) stayed for two seasons, then went on to play in the 1980 Olympic games winning a gold medal with the Miracle on Ice team. Mark is now the coach for the Women's hockey team, at you guessed it, Wisconsin!

-Two of Mike Eaves' sons, Ben (currently playing for the Ottawa Senators) and Patrick (an assistant video manager for BC) played hockey for Boston College.

~Catie