Thinking As Fans and Analysts

Puck University

The hardest thing for a sportswriter to do is treat a game objectively when it's their school playing in the game. To that end, my guests Dave Dondoneau--a North Dakota guy living in Hawaii--and Chris Lynch--Boston University alumnus--are at odds over one game in the West regional. Yes folks, it's the NCAA Regionals again in the college hokey world, and we take you through each region and fill out our brackets, so to speak, right there on the podcast. As it turns out, the three of us agree on a lot of the games this weekend, but we managed to talk ourselves into a little bit of a fun disagreement over a couple of regional matchups. All of that bracket-filling, of course, is just an undercard for the main event of two fans going at it. Spoiler alert: The gloves really stay on. After all, this is college hockey we're talking about; you have to really earn a fight. We also talk about a game that ended in a fight last weekend at the Hockey East tournament. Inside Hockey's Chris Lynch will be on site at two different regionals, and when we next hear from him he'll be either in or on his way to the City of Broad Shoulders for the Frozen Four in Chicago. Dave and I will be watching from our respective living rooms on polar opposite ends of the country--Hawaii and Boston respectively--and wish all of your teams that aren't playing any of ours the absolute best of luck moving forward. At the finish, I say a few words about American Sports Network, who helped me launch this podcast and who got both Dave and myself back in the college hockey game. Here's wishing everyone involved with the network all the best moving forward, as we're on to what's next here on Puck University.