Northeastern is one win away from a second probability.
In 2021, the Huskies fell to Wisconsin, 2-1, in extra time within the NCAA girls’s hockey nationwide championship. They already avenged that loss with a dominant victory over the Badgers in quarterfinal play Saturday, however they nonetheless have another sport earlier than they will take into consideration a championship.
And if final week’s contest introduced some emotions of deja vu, Friday’s is bound to, as effectively. With the intention to attain the title sport, the Huskies should get previous Minnesota Duluth — the workforce they defeated of their 2021 Frozen 4 semifinal sport.
The Huskies had been motivated to get previous Wisconsin final week, given the Badgers prompted them a load of heartbreak in 2021. However Minnesota Duluth very effectively might come out with that very same power, contemplating the Bulldogs are also searching for revenge.
It’s no shock these two groups are dealing with one another once more at this level of the season. Northeastern is 30-4-2, whereas Minnesota Duluth sits at 24-11-1. Friday’s sport marks simply the second-ever assembly between the 2 packages, and contemplating they’re coming in back-to-back postseasons, it’s clear each are perennial girls’s hockey powerhouses.
Relying on which ballot you prefer, nonetheless, you could have a special concept of simply how shut this sport shall be. Voters within the USCHO ballot have Northeastern ranked third with 120 factors, pulling in behind Ohio State (150) and Minnesota (134). Minnesota Duluth ranks eighth with 48 factors.
The USA TODAY ballot tells a special story, with Northeastern ranked second behind Ohio State and Minnesota Duluth pulling in third.
