UMD Weekend
Call me skeptical, but I'm calling a Fighting Sioux sweep. This is because UMD is in Grand Forks this weekend. Maybe it's the color of the Sioux green, there's probably too much green in the building that it seems like kryptonite.
Regardless of how bad the Sioux are and/or how good UMD are, UMD just doesn't get results in Grand Forks. From the 98-99 season forward, UMD has played 9 series in Grand forks and the results haven't been good; only 1 time did they do better than a split (2003), only 1 time did they get a split (2007), 1 time they got only a draw (2007) and the remaining 6 series they lost twice.
Maybe UMD should have petitioned to move one of the games to Sunday, they've 1-0 in Grand Forks on Sunday (3-2 win on 3/2/03). Friday or Saturday it doesn't seem to matter: 0-7-1 on Friday, 1-7-1 on Saturday.
UMD overwhelmingly plays worst in Grand Forks than anywhere else. They have a winning ratio of 16.667% in league games, where is their second worse place to play, St. Cloud State's National Hockey Center, their winning ratio is 30.556%.
UMD's goalscoring is worst in Grand Forks as well. They only score an average of 1.833 goals per game. If that's not enough to show, UMD also gives up more goals on the road at Grand Forks than any other league city. They give up 4.389 goals to the Sioux, with SCSU being 3.833. That's an average of 2.556 more goals given up than scored.
Certainly a key is if UMD's offense can keep it up. UMD's two wins in Grand Forks came when they scored 3 or more goals (2-4-1 record), whereas if they score 2 goals or less they're a miserable 0-10-1. Of course defense factors in as well, UMD is winless if they give up 2 or more (0-12-1).
Vs. Sioux (all games): 9-34-4
Vs. Sioux (away): 3-19-2
Vs. Sioux (away-WCHA regular season): 2-14-2
Streak (all games): 3 losses in a row, 4 of 5
Regardless of how bad the Sioux are and/or how good UMD are, UMD just doesn't get results in Grand Forks. From the 98-99 season forward, UMD has played 9 series in Grand forks and the results haven't been good; only 1 time did they do better than a split (2003), only 1 time did they get a split (2007), 1 time they got only a draw (2007) and the remaining 6 series they lost twice.
Maybe UMD should have petitioned to move one of the games to Sunday, they've 1-0 in Grand Forks on Sunday (3-2 win on 3/2/03). Friday or Saturday it doesn't seem to matter: 0-7-1 on Friday, 1-7-1 on Saturday.
UMD overwhelmingly plays worst in Grand Forks than anywhere else. They have a winning ratio of 16.667% in league games, where is their second worse place to play, St. Cloud State's National Hockey Center, their winning ratio is 30.556%.
UMD's goalscoring is worst in Grand Forks as well. They only score an average of 1.833 goals per game. If that's not enough to show, UMD also gives up more goals on the road at Grand Forks than any other league city. They give up 4.389 goals to the Sioux, with SCSU being 3.833. That's an average of 2.556 more goals given up than scored.
Certainly a key is if UMD's offense can keep it up. UMD's two wins in Grand Forks came when they scored 3 or more goals (2-4-1 record), whereas if they score 2 goals or less they're a miserable 0-10-1. Of course defense factors in as well, UMD is winless if they give up 2 or more (0-12-1).
Vs. Sioux (all games): 9-34-4
Vs. Sioux (away): 3-19-2
Vs. Sioux (away-WCHA regular season): 2-14-2
Streak (all games): 3 losses in a row, 4 of 5