Magic City Magic! (3/7/00)
The Icers win their third straight tournament game in overtime to seize the Murdoch Cup!

For the third game in a row, the Penn State Icers come from behind in the final few minutes of regulation to tie it up and send the game into overtime. With a minute five left in the third, PSU's Todd Dakan slipped the puck by EMU goalie Charlie Pulley to even the score at two a peice. In overtime, with the momentum swinging back to PSU, the "magic man" Alon Eizenmann showed the world he had at least one more trick up his sleeve, and brought home the win!

Alon Eizenmann and Mark Scalley were named co-MVP's. It's doubtful anyone would have complained if the whole team shared the honor!

Congratulations to the Penn State Icers, the 2000 ACHA National Champions! And congratulations to all the teams that participated in the tournament! It was the most competitive and exciting yet!

Who wants to be...number 1?
We're down to the wire! With such a balanced top rung in the ACHA this year, it's anyone's guess who's going to take the prize. Of course, about 250 of you did guess by entering Hockey101's first ever tournament pool. In a few days we'll know which team can go all the way, and which fans know their stuff!

For those of us not making the trip up to Minot, but still wish to follow the games, there's at least two stations that will be broadcasting some of the games online. WOUB (Athens, OH) will be broadcasting the OU games via the OU Hockey web site. Also, WRSC (State College, PA) will be broadcasting the PSU games online. There's a link to that on the PSU Hockey web site.

Get some bragging rights!

Now that the final seedings are in for the D1 National Tournament, it's time to see who's been paying attention here at Hockey101. It's time to put up or shut up in Hockey101's first ever tournament pool!

Look over the choices, and let the world know your predictions. Will Delaware upset OU? Will 'zona spoil UMD's trip? Does Minot want to make a statement? The winner of the pool gets the ultimate prize - bragging rights on the Hockey101 message board for the next year!

And on to Minot!

The last national ranking determined which teams will be invited to Minot, ND to compete in the ACHA D1 National Championship. They are:

1. Penn State
2. Eastern Michigan
3. Michigan-Dearborn
3. Ohio
5. Iowa State
6. Arizona
7. Minot State
8. Delaware
9. Arizona State
10. Towson
11. West Virginia
12. Illinois

The actual seedings will be determined by the next national ranking. For those of you planning on heading to the tourney, to let you know what sort of weather to expect, we've linked on the right to Minot's current conditions (courtesy of the Weather Underground).

So far, so good!

Thanks goes out to all the correspondents and die-hard message board addicts for making Hockey101's first few months in the new format such a success!

Want to contribute?

As always, if you'd like to become a correspondent for one of the teams (be it D I or II), just drop Ed (Ed@Hockey101.com) or Tim (Tim@Hockey101.com) an email. Also, if you'd like to write an article or even feature column, contact us. C'mon, admit it. You've always wanted to be called "Scoop". Now's your chance!