You know, I really have no business answering this since the only times
I saw any of these teams play was on TV in the tourney.  However, I can
give you a quick impression:
 
N Dak really impressed me with their quickness.  They beat CC with it
(as opposed to CC losing, IMV).  I am less sure about UM-BU.  Basically,
it seemed as though UM did not look like the best team in hockey that
day and I had to wonder if they had an off day.  No doubt it was the BU
game plan, but they seemed sluggish much of the time.  If they really
were the best team in the nation, then it seems to me they should have
come up with adjustments between periods to get themselves untracked.
That they didn't argues for them either being overrated or, more likely,
having an off day.
 
OTOH, especially considering what NDak did to BU, I have to feel that
NDak would have beat UM, perhaps in a shoot-out, if they had met in the
final.  Since quickness was the forte of both Mich and NDak, why
wouldn't the same game plan work against both?  Maybe because NDak was
even better than UM?
 
>
>Did Michigan "lose" this game, or did BU "win" it?
>
>I've spoken with a lot of people in the last two days, fans of both teams
>and fans of neither. There seems to be three general outlooks:
>
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>
>Same goes for CC-NoDak; was CC overmatched by NoDak, was NoDak that fast
>and dangerous, or did CC just forget to lace up their skates?
>
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