> The Gophers faced off in front of a home crowd of 17,000. They  witnessed BU
> steam-roller over their boys, three/zip first period. Seemingly nervous,
> first night jitters caught the highly tauted Gophs who were projected to win
> this game 5-3 fall short. The second period saw a Gopher emergence of fire
> power which answered back but came up short in the third, giving up their
> first game to BU 4-3.
>  What urks me is there is no headliner of this on College Hockey Online (
> like CC dropped their first game and that's headlined) or nothing and I say
> nothing in our Sunday issue  of the Star Tribune, our local paper. Yet USA
> Today online has an article revealing Gopher Head Coach Doug Woog bitterly
> complain about the unfair scheduling they gave his team (throwing BU at them
> right at the get-go, then a CC double header) What a Whuss!!
> Is this media control or what! If the Gophs won there would have been a color
> picture on the front of the sport's page.
 
As the Hockey East writer for US College Hockey Online I must disagree.  There
was no USCHO story about the game because none of our writers were at the
game.  Had the game been in this part of the country or had it even been
telecast here I can assure you that I would have written a story
regardless of who won.  I'm not 100% sure that I
know what you're referring to when you talk about CC losing and it being
headlined.  There was no article written about that particular game.  However,
if you're referring to the fact that when you go to the "This Week" section
of USCHO, there is an underline for the CC game but not for BU's win over
Minnesota, that's simply because we got a boxscore for the first game and
not the second, so there's a link to the boxscore.  There's no bias there.
 
Was I biased when I predicted that Minnesota would win 5-3 in my preview?
(FWIW, the WCHA writer independantly came up with the same prediction.)
Well, I also picked BU to win Hockey East this year.
 
But it's my job to be objective and both Jim Thies, the WCHA writer,
and I felt that objectively Minnesota was the favorite.  This could be based
on the facts that BU seemed to sustain greater losses since last season and
that they would be playing before a very partisan crowd.  I think the 5-3
prediction was warranted and hardly a matter of bias.
 
Our goal at US College Hockey Online is to provide as total coverage of this
great sport as is possible.  We will never "hide" any game because it doesn't
make some "favored" team look bad.
 
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