Some final notes from the broadcast:
- FSN Detroit had a nice feature on Marquette being a hockey town with a perspective from Walt Kyle, Rob Lehtinen, Josh Hatinger, Pat Bateman and Dusty Collins. FSN did have one oops, which labeled Hatinger as a Marquette native. FSN Detroit...welcome to the Mining Journal's world when you diss Negaunee. Feel the Miner's wrath.
- Side note on Marquette being a hockey town, Marquette Senior High School fell in the MHSAA Division-I state hockey finals, 4-2. The Redmen gave up two, third period goals.
- Pat Bateman received the hit of the night from the FSN crew.
- Michigan will meet Michigan State at 'The Joe' while LSSU meets Notre Dame. The state of Ohio was shut out this season while the Irish and Lakers return after a hiatus. Notre Dame hasn't been to the CCHA Championships since being ousted on Thursday by Ohio State in 2004 during the then Super 6. And the Lakers...well it's been awhile (fill us in Pete).
- And finally, my thoughts from watching on TV...the Wolverines are good. Really good. They made the NMU defense look awful with guys getting open looks at the net all night. Michigan fans were saying that their team had a ton of open looks last night and I thought they were exaggerating. After watching tonight's game, I have to believe them.
It would be easy to hate on the Cats after being embarrassed in this series but they lost to a very good Michigan team. I was wrong when saying to Walt Kyle a few weeks back that Michigan is the team I'd like to play in the second round. Obviously the right choice would have been Miami, which was the last team Kyle wanted to play.
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It's been 11 years since the Lakers have made it to the CCHA Championships. LSSU will likely never be the power it was during the Jeff Jackson and Frank Anzalone I eras, but this is a huge step in the right direction for a program and a school that badly needed it.
It's a shame that goalie Jeff Jakaitis isn't even nominated for CCHA Player of the Year, but if there was an MVP Jakaitis surely would have been nominated. Maybe this run, along with the 80+ saves he had, will at least put him in the final 10 for the Hobey Baker Award. STD jokes aside, he is one of the top three goalies in the country.
- GO LAKERS!!!
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