A few other WCHA/NCAA odds and ends

• Mankato's Trevor Bruess has received a 1-game suspension from the WCHA for his hit on UND's Derrick LaPoint. Todd Milewski weighs in on the WCHA's vague statement that accompanied the suspension.
  

• CHN reports that the D-I Men's Ice Hockey Committee is satisfied with the ice in DC.
  


• CHN makes its entry into the PairWise discussion with its first installment of NCAA Tournament Bracket ABC's. Wisconsin is in the "mushy middle".


• For what it's worth, INCH and The College Hockey Blog both have Wisconsin in their latest bracket predictions. (These predictions are for what the final brackets will be at the end of the season, as opposed to USCHO's Bracketology which looks at what the brackets would be if the season ended today.)

Stimulus Package

From INCH's Cocktail Napkin...

• Wisconsin guaranteed entry into NCAA tournament because of Badger fans' proclivity to, uhh, lubricate the local economy.

I, for one, hope UW makes it to DC to show this town what stimulus is all about, to say nothing of lubrication.

I've dropped hints that they should pursue the same 4 am bar time extension they had in place for the Presidential Inauguration, but I haven't quite convinced the powers that be of the draw that is Wisconsin Hockey.