Boy, what a Beaver Pride luncheon. As usual, Dave Burkholder made an appearance at the Beaver Pride luncheon. Burkie was talking about how good BSU was playing…and that BSU had a chance at an at-large bid. I was the emcee of the luncheon, and was telling people about the trip to Grand Forks (check last weeks recap blog entry). The one thing that I didn’t mention last week was a conversation that I had with Jim Scanlan (former BSU goalie…and current north Dakota TV analyst).

Jim and I were talking while we were in Grand Forks about how nice it would be…in the CHA’s last year…to get TWO teams into the NCAA tournament.

While I was telling the story of that conversation to those in attendance at the luncheon, I said, “Wouldn’t it be a giant middle finger to the hockey world to get an at-large bid. The hockey world doesn’t want ONE team from the CHA in…much less TWO!”

To this…Burkie got up out of his chair…and clapped! He should know. His team was the first (and only) CHA team to get an at-large bid…and win. BSU got the second (and last) at-large bid in CHA history.