OU hockey season...from start to finish

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On Sunday the Ohio University men's hockey team finished its season with a 5-0 defeat in the national title game against Penn State, who won the championship for the fourth year in a row. The tournament took place at Bird Arena, OU's home ice, where all 18 games of the tournament were played. Here's a look at the Bobcats' second-place season; there are 36 teams in ACHA Division I, where the Bobcats play.<
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>OVERALL CONFERENCE RECORD: The Bobcats, who play in the Central States Collegiate Hockey League, finished 12-6-2 in the conference (that's 12 wins, 6 losses, and 2 shootout losses, for a total of 26 points in the league, with a couple of wins coming in shootouts.) The biggest losses were on Penn State's home ice on the last weekend in October, losing 7-1 and 9-3 to the Icers (for some reason the Penn State hockey team is the Icers and not the Nittany Lions...I haven't figured out that one.)<
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>After a November loss to Saint Louis (5-4 in OT after the Bobcats held a 4-0 lead in the second) the Bobcats stood 7-7-2; from that point until the end of the season, they went 13-3-2 with one shootout loss and one tie against then-No. 1 Penn State (which should have been a win, if you ask me...we led 2-1 in the third when Penn State got a 5-on-3 power play and tied the score in what probably should have remained a 5-on-4.) The only regulation losses were to Illinois and Penn State, both of which were No. 1 at the time OU played them. In addition, the weekend after OU went to 7-7-2, the Bobcats
oke out against Washington and Jefferson (the Presidents...again, haven't figured that one out...) in an 8-0 and 11-0 pair of massacres on OU home ice, that may have saved OU's season and wrecked W&J's.<
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>Not counting tournament games, OU finished 20-10-4 and #4 in the nation and came in second in the conference tournament at Iowa State. The CSCHL tournament is single-elimination and has eight teams, and the Bobcats slew Saint Louis (the Billikens...again, no idea, though it was amusing to hear random Bobcat fans shout "What the hell's a Billiken?" about four times a game during the OU-SLU games at Bird.) OU beat Iowa State, the tournament's home team, in the semifinals before falling to #1 Illinois in the finals, 2-1 in OT.<
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>The national tournament was at Bird Arena, OU's home ice, and OU was seeded 4th out of 12. Each team played in a pool of three teams, with the team to win both their games going to the semifinals. OU drew #5 Arizona and #9 Michigan-Dearborn, beating Dearborn 5-4 and Arizona 4-0 to go to the semifinals against Illinois, Penn State, and Delaware.<
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>It turns out #3 Minot State (in North Dakota) didn't outlast Delaware (the #6 team, the "Fighting Blue Hens"...again, someone please figure that one out.) And frankly if I were wearing a corporation's name on the back of my jersey where my last name should be, as Minot State was, I wouldn't leave the locker room. OU drew #1 Illinois while #2 Penn State got Delaware. Penn State won easily, and OU came back from giving up an early 2nd period goal to the Fighting Illini to take away a 4-1 victory, thus knocking off the #1 team in the nation. However, the next day, Penn State took home the championship on OU's home ice, and the Bobcats settled for second. All in all, this was a hell of a seaon for OU, reaching the national championship game for the first time in five years and falling a game short of its first national title since it won three straight in 1995-97.<
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>I don't know where the next national tournament will be, but already I can see myself going through OU hockey withdrawal within the next two months... <B>God bless America, land that I love; stand beside her and guide her through the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans white with foam; God bless America, my home sweet home; God bless America, my home sweet home.</B><
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><B>"We're gonna kick the s#!t out of you, and your mom, and your dad, and your girlfriend too!" OU hockey's student section</B><i></i>

[Tanthalasis]

*realizes his University doesn't have a hockey team*<
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>Geez... No hockey team, no anime club, nothin!!!!!<
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>ARGH!!!!<
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>I hate my university!<
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[DEVILRAYS]

Let's see...OU has a hockey team, and a damn good one...we also have an anime club, of which kilik is a member...if we let you keep your guns, I would suggest transferring, but the deadliest weapon you can carry here at OU is a kitchen knife...<
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>**goes back to the drawing board, finding a way to beat Penn State once and for all** <B>God bless America, land that I love; stand beside her and guide her through the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans white with foam; God bless America, my home sweet home; God bless America, my home sweet home.</B><
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><B>"We're gonna kick the s#!t out of you, and your mom, and your dad, and your girlfriend too!" OU hockey's student section</B><i></i>

[Tanthalasis]

Unless I get a National Concealed Weapons permit, which would allow me to carry a handgun (under the cali
e of .40, with the stipulation of no Magnums), any place, any time... of course, it's a pain to get but it'd be worth it....<
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>*Tanis at hockey game*<
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>WE LOST!!!!<
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>*BANG!!!*<
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>*Tanis starts shooting out lights in score board, changing the score so his team wins*<
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>*sighs*<
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>Better!<
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>Oh fudge bars! Someone seems to have thrown a bomb at me for no particularily good reason. This only goes to prove that my appearance in this movie was a huge mistake. I mean, come on. I'm about to get blown up by this stupid bmb that was just thrown from no where. You know what that means. It's noogle stiggy clacksitle hig toyup jokolam retttppop qrr
birlbel time! Wahahahaha! Why the hell are you reading this? It's pathetic enough that you've seen this much of the movie. This bit of text will disappear really soon now! It's barely legible now! Stop reading it! Seriously! The message is about to end! There's no point continuing! I'm about to end the message! I really am! Really! So then I says to the guy. I says, "That's not a watermelon! Whee! Hahahahahahahaha! Splat!" It was fun! Really it was! Yeah!<i></i>