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2017 Gives UNO Hockey a Chance to Hit Reset

The best thing that could be said about 2016 for UNO hockey is that it’s over.  A year ago at this time, UNO hockey was sitting pretty: 14-3-1 and looking at a #1 seed in the NCAA tournament.  But the wheels fell off as the Mavs went 4-14 down the stretch. Not only did they not make the NCAA tournament, they didn’t even make it to Minneapolis for the NCHC seminfinals.

Only two of those victories came at home, which is a pattern that carried through the start of this season. Prior to New Years’ weekend, the Mavs had gone 4-13-1 at home in the calendar year of 2016.

Only four wins at home in nearly a year.  All the momentum from the Frozen Four run and the opening of the new arena?  Gone. Toast.

Interesting thing to note is that why UNO continued to struggle at home this season (2-5-1 prior to Christmas), the Mavs have been pretty good on the road, going 7-1-2 outside of Omaha. That’s good enough to put UNO back into the NCAA tournament speculation; they’re 14th nationally in the PairWise, which seeds the teams for the 16 team NCAA tournament. That’s squarely on the bubble.

But now the season kicks in, and kicks in full force with the green hordes from North Dakota coming in. They’ll be doing their customary large scale infiltration of Omaha, and even have their tailgate plans set up around UNO’s new arena.

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