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If you are referring to my early prediction of an NCAA title by wearendhockey

next year, nah, I'm sticking to it.

I was more worried coming into this season with the departure of Petersen and Bjork. I posted last Spring after the two announced they were not returning that I thought the Irish would still be good, and that the 20 guys who were coming back would use the notion that the departure of those two guys would mean the team would take a step back as motivation.

Hopefully the players returning in the Autumn of 2018 will have similar motivation and prove it isn't about the seniors, or Olgilvie and Gilbert. The program is good enough to win.

Barring the truly unpredictable, like a slew of injuries, this team will contend for the conference titles again, and will be good enough to make the NCAAs. And if we make it, we're gonna win it.