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These are the three things I think<\/em> I learned this week.<\/p>\n

1. I should stop being surprised when Connecticut defeats a strong team.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, UConn defeated Boston College and tied Boston University in the span of just four days. The Huskies also have toppled Quinnipiac and Vermont.<\/p>\n

But I really didn’t think they could knock off Massachusetts-Lowell, thereby giving the River Hawks their first Hockey East loss of the year.<\/p>\n

But UConn did it again, shutting out Lowell, 2-0.<\/p>\n

Expect more on the Huskies in this week’s column.<\/p>\n

2. Maybe Notre Dame just isn’t that good.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ve been waiting and waiting and waiting, expecting the Irish to finally put it all together. I’m starting to think it just won’t happen.<\/p>\n

The Irish went five games without a win in mid-to-late November, but then followed a sweep of UMass with an upset of sixth-ranked Miami.<\/p>\n

So I started to believe, at least just a little.<\/p>\n

But then the Irish lost to a Lake Superior team that even with that win is only 4-19-1.<\/p>\n

This weekend, Western Michigan, in next-to-last place in the NCHC with a 2-6-2 league mark, swept Notre Dame.<\/p>\n

At some point, you just have to look at the record and say, “It is what it is.”<\/p>\n

3. You can’t take anything for granted.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I knew this, of course.<\/p>\n

But as already noted, Lowell lost its first league game to UConn.<\/p>\n

Then Providence, projected in the preseason to finish first in Hockey East and appearing to hit its stride of late, takes on a Brown team next-to-last in the ECAC with a league mark of 1-7-1, and an overall mark of 3-10-0. The Friars take the away portion of the home-and-home series on Friday night, needing overtime to pull out the win. But then they lose back at home, 5-3, and have to settle for a split with one of the ECAC’s weakest teams.<\/p>\n

But the piece de resistance<\/em> was BU traveling to Wisconsin. This is not your father’s Badgers. This year’s edition was 2-11-1 going into the weekend. BU was ranked second in the country with an 11-3-3 mark.<\/p>\n

Like taking candy from babies, right? I mean, what else do you expect from 11-3-3 vs. 2-11-1?<\/p>\n

Well, BU did win impressively on the second night, 6-1, but the Terriers needed not one, but two<\/em>, extra attacker goals to pull out a Friday night tie, the second coming with three seconds left in regulation.<\/p>\n

No, there are no more automatics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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