{"id":98388,"date":"2014-12-20T13:37:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T19:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wcha-blog\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2014-12-20T13:37:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T19:37:50","slug":"wcha-picks-dec-20-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/2014\/12\/20\/wcha-picks-dec-20-21\/","title":{"rendered":"WCHA Picks, Dec. 20-21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slim pickings as far as college hockey goes this week. In fact, aside from a Bemidji State\/Ohio State women&#8217;s series also happening this weekend, this is the only non-exhibition Division I action this week.<\/p>\n<p>Shane still has a slim lead over me in the overall picks but I gained on him thanks to picking the correct Michigan Tech win on the correct day last weekend against Minnesota Duluth.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, onto the pick. I need to go watch my favorite Christmas movie ever (Die Hard, obviously) so luckily there&#8217;s only one series this weekend!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alabama Huntsville (3-13-2) at Nebraska Omaha (10-4-2)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shane:<\/strong>&#160;Omaha has proven to be one of the better teams in the country, so I&#8217;d have a hard time predicting an upset this weekend. Certainly, the Chargers goaltenders could give the Mavericks fits, especially Carmine Guerriero, their usual series-opener starter. He&#8217;ll keep it close, but that&#8217;s about it. <strong>Mavericks 2-1, 5-2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack:<\/strong> I, like you, also think Omaha is one of the best teams in the country. UAH will have a hard time, but in the spirit of Christmas I&#8217;m going to pick a split. The Chargers could use a win like this and maybe they will catch the Mavericks off-guard.&#160;Guerriero is going to steal them a win on Saturday night. Yippee-ki-yay. <strong>Chargers 2-1, Mavericks 4-2.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Last week:<\/b>&#160;Jack 6-1-2, Shane 5-2-2<\/p>\n<p><b>Overall:<\/b>&#160;Jack 59-37-8,&#160;Shane 61-35-8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slim pickings as far as college hockey goes this week. In fact, aside from a Bemidji State\/Ohio State women&#8217;s series also happening this weekend, this is the only non-exhibition Division I action this week. Shane still has a slim lead over me in the overall picks but I gained on him thanks to picking the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1425,934],"tags":[773,1503],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WCHA Picks, Dec. 20-21 - College Hockey | USCHO.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Slim pickings as far as college hockey goes this week. 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