We've seen this before. DU hockey will fight for a top-four seed all season, then travel to the backyard of a lower-seeded opponent in a far-flung time zone for a short week. This season's regional allocation for DU hockey was similar to Providence in 2015, when higher-seeded DU got the “reward” of a long trip to the Eastern time zone to play lower-seeded opponents playing closer to campus, and 2010 It could end up like Albany in 2009 or Ann Arbor in 2002. This is all if #3 Denver is assigned to play #14 UMass-Amherst this Thursday.
Here are nine other reasons why DU should not be assigned to Springfield, Massachusetts.
- canon city It's to Denver what Springfield is to Amherst.
- *Even The Simpsons doesn't claim this Springfield.
- Springfield is located 30 miles downwind of Amherst.
- Winter in “The City of Firsts” feels like the city planners were Fat Boy and Little Man.
- Yankee Candle Village is more visited than the MassMutual Center, the “flagship arena” in Springfield, Massachusetts.
- Springfield, home to 130,000 residents, has 20 Dunkin Donuts stores. The only thing more shocking? The murder rate is higher.
- Springfield High School is the flagship school for Mount Wachusett Community College, Ariano School of Cosmetology, and Amherst, Massachusetts.
- The City of Springfield's motto, “The Dump Under the Highway,” has done little to attract tourists.
- The Minutemen from Amherst, Massachusetts have the same Q-Score as Justin Bieber and Kanye West.
