Woody on Hockey : Can Anyone Explain UAA's Friday-Nights Funk At Home?

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Can Anyone Explain UAA's Friday-Nights Funk At Home?

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Anchorage Daily News

Posted: January 29, 2010 - 11:04 pm

I've got nothing, zip, nada.

Perhaps some of you budding Scotty Bowmans can explain why UAA's results in WCHA home games on Friday nights are so inexplicably awful.

After getting whacked 7-4 by Minnesota tonight, UAA is 0-6-0 in such games and has been outscored 32-10. Opponents flourish on the power play while UAA's man advantages are routinely fruitless.

Yet UAA is 4-1-0 in WCHA home games on Saturdays.

The Seawolves don't seem to have answers, or really even a working theory. They're sorta in denial about the whole thing.

If you've got a theory, feel free to enlighten us.