The women’s hockey regular season has always been lacking in strong inter-conference match-ups. There have been plenty of reasons for it, from strained travel budgets to just being too few available slots in the schedule, but this year we’ve got ourselves a true blockbuster.
This weekend brings us the Country Classic in Nashville, TN with the two western powerhouses, #1 Minnesota and #2 Wisconsin, taking on two historical powerhouses of the east, #8 Boston College and Harvard. It goes without saying that the games have huge Pairwise implications — but more than anything, these games should just be flat-out fun.