 After a 20, 13 and 3 regular season in their first ever regular season conference title, the BSU Men's Hockey Team earned the top seed in the WCHA playoffs. The Beavers will open tournament play this weekend when they host Northern Michigan. BSU swept all four meetings with the Wildcats this season, outscoring them 11-3 in the contest, but NMU comes in hot, winning seven of their last 10 games. This is Division I college hockey. There's so much parity. It's not about a 1 versus an 8 or a 2 versus a 7 or a 3 versus a 6 or a 4 versus a 5. It's just two good hockey teams, you know, battling it out and that's called playoff hockey and it's a new season. Everybody feels good about themselves and everybody's zero and zero. I think we approach it the same way like we have all year against anybody, you know. You can't really think about, you know, it's playoffs. He's got to go in as it's another weekend and just play how we happen. We just have to do the things that we do and play our hard-nosed style and I think that's a good recipe for success.