After a 5-1 start to the season, No. 9 Colorado College hosts No. 7 Minnesota Duluth in a top-10 matchup to begin conference play this weekend. But for Tigers coach Kris Mayotte, it’s another two days at the office for his team.
“I don’t think that there has to be a change of circumstance to expect us to go out and do our job,” Mayotte said in a Wednesday press conference. “So the (National Collegiate Hockey Conference) points, the NCHC opponent, the ranking of the opponent, that’s circumstantial stuff. That shouldn’t affect us. We want to be immune to that.”
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Bottom line, when the puck drops at 7 p.m. on both Friday and Saturday nights at Ed Robson Arena, Mayotte expects his same Tigers, who swept UMass and Air Force and split with UConn, to show up.
“We don’t want to go through our schedule rising or falling based on our opponent,” he said.…
