MN Gophers @ tUMD Bulldogs: Sibling Rivalry!

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[The Rube]

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Did posts get lost or has no one really commented since wee this morning?

They are running the backup, trying to recover all of today's posts that were lost. Server went schizo. There is an info link near the top of the pages to the forums.

[HarleyMC]

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The Gophers matched the intensity of the Dogs in their dogpound tonight and got the early lead. Amazingly, 5 times the Gopher PK shutdown the Dog's tenacious PP. Both goalies lived up to their stellar reps stopping a combined total of 80 SOG . The highlight was Barriball being stonewalled by Reiter on the breakaway.

The Gopher's made some stupid mistakes with 4 Ozone penalties and neutral ice turnovers that inevitably cost them the win. Nice to see seniors Barriball and Fairchild with goals. Can the Gophers pull out a W tomorrow night? Coming out of this series with 3 pts. will be a huge lift for this team.

[Runninwiththedogs]

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The Gophers matched the intensity of the Dogs in their dogpound tonight and got the early lead. Amazingly, 5 times the Gopher PK shutdown the Dog's tenacious PP. Both goalies lived up to their stellar reps stopping a combined total of 80 SOG . The highlight was Barriball being stonewalled by Reiter on the breakaway.

The Gopher's made some stupid mistakes with 4 Ozone penalties and neutral ice turnovers that inevitably cost them the win. Nice to see seniors Barriball and Fairchild with goals. Can the Gophers pull out a W tomorrow night? Coming out of this series with 3 pts. will be a huge lift for this team.

Were you at the game or watching on TV? You have remarkably different impressions than I did, watching the game.

First, the Gophers's early lead came despite tUMD really setting the tone and controlling the play during the opening 10 minutes or so. Things evened up more after that, but the beginning was all tUMD.

Barriball shot the puck right into Reiter's glove. Patterson had the highlight save of the game, I think actually two of them. One where he came across the crease so fast none of us could even believe it, and another where I turned to Jup and said "Lucia should be fired just because he hasn't played Patterson before now."

[HarleyMC]

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Were you at the game or watching on TV? You have remarkably different impressions than I did, watching the game.

First, the Gophers's early lead came despite tUMD really setting the tone and controlling the play during the opening 10 minutes or so. Things evened up more after that, but the beginning was all tUMD.

Barriball shot the puck right into Reiter's glove. Patterson had the highlight save of the game, I think actually two of them. One where he came across the crease so fast none of us could even believe it, and another where I turned to Jup and said "Lucia should be fired just because he hasn't played Patterson before now."

I don't think we're entirely that different in our observations, but I wasn't at the game. UMD did come out of the gate strong and outshot the Gophers in first few minutes. But overall I thought the Gophers matched the intensity of the Dogs and they're PK was surprisingly sustainable and they got the lone PP goal. Balls perhaps could of put a better move on Reiter and got a better look. And as you pointed out Patterson had some great saves too.

I think Lucia's reasoning behind playing Kangas was based primarily upon Kangas' stellar freshman season and postseason that carried the Gophers all the way to the F5 championship game and the NCAAs. He admitted though he probably played him too much last year.

[Runninwiththedogs]

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I don't think we're entirely that different in our observations, but I wasn't at the game. UMD did come out of the gate strong and outshot the Gophers in first few minutes. But overall I thought the Gophers matched the intensity of the Dogs and they're PK was surprisingly sustainable and they got the lone PP goal. Balls perhaps could of put a better move on Reiter and got a better look. And as you pointed out Patterson had some great saves too.

I think Lucia's reasoning behind playing Kangas was based primarily upon Kangas' stellar freshman season and postseason that carried the Gophers in F5 championship game and the NCAAs. He admitted he probably played him too much last year.

Lol, Jup had practically a verbatim response re: Kangas.

Fun game. No one listen to FHG's whining about AMSoil Arena.

[HarleyMC]

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Lol, Jup had practically a verbatim response re: Kangas.

Fun game. No one listen to FHG's whining about AMSoil Arena.

I've heard lots of positive comments about the arena. The only slightly negative comment actually came from Lucia in his post game in saying something like the lighting on the ice was a bit dimmer than in other rinks. He said during the practice that he actually thought some of the lights were out, but discovered they were all on.

CC beat Denver last night and UAA won over MTU. That means the Gophers sit in 7th today. I expect Denver to win over CC tonight and UAA will finish off a sweep of MTU.

Soooo...log jam/crunch time again Gopher fans! Given this reasonably hypothetical scenario, if the Gophers Win/6th, Lose/8th, Tie/CC, UAA, Gophers in a tie for 6th.

This makes a win in Duluth tonight even more important for the Gophers especially looking forward to next weekend with Denver coming into Mariucci. If the Gophers lose and end up in 8th place in the WCHA, other series next weekend with CC/MSUM, UAA/UND become very critical for the Gophers in their battle for home ice in the playoffs. NCAAs? They need a string of wins against top teams (UMD, DEN, WIS), finish strong against MTU (home) and BSU (away), win the first round of the playoffs, and some games in the F5 to come close to being considered a possibility for the NCAA tournament.

[Dave]

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I was at the game last night and I will state the obvious that both goalies played fantastic. I will admit that I have not watch the Gopher's play much this year, but I will say they suprised me. Last night UMTC played with as much intensity as I've seen any team play UMD this season.

Look for both teams to shore up their D tonight...no excuse allowing that many SOG by either team. Dogs are tied for 2nd place 1 point behind the Sioux (who are off this week). If the Dogs want to make a run for the McNaughton a W tonight sure would be a step in the right direction. Anything less than a W and 3 points would be disappointing. With that being said, UMD is in a great position to get an NCAA bid. BTW...the Bears won the division this year...do you think anyone in Green Bay cares who won the division now? If the Dogs don't win the regular season...that will be disappointing, but an NCAA championship is what I really want.

GO DOGS!!!

[Dave]

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[QUOTE=HarleyMC;5018478]I've heard lots of positive comments about the arena. The only slightly negative comment actually came from Lucia in his post game in saying something like the lighting on the ice was a bit dimmer than in other rinks. He said during the practice that he actually thought some of the lights were out, but discovered they were all on.QUOTE]

I think that's interesting the Lucia mentioned the lighting. One of the first things I noticed about the Amsoil Arena was how much brighter the rink area looked compared to the DECC arena. I'm been to the AA and to Mariucci. Both are great rinks and are designed different enough that it's hard to compare the two. However, if you asked me to pick what one I like better I would have to say AA without any question (note I'm very biased).

[goldy_331]

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Did posts get lost or has no one really commented since wee this morning?

Dang. I sooo wanted to reread the purse swinging fight between Harley and Scooby.

[Stauber1]

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I was pretty pleased with the sustained effort from the Gophers last night. However, technically things were sloppy at times. The discrepancy between these two teams started to become more apparent as the game wore on, to the point where in the 3rd the Gophers were really just holding on. Patterson was the best player on the ice last, something that we are getting quite used to seeing.

The Gophers really need a W tonight. I think for that to happen either Duluth will have to have an off night, or the Gophers are going to need to keep up that effort over 60 minutes again, and really capitalize in those few and far between stretches where they control play while taking better care of the puck through the neutral zone and at the offensive blue line.

And Patterson is going to have to bring it again tonight.

[Driftryder]

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Soooo...log jam/crunch time again Gopher fans! Given this reasonably hypothetical scenario, if the Gophers Win/6th, Lose/8th, Tie/CC, UAA, Gophers in a tie for 6th.

This makes a win in Duluth tonight even more important for the Gophers especially looking forward to next weekend with Denver coming into Mariucci. If the Gophers lose and end up in 8th place in the WCHA, other series next weekend with CC/MSUM, UAA/UND become very critical for the Gophers in their battle for home ice in the playoffs. NCAAs? They need a string of wins against top teams (UMD, DEN, WIS), finish strong against MTU (home) and BSU (away), win the first round of the playoffs, and some games in the F5 to come close to being considered a possibility for the NCAA tournament.

Yeah a win tonight is a must for the Gophers if they want to make a run into the NCAA Tourney another tie or loss isn't going to get it done IMO. That was a fun College Hockey game to watch with lots of up and down the ice action and some crazy saves, although they did slow it down a bit in the 3rd. But both teams were moving there feet and hitting, I hope we come out with the same intensity tonight and grab 2pts.

[HarleyMC]

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Dang. I sooo wanted to reread the purse swinging fight between Harley and Scooby.

I can fill you in Goldy. There wasn't much to it really. Scooby made some mental errors and I corrected them. Then Scooby got even more psychotic and tried even harder to trash the Gophers using every possible stat available. Then he realized he was using the wrong stat sheet. Disgruntled and depressed, the old fart let out a final whine and took his daily nap.

[section16rowA]

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Was at the game and not sitting in my normal season tickets, but in seats tUMD sent me as extra single game tickets I ordered. These seats were in the row directly behind the Gopher bench with another couple. The female of this couple is somewhat smitten by tDon so she was happy. However, she did note tDon needs to clean up his neck thatch or "he might be starring in a GEICO commercial soon."

[ScoobyDoo]

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I can fill you in Goldy. There wasn't much to it really. Scooby made some mental errors and I corrected them. Then Scooby got even more psychotic and tried even harder to trash the Gophers using every possible stat available. Then he realized he was using the wrong stat sheet. Disgruntled and depressed, the old fart let out a final whine and took his daily nap.

I haven't done anything to them that they haven't already done to themselves.