Michigan Tech 2014-2015

[HuskyNation]

Bingo, 10-0 to start is great but only playing .500 hockey since then and that will NOT get us where we want, it may not even get us home ice for the WCHA playoffs.

Lots of home games to come. Sweep at home, split or better on the road.

[bose301s]

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Lots of home games to come. Sweep at home, split or better on the road.

I hope so, problem is we've been better on the road this season, until now, lol. I hope they get out of this odd funk thing by the time I go up for Winter Carnival.

[HuskyNation]

I hope so, problem is we've been better on the road this season, until now, lol. I hope they get out of this odd funk thing by the time I go up for Winter Carnival.

The Umbrella PP needs to go away. Hasn't done anything substantial for us in the last 6 games, except for yesterday. Show them different looks every PP. Give the opposing PK some issues. The lethargic play has to go away too.
Get down and dirty, crash the net, use the speed, get traffic in front, play for 60 minutes. This is how Tech was 10-0 to start the year. Those are the things we need to return to, in order to be successful.

[bose301s]

Re: Michigan Tech 2014-2015

The Umbrella PP needs to go away. Hasn't done anything substantial for us in the last 6 games, except for yesterday. Show them different looks every PP. Give the opposing PK some issues. The lethargic play has to go away too.
Get down and dirty, crash the net, use the speed, get traffic in front, play for 60 minutes. This is how Tech was 10-0 to start the year. Those are the things we need to return to, in order to be successful.

And work on passing!!! I think we missed more passes than we made tonight.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Re: Michigan Tech 2014-2015

We're not making the dance. Book it.

[The Rube]

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We're not making the dance. Book it.

The F4? You'll come close, but I could see not making it. Baby steps.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Re: Michigan Tech 2014-2015

The F4? You'll come close, but I could see not making it. Baby steps.

We just got shutout by a bottom 10 team. We've got four games against our archrivals, plus BG and @Mankato. Get shutout by a bottom 10 team? We're done.

[Gurtholfin]

Re: Michigan Tech 2014-2015

Geez.

Not to be the voice of reason, but you completely dominated that game. Just didn't finish. Three pipe hits.

It's hockey. It happens.


In addition, that effort by the Badgers is not indicative of their play so far this season. Was much, MUCH better than I've seen to this point.

[<3_Blizzard]

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Well that kind of sucks especially for pairwise , but I don't see why everybody is gloom and doom. They have played really well the past 4 games. I think the Michigan game was more Phillips had an off day, I bet he wanted one if not both of those back. Tonight you just have to tip your hat to Rumpel (Who was a Hobey finalist last year in case you forgot).

I look at this more as "It's Hockey" you're going to win some you shouldn't (See Bemidji series, they kicked our butts), and your going to lose some you should win (UofM & Bucky). But by the end of the year it will all average out.

Put me in the not concerned crowd.

The one thing that really bothered me was Auk consistently just shooting it in from the point with no traffic in front to screen/rebound, etc. Others were guilty of this as well, but it seemed to me he did it every time he touched the puck in the O Zone. Hopefully it's something they work on this week as it seemed like we have several wasted possessions because of this.

[stuckinwi]

Geez.

Not to be the voice of reason, but you completely dominated that game. Just didn't finish. Three pipe hits.

It's hockey. It happens.


In addition, that effort by the Badgers is not indicative of their play so far this season. Was much, MUCH better than I've seen to this point.

This. Rumpel was fantastic tonight. 25 shots in a period is a LOT. And the goal Wisconsin did score was a bad decision by Jamie to attempt a poke check that missed instead of just cutting the angle.

Rumpel was the difference and stole the game. Jamie Ram style work there

[Twitch Boy]

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Tech loses out. Mel Pearson flies to Ann Arbor and records a movie entitled "Fark Yeah, We Got Gerald Ford and Tom Brady Biatches" which is just 150 minutes of him making out with Jim Harbaugh standing on the block M at the Big House while the Alumni Band plays "Let's Go Blue" on loop.

[Shirtless Guy]

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While going 2-2 over the last 4 games has certainly sucked, let's not forget how well they sued in those 2 losses. That game was frustrating to watch last night but Rumpel is a good goaltender and the Huskies hot iron 3 times, not to mention all the other quality scoring chances. We can't give up the faith over losing games where we dominated play and lost. It happens over the course of the season. It's too bad it had to happen in NC against a team having as bad of a season as Wisconsin. hopefully they improve and that loss won't look so bad, for PWR later. The result sucked but they happen, the saddest part is what that one loss did for the RPI.

[RaceBoarder]

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And Tech falls into a dumpster fire at just the right time

[Critical Thinker]

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We're not making the dance. Book it.

One game isn't going to break your season, but you've certainly dug yourselves into a hole. Your biggest strength until Christmas was soundly taking care of weaker teams (e.g.- B1G) that gave you your 10 game win streak, which all of a sudden is questionable after the GLI and Wisco trip. You don't have to sweep Mankato and BG to get in, but you can't take any more bad losses.

[Biddco]

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We just got shutout by a bottom 10 team. We've got four games against our archrivals, plus BG and @Mankato. Get shutout by a bottom 10 team? We're done.

Man how the roles have changed! A few years ago a loss to Tech would sink your tournament chances...now it's the opposite! Made even sweeter by a loss from a consistently good Wisconsin Team is the one that killing the PWR.