Minnesota @ Michigan: 1/9 & 1/10

[goldy_331]

Re: Minnesota @ Michigan: 1/9 & 1/10

Look at #14 for the Gophers just standing there watching him behind the net. Drives me crazy still.

It was on the PK. Stay in the box!

[SanTropez]

Re: Minnesota @ Michigan: 1/9 & 1/10

Alfa, I think he is talking about THIS...


http://youtu.be/HWBYcugv11s

This is what I thought of right away, I don't care about some other goal or non goal from another team.

[Red Cows]

Re: Minnesota @ Michigan: 1/9 & 1/10

I didn't experience the Goal That Never Happened, for example. Something like that...that would push MI up into hatred category.

Hilarious. When or if I have brought this up, since, I'm "a whiner that won't let it go" That said, UNO fan, in general, already had ample hatred for Michigan. I think it has something to do with their 27-8-3 record, all time, against us. Getting jobbed by the refs (because they are Michigan, after all) just amped that up a notch or two more.

If we'd been playing the AHA conference winner in that NCAA tourney instead, for example, the no goal call on the ice by the refs is upheld. Every UNO fan I have ever spoken to about this firmly believes they got that call because they were Michigan. Dean Blais as much as said so, publicly, after the game. Worse, this cost us the chance at our first ever tourney win. Yup, we're bitter. Guilty as charged.

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: Minnesota @ Michigan: 1/9 & 1/10

Alfa, I think he is talking about THIS...


http://youtu.be/HWBYcugv11s

Look at #14 for the Gophers just standing there watching him behind the net. Drives me crazy still.

[bluevox]

Re: Minnesota @ Michigan: 1/9 & 1/10

I didn't experience the Goal That Never Happened, for example. Something like that...that would push MI up into hatred category.

Alfa, I think he is talking about THIS...


http://youtu.be/HWBYcugv11s

[SanTropez]

Re: Minnesota @ Michigan: 1/9 & 1/10

But I think we can all agree that the biggest underachiever is becky, she really sucks arse.

I mean 2 wins come on, even American International has more than 2 wins.

[mnstate0fhockey]

If I'm not mistaken, Michigan sent more players to the WJC than Minnesota did, yes?

Which is an illustration of talent, is it not?

Yet our overall record is worse than yours. Not sure why, but I think we are a little worse place than you guys are.

It means you (from one perspective) have more talent under 20.

Rau, Skjei, and Reilly all went to the World Juniors in the past.

We've been just as big of underachievers

[alfablue]

Re: Minnesota @ Michigan: 1/9 & 1/10

I wasn't really trying to compare talent. Only saying that MN has been up and down with their performances this season.

So am I. For all the talent we are supposed to have, it's only translated to the ice a handful of times. And it seems to have gone the other way more often than not- the start to our season was tough- and even though we thought we turned a corner in November, BC reminded us that we have not.

[JF_Gophers]

If I'm not mistaken, Michigan sent more players to the WJC than Minnesota did, yes?

Which is an illustration of talent, is it not?

Yet our overall record is worse than yours. Not sure why, but I think we are a little worse place than you guys are.

I wasn't really trying to compare talent. Only saying that MN has been up and down with their performances this season.

[Driftryder]

Re: Minnesota @ Michigan: 1/9 & 1/10

I love playing Michigan, the games are usually fast paced up and down the rink with plenty of high end talent on both teams most years.

Makes for a fun series.

[alfablue]

Re: Minnesota @ Michigan: 1/9 & 1/10

Minnesota doesn't seem to want to play up to their talent level this season. So I wouldn't be surprised with any set of results.

If I'm not mistaken, Michigan sent more players to the WJC than Minnesota did, yes?

Which is an illustration of talent, is it not?

Yet our overall record is worse than yours. Not sure why, but I think we are a little worse place than you guys are.

[alfablue]

Re: Minnesota @ Michigan: 1/9 & 1/10

I didn't experience the Goal That Never Happened, for example. Something like that...that would push MI up into hatred category.

That kind of thing I don't get.

We've been on both sides of that call- winning the game against UNO, and not winning a game against Miami- both in the tournament. But the call was by the refs, not the other team or the other fan base.

Seen my share of hack plays with MSU, too- but that was a player on the ice, not the guy 5 rows up from me. The father of the player wrongly went and confronted the other player- but that was it.

Now if our fans taunted you based on the above- especially physically- I can see the hate.

But other than that....

[JF_Gophers]

Re: Minnesota @ Michigan: 1/9 & 1/10

Minnesota doesn't seem to want to play up to their talent level this season. So I wouldn't be surprised with any set of results.

[The Rube]

Re: Minnesota @ Michigan: 1/9 & 1/10

Are you looking for specific fan behavior, or will something on ice suffice to make you hate the fans?

For sure, Minnesota has alwasy been a major rival of ours- even when we were not playing often, the Gophers would fill Yost almost like State.

But even though your hockey fans are very much like our football fans, I don't sense any hatred toward you on our side. Especially now that the students have somewhat of a barrier between them and the opposing parent section, other than the words, there's not much in terms of altercations anymore.

Sorry if that's a let down.

I didn't experience the Goal That Never Happened, for example. Something like that...that would push MI up into hatred category.

[alfablue]

Re: Minnesota @ Michigan: 1/9 & 1/10

It'll be a few years (or a key game or two) for me to develop that.

Are you looking for specific fan behavior, or will something on ice suffice to make you hate the fans?

For sure, Minnesota has alwasy been a major rival of ours- even when we were not playing often, the Gophers would fill Yost almost like State.

But even though your hockey fans are very much like our football fans, I don't sense any hatred toward you on our side. Especially now that the students have somewhat of a barrier between them and the opposing parent section, other than the words, there's not much in terms of altercations anymore.

Sorry if that's a let down.