Wisconsin Women's Hockey 2022-2023

[wiscolorado]

I think this result was the most predictable one we could have expected today. I thought the Badgers played okay on the whole, but definitely too undisciplined and sloppy to expect to keep up with any of the best teams in the NCAA. That has been the theme all year for them I suppose. They are a good team, but not a great one. The potential they have is obvious, they have it in them to be great, so it's frustrating how consistently they have not lived up to that potential this season. Bummer. I am still looking forward to watching them in the tournament and you never know what will happen, but it feels like a quarterfinal exit is coming.

[robertearle]

UW appears to be locked into either the #5 or #6 slot, with various possible opponents. The most likely might be the return trip to Ridder to play the Gophers as either 4-vs-5 or 3-vs-6 (after UW plays the 6-11 match vs the NEWHA team). But at Colgate is also possible, as is at Yale.

[Lindsay]

Pankowski blossomed and played great her senior year, and Pannek tanked. To me, that was the difference between the Badgers and Gophers that year.

I always wondered if it was an Olympic hangover type thing. Meanwhile the motivation on Wisco…. Pankowski, Nurse, Campbell… all slightly different stories but so much motivation.

such a talented league. Can’t count Wisconsin out in the national tourney.

[KTDC]

I always wondered if it was an Olympic hangover type thing. Meanwhile the motivation on Wisco…. Pankowski, Nurse, Campbell… all slightly different stories but so much motivation.

such a talented league. Can’t count Wisconsin out in the national tourney.

I liked to imagine Muzzerall was still with the Gophers and would have none of it and would whack Pannek upside the head and bring her back to her game, where we needed her..lol

[Lindsay]

I liked to imagine Muzzerall was still with the Gophers and would have none of it and would whack Pannek upside the head and bring her back to her game, where we needed her..lol

Lol that is an entirely possible alternate history.

[pgb-ohio]

The play-by-play guy is a long time Madison TV sports anchor at the local CBS station (and actually a friend of a friend) Jay Wilson. He's including a pre-NCAA championship in Minnesota's total.

Honestly the 3 AWCHA Titles should be included in the overall counts. I actually attended the tournament won by Harvard @ Mariucci. It sure seemed to have all of the esssential qualities of a Frozen Four. If you do recognize those titles, UNH Would also get credit for a championship, IIRC.

The analyst is former Badger player Annie Pankowski.

Overall they did a nice job on the OSU/UMD game.

[Timothy A]

I think this result was the most predictable one we could have expected today. I thought the Badgers played okay on the whole, but definitely too undisciplined and sloppy to expect to keep up with any of the best teams in the NCAA. That has been the theme all year for them I suppose. They are a good team, but not a great one. The potential they have is obvious, they have it in them to be great, so it's frustrating how consistently they have not lived up to that potential this season. Bummer. I am still looking forward to watching them in the tournament and you never know what will happen, but it feels like a quarterfinal exit is coming.

Usually Patricio is deep inside my head but with this post you are.

[wiscolorado]

Usually Patricio is deep inside my head but with this post you are.

I have noticed that you guys pay way more attention to individual players and line combinations when watching the games than I do. My thoughts after a game usually are about the team as a whole, and I usually don't have as many opinions about individual players as y'all do.

[ARM]

Long Island grabs their league's first autobid, so it looks like that's your opening opponent.

[Timothy A]

Long Island grabs their league's first autobid, so it looks like that's your opening opponent.

A cupcake before brushing teeth perhaps?

[robertearle]

Long Island grabs their league's first autobid, so it looks like that's your opening opponent.

Coached by former Badger player Kelly Nash.

For some of the newer Badger fans here, Kelly Nash was basically a third line forward from 2007-2011 (so, on two national championship teams), but who scored - that I can think of, anyway - the third most famous OT-winning goal in UW women's history:
- Top of the list is of course Daryl Watts championship goal from two years ago.
- Second is Jinelle Zaugg's goal that ended the four OT 'longest 0-0 game in NCAA women's hockey history', over Harvard in the 2007 NCAA quarterfinals.
- Third, I think, is Kelly Nash, 2011 WCHA tournament finals goal. The Badgers trail 3-0 at one point, and 4-2 well into the third period, before getting the game into overtime. Video of her goal; my favorite parts are her twirling 'bat flip', and end-of-the-bench player #17 Carla Pentimone going crazy in the celebration. I pull up the video probably once a year around this time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8YpSElHxJk

[ARM]

For some of the newer Badger fans here, Kelly Nash was basically a third line forward from 2007-2011 (so, on two national championship teams), but who scored - that I can think of, anyway - the third most famous OT-winning goal in UW women's history:

To add to your list... For those who saw it, I would think that Tia Hanson's 2OT goal versus Mercyhurst in 2006, that gave the Badgers their first win in an NCAA Tournament game and led to the first title, would make the top three. Hanson also backed it up with the only goal in the semi vs SLU. Hilary Knight scored in OT in 2008 to defeat UM in the NCAA quarterfinal, but given that one didn't end in a championship, maybe it doesn't better the Nash goal. Plus, it is easier for a Nash goal to stand out from others that she scored than it is for Knight.

[UCBadger]

A cupcake before brushing teeth perhaps?

I live 27 miles from Colgate's rink! When will ticket information come out?

[Hockeybuckeye]

A cupcake before brushing teeth perhaps?

You might want to save that last can of thinner until after the Colgate game!

[sshablak]

I live 27 miles from Colgate's rink! When will ticket information come out?

Colgate will not sell out for women, no problems getting a ticket, unless Wisco brings a thousand fans.