Transfer Portal

[ARM]

You could spend a lifetime here learning new words like "exitance".

[Puckluck89]

I apologize for any past, current or future insults of your daughter, your family, her team, her coaches, her league and or her country. Obviously you "get" Watts going on here or you wouldn't divulge your exitance. Keep having fun with us.

Ha! I'm still here so the insults haven't been too bad.

[Timothy A]

Speaking of that... first time posting here. I've lurked for years, but just realized I can actually contribute.

There are a few very talented goalies on the portal - Frank, Hogensen, Faucher - any word on where they've landed? The only goalies that I can see who's found a new home are Allie Kelley to Syracuse and Emma Gorski to RM. Who needs goalies?

It's not so much who needs a goalie as it is do you really want to play for THAT team? There's some pretty ugly color combo's out there that should be avoided. And then there's the team who takes on a dominant color not even part of their school colors. I like purple and red personally, but only a certain shade of red.

[Timothy A]

I have a daughter playing D1 hockey, so this board has been fun to watch.

I apologize for any past, current or future insults of your daughter, your family, her team, her coaches, her league and or her country. Obviously you "get" Watts going on here or you wouldn't divulge your existence. Keep having fun with us.

[ARM]

Who needs goalies?

Going by the roster, Minnesota.

[Puckluck89]

Speaking of that... first time posting here. I've lurked for years, but just realized I can actually contribute.

There are a few very talented goalies on the portal - Frank, Hogensen, Faucher - any word on where they've landed? The only goalies that I can see who's found a new home are Allie Kelley to Syracuse and Emma Gorski to RM. Who needs goalies?

I have a daughter playing D1 hockey, so this board has been fun to watch.

[ARM]

No one really, the post was supposed to be satire. The fact that I have to explain that means I didn't do a very good job of it.

Some of us knew that. A lot of what gets posted here by the 17 are inside jokes or responses to threads/posts from five years ago. Maybe that's why there are only 17 regulars; it becomes too much work to try to make sense of a lot of our nonsense.

[FiveHoleFrenzy]

Not sure who you want to diss on

No one really, the post was supposed to be satire. The fact that I have to explain that means I didn't do a very good job of it.

[FiveHoleFrenzy]

The original sign of incoming calamity was the black jerseys with black numbers. Darth Vader mode activated and the league has never been the same.

Correct and with the appearance of those jerseys at Ridder, that is where the muzzinator nickname originated.

[robertearle]

No disrespect to the Badgers but with two such evenly matched teams I can't say the "best" team won in a 1-0 victory. If it was say a 5-0 win then I'd agree.
If they played again the next day OSU probably would have won. The breaks simply went Wisconsin's way.

Or the Gophers would have beaten UW and then Ohio St, like they did two weeks earlier.

[Hockeybuckeye]

I beg to differ. While I was hoping for a different result, the best team won this year.

No disrespect to the Badgers but with two such evenly matched teams I can't say the "best" team won in a 1-0 victory. If it was say a 5-0 win then I'd agree.
If they played again the next day OSU probably would have won. The breaks simply went Wisconsin's way.

[Lindsay]

Plus I feel like she has created calamity in the college hockey world replacing an eastern team in the top 4 and the gap seems to be very wide to everyone but maybe NE.

The original sign of incoming calamity was the black jerseys with black numbers. Darth Vader mode activated and the league has never been the same.

[ARM]

I'm a more than decade long Wisconsin season ticket holder, and I am under no illusion that "the best team won" is anything other than a highly debatable proposition.

A tournament was played; you won. That's all the other national champs that came before you can say as well. Has there been a champ that didn't need a break or a close call along the way? I'm not remembering that team, but there's been a lot of years, so maybe somebody dominated more than I'm remembering. If you win a couple more over the next three years, nobody is going to look back on this season and remember a stretch of a few games where UW couldn't score. Whether the rest of us like it or not, the Badgers were a worthy champion.

[robertearle]

I beg to differ. While I was hoping for a different result, the best team won this year. The best team won last year. And next season the best team will also win. I don't have a problem with that. And I don't have a problem with how those winning teams get put together. Not sure who you want to diss on, unless your own butt is feeling pain?

I'm a more than decade long Wisconsin season ticket holder, and I am under no illusion that "the best team won" is anything other than a highly debatable proposition. If we look at the season as a whole, I don't even think it is debatable; Wisconsin was not the best team. They were maybe the best team in March, because the freshmen came into their own at the end of the year. Or they were the team that got one more shot to go, one more puck to bounce their way a couple games in a row. Play the whole tournament over ten times, how many of those ten does Wisconsin win, how many does Ohio State win, ho many Minnesota, etc etc.

The year before, Ohio State won a double-OT game over Quinnipiac after Q rang the pipe *hard* during OT, and then won the championship game on a pass that deflected off a defender's skate into the goal. "Best team" or "one more bounce than the other guys"? Very much debatable.

[Steamboat]

Definitely a calmity for the mythical 17 (minus the slOwSU posters) who are butt hurt over the fact that the Muzzinator is utilizing the portal better than your rooting choice.

I beg to differ. While I was hoping for a different result, the best team won this year. The best team won last year. And next season the best team will also win. I don't have a problem with that. And I don't have a problem with how those winning teams get put together. Not sure who you want to diss on, unless your own butt is feeling pain?