Totally agree with you on this. It was a wonderful season. We just came up a tad short. Wisconsin was consistently excellent this entire season, and they found a way to finish today.
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Ohio State 2024-25 Domination of the Portal Queen!
- Thread starter Hockeybuckeye
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In the 2022 National Title Season, we had a player close her hand on the puck in the faceoff area, which led to a penalty. This was in the regional final vs. Quinnipiac. That penalty allowed QU to pull their goalie and go 6-on-4. With the two-player advantage, they were able to tie the game and send it to overtime. Thankfully, that one did not come back to haunt us like the others.
Wisconsin wins the 2025 National Title Game by a final score of 4-3 in overtime. Joy Dunne opened the scoring for Ohio State with a shorthanded goal to put Ohio State up 1-0. On the same power play, Wisconsin's Laila Edwards scored to tie the game at 1. Later in the opening frame, Sloane Matthews scored to put the Bucks up 2-1 and that is how the first period ended. Emma Peschel scored early in the second frame to put Ohio State up 3-1. Later in the second period, Caroline Harvey scored to bring the Badgers to within 3-2 and that is how the second period ended. The score remained 3-2 until Wisconsin's Kirsten Simms scored on a penalty shot to tie things at 3 and force overtime. Kirsten Simms then scored the game-winner in overtime at the 2:49 mark to win it for the Badgers. Wisconsin outshot Ohio State 35-23 in this one. Wisconsin goaltender Ava McNaughton stopped 20 of the 23 shots she faced to get the win. Buckeye netminder Amanda Thiele stopped 31 of the 35 shots she faced in the loss. Congratulations to Wisconsin on winning another National Title, their third in the last five seasons.
Top 5 Memories Of The 2025 Frozen Four
#5 The Host School: The University Of Minnesota
Lots to Like:
- Good Merch. They morphed a retro jersey & gray hoodie. Result? A hoodie with a drawstring neck. Bought one. Also some original, appealing t-shirts. On the downside, the polos were a total repeat of last year’s Men’s FF polo. Change St. Paul to Minneapolis. Change 2024 to 2025. Fire up the Cloning Machine. Despite that one disappointment, good merch overall.
- Frozen Four In Lights. Fun idea to use “Star Room Mirror Lights” to spell out Frozen Four in giant letters.
- Good campus eateries. Annie’s Parlour; Sally’s Saloon. Also many others that looked promising but we didn’t have time to try.
- Ridder is awesome.
- The community was very aware of the event. OK, I greased the skids a little by wearing a Frozen Four polo from Durham. (UNH) But hey, it started at the airport. Turned out my Rental Car Agent played high school hockey at Cretin-Derham Hall. State of Hockey indeed!
#5 The Host School: The University Of Minnesota
Lots to Like:
- Good Merch. They morphed a retro jersey & gray hoodie. Result? A hoodie with a drawstring neck. Bought one. Also some original, appealing t-shirts. On the downside, the polos were a total repeat of last year’s Men’s FF polo. Change St. Paul to Minneapolis. Change 2024 to 2025. Fire up the Cloning Machine. Despite that one disappointment, good merch overall.
- Frozen Four In Lights. Fun idea to use “Star Room Mirror Lights” to spell out Frozen Four in giant letters.
- Good campus eateries. Annie’s Parlour; Sally’s Saloon. Also many others that looked promising but we didn’t have time to try.
- Ridder is awesome.
- The community was very aware of the event. OK, I greased the skids a little by wearing a Frozen Four polo from Durham. (UNH) But hey, it started at the airport. Turned out my Rental Car Agent played high school hockey at Cretin-Derham Hall. State of Hockey indeed!
Hockeybuckeye
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No fault to Amanda, but I don't know how much or what kind of instruction Nadine gives her goalies on facing penalty shots since they're so rare but watching the reruns when Simms was at the top of the crease the way she was maneuvering the puck it wasn't in a shooting position and Ananda could have easily jabbed it away with her stick. If only! Sigh!
robertearle
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I'm pretty sure Wisconsin ends practice on a daily basis with "OT shootouts", which is the same as penalty shots. They regularly post instagram vidoes saying "Simms won today's shootout", or some such. Sometimes the goalies win, though I don't know the rules of the "game" they play.
I'd be amazed if OSU or anyone else doesn't do likewise.
Hockeybuckeye
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As much as myself and our other fans would love to drop by and watch an occasional practice the Muzinator has closed practices. I've heard even parents aren't supposed to be there.
Are MJ's closed as well?
Timothy A
Let's go RED!
Yes the poke check is a very underutilized means for beating stick handling maneuvers on those penalty shots.
robertearle
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Of course. As I said, they often posts videos on Instagram, etc, of "who won the shootout today" the day before a game. I see those videos.
Hockeybuckeye
Well-known member
It's irrelevant but my curiosity burne to know if the girl who got us called for too many men hit the ice on her own or did one of the coaches send her? Whoever's fault it was I hope they don't beat themselves up over it, we all make mistakes, it's an inescapable part of being human!
Timothy A
Let's go RED!
Stop the penalty shot from going in and you win. Score in overtime and you win.
It wouldn't surprise me if they played the "orange/lemon" game since that is something his dad used to do.
robertearle
Well-known member
Would you please explain the "rules"? How the game works, how one individual "wins" (skater or goalie)? Thanks. I've been curious about for a long time.
robertearle
Well-known member
I don't know if this will imply your answer, but you got me curious, so I took a very careful look to see what could be seen on the broadcast:
At about 3 minutes to go, Wisconsin gets the puck into the Ohio State D zone and gets set up. Same five OSU skaters until a clear to center ice - but only to center ice - at about 2:05 remaining.
Those five were Peschel and Jungaker, Mathews and Zanon and Jordan Baxter.
While the puck is at center, "off camera" Disher gets on in place of Peschel.
As the Badgers are about to re-enter the zone, the camera picks up Buglioni skating on at 1:59, followed a second or two later by Joy Dunne, with Mathews having gone off "off camera".
So, with center Mathews coming off, and center Buglioni coming on, that looks OK. And that means Dunne coming on with Baxter and Zanon remaining on ... means Joy Dunne looks to be the 6th skater.
FWIW
Cool video going around by some NHL guys showing how Sims penalty shot was NO GOOD! 500K views. Plus Sims should have been kicked out for that cheep cheep cheep shot on #10. More to come on the "DIRTY" NCG. I also saw a X post that put the top 5 stolen championships and the 2025 WNCG was included.
Timothy A
Let's go RED!
I've seen things on social media that have had more views than 500K and have been completely false and I've seen "lists" that rank the top 5 best smelling monkey poops.
Our little slice of heaven on the women's thread has some very savvy hockey folks on it. No one has posted anything saying they feel Simm's move was illegal.
Again I say this: Make the save on the penalty shot or score in OT and you'd be in a better place right now. If THSNBN scores in OT, no one is talking about the Simm's move.
One, Patrick Kane has been doing this same move on penalty shots/shootouts for like 15 years. I've never seen one be disallowed, because
Two, the spirit of the rule is to prevent a player from deking the goalie, then circling back around and trying again if the goalie doesn't bite on the fake the first time. It's not supposed to be interpreted so literally that a goal should be disallowed if the puck is stickhandled backwards by 2 inches.
Use just a little common sense here: the rule is not intended to disallow deke goals, nor is that how it is applied.
Simms' goal was perfectly legal. Anyone arguing otherwise either doesn't understand hockey, or is grasping at straws, or both.