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  • #91
    Re: WCHA Conference: The 2019-20 Season

    I'd be very surprised if Wisconsin does not have a goalie next season who is statistically at least the equal of what Campbell has been this season, because she has been a couple of notches below what she was last year. We've talked about the team's defensive issues, but I also suspect that she's been less than 100% healthy for much of the year. Rooney is the goalie who will be most difficult for her team to replace.
    "... And lose, and start again at your beginnings
    And never breathe a word about your loss;" -- Rudyard Kipling

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    • #92
      Re: WCHA Conference: The 2019-20 Season

      Originally posted by Offsides Guy View Post
      I realize this is a 2020-2021 topic, but it’s interesting to ponder how next year’s WCHA will be different with the significant goalie changes. Out are Rooney, Campbell, Scobee, Bench, and Alder (who hasn’t played much this season but was still very good). Rooney and Bench have absolutely stolen big wins for UMD and BSU; it appears Blesi is no Soup and I don’t believe Pahl is on par with Scobee. Maybe St Cloud and Mankato see this as an opportunity for more wins next year? And OSU has to be happy not to face these goalies anymore.
      You missed Gulstene as another very good goalie who will be missed next year. Her injury retirement leaves UM with two untested goalies for next year. I'm hoping the team can pick up someone like Amanda Pelkey, a goalie of the year finalist who hasn't made a college commitment, as injury insurance.

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      • #93
        Originally posted by OldDave View Post
        You missed Gulstene as another very good goalie who will be missed next year. Her injury retirement leaves UM with two untested goalies for next year. I'm hoping the team can pick up someone like Amanda Pelkey, a goalie of the year finalist who hasn't made a college commitment, as injury insurance.
        Speaking of picking up a goalie....where is Canadian u18 goalie Eve Gascon headed? No commitment announcement as far as I am aware. She’s a 2021, so it wouldn’t affect next year...but maybe she lands somewhere in the WCHA?

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        • #94
          Re: WCHA Conference: The 2019-20 Season

          Originally posted by Sieve1 View Post
          Speaking of picking up a goalie....where is Canadian u18 goalie Eve Gascon headed? No commitment announcement as far as I am aware. She’s a 2021, so it wouldn’t affect next year...but maybe she lands somewhere in the WCHA?
          Paging Mark Johnson, do you read, over?
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          • #95
            Re: WCHA Conference: The 2019-20 Season

            With a week to go, the entire range of possibilities is open to Wisconsin and Minnesota for the conference championship:

            Wisconsin by a game is obviously possible.

            Minnesota by a game is certainly possible.

            A tie is clearly possible

            And if either is involved is any tie games next weekend, someone winning by, someone winning by less than a 'full game' is almost a certainty.

            (Last year, Minnesota won the conference by two standings points. In 2016, Wisconsin won by a single stands point. Has there ever been a flat-out tie?)

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            • #96
              Re: WCHA Conference: The 2019-20 Season

              Originally posted by robertearle View Post
              Has there ever been a flat-out tie?
              UMD and Minnesota tied in 2009-10 with the Bulldogs getting the higher seed and winning the WCHA (and NCAA) tournament. I don't remember any others offhand, but I could be wrong.
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              And never breathe a word about your loss;" -- Rudyard Kipling

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              • #97
                Re: WCHA Conference: The 2019-20 Season

                So does the men's wcha folding into the ccha affect the wwcha?
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                • #98
                  Re: WCHA Conference: The 2019-20 Season

                  Originally posted by Timothy A View Post
                  So does the men's wcha folding into the ccha affect the wwcha?
                  That would be BSU and MSU leaving the men's WCHA, right? It shouldn't, given that those are the only two programs that shared that conference on the men's side. UW, UM, and OSU are in BIG, and UMD and SCSU are in NCHC. It wouldn't seem to make the relationships on the women's side be any different than they are today.
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                  And never breathe a word about your loss;" -- Rudyard Kipling

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                  • #99
                    Re: WCHA Conference: The 2019-20 Season

                    Originally posted by ARM View Post
                    That would be BSU and MSU leaving the men's WCHA, right? It shouldn't, given that those are the only two programs that shared that conference on the men's side. UW, UM, and OSU are in BIG, and UMD and SCSU are in NCHC. It wouldn't seem to make the relationships on the women's side be any different than they are today.
                    Basically, what was once the WCHA men's conference will now be known as the CCHA, minus three teams: Alabama Huntsville, Alaska (Fairbanks) and Alaska Anchorage which will be left out on their own (as will Arizona State, but they are already Independent). The "new" CCHA will be comprised of Bemidji State, Minnesota State Mankato, Bowling Green, Ferris State, Lake Superior State, Michigan Tech and Northern Michigan.

                    http://www.startribune.com/ccha-will...-22/567973232/

                    I don't see how this shift will have any impact on the women's WCHA since only two of the teams in the new conference even have a women's team.
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                    • Re: WCHA Conference: The 2019-20 Season

                      so I wonder if the NCHC will rename itself after the men's WCHA dissolves, as it most likely will
                      I have been enjoying the NCHC games that are televised over the air the last few years , it is excellent hockey, as I mentioned before I watched one of those games rather than what passes for an NHL All-Star game.
                      It would be fitting to have both of the best leagues men/women under the same banner.

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                      • Re: WCHA Conference: The 2019-20 Season

                        Originally posted by robertearle View Post
                        Last year, Minnesota won the conference by two standings points.
                        Ohio State never did get a thank you card from Minnesota for our part in making that happen!

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                        • Re: WCHA Conference: The 2019-20 Season

                          Originally posted by Hockeybuckeye View Post
                          Ohio State never did get a thank you card from Minnesota for our part in making that happen!
                          I think it had something to do with those jerseys.
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                          • Re: WCHA Conference: The 2019-20 Season

                            Originally posted by Hockeybuckeye View Post
                            Ohio State never did get a thank you card from Minnesota for our part in making that happen!
                            While I was disappointed at the time, Wisconsin did pick up something of a consolation prize (or two) a couple weeks later. So...
                            Last edited by robertearle; 02-19-2020, 09:44 PM.

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                            • Re: WCHA Conference: The 2019-20 Season

                              Originally posted by robertearle View Post
                              While I was disappointed at the time, Wisconsin did pick up something of a consolation prize (or two) a couple weeks later. So...
                              No doubt!

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                              • Re: WCHA Conference: The 2019-20 Season

                                Originally posted by robertearle View Post
                                While I was disappointed at the time, Wisconsin did pick up something of a consolation prize (or two) a couple weeks later. So...
                                MJ said in his presser that losing the regular season title last year seemed to propel the team onto the run that they had. I think this year's team is in need of a propelling event to get them going, but I think hoisting a trophy this weekend will do the trick.
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                                Originally Posted by Wisko McBadgerton:
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                                Timothy A --> Great hockey mind... Or Greatest hockey mind?!?"

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