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2013 NCAA Quarterfinal: North Dakota @ Minnesota

Re: 2013 NCAA Quarterfinal: North Dakota @ Minnesota

Tremendous game...in a totally different league, figuratively speaking, than the other three today.

Congratulations to both teams...no losers here.

SAB may possibly have played the best game of her life.

Kept thinking in OT how dangerous Terry is...she seemed to be more instrumental as the OT wore on.

Highly professional play by play Dan, again adding real value to an already tremendous product. You were reminding me of Foster Hewitt and Danny Gallivan...(you might be too young to know those names).

This game was starting to remind me of the 2010 FF Championship Game (Cornell vs UMD)...same rink...this game was almost as long...but the winning goal scored at the opposite end...just not for all the marbles today, although I'm sure it doesn't feel that way to each team right now.

Good luck BC...you're going to need it.
 
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Congratulations to Minnesota. That was one hell of a performance by both sides, and ultimately the better team won. Good luck at the Frozen Four, and keep the title out West please. :)
 
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WOW!!! Thank goodness we don't have to play UND anymore until next year, and when we do all of those Seniors will be gone!!!

Just kept playing us better every time we played. Another game or two and UND probably would beat the Gophers. Could have very easily have happened this game, too. Congrats UND!!!
After this season is over, and hopefully after the Gophers rep the WCHA right and win the Title, personally I think a lot of people out there will look at UND as the 2nd best team in the nation?

Also a darn good thing we get a week to rest up now, and don't have to play tomorrow.
 
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Blackbeard said:
Forgot, was that JLAM ending her career in the penalty box?
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Yup... probably not as fun for her as compared to Rachel Bible and Alycia Matthews for Wisconsin in 2009. Both of their careers ended while they were in the penalty box, but in their case, it was during the NCAA title game and their team won.
 
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Observations:

North Dakota came out with a ridiculously aggressive forecheck and that gave the Gophers fits in the first period. Minnesota made adjustments in the first intermission and forced UND to change their game plan and that was the big change in the run of play.

The refs were brutal. Rachel Ramsey got drilled into the boards in the first period with no call. The same thing happened to Bethany Brausen, who only took one shift the rest of the way (in the third OT). Then to give McMillen a major for checking from behind on that play was one of the worst calls I've ever seen, given what had been let go. I was fine with giving her two minutes for checking, but a major means the refs don't even know the rule; if anything, the direction of the check was away from the boards.

I don't want to hear any North Dakota fans complaining about the calls in overtime. Not only were all of them clear penalties, they each came seconds after the ref had let an equally clear penalty go uncalled. You have to have enough discipline to recognize a moment when you simply can't do anything that would give the ref an excuse to call you and UND lacked that awareness.

From the second minute of the second period until there were five minutes to go in the second overtime I thought Minnesota dominated the game. Shelby Amsley-Benzie kept UND in the game over that stretch and it bugs me that North Dakota may have finally found a goalie. For the rest of the second OT, it was suddenly the Gophers that looked like the tireder team, though I'd love to know what it would have been like if McMillen and Brausen had been taking regular shifts the whole time. By the third OT the game was basically a crap shoot as everyone was exhausted.

I stand by my previously expressed opinion that I would rather have played anyone but North Dakota today. It's not just that I think that they're better than what the Pairwise says, but I am also convinced that they don't play as well against any other team. I've seen several games that they've played against other teams and it's like night and day.
 
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Missed one point. As much as I love the way she plays, I don't think Kelly Terry scored the winning goal. The replays I saw during and after the men's game tonight made it look like Rachel Bona banked the puck in off of Amsley-Benzie and that it was in before Terry got there.
 
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polarbear2 said:
Classic game....gotta feel bad for the ND women..
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They played their hearts out and have every reason to be proud of the effort they gave. Against most goalies it would have been enough.
 
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Eeyore said:
Then to give McMillen a major for checking from behind on that play was one of the worst calls I've ever seen
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UMD fans can relate.

In the 2009 Frozen Four Semi Final Game vs UW Holmlov got a 5 minute major and was tossed after she tripped and fell into a UW player from behind. (I can`t recall if she was tripped by a UW player or not, and if so, whether it was inadvertent or not). The game was close until then...UMD immediately went into shock and then started to emotionally implode...it was visible. By the end of the major they had begun to regain their composure but the damage was already done and it was irrepairable. I don`t recall for sure if UW scored once or twice during that major (I seem to think it was twice) but the game was noticeably lost on a bad call.

At least your team didn`t suffer the same fate toinight.
 
Re: 2013 NCAA Quarterfinal: North Dakota @ Minnesota

Eeyore said:
Observations:

North Dakota came out with a ridiculously aggressive forecheck and that gave the Gophers fits in the first period. Minnesota made adjustments in the first intermission and forced UND to change their game plan and that was the big change in the run of play.

The refs were brutal. Rachel Ramsey got drilled into the boards in the first period with no call. The same thing happened to Bethany Brausen, who only took one shift the rest of the way (in the third OT). Then to give McMillen a major for checking from behind on that play was one of the worst calls I've ever seen, given what had been let go. I was fine with giving her two minutes for checking, but a major means the refs don't even know the rule; if anything, the direction of the check was away from the boards.

I don't want to hear any North Dakota fans complaining about the calls in overtime. Not only were all of them clear penalties, they each came seconds after the ref had let an equally clear penalty go uncalled. You have to have enough discipline to recognize a moment when you simply can't do anything that would give the ref an excuse to call you and UND lacked that awareness.

From the second minute of the second period until there were five minutes to go in the second overtime I thought Minnesota dominated the game. Shelby Amsley-Benzie kept UND in the game over that stretch and it bugs me that North Dakota may have finally found a goalie. For the rest of the second OT, it was suddenly the Gophers that looked like the tireder team, though I'd love to know what it would have been like if McMillen and Brausen had been taking regular shifts the whole time. By the third OT the game was basically a crap shoot as everyone was exhausted.

I stand by my previously expressed opinion that I would rather have played anyone but North Dakota today. It's not just that I think that they're better than what the Pairwise says, but I am also convinced that they don't play as well against any other team. I've seen several games that they've played against other teams and it's like night and day.
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The last call prevented a scoring chance correct? Just curious. :)
 
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Eeyore said:
Not sure, but it was a ridiculously blatant trip. And the one that wasn't called just before it did prevent a scoring chance.
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Cool...just hate to see games decided by stripes. It's a tough job, but making it fair shouldn't be. :)
 
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