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Alaska Nanooks, 2011-12 Season Thread - The Long Goodbye.

Re: Alaska Nanooks, 2011-12 Season Thread - The Long Goodbye.

I couldn't BELIEVE it when neither of the refs apparently saw Andy Taranto put into a full headlock for a good 3-5 seconds, then losing his helmet trying to get out of it. I'm not sure if they didn't see it because the other WMU players were covering the sightlines with their bodies. It was like a huddle and the WMU players pointedly continued to block the sight by surrounding the both of them until he could untangle. Earlier in the game Andy had something else done to him off a faceoff that resulted in him face down on the ice with a WMU player standing over him that somehow had his hand trapped in his jersey. The game was so poorly reffed and with so many uncalled cheap shots that I've got on tape, I'm on the fence about assembling a reel to forward.
 
Re: Alaska Nanooks, 2011-12 Season Thread - The Long Goodbye.

Methodical, can you cut a few clips together? Do you have an angle on the hit that Greenham took? I'd sure like to post that.
 
Re: Alaska Nanooks, 2011-12 Season Thread - The Long Goodbye.

mmf said:
But if they compete in all their games like they did tonight then they will win their fair share. Their effort deserved a better fate. Unfortunately, fate was wearing a striped shirt.
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Agreed. I am mainly sore because we had to take a moral victory against a team that, quite frankly, had no business coming into our barn and pushing us around for two straight games.
 
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The situation with Greenham last night also made me happy that Steve Thompson saw some time last week after spending the last season and a half opening the door on the bench. If Greenham were to get hurt, I think it would set the team back if we didn't have a backup with at least some game experience. Hopefully Thompson gets the nod again over the course of this season; it also helps us out for next season, assuming that he becomes the #1 guy after Greenham graduates this year.
 
Re: Alaska Nanooks, 2011-12 Season Thread - The Long Goodbye.

Squarebanks said:
Agreed. I am mainly sore because we had to take a moral victory against a team that, quite frankly, had no business coming into our barn and pushing us around for two straight games.
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I thought WMU controlled play Friday night but the Nooks definitely turned that around Saturday, we just didn't capitalize and score. We had a number of grade A opportunities. The calls against us weren’t that bad, it's just that the same stuff didn't seem to be called against WMU.

WMU only had 19 SOGs, and five of them were on the PPs, where they went 0-8. So the Nooks really kept WMU, a pretty good team, on their heels at full strength.

I'm concerned how banged up and how depleted our bench is this early in the season. And it's not minor stuff. A weekend off or even winter break may not help much, and that's a ways off.

Another gut-check test at OSU this weekend.

Go Nooks!
 
Re: Alaska Nanooks, 2011-12 Season Thread - The Long Goodbye.

Squarebanks said:
Agreed. I am mainly sore because we had to take a moral victory against a team that, quite frankly, had no business coming into our barn and pushing us around for two straight games.
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psst.....We fired Culhane. In fact, you probably saw his last game.
 
Re: Alaska Nanooks, 2011-12 Season Thread - The Long Goodbye.

Squarebanks said:
The situation with Greenham last night also made me happy that Steve Thompson saw some time last week after spending the last season and a half opening the door on the bench. If Greenham were to get hurt, I think it would set the team back if we didn't have a backup with at least some game experience. Hopefully Thompson gets the nod again over the course of this season; it also helps us out for next season, assuming that he becomes the #1 guy after Greenham graduates this year.
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I saw something about Greenham on the scores thread last night, did he get injured? It seems neither of the Alaska teams had good showings this past weekend. :(
 
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bronconick said:
psst.....We fired Culhane. In fact, you probably saw his last game.
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Yes, I remember that season fondly.

Although I did point out earlier that this isn't the same WMU squad of yore. I'd say the coaching investment has paid off for the Broncos.
 
Re: Alaska Nanooks, 2011-12 Season Thread - The Long Goodbye.

mmf said:
I thought WMU controlled play Friday night but the Nooks definitely turned that around Saturday, we just didn't capitalize and score. We had a number of grade A opportunities. The calls against us weren’t that bad, it's just that the same stuff didn't seem to be called against WMU.

WMU only had 19 SOGs, and five of them were on the PPs, where they went 0-8. So the Nooks really kept WMU, a pretty good team, on their heels at full strength.

I'm concerned how banged up and how depleted our bench is this early in the season. And it's not minor stuff. A weekend off or even winter break may not help much, and that's a ways off.

Another gut-check test at OSU this weekend.

Go Nooks!
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I was proud of the 3rd Period comeback last night. I mentioned this on the score thread, but we haven't typically been a comeback team under Ferguson; seems like anything more than a two goal deficit we have a hard time dealing with. Unfortunately, these early season setbacks aren't going to help the rankings come March.

This Ohio State series is intriguing with the Thursday-Friday setup. Hopefully the odd schedule doesn't throw too much of a loop at us, because those are two winnable games, and we could certainly use the points.
 
Re: Alaska Nanooks, 2011-12 Season Thread - The Long Goodbye.

Suze said:
I saw something about Greenham on the scores thread last night, did he get injured? It seems neither of the Alaska teams had good showings this past weekend. :(
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I don't think he's hurt (at least nothing has been published to that effect). Ferguson did call out the no-call on that play in the postgame conference, which is not something you normally hear Dallas do. There was some very questionable officiating this weekend, and it went both ways too.
 
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We certainly are beginning to look like a hard luck team. Need some puck luck to break out of the funk. Keep playing hard boys, the wins will come.

We give up a goal against OSU :38 seconds into the game tonight and get outshot 9-2 in the 1st. We then take control of play and outshoot OSU 34-13 the rest of the game, but give up the tying pp goal about midway through the 3rd in a 2-2 tie. The Nooks outshot OSU 18-4 in the third.

After a rough start the boys sounded like they played fairly well. I understand we only have one healthy reserve player traveling, so I hope we made it though tonight's game without more injuries. Lets get our first CCHA win tomorrow night.

Go Nooks!
 
Re: Alaska Nanooks, 2011-12 Season Thread - The Long Goodbye.

mmf said:
We certainly are beginning to look like a hard luck team. Need some puck luck to break out of the funk. Keep playing hard boys, the wins will come.

We give up a goal against OSU :38 seconds into the game tonight and get outshot 9-2 in the 1st. We then take control of play and outshoot OSU 34-13 the rest of the game, but give up the tying pp goal about midway through the 3rd in a 2-2 tie. The Nooks outshot OSU 18-4 in the third.

After a rough start the boys sounded like they played fairly well. I understand we only have one healthy reserve player traveling, so I hope we made it though tonight's game without more injuries. Lets get our first CCHA win tomorrow night.

Go Nooks!
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The game was 0-0 going into the 3rd period ohio state did score first but alaska scored 2 goals a minute apart to take the lead. Ohio state then tied it with a PPG late. Alaska outplayed the bucks for the last half of the game and deserved to win.
 
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klbaum1077 said:
The game was 0-0 going into the 3rd period ohio state did score first but alaska scored 2 goals a minute apart to take the lead. Ohio state then tied it with a PPG late. Alaska outplayed the bucks for the last half of the game and deserved to win.
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What he said. Don't pay attention what I wrote, pay attention to what I meant to say. :o Gave up early goal in the third, not early in the game. I guess I shouldn't drink and post.

We had a bad first period, controlled play for about two periods, couldn't bury the puck when it counted. Maybe tonight.

Go Nooks!
 
Re: Alaska Nanooks, 2011-12 Season Thread - The Long Goodbye.

mmf said:
We had a bad first period, controlled play for about two periods, couldn't bury the puck when it counted. Maybe tonight.

Go Nooks!
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Sadly, "Maybe tonight" didn't quite materialize. I didn't watch or listen, but it seemed like a gong show from the beginning.

I hate to put this much pressure on early in the season, but if we don't get between 4 and 6 points against Miami next weekend it's going to be tough to get playoff home ice, let alone anything resembling a bye or that magical land known as the NCAA tournament.
 
Re: Alaska Nanooks, 2011-12 Season Thread - The Long Goodbye.

Good news...GCI will show all UAF hockey games live statewide (tape delayed in Fairbanks) starting this Friday against Miami.
 
Re: Alaska Nanooks, 2011-12 Season Thread - The Long Goodbye.

College Hockey News has a nice article about Kaare Odegard and Shawn Head starting a foundation to benefit the heart center at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital.
 
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Five games in and dead last in the CCHA. Double you tee eff.

Outshot Miami 30-14 and still can't win. Sad thing is that we controlled most of that game.

Greenham does not look like himself. I'm not a coach by any means, but considering that we don't have much to lose at this point, if I was in charge I'd give Thompson a start tomorrow and see what happens...at the very least it gives Scott some extra rest and time to heal up. He has taken a physical beating from opposing players crashing the net.
 
Re: Alaska Nanooks, 2011-12 Season Thread - The Long Goodbye.

Alaska Hockey said:
I take for granted you didn’t get your degree in Geography. Alaska is a big state ..........we have boroughs (county’s) larger than the state of Minnesota.
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Be nice, Alaska Hockey, or someone might notice that you didn't get your degree in English.;) (You meant "counties," I think.} BadgerAlum, the answer is yes. The storm isn't near us, though.
 
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