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Bale said:
Remember, we lost to Ferris a couple of weeks ago. That would also have been "the perfect" opportunity. Nothing is a given.
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Mankato played a horse shit defensive game (gave up almost 2x their season average in sog) and only scored one. Also, Ferris Wheel has legitimate DI players. UST does ... not. There's also no reason McKay had to play the 3rd with a 7-0 lead and shots 25-9, other than stats padding.

Edit - I will reserve final judgment until tomorrow's game. There is ZERO reason he should start that one. There is no better opportunity to get the backup ice time
 
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manurespreader said:
I would have thought they would have given the start to the back up. the guy works hard all year. Give him some motivation. And appealing a play just to get the shutout I thought was bush.
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A. You don't know that "the guy" works hard all year. Neither do I. What I do know is that Coach Hastings says that those who work hard and do well in practice will get ice time.

B. Why not appeal the goal. Neither you nor I know that they would have scored if they were onside. I am assuming that on another thread (because it's not on this thread) you have complained about Blasi appealing a goal when they were down 6 or 7 goals and had no chance to win.

C. Every game is important to win. If we lost there would be pairwise implications that may be very important at the end of the year.

D. I will never question the choices that Hastings makes. Our prior coach, not so much.
 
Every player on every team in NCAA D1 hockey is working their butt off. If he wasn't he'd be gone. Second, it sure looks like a shallow, bush league action.And third, Isn't part of the coaches job to develop players?
 
moose97 said:
Edit - I will reserve final judgment until tomorrow's game. There is ZERO reason he should start that one. There is no better opportunity to get the backup ice time
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9 saves and another "shut out" tonight. He must be
SO proud
 
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I've been tweeting with the CCHA about the complexity of calculating points on the standings page. The W column includes overtime/shootout wins, so if you start with wins x 3, you have to subtract a point to account for the implied tie in an overtime/shootout win and add a point for a shootout/overtime loss. I suggested the obvious: 3 for a win, 1 for a tie, and plus one for an OT/shootout win, which is what it boils down to but the presentation is nuts. The reply was "we don't have ties," so I should have specified regulation win and regulation tie. Earlier this evening, Northern and Ferris had ties shown (I have a screen shot! :-) but that has been corrected.
 
Gotta admit, I'm a little confused by all the great coaching advice here. We're supposed to play the backup goalie to "develop players," but we're also playing a team whose players were described as not Division 1. So we're preparing the backup goalie to play D3?
 
purpleinnebraska said:
Gotta admit, I'm a little confused by all the great coaching advice here. We're supposed to play the backup goalie to "develop players," but we're also playing a team whose players were described as not Division 1. So we're preparing the backup goalie to play D3?
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Can't get game experience sitting on the bench. As well as McKay has played, what happens if he gets hurt? FFS, UMD had to replace their goalie in what, the 3ot last year? Because he couldn't continue? Awesome plan for Mankato to get to that point & have the backup never play a game
 
moose97 said:
Can't get game experience sitting on the bench. As well as McKay has played, what happens if he gets hurt? FFS, UMD had to replace their goalie in what, the 3ot last year? Because he couldn't continue? Awesome plan for Mankato to get to that point & have the backup never play a game
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And if McKay gets hurt in the 3rd OT of an NCAA Regional Final, that backup could go into the game and everyone would say, "He's got this. It's just like a November game against St. Thomas"? I think our backups are a lot better prepared facing our guys every day in practice than facing guys you described as not D1 hockey players.
 
purpleinnebraska said:
And if McKay gets hurt in the 3rd OT of an NCAA Regional Final, that backup could go into the game and everyone would say, "He's got this. It's just like a November game against St. Thomas"? I think our backups are a lot better prepared facing our guys every day in practice than facing guys you described as not D1 hockey players.
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Overall, I feel like it is a good idea to get a 2nd goalie with some real, game-time experience. Even if that is against the bottom 25% teams, it is still game experience that will help if your #1 gets hurt. McKay is great - but Mavericks should be giving goalie #2 some ice time.
 
purpleinnebraska said:
I think our backups are a lot better prepared facing our guys every day in practice than facing guys you described as not D1 hockey players.
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While I would agree that the talent level on Makato's roster is far above that of StT, I would disagree that playing in practice against better players is better experience than game play against lower talent players. Nothing in a practice, scrimmage, intra-squad, exhibition, etc will ever be a game situation. It is clear that MSU plans to ride McKay either to success or until he breaks down. He could take them to the promised land, or it could be a huge issue if McKay gets injured and MSU loses key games with an inexperianced back-up in net.
 
JohnsonsJerseys said:
While I would agree that the talent level on Makato's roster is far above that of StT, I would disagree that playing in practice against better players is better experience than game play against lower talent players. Nothing in a practice, scrimmage, intra-squad, exhibition, etc will ever be a game situation. It is clear that MSU plans to ride McKay either to success or until he breaks down. He could take them to the promised land, or it could be a huge issue if McKay gets injured and MSU loses key games with an inexperianced back-up in net.
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It's also clear Mankato doesn't have much experience playing against Rico. No way I'd leave my #1 in for two games if I thought there was that much talent gap in front of them.
 
So, McKay just HAD to start those two games vs UST to pad his stats then gives the backup a start vs LSSU (due to "illness")... Bet they wish this kid had a start under his belt before giving up a goal on his first SOG he ever faced lololol
 
moose97 said:
So, McKay just HAD to start those two games vs UST to pad his stats then gives the backup a start vs LSSU (due to "illness")... Bet they wish this kid had a start under his belt before giving up a goal on his first SOG he ever faced lololol
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Aaannnddd, that stands up as the only goal of the game. Hilarious
 
moose97 said:
So, McKay just HAD to start those two games vs UST to pad his stats then gives the backup a start vs LSSU (due to "illness")... Bet they wish this kid had a start under his belt before giving up a goal on his first SOG he ever faced lololol
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Five players were out with illness tonight. So why do you put McKay's illness in quotes? You really need to stop obsessing about this. Yeah, he gave up a goal on the first shot he faced because he didn't have "a start under his belt." That's it. He was fine. He gave up one goal all night. I doubt that the coaches are sitting around saying "damn, we lost because the goalie wasn't prepared."
 
MavsFan said:
You really need to stop obsessing about this.
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Y'all won't shut up about how McKay keeps getting screwed over for the Richter, so this is what you get when Mankato puts his stats (starting him vs UST) over the long-term good of the team. Flipping to see the goal, then the end of the game was almost better than watching Northern kicking the crap out of BG...
 
MavsFan said:
Five players were out with illness tonight. So why do you put McKay's illness in quotes? You really need to stop obsessing about this. Yeah, he gave up a goal on the first shot he faced because he didn't have "a start under his belt." That's it. He was fine. He gave up one goal all night. I doubt that the coaches are sitting around saying "damn, we lost because the goalie wasn't prepared."
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Give it up. You can't have a rational discussion with someone that dumb. He actually argued that St. Thomas isn't a D1 team, and that's why playing our backup goalie against them would get that goalie ready for a D1 game. ???? Now he's arguing that a goalie who gave up one goal (on a breakaway, no less, by LSSU's best player) cost us the game. It's a special level of stupid. You can't reason with it.
 
Honestly I'm more concerned that BSU managed to hurt their tournament chances by losing a winnable game last night. Maybe they were over-confident, I don't know, but those things come back to haunt you. ask BG.
 
purpleinnebraska said:
He actually argued that St. Thomas isn't a D1 team, and that's why playing our backup goalie against them would get that goalie ready for a D1 game. ????
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That you don't comprehend the intensity difference between practice and a game tells me all I need to know about your hockey IQ. Several others agreed with me. \_(ツ)_/
 
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