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Declaring Our Independence: UAH 2010-11, Part the First

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While Saunders' performance was quite amazing, getting a win while being outshot 58 - 17 is a story that's more embarrassing than anything i.m.h.o.
 
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tnlong said:
While Saunders' performance was quite amazing, getting a win while being outshot 58 - 17 is a story that's more embarrassing than anything i.m.h.o.
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SOG is the single most over-rated stat in the history of sports. I remember UNO chirping about out-shooting Quinnipiac 112-62 yet getting swept the weekend before BSU went down there and took 3 pts., and all I could think about was how UNO's shots when they came up here were all from the outside and not very threatening at all. The old, UNO out-shot BSU, but BSU out-chanced them. I mean, we even talked about it at length on College Hockey Tonight, where a coach can preach that any shot on goal is a good shot on goal (and there is some truth to this), but if almost every sog comes from the blue line or the corner, how much does that help? Just something I've noticed about UNO...
 
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moose97 said:
SOG is the single most over-rated stat in the history of sports. I remember UNO chirping about out-shooting Quinnipiac 112-62 yet getting swept the weekend before BSU went down there and took 3 pts., and all I could think about was how UNO's shots when they came up here were all from the outside and not very threatening at all. The old, UNO out-shot BSU, but BSU out-chanced them. I mean, we even talked about it at length on College Hockey Tonight, where a coach can preach that any shot on goal is a good shot on goal (and there is some truth to this), but if almost every sog comes from the blue line or the corner, how much does that help? Just something I've noticed about UNO...
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RBI and wins for a pitcher are overrated. SOG does need a lot of context.

GFM
 
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gfmorris said:
RBI and wins for a pitcher are overrated. SOG does need a lot of context.

GFM
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To continue this tangent for a moment, baseball has at least about a dozen other major statistical metrics that can help one judge players/teams/games. In hockey, if someone can't actually watch a game and only looks at a box score (and can't even read a story or talk to those involved), they are left to assume that SOG is a good measure of which team outplayed the other when that isn't close to true. That's why, IMHO, SOG is far worse than the stats you provide for baseball where the same (just looking at boxscores) is true...
 
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moose97 said:
To continue this tangent for a moment, baseball has at least about a dozen other major statistical metrics that can help one judge players/teams/games. In hockey, if someone can't actually watch a game and only looks at a box score (and can't even read a story or talk to those involved), they are left to assume that SOG is a good measure of which team outplayed the other when that isn't close to true. That's why, IMHO, SOG is far worse than the stats you provide for baseball where the same (just looking at boxscores) is true...
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There's plenty of work on better hockey metrics, but that's newer and less-recognized.

GFM
 
Re: Declaring Our Independence: UAH 2010-11, Part the First

Here's a local Forest City, IA article on Doug Ross... complete with his new home address!?!
http://www.albertleatribune.com/2011/02/01/the-new-coach/

And about UAH Hockey coverage this year... virtually non-existant. Apparently The Times takes the approach of win or we'll ignore you... They weren't even listed as playing in the what's going on this weekend section of sports a couple times this year for HOME GAMES!!! The BBall team is winning so is getting ALL the coverage. Completely disgusting...
 
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gfmorris said:
Home address? Wow. Also, "Deerborn". Heh.

GFM
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And Waldorf is in Forest City, Iowa, while they are going to play their games in Albert Lea, MN. That is 35 miles one way. I know at UAH you don't have an on campus rink, but this is a hike.

Mason City, which used to host the North Iowa Huskies (USHL) and then the North Iowa Outlaws (NAHL) is also 35 miles away. I guess they will be traveling for home games and practice.
 
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beaverhockeyfan said:
And Waldorf is in Forest City, Iowa, while they are going to play their games in Albert Lea, MN. That is 35 miles one way. I know at UAH you don't have an on campus rink, but this is a hike.
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That's not quite as bad as Mississippi State's club team playing and practicing in Decatur, AL, but it's close.

GFM
 
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I was checking to see if the game brought his save percentage above .900 (no, it's .898) when I noticed that EMPTY NET has played in 16 games. :( :eek: ;)
 
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Douglas said:
Knock knock...
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I'm here. :)

UAH is raising all the banners for 2009-10 and 2010 fall sports tonight at the basketball games at Spragins. This means they'll hang banners for the 2010 CHA win and making the 2010 NCAAs. Saw a number of players at Saturday night's games as, for once, they weren't on the road.

GFM
 
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Re: Declaring Our Independence: UAH 2010-11, Part the First

Douglas and Terry, check out the Penn State - Div I 2.0 thread. Do you have any insight as to the Penn State claim to the ACHA national championship in 1984 and runner-up in 1985? You two should remember our boys won in 1984 (against Miami) and lost to NDSU (ugh) in 1985. Was ACHA a different organization way back when from the one that ran the tournament we all attended at the VBCC? Curiously, PSU WAS the runner-up (to UAH) in 1983, and that is correctly listed. So, I'm a bit mystified by this. Want the Chargers to get their due.
 
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wsp67326 said:
Douglas and Terry, check out the Penn State - Div I 2.0 thread. Do you have any insight as to the Penn State claim to the ACHA national championship in 1984 and runner-up in 1985? You two should remember our boys won in 1984 (against Miami) and lost to NDSU (ugh) in 1985. Was ACHA a different organization way back when from the one that ran the tournament we all attended at the VBCC? Curiously, PSU WAS the runner-up (to UAH) in 1983, and that is correctly listed. So, I'm a bit mystified by this. Want the Chargers to get their due.
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Interesting.... The ACHA wasn't founded until 1991 according to their website. Before that, I believe it was called National Club Hockey, but could be mistaken. Did National Club Hockey have different divisions like the ACHA currently has, and therefore more than one champion each year?
 
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beaverhockeyfan said:
Interesting.... The ACHA wasn't founded until 1991 according to their website. Before that, I believe it was called National Club Hockey, but could be mistaken. Did National Club Hockey have different divisions like the ACHA currently has, and therefore more than one champion each year?
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I looked that up, too. I can't find any reference to ACHA pre-1991. Not only that, but the 1983-84 and 1984-85 seasons included games between UAH and PSU during the regular season, so what ACHA would have existed if the two teams played each other in such a manner during the year? I am mighty confused here. My recollection was that it was call National Club Hockey, too (hence the "National Club Hockey Championship"); perhaps there was a sub-club team?

Geof, Douglas, someone, please also have Jamie correct the historical notes to reflect the fact that they defeated Miami on 3/5/84, not Ohio, to win the national championship. Considering it was such an important piece of Charger lore, I can't believe the athletic department would have messed that bit of information up so badly.
 
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