Final Five Quarterfinals: St, Clooud vs. Fighting Whioux

[Duder]

Re: Final Five Quarterfinals: St, Clooud vs. Fighting Whioux

North Dakota is 2-8-1 in games where we score 2 goals or less. The Sioux are 20-4-2 when scoring 3 goals or more.

Faragher also had a 40 save performance in a 3-1 victory over North Dakota as well, so it certainly was not just a 1 game thing. Lee is something like 0-5-1 against North Dakota in his career, allowing at least 3 goals in each of his starts. I'll take Lee 7 days a week and twice on Thursday over Faragher. Also, I was wrong on Faragher's stats. He has allowed 7 goals on 148 shots (141 saves) for a .953 Save %. Lee has allowed 25 goals on 205 shots for a .878 Save % and a 4.41 GAA against North Dakota.

Well when you put it that way... Mike Lee starts.

Those numbers are pretty dang impressive for Faragher though. I guess as a SCSU fan I don't think I would favor one over the other. Lee is playing great right now, and Faragher has preformed very well against UND. Just glad I don't have to make the decision.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: Final Five Quarterfinals: St, Clooud vs. Fighting Whioux

North Dakota is 2-8-1 in games where we score 2 goals or less. The Sioux are 20-4-2 when scoring 3 goals or more.

Isn't that pretty much true for every college team? Average goals per game for the best offensive teams run at about 4 and average goals against for the best defensive teams run at about 2.

In fact best GAA team is Union with 1.83. WCHA is Minnesota at 2.10.
Best Goals Per Game Team is UMD with 3.66.

Generally first team to 3 in a college game usually wins.

 

[First Time Long Time]

Re: Final Five Quarterfinals: St, Clooud vs. Fighting Whioux

North Dakota is 2-8-1 in games where we score 2 goals or less. The Sioux are 20-4-2 when scoring 3 goals or more.

Faragher also had a 40 save performance in a 3-1 victory over North Dakota as well, so it certainly was not just a 1 game thing. Lee is something like 0-5-1 against North Dakota in his career, allowing at least 3 goals in each of his starts. I'll take Lee 7 days a week and twice on Thursday over Faragher. Also, I was wrong on Faragher's stats. He has allowed 7 goals on 148 shots (141 saves) for a .953 Save %. Lee has allowed 25 goals on 205 shots for a .878 Save % and a 4.41 GAA against North Dakota.

Lee also didn't play against UND this year and this is the best team defense Lee has ever had in front of him and Faragher benefited greatly from that.
I really don't put much stock in Lee's previous numbers as he is a vastly improved goalie and this is a better team.

 

[Fighting Sioux 23]

Re: Final Five Quarterfinals: St, Clooud vs. Fighting Whioux

Lee also didn't play against UND this year and this is the best team defense Lee has ever had in front of him.
I really don't put much stock in Lee's previous numbers as he is a vastly improved goalie and this is a better team.

Better than the 2010 team that nearly won the Broadmoor and almost made the Frozen Four? I disagree.

 

[First Time Long Time]

Re: Final Five Quarterfinals: St, Clooud vs. Fighting Whioux

Better than the 2010 team that nearly won the Broadmoor and almost made the Frozen Four? I disagree.

In terms of team defense, this team is better.
This team has a low goals per game allowed than that team and has much better talent up and down the d-core than the 2010 team.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: Final Five Quarterfinals: St, Clooud vs. Fighting Whioux

SCSU gave up 2.63 goals per game.
UND gave up 2.65.

UND scored 3.14 goals per game.
SCSU scored 3.15.

These two are dead even. Should be a good game.

 

[scsutommyboy]

Re: Final Five Quarterfinals: St, Clooud vs. Fighting Whioux

In terms of team defense, this team is better.
This team has a low goals per game allowed than that team and has much better talent up and down the d-core than the 2010 team.

This years defense started out rough with a bunch of young guys trying to mesh together but man have they been playing great at the end of the season. The 2010 team was all about offense with much better forward depth than we have on this team.

 

[Fighting Sioux 23]

Re: Final Five Quarterfinals: St, Clooud vs. Fighting Whioux

In terms of team defense, this team is better.
This team has a low goals per game allowed than that team and has much better talent up and down the d-core than the 2010 team.

Fair enough. The differences are not that great though to explain the huge discrepancies between Lee and Faragher against North Dakota. I am still hoping that Faragher gets left on the bench to start the game against the Sioux. However, if Lee is playing, there is a pretty good chance that we see Faragher playing by mid-second period after Lee gets pulled.

 

[willythekid]

Re: Final Five Quarterfinals: St, Clooud vs. Fighting Whioux

SCSU gave up 2.63 goals per game.
UND gave up 2.65.

UND scored 3.14 goals per game.
SCSU scored 3.15.

These two are dead even. Should be a good game.

except in the pairwise... my money is on UND. This time of year, a loss to jan would be tough to swallow.

 

[Fighting Sioux 23]

Re: Final Five Quarterfinals: St, Clooud vs. Fighting Whioux

SCSU gave up 2.63 goals per game.
UND gave up 2.65.

UND scored 3.14 goals per game.
SCSU scored 3.15.

These two are dead even. Should be a good game.

SCSU scored 3.13 goals per game this year.

Scoring Margin
North Dakota: +0.49
SCSU: +0.50

I do agree though that this should be a tight contest, and I feel that this game has overtime written all over it.

 

[First Time Long Time]

Re: Final Five Quarterfinals: St, Clooud vs. Fighting Whioux

Fair enough. The differences are not that great though to explain the huge discrepancies between Lee and Faragher against North Dakota. I am still hoping that Faragher gets left on the bench to start the game against the Sioux. However, if Lee is playing, there is a pretty good chance that we see Faragher playing by mid-second period after Lee gets pulled.

Again, Lee did not play UND this year, that isn't to take anything away from how Faragher played, but the defense in front of Lee and in front of Faragher has been much improved throughout the course of the season.
From what I recall of both of Faragher's wins, while he did have 40+ plus saves, the team did a good job both nights in limiting UND's quality scoring chances which is something they are doing very well right now as well.
Faragher will get left on the bench and Lee will not get pulled unless the team throws in a massive stinker.
Again, he is 6-3-1 with a 1.68 GAA and a .945 SV% since coming back.
This isn't the Lee you guys have seen before.

Although if he loses, it will give the Lee haters a built in excuse.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: Final Five Quarterfinals: St, Clooud vs. Fighting Whioux

SCSU scored 3.13 goals per game this year.

Scoring Margin
North Dakota: +0.49
SCSU: +0.50

I do agree though that this should be a tight contest, and I feel that this game has overtime written all over it.

I'm hoping for 6 Overtimes.

 

[First Time Long Time]

Re: Final Five Quarterfinals: St, Clooud vs. Fighting Whioux

This years defense started out rough with a bunch of young guys trying to mesh together but man have they been playing great at the end of the season. The 2010 team was all about offense with much better forward depth than we have on this team.

Yes that team was all about offense however that team only scored 3.20 per game and this one is 3.15.
The depth is likely a little better on the 2010 team because of the injuries and defections, but the numbers aren't far off offensively.

 

[Fighting Sioux 23]

Re: Final Five Quarterfinals: St, Clooud vs. Fighting Whioux

Again, Lee did not play UND this year, that isn't to take anything away from how Faragher played, but the defense in front of Lee and in front of Faragher has been much improved throughout the course of the season.
From what I recall of both of Faragher's wins, while he did have 40+ plus saves, the team did a good job both nights in limiting UND's quality scoring chances which is something they are doing very well right now as well.
Faragher will get left on the bench and Lee will not get pulled unless the team throws in a massive stinker.
Again, he is 6-3-1 with a 1.68 GAA and a .945 SV% since coming back.
This isn't the Lee you guys have seen before.

Although if he loses, it will give the Lee haters a built in excuse.

I do hope you recognize that I am not being serious. That being said, Lee is primed for an epic fail with those stats. Further, North Dakota is 12-0-0 in March over the last two seasons, so it probably doesn't even matter who is in the net for SCSU. Of course, I love to see goals, so I'm hoping that Mike "Red Light" Lee is between the pipes Thursday night.

Against North Dakota:
Ryan Faragher - 2-2-0, .953 Sv%, 1.77 GAA Yikes!
Mike "Red Light" Lee - 0-5-1, .878 Sv%, 4.41 GAA GOOOOOOAAAAAAAAALLLLLLL!!

 

[Fighting Sioux 23]

Re: Final Five Quarterfinals: St, Clooud vs. Fighting Whioux

I'm hoping for 6 Overtimes.

That might be the only way I get to see the game, as I won't get home until about 11pm Central Time.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: Final Five Quarterfinals: St, Clooud vs. Fighting Whioux

I do hope you recognize that I am not being serious. That being said, Lee is primed for an epic fail with those stats. Further, North Dakota is 12-0-0 in March over the last two seasons, so it probably doesn't even matter who is in the net for SCSU. Of course, I love to see goals, so I'm hoping that Mike "Red Light" Lee is between the pipes Thursday night.

Against North Dakota:
Ryan Faragher - 2-2-0, .953 Sv%, 1.77 GAA Yikes!
Mike "Red Light" Lee - 0-5-1, .878 Sv%, 4.41 GAA GOOOOOOAAAAAAAAALLLLLLL!!

Maybe they like the pretty light?

 

[First Time Long Time]

Re: Final Five Quarterfinals: St, Clooud vs. Fighting Whioux

Maybe they like the pretty light?

Well the school colors are red and black.

 

[Fighting Sioux 23]

Re: Final Five Quarterfinals: St, Clooud vs. Fighting Whioux

Maybe they like the pretty light?

I went into the future and captured this video footage of what would happen if Lee is in the nets on Thursday...for the most important footage, start at about 1:25...

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Please ignore names and dates, as in the future it is all messed up...

 

[state of hockey]

I'm hoping for 6 Overtimes.

Will it matter? They take on the Gophers on a Friday night.

 

[First Time Long Time]

Re: Final Five Quarterfinals: St, Clooud vs. Fighting Whioux

Nice of the Xcel Center to put our logo at center ice.