Western fans never gave Quinnipiac any credit the whole year. They're imposters, they didn't play anybody, weak high school schedule, yada yada yada. Ohio State-check, Michigan-check, Minnesota-check. You got anybody else? At the end of it all the BIG$$ is left with poop running down their leg! Oh and the EZAC owns Minnesota!
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Frozen Four 2023: Three Blue Bloods and and Upstart
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SiouxFanatic
Registered User
North Dakota played both Quinnipiac and Minnesota in the regular season. Back to back weekends even. If we didn't know before, UND fans knew after that QU was going to make noise in the tournament.
Slap Shot
I got nothing
2002 called - it said to get over it and stop living vicariously through other programs.
walrus
Wind up workin' in a gas station
Isnt that the last time Minnie was gifted, I mean won a championship. Oh yeah it was 03.
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
That would be 11, but who's counting?
No 2020. Had we had that, we'd have 4 in 11.
Slap Shot
I got nothing
You can choose to remember (and whine about) it however you wish. ;^)
Terry Switzer
New member
Still behind Wisconsin, Minnesota UW Men have 6 UW Women have 7 titles. Your state is not the state of Hockey anymore Wisconsin is.
ExileOnDaytonStreet
Drunkard
Sigh
Yes we have more titles, but that’s about it, as far as the men’s team goes
Hockeybuckeye
Well-known member
ESPN2 really pi*sed me off switching over to Sportscenter too soon after the end of the game making me miss the awards and troph presentations!
SonofSouthie
Misanthrope
Congrats to the Cats! Went to bed after regulation 1)Figured OT was gonna be an all-nighter and B)I'm old. Looking back I probably coulda make 15 minutes and 10 seconds.
ExileOnDaytonStreet
Drunkard
There’s a lot to comment on this, but I’ll just present three tweets and say that I’m filing them away under “Gopher hockey exceptionalism, where what makes something a travesty really only comes down to whether or not it hurts the Gophers specifically, and we’re not just talking about the rubes”
Slo-mo replay of the penalty:
https://twitter.com/cjzero/status/1644891125247877124?s=46&t=Sey3IkLvaMa5TsQkWs_vpw
How the official MN account describes it:
https://twitter.com/gopherhockey/status/1644886681756086273?s=46&t=Sey3IkLvaMa5TsQkWs_vpw
How MN’s best beat reporter comments on it:
https://twitter.com/jessrmyers/status/1644886897544577024?s=46&t=Sey3IkLvaMa5TsQkWs_vpw
Slo-mo replay of the penalty:
https://twitter.com/cjzero/status/1644891125247877124?s=46&t=Sey3IkLvaMa5TsQkWs_vpw
How the official MN account describes it:
https://twitter.com/gopherhockey/status/1644886681756086273?s=46&t=Sey3IkLvaMa5TsQkWs_vpw
How MN’s best beat reporter comments on it:
https://twitter.com/jessrmyers/status/1644886897544577024?s=46&t=Sey3IkLvaMa5TsQkWs_vpw
Slap Shot
I got nothing
Just because the second tweet was off doesn't mean the tweet from Jess was. The guy was clearly holding Cooley's stick. Both deserved a call but in the end it doesn't matter - Q dominated much of the game and earned the win.
Curiously what do you find so incredulous about the fact some fans (perhaps) reacted poorly to a heartbreaking loss? And apparently only fans of this team would ever react in this way right?
At GPL there isn't one person blaming the loss on the Cooley penalty even if many disagree with it. The opinions on the loss range from bad coaching, to the players panicking, to Close uncharacteristically letting in a weak goal or two. To act as if venting in the moment is such a bizarre thing for people to do is itself quite bizarre.
Curiously what do you find so incredulous about the fact some fans (perhaps) reacted poorly to a heartbreaking loss? And apparently only fans of this team would ever react in this way right?
At GPL there isn't one person blaming the loss on the Cooley penalty even if many disagree with it. The opinions on the loss range from bad coaching, to the players panicking, to Close uncharacteristically letting in a weak goal or two. To act as if venting in the moment is such a bizarre thing for people to do is itself quite bizarre.
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ScoobyDoo
NPC
I really don't think that penalty like the penalty in the first minutes of the game had any bearing on the outcome.
This Gophers team reminds me so much of the Holy Cross debacle. Regular Season champions couldn't get it done in the playoffs. I use the term Minnesota Sports and Lynx Fans and UMD fans get upset. Call it the Big 7 in the state sports then for the Minneapolis Market. Gopher Football, Basketball, and Hockey. And the 4 men's professional teams. None of them can get it done when there's hardware on the line.
That might have been the greatest team Minnesota ever assembled last night. 1989 team comes close. Both lost. To ECAC schools winning their first championship.
I'd argue that winning so much in the regular season bores you for playoffs but then I remember Alabama football, or New England Patriot football.
That was an epic collapse last night. It will always be remembered.
The one saying "Cools was absolutely mauled" is quite hilarious. Just a complete alternate reality.
ExileOnDaytonStreet
Drunkard
I know, and I believe you. I don’t mean to say that to impugn all of you, it’s a normal thing that lots of fanbases have and you expect it from a certain percentage of the rubes, as opposed to the normal level-headed fans like you.
But it is funny (and sort of fits the stereotype) whenever that attitude metastasizes into the official channels.
To borrow a phrase from one of my favorite podcasts: it’s a self-contained opinion bubble
ZYanksRule
GO BOBCATS!!
There was also an incredibly soft hooking penalty called on Quinnipiac in the third period. The Cooley penalty was pretty clearly a make-up call. There should never be make-up calls, either they're penalties or they're not, but I understand (and thank) the officials for calling it after taking two minutes away from our comeback on the soft call they made on Brind'Amour in the third.
Sean Pickett
2009 NCAA Champions
As I said, IIRC the formula counts recent titles more heavily. That said, in many of your posts you are arbitrarily using 50 years as a cutoff, conveniently just before Minnesota won their first National Championship.
As for Minnesota's football championship comparison: 1) 5 of the 6 were before the NCAA started what is now known as the Frozen Four, so more than 75 years ago, and 2) college football didn't have an actual tournament until very recently. Before then the polls picked the champions. Oh, wait, you keep going on how Minnesota was #1 in every single poll so you obviously think that the poll voters should decide the national champion and not some playoff tournament that allows the best team to lose on the ice (in both of their tournament championships).
First, I'm not one of "you people who love to prop up Michigan and Denver." I dislike Michigan very much, along with North Dakota, while I'm neutral about Denver. I used to like Minnesota and I've meet many great Minnesota fans, some in person and some on-line. However, this year not so much.
I'm not sure what your problem is with Canadian players, and calling it traitorous to have them on a team is extreme. However, your comments clearly show why you hate Denver so much, as you were clearly influenced by Minnesota's past complaints of unfair play by Denver under Coach Armstrong. However, to the best of my knowledge that complaint was never made against Michigan, so I'm a bit confused by the rage against them.
Sean
What happened to the guy that used to remind us about Minnesota relying on players from Minnesota? I wonder what he thinks about a soon to be 25 year old from Saskatchewan between the pipes...
Or the fact Logan Cooley is from PA, Knies from AZ, Eiserman from MA. The Gophers are going all out to end this 20+ year drought!!!
Or the fact Logan Cooley is from PA, Knies from AZ, Eiserman from MA. The Gophers are going all out to end this 20+ year drought!!!