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Gopher Women's Hockey 2023-24

Hockeybuckeye said:
In Fridays game when Edwards knocked Murphy down to the ice and she seems motionless my initial reaction was she could really be hurt but the camera clearly showed her smiling and laughing as she got up and my reaction changed to she should have been called for embellishment.
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Saturday second period, jostling near the Gopher net, Britta Curl goes down to the ice at Murphy's feet. If you're not looking closely, you might just think Murphy sort of trips over her and falls on top of her. But the closer replay shows Murphy rather purposely going down, with her hand coming down on the back of Curl's head, to push her head into the ice. Sort of like an old-time 'face wash', but from behind with the other player already on the ice. She got two minutes for roughing. Just pointless.
 
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Hockeybuckeye said:
In Fridays game when Edwards knocked Murphy down to the ice and she seems motionless my initial reaction was she could really be hurt but the camera clearly showed her smiling and laughing as she got up and my reaction changed to she should have been called for embellishment.
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I thought she'd play that out out longer to get the 5, she should have been more patient there LOL. It's not the first time I've seen her play dead then pop up grinning.
 
eastcoastgopher said:
I feel vindicated by Frost saying in an interview with Dan Hamann that only Kessel had the kind of buzz coming in that Primerano had.
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No need to feel vindicated. Primerano is the best recruit the tunnelers have had in a while. It's just different hype locally for the players in Minnesota who are playing in the best high school league in the US. Much more of a following than anywhere else in the country.
 
FiveHoleFrenzy said:
No need to feel vindicated. Primerano is the best recruit the tunnelers have had in a while. It's just different hype locally for the players in Minnesota who are playing in the best high school league in the US. Much more of a following than anywhere else in the country.
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I wonder where Frosty is listening to hear the buzz. I'd believe it for coaches around the country. Casual fans? Most of them couldn't tell you who Primerano is. It was much harder to be unaware of Wendell and Darwitz arriving as HS phenoms and Olympians, because they were arriving with far more news coverage and into a brand new arena. Of course over 20 years ago, there were far fewer programs, so there are more coaches to impress now. Back then, the Gophers even had fans on this forum, and in a reversal, Wisconsin didn't.
 
The Gophers have of late been dressing 18 skaters, one fewer than what is allowed. Not really a big deal, Frost has never played the fourth line much even in the best of times so having three lines with two spare skaters and 3 sets of defense with one spare doesn't seem like malpractice.

So now on their Facebook (and probably X) feeds they are congratulating 20 WCHA All Academic performers. And lets begin with congratulations to all of those stellar students who happen to be hockey players.

But three of the All Academics are two players who have dressed for a game either zero times this season or maybe once and another player who dressed a few times earlier in the season but has now not been seen for several weeks.

I mean if they are still on the team such that you are going to take credit for their academic accomplishments then perhaps you might want to consider letting one or another of them put on the equipment and uniform to have a seat on the bench to watch the game.

I don't know what I don't know and mostly with this team that is a lot but this seems odd to me
 
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ARM said:
I wonder where Frosty is listening to hear the buzz. I'd believe it for coaches around the country. Casual fans? Most of them couldn't tell you who Primerano is. It was much harder to be unaware of Wendell and Darwitz arriving as HS phenoms and Olympians, because they were arriving with far more news coverage and into a brand new arena. Of course over 20 years ago, there were far fewer programs, so there are more coaches to impress now. Back then, the Gophers even had fans on this forum, and in a reversal, Wisconsin didn't.
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ManBehindTheCurtain said:
But three of the All Academics are two players who have dressed for a game either zero times this season or maybe once and another player who dressed a few times earlier in the season but has now not been seen for several weeks.

I mean if they are still on the team such that you are going to take credit for their academic accomplishments then perhaps you might want to consider letting one or another of them put on the equipment and uniform to have a seat on the bench to watch the game.

I don't know what I don't know and mostly with this team that is a lot but this seems odd to me
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It does to me as well.
 
ManBehindTheCurtain said:
I mean if they are still on the team such that you are going to take credit for their academic accomplishments then perhaps you might want to consider letting one or another of them put on the equipment and uniform to have a seat on the bench to watch the game.
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Are the players healthy? Dan has talked about both Conner and Dunne, for example, dealing with injuries. If they aren't medically cleared to play, perhaps that extends to not being allowed to dress. Although there have been exceptions, like Alyssa Grogan taking the ice for the final seconds on Senior Day.
 
ARM said:
Are the players healthy? Dan has talked about both Conner and Dunne, for example, dealing with injuries. If they aren't medically cleared to play, perhaps that extends to not being allowed to dress. Although there have been exceptions, like Alyssa Grogan taking the ice for the final seconds on Senior Day.
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I would also extend that question about #6, #12, and #22. All part of a freshmen class that has not been all that great.
 
ManBehindTheCurtain said:
This does seem like good news. On the other hand Ohio State welcomes the player selected by both metro news organizations as the Metro Player of the Year.
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Yeah, but Tosu is losing 4 Grad F's next year and 4 Grad D, so their D is being completely gutted. They also have 5 F that are Sr's and 1 D, so it's not guaranteed all these players will be back either. The jig's gonna be up for Calamity Jane and her travelling band of all-stars.
 
Next season is the final year that there will be a large group of players for whom the Covid year is a thing. There will be a few left the following season due to injuries and/or Olympic absences, but then that is another Olympic year.

I wouldn't have thought Muzzy would be able to blend all of the transfers so quickly into a team, but I haven't seen anyone who has a team ready to go quicker once the season starts than her. If she did it once, and she has scholarship $$$ to spend, lightning could strike again.
 
ARM said:
Next season is the final year that there will be a large group of players for whom the Covid year is a thing. There will be a few left the following season due to injuries and/or Olympic absences, but then that is another Olympic year.

I wouldn't have thought Muzzy would be able to blend all of the transfers so quickly into a team, but I haven't seen anyone who has a team ready to go quicker once the season starts than her. If she did it once, and she has scholarship $$$ to spend, lightning could strike again.
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Yeah the porthole being wide open may make this strategy of transfers more sustainable, but how many top-end players are actually going to utilize it? When you get recruited you build a relationship with that coaching staff and that school and you go there because you want to go there. So the likelihood of you wanting to change schools other than in a coaching change would be rather unlikely. We shall see.
 
ManBehindTheCurtain said:
This does seem like good news. On the other hand Ohio State welcomes the player selected by both metro news organizations as the Metro Player of the Year.
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If you watched the state tournament you could very easily had made a different choice for the Metro Player of the year. Boreen (#18 for Hill Murray) and Halverson (#10 for Edina) made very strong cases for being that choice. Once St Martin (#7 for Stillwater) became the metro player of the year then you knew Puppe (#9) for Northfiled was going to win the Ms Hockey award.
 
FiveHoleFrenzy said:
Boreen (#18 for Hill Murray) and Halverson (#10 for Edina) made very strong cases for being that choice.
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I liked Halverson from the time she was an 8th grader at Breck; I'm not sure she picked the right college team, because I could see her getting buried on that roster. Awards aside, I was impressed by Lindzi Avar of Minnetonka. How does Cornell keep winding up with top end MN HS kids? I suppose, by recruiting.
 
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