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Michigan Hockey 2019-2020- a big fresh start, again.

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Has anyone heard anything regarding Adam Winborg? He is on the roster but has yet to appear on the ice this season.
 
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wolverineTrumpet said:
I didn't watch Saturday or even see clips yet. Wondering what happened, because the 1st period Friday night vs. Western we looked like we were a much better team than them. Tough to get behind 2 goals early on the road (as WMU learned Friday).
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The prognosticators on this very website both picked the home team to win both games last weekend so they nailed it.
 
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Well we may have gotten the win but your team sure made us pay for it with the body count. 3 of our guys out and two of them are our top skills guys!
Michigan seemed to go flat in the 3rd and while I can't quite put my finger on it why they aren't more dominate I will say like any Michigan team before them they are quite capable of quickly capitalizing on any mistake made by their opponent!
 
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Given the score, it seems as if we had better D tonight. And I had thought we had a nice tie, but didn't notice until later that OSU scored not long after our tying score.

Ugh. Long way to go.
 
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alfablue said:
Given the score, it seems as if we had better D tonight. And I had thought we had a nice tie, but didn't notice until later that OSU scored not long after our tying score.

Ugh. Long way to go.
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The winning goal happened on a 2 on 1 breakaway. Mann stopped the first shot but the rebound went right to the stick of the second guy for the wide open side of the net.
I didn't think Michigan looked bad relatively speaking but the 5 on 3 PP for Ohio State I thought was the deal breaker.
After Ohio State's first goal they reviewed it for offsides and it was like 5-10 minutes before they made a call on it.
I'm going to be objective here, If they have to review THAT long how can you have confidence in they got it right?
 
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Hockeybuckeye said:
The winning goal happened on a 2 on 1 breakaway. Mann stopped the first shot but the rebound went right to the stick of the second guy for the wide open side of the net.
I didn't think Michigan looked bad relatively speaking but the 5 on 3 PP for Ohio State I thought was the deal breaker.
After Ohio State's first goal they reviewed it for offsides and it was like 5-10 minutes before they made a call on it.
I'm going to be objective here, If they have to review THAT long how can you have confidence in they got it right?
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5 on 3 two nights in a row? The new assistant coach has a lot of work to do.
 
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Hockeybuckeye said:
I'm going to be objective here, If they have to review THAT long how can you have confidence in they got it right?
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AMEN!

Also if they have to take that long how can ANYONE say it was indisputable evidence?
 
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Don't forget the strange starting times this weekend.

Friday, November 8 at 6:30PM and Saturday, November 9 at 5:00PM at Yost Ice Arena.

DEFINITELY NOT looking forward to arena food for dinner.
 
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JoeZ said:
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Don't forget the strange starting times this weekend.

Friday, November 8 at 6:30PM and Saturday, November 9 at 5:00PM at Yost Ice Arena.

DEFINITELY NOT looking forward to arena food for dinner.
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But hey, if you get there before puck drop you can get 20% of that arena food with your season ticket holder card.

Also not looking forward to either missing the 1st period or having to meet my husband at the game (who will miss the 1st period).


I'm looking forward to this weekend's games. The Minnesota fans have been talking about how young their team is. I'm hoping for the classic up and down fast play that I'm accustomed to in the battle of U of M vs. U of M.
 
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I wonder if LaFontaine will get a chance to start at his former home rink this weekend. Looks like he's been sharing time with Minnesota's other goalie.
 
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wolverineTrumpet said:
I wonder if LaFontaine will get a chance to start at his former home rink this weekend. Looks like he's been sharing time with Minnesota's other goalie.
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Our "other goalie", Jared Moe, played both games last weekend but struggled some in Saturday's game. So I would expect LaFontaine to start in this Friday's opener.
 
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I watched the first two periods of tonight's game hoping to see Michigan bounce back, but so MANY turnovers in the defensive end and failure to control the puck.
Which coach is running the PP this season? Sorry to sound like a critic.
 
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Hockeybuckeye said:
I watched the first two periods of tonight's game hoping to see Michigan bounce back, but so MANY turnovers in the defensive end and failure to control the puck.
Which coach is running the PP this season? Sorry to sound like a critic.
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The new guy is doing the PK, I think Muckult is still running the PP. Based on our performance last night, I'd not hesitate to take penalties- as it ends up being 2 min run off the clock.

It's very curious how much trouble the team had keeping the puck on their sticks.
 
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This team is very opposite of teams we've had recently- reasonably strong on D, really bad on O. And I'm concerned that the bad O will start getting the D to be desperate to help, and it will start to fall apart.

The PP is really odd- it seems as if the puck is some kind of curse- whoever has it seems to not want it- the passes are being put into places they should not, and they are not patient about breaking a pattern down. Then the team just can't keep the puck on their stick, and when there's a pretty clean space to shoot the puck- somehow every time the puck just goes someplace else. As the game goes on, we start seeing players force their way into spots that are easily defended, and the play turns around.

Have no real idea how to fix the offensive woes, but they have a lot of work to do. Mel is re-arranging the lines to find some spark....
 
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I didn't hear, which team got the unofficial win Saturday for the conference point?
 
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It is going to be a very long season.

OTOH do you realize we are almost half way through the home games?
Eight down, ten to go. That includes the two exhibitions. If you don't count them it is seven down, nine to go.
 
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