Michigan Tech 09-10 Season Thread: Let's go to Detroit. Twice.

[The Incredible Gulk]

Re: Michigan Tech 09-10 Season Thread: Let's go to Detroit. Twice.

I'm disappointed, that's not a Blendtec Total Blender.

The goal was to mix them up not atomize them.

 

[Yager]

Re: Michigan Tech 09-10 Season Thread: Let's go to Detroit. Twice.

ATTENTION <s>OVERACHIEVERS</s> ALUMNI!

ARE YOU PLANNING ON GOING TO THE UMD GAMES ON THE 13/14TH?

Register now for the Alumni Assoc. pregame dinner at Grandma's! 60 current Misfits (or at least a huge majority of our 60 coming to Duluth) will be in attendance and dining with you fine peoples!

http://huskylink.mtu.edu/s/349/interior.aspx?sid=349&pgid=852&gid=1&cid=1836&ecid=1836

 

[manurespreader]

Re: Michigan Tech 09-10 Season Thread: Let's go to Detroit. Twice.

ATTENTION <s>OVERACHIEVERS</s> ALUMNI!

ARE YOU PLANNING ON GOING TO THE UMD GAMES ON THE 13/14TH?

Register now for the Alumni Assoc. pregame dinner at Grandma's! 60 current Misfits (or at least a huge majority of our 60 coming to Duluth) will be in attendance and dining with you fine peoples!

http://huskylink.mtu.edu/s/349/interior.aspx?sid=349&pgid=852&gid=1&cid=1836&ecid=1836

Are any of these fine people female? Who wants to dine with a bunch of dirty, ugly, drunk men.

 

[crazypotatoes]

Re: Michigan Tech 09-10 Season Thread: Let's go to Detroit. Twice.

Are any of these fine people female? Who wants to dine with a bunch of dirty, ugly, drunk men.

You didn't eat in the dorms at all when you went here?

 

[bigblue_dl]

Re: Michigan Tech 09-10 Season Thread: Let's go to Detroit. Twice.

ATTENTION <s>OVERACHIEVERS</s> ALUMNI!

ARE YOU PLANNING ON GOING TO THE UMD GAMES ON THE 13/14TH?

Register now for the Alumni Assoc. pregame dinner at Grandma's! 60 current Misfits (or at least a huge majority of our 60 coming to Duluth) will be in attendance and dining with you fine peoples!

http://huskylink.mtu.edu/s/349/interior.aspx?sid=349&pgid=852&gid=1&cid=1836&ecid=1836

Can't really sign up for that until we know if we'll be getting tickets from you....since tickets are included in the alumni thing. So, how does it look for tickets for us?

Are any of these fine people female? Who wants to dine with a bunch of dirty, ugly, drunk men.

I like where your mind is at, and yes I would like to know this as well.

You didn't eat in the dorms at all when you went here?

I ate there, but I didn't like it.

 

[Shirtless Guy]

Re: Michigan Tech 09-10 Season Thread: Let's go to Detroit. Twice.

Michigan Tech gets a new commitment for 2010...
Dennis Rix 6'0" Forward from Grande Prairie Storm.

61 12-36-48 last season and lighting it up this year but he is doing it as a 20 y.o. (22 17-27-44)...he is currently the leading scorer in the AJHL and his team is in the hunt for a top 2 finish in the division...

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Re: Michigan Tech 09-10 Season Thread: Let's go to Detroit. Twice.

Michigan Tech gets a new commitment for 2010...
Dennis Rix 6'0" Forward from Grande Prairie Storm.

61 12-36-48 last season and lighting it up this year but he is doing it as a 20 y.o. (22 17-27-44)...he is currently the leading scorer in the AJHL and his team is in the hunt for a top 2 finish in the division...

He sounds solid. 0.85 pts/gm over his previous two seasons is decent, and he's dominating with the rest of the overage guys in that league, like he should be.

 

[bigblue_dl]

Re: Michigan Tech 09-10 Season Thread: Let's go to Detroit. Twice.

Yay overage canadians

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Re: Michigan Tech 09-10 Season Thread: Let's go to Detroit. Twice.

Yay overage canadians

It's not like we've had much of a choice lately. Look what happens when we try to go after promising Americans - they change their minds the summer before and sign a pro contract to play in the hockey hotbed of South Carolina.

*sigh*

 

[bigblue_dl]

Re: Michigan Tech 09-10 Season Thread: Let's go to Detroit. Twice.

It's not like we've had much of a choice lately. Look what happens when we try to go after promising Americans - they change their minds the summer before and sign a pro contract to play in the hockey hotbed of South Carolina.

*sigh*

...or they decide that they want to be Rhodes Scholars instead of hockey players...

 

[Yager]

Re: Michigan Tech 09-10 Season Thread: Let's go to Detroit. Twice.

Can't really sign up for that until we know if we'll be getting tickets from you....since tickets are included in the alumni thing. So, how does it look for tickets for us?

I thought I told Tim, I will get tickets for you two for both nights. Let me know if you want the hotel ASAP, I can make it for two nights.

 

[bigblue_dl]

Re: Michigan Tech 09-10 Season Thread: Let's go to Detroit. Twice.

I thought I told Tim, I will get tickets for you two for both nights. Let me know if you want the hotel ASAP, I can make it for two nights.

You might have told him, I just hadn't heard anything yet. Good to know we have tickets, thanks.

About the hotel, I think we're planning on 2 nights there, but we did talk about looking for one down on Canal Park. I'd be ok with anything I guess, so if it is ok with shirtless, then I'd say sign us up for a hotel.

 

[Yager]

Re: Michigan Tech 09-10 Season Thread: Let's go to Detroit. Twice.

The Duluth Road Trip will be completely full after tomorrow night. Can't wait for Duluth!

 

[bigmrg74]

Re: Michigan Tech 09-10 Season Thread: Let's go to Detroit. Twice.

It's not like we've had much of a choice lately. Look what happens when we try to go after promising Americans - they change their minds the summer before and sign a pro contract to play in the hockey hotbed of South Carolina.

*sigh*

...or they decide that they want to be Rhodes Scholars instead of hockey players...

Or haven't been smart enough between themselves and their handlers to pass the NCAA clearing house.

 

[Boosh]

Re: Michigan Tech 09-10 Season Thread: Let's go to Detroit. Twice.

It's not like we've had much of a choice lately. Look what happens when we try to go after promising Americans - they change their minds the summer before and sign a pro contract to play in the hockey hotbed of South Carolina.

*sigh*

Better to get your pro contract and play hockey for money in the good ol' South than pull a Jordan Foote at Michigan Tech and have no future

 

[JOHN SCOTT ROCKS]

Re: Michigan Tech 09-10 Season Thread: Let's go to Detroit. Twice.

It's not like we've had much of a choice lately. Look what happens when we try to go after promising Americans - they change their minds the summer before and sign a pro contract to play in the hockey hotbed of South Carolina.

*sigh*

Or they don't go after them; even when they're here:

Rank Player Team GP G A PTS -*rookie

17 * Trent Daavettila Kalamazoo Wings 8 6g 4a 10p
66 Casey Pierro-Zabotel Wheeling Nailers 9 0g 7a 7p
135 * Jake Hauswirth South Carolina Stingrays 7 1g 3a 4p

I guess this doesn't mean anything though because according to BigBlue this is a horsesh*t league.

 

[Shirtless Guy]

Re: Michigan Tech 09-10 Season Thread: Let's go to Detroit. Twice.

From a source in Alberta:

Dennis Rix is a player with a lot of skill, he along with a couple other players are basically carrying the team offensively.

He's got pretty good speed, and just plays a solid game overall. Obviously he's older than a lot of players right now. I would say he just does a lot of things right, especially in the offensive end.

He seems to be very easily self motivated, he said he wasn't happy with his year last year, and he's obviously responded in a big way this year averaging 2 points a game.

 

[mtu_huskies]

Re: Michigan Tech 09-10 Season Thread: Let's go to Detroit. Twice.

From a source in Alberta:

Good post Shirtless, thanks. It looks like we're three down, and about three recruits to go. An older recruit with offensive ability is good, but we'll still need some.


For those in the know, when do you think we'll see Kattelus back? It's been nearly a month now for his suspension.

 

[Flashy Man]

Re: Michigan Tech 09-10 Season Thread: Let's go to Detroit. Twice.

Huskies square off with No. 3 Sioux

HOUGHTON - Two years ago when North Dakota came to Houghton, it was the top-ranked team in the country.

The Fighting Sioux were considered by many to be the favorite to win the national championship.

But by the time North Dakota headed back to Grand Forks, it had gained just a split as Michigan Tech knocked off the Fighting Sioux in the first game of their two-game series.

The Huskies have had their fair share of success against the perennial power. Tech has beaten North Dakota three times and tied it once over the past two seasons.

"Preparing for North Dakota is very different than preparing for St. Cloud," Tech coach Jamie Russell said. "St. Cloud has small, skilled forwards. They're not a big team.

"North Dakota is always a physical team. When we play North Dakota it's always a battle in terms of the physical nature of the series. North Dakota's also got skilled players. They're very sound defensively. We've played well against them head-to-head. Our players this week need the preparation mentally and physically to come out and really win the one-versus-one battles. We have to be prepared both Friday and Saturday to come out and physically compete hard."

This year, North Dakota rolls into town ranked third in the nation. The Fighting Sioux reeled off three straight wins to start the year and are 4-1-1 overall.

North Dakota is 2-1-1 in the WCHA. The Fighting Sioux are coming off an off week after splitting a pair of games at Alaska Anchorage Oct. 23-24.

North Dakota is led by smooth-skating senior defenseman Chay Genoway. Genoway leads the team in scoring with four goals and three assists.

"He's an exciting hockey player," Russell said of Genoway. "He skates well. He's very, very good as a defenseman at controlling the tempo of the hockey game.

"He jumps into the rush so well. He's got four power-play goals so we don't want to give him a lot of opportunities on the power play. We've got to eliminate him on our forecheck where we're in on him and physically making him pick himself up off the ice."

Genoway's defensive partner, Jake Marto, is one of two players who have scored three goals for the Fighting Sioux so far this season. Sophomore forward Jason Gregoire is the other.

Nine other players have scored at least one goal for North Dakota. The Fighting Sioux have 21 goals in their first six games.

Defensively, North Dakota has been as stingy as they've been productive offensively. The Fighting Sioux have allowed just nine goals so far.

No team has scored more than three goals on North Dakota. The Fighting Sioux pitched a shutout against Minnesota in the first game of their series on Oct. 14 and blanked Anchorage two weeks ago tonight.

Freshman goaltender Aaron Dell was between the pipes for one of those games, but sophomore Brad Eidsness has seen the bulk of the work. Eidsness is 3-1-1 with a miniscule 1.78 goals against average.

With those kind of numbers, scoring on North Dakota won't be easy. Fortunately for Tech, its offense has been far more productive this year than it was last year.

The Huskies have scored three or more goals in three of their first six games. Tech has almost doubled its goals per game average from last season.

There is, however, one small problem hiding in the shadows of those numbers. The Huskies' top line of Malcolm Gwilliam, Brett Olson and Alex MacLeod have accounted for 11 of their team's 16 goals.

Tech's other three lines have been struggling to put the puck in the net. The Huskies will need a more balanced attack if they hope to continue their success against the Sioux.

"Our first line's been fantastic," Russell said. "Jordan Baker is a player that led our team in scoring (last year) and he's had some good chances to score, but we need Jordan to get on the board.

"Drew Dobson's had a very good week of practice and we're expecting good things out of him this weekend, and we need our third- and fourth-line guys to start chipping in."

If that happens, Tech could send North Dakota home with another loss or two. Friday night's game begins at 7:07 p.m. and Saturday's at 7:37 p.m.

 

[geezer]

Re: Michigan Tech 09-10 Season Thread: Let's go to Detroit. Twice.

Now I'm all depressed. A work meeting will not allow me to go to the lunch. Someone take notes.