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So basically, he makes Shields out to be the villain for the most serious allegations, then at the end of the interview barely takes much accountability himself. I guess the buck doesn't stop with the head coach.

It is clear though, that something happened between them. Like maybe with the experience and confidence Steve gained while working jobs away from Pearson, it just became two too many egos for one program and Shields decided to air the dirty laundry on his way out.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
So basically, he makes Shields out to be the villain for the most serious allegations, then at the end of the interview barely takes much accountability himself. I guess the buck doesn't stop with the head coach.

It is clear though, that something happened between them. Like maybe with the experience and confidence Steve gained while working jobs away from Pearson, it just became two too many egos for one program and Shields decided to air the dirty laundry on his way out.
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Yeah Mel, I totally believe you when you say that you didn't cancel the WMU game. Yup, total belief. What a joke.
 
I think we'll find out a lot during the joe show but what I took away. Pederson played quite well. He's a factor in front of the net and will really help in allowing our d men to score more, imho, a major step forward, . .... We have some offense we haven't had for some time..... some players from last year have gotten better, hopefully more will show up tonight as well. .... goaltending is the best in the league.... Defense is not as bad as we feared.
 
Lost_Husky said:
Tech seemed to play well on Saturday. Being an exhibition, I don't know how much there is to take away.
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When I looked over Saturday's lineup, it seemed to me Joe really seized the chance to get looks at a lot of players who've previously been buried on the depth chart (Pedersen, Nordstorm, Works) or in-and-out of the lineup (Ganie) and see who answered the call. I'd expect more of the same tonight, with 2 or 3 other forwards subbing in. Not sure if we'll see any substitutions on defense.
 
Is it me or has this group grown by leaps and bounds? Yes, two exhibition games, but one was against a decent LSSU team. The D isn't making the number of turnovers/lapses I was expecting. The offense is scoring, players are finding open ice by the net, and are attacking. Ferris and the US Development team will be good tests. FSU will take away time/space and force us to grind things out. I'm interested to see who makes the trip.
 
There was the one pretty ugly turnover in the Lakehead game that required Vayrynen to bail them out, and we did have longer benches than we will be able to during the season, but I'm cautiously feeling better about the upcoming season. I think there's a decent chance they could finish with home ice for the first round of the CCHA playoffs. That said, I don't consider the Thunderwolves to have been much of a test. On Sunday they gave it their all to edge a Wisconsin team currently looking at the basement of the B1G, then had to pile into the bus and travel 6-7 hours to Houghton for our game on Monday night.

I think the overall takeaway from these two exhibition games is that there is the potential for several players to have breakout years now that there's more room at the top of the depth chart. How many of them step up and lead the charge will largely determine how the season goes.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
There was the one pretty ugly turnover in the Lakehead game that required Vayrynen to bail them out, and we did have longer benches than we will be able to during the season, but I'm cautiously feeling better about the upcoming season. I think there's a decent chance they could finish with home ice for the first round of the CCHA playoffs. That said, I don't consider the Thunderwolves to have been much of a test. On Sunday they gave it their all to edge a Wisconsin team currently looking at the basement of the B1G, then had to pile into the bus and travel 6-7 hours to Houghton for our game on Monday night.

I think the overall takeaway from these two exhibition games is that there is the potential for several players to have breakout years now that there's more room at the top of the depth chart. How many of them step up and lead the charge will largely determine how the season goes.
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Agreed. Sucks that Ganie may be out. If his game against LSSU was any indications, Tech could have 2 very good lines.

The next two games will be an ideal test to see what this team is made of. We get the grit and grind of FSU and the high skill of the Development Team. Go Tech!
 
Here's my report on the NTDP vs LSSU game from tonight.
the US team is very quick. 50-50 pucks especially they are just so quick to the puck they bounce it out and if you haven't taken the body they are by you in a flash.
They are very skilled. Of the first 4 goals, two were on breakaways from the blue line in after springing the weak side winger, often the left side.
the other two were on the power play where their hands can be an advantage for them.
they forecheck aggressively and pressure the puck very hard. They don't give D men any time to make a play and they can burn you on turnovers.
they try to turn you over just inside your own blue line and had a lot of success doing that.
and goaltending was quite good.
lake state didn't play the body enough and tried to play a skill game. also they played a lot of players I didn't recognize.
I didn't think the game was well referred.

Looking forward to seeing some fellow Tech fans tomorrow.
 
If you really want to find out about your team and it's players, there is no better game than last night. I liked how a number of guys made a case for themselves. I also thought quite a few teachable moments. It would be good if the PK/and pp were better.
 
manurespreader said:
If you really want to find out about your team and it's players, there is no better game than last night. I liked how a number of guys made a case for themselves. I also thought quite a few teachable moments. It would be good if the PK/and pp were better.
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I didn't get to watch/listen to the games, but caught the post game interviews. This could be a long season of ups and downs. Hopefully the Alaska trip puts more things in place.
 
manurespreader said:
This coming weekend we have some really important non conference games across the league . No way to overstate it really.
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The league really needs those wins against the NCHC. That will really help the PW. We need W's from more than MnSU (who has a brutal NC schedule).

I hope Tech can keep up their end of the bargain in Alaska. Unfortunately, it is looking like Blake will need to steal two games to make that happen.
 
Two things about last weekend, and the highlights don't show it but Bronte did a fantastic job. Early in the game we were sitting back relatively and absorbing what the US team was throwing and you could see the team was kind of getting down. then Bronte gets the puck and just explodes up the ice with two guys draped all over him. He didn't score off the rush but we did score on that sequence. After that the game became a lot more up and down and our guys just started going harder. And suddenly their D was having a lot more trouble making plays. It became a totally different game.

Second, I sat next to two scouts from Toronto. They had obviously never been to Tech and not scouted College a whole lot. I got a line up sheet from them. Anyway once the puck dropped and the misfits started cheering, those two guys were the most shocked guys in the place.They could not believe what they heard. They should get out more. I saw scouts from three teams but i'm sure there were others there. Red line report was there and some others I couldn't tell who they were. Houghton is indeed a special place to play hockey.
 
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