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<> Michigan Tech Huskies 2023-24: Is the MacNaughton coming home? <>

this team will not finish top 3 in the CCHA.. Blake surely played his tail off this weekend, made some really good saves. Logan and Kukk were good also other than that not much here this year. Good to see Bronte bury one
 
I was so pissed watching the second game. First flo hockey had a lot of problems with the replay which I had to watch, and made it hard but the refs let tons of stuff Wisconsin did in the first period go by. Not just normal calls, which there were plenty of, but all kinds of pick plays which were ignored or holding which were also ignored. It allowed wisconsin to maintain possession in areas where they should not have. Mostly away from the puck.

Second the calls against Tech in the second were marginal. They did occur but given that Wisconsin had done a lot worse and continued in the second to get away with obvious penalties, i thought it wasn't a well-reffed game at all. I commend Joe for standing up for his guys because the refs were not doing a good job. Maybe call the ref over though and get all pissed face to face during a stoppage of play. Remember what hastings did last year and got away with. Now was Wisconsin better, yes, did we play well, no, can we play better, yes. But once we got down there in the second it was going to be tough especially when they could basically do whatever they wanted and get away with it.

I disagree with the top 3 comment. I think we win the league, I think we will continue to improve, I think it's coming along, I think we will win both games next weekend.
We will be a lot better by Christmas, but we have to do things faster and think ahead better. Right now we get the puck and haven't thought enough about where to go with it, so we hold it for 1/2 a second and fast teams make us pay for that. I thought the pp made strides this week and the pk continues to need help. We have a lot of talent it just needs to refine itself. I'd like to see fewer fly bys from Marcinkevic though and more hard nosed hockey.
 
manurespreader said:
I was so ****ed watching the second game. First flo hockey had a lot of problems with the replay which I had to watch, and made it hard but the refs let tons of stuff Wisconsin did in the first period go by. Not just normal calls, which there were plenty of, but all kinds of pick plays which were ignored or holding which were also ignored. It allowed wisconsin to maintain possession in areas where they should not have. Mostly away from the puck.

Second the calls against Tech in the second were marginal. They did occur but given that Wisconsin had done a lot worse and continued in the second to get away with obvious penalties, i thought it wasn't a well-reffed game at all. I commend Joe for standing up for his guys because the refs were not doing a good job. Maybe call the ref over though and get all ****ed face to face during a stoppage of play. Remember what hastings did last year and got away with. Now was Wisconsin better, yes, did we play well, no, can we play better, yes. But once we got down there in the second it was going to be tough especially when they could basically do whatever they wanted and get away with it.

I disagree with the top 3 comment. I think we win the league, I think we will continue to improve, I think it's coming along, I think we will win both games next weekend.
We will be a lot better by Christmas, but we have to do things faster and think ahead better. Right now we get the puck and haven't thought enough about where to go with it, so we hold it for 1/2 a second and fast teams make us pay for that. I thought the pp made strides this week and the pk continues to need help. We have a lot of talent it just needs to refine itself. I'd like to see fewer fly bys from Marcinkevic though and more hard nosed hockey.
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I went up for the series. Maybe i just don't see all the picks and so forth without the benefit of replay, but we just looked ... slower, and not just a little bit slower. We would get the puck and get swarmed. Flipping it high out of the zone was the only breakout and dumping it in was the only break-in. And we never got to the dump in first. Marcinkrevics is an amazing stickhandler but he needs to also skate forward a little bit while doing it.
 
Puckstopper467 said:
this team will not finish top 3 in the CCHA.
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If not Tech, then who? I don't know if you've been scoreboard watching, but no one else in the conference is setting the world on fire.

The dream of 1 or 2 at-large bids is pretty much dead for the CCHA, but Tech still looks as good as anyone for the auto bid.
 
Well, it's hard to tell after that game how we are progressing. I wish I could have gone. You can't tell all that much from the radio but it still seems like we have defensive issues and struggle with turnovers. It would also be nice to score on some of these open looks we are getting.
 
Listening to the radio show today, seems like the coach is optimistic about scoring and the team in general. He said a lot of good things about Max V and about Casper V.
 
Well Max V was fantastic, Mosley was very good, but otherwise we did not have a great game. I would not say the defense made any steps forward this weekend at all. The second game against Clarkson was pretty good defensively but this week was a step back. I did think some of the forwards were better though. I thought we took advantage of the goaltender being a freshman.
 
No bump after last night's road win? I expect a better Bemidji team tonight, so I hope we're prepared. Too bad I'm in the State of Hockey and can't find our series, nor any NCAA hockey games of potential statewide interest for that matter, on any TV stations! Not gonna pay for a craptacular FloHockey feed.
 
A month ago a friend of mine asked me when I thought we would be " Good" . I told him at Christmas and not a day before that. it's just hard watching this until then.
Same song different day. I'm really sick of "out to the point, turned over!, and they score. " I also do not know what is different about the pk system, but it's not as good as in the past.
 
The book of Gordon, Ch 4 Vs 4: Unto the goals scored foreth and againsteth, The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.
 
Some would say that in hindsight, the "serious matter" has been occupying the head coach's office for 6 seasons now. First Gould, now Marcinkevics, who else has he excessively bullied? Calling players r**arded during practices. Dragging his politics into a sh*tty locker room analogy. Getting testy and physical with an opponent in the handshake line. Bringing negative attention and scorn to the program and the school every year or two with some gaffe, poor decision, or allegation.

We've just overlooked it while the wins and NCAA trips have been there, after decades of dormancy. And because he's a Yooper and everyone loves a good "native son" story. Now that we've gotten off to an unexpectedly poor start following high expectations, the cracks in the facade are starting to reveal themselves and we're starting to see the real Joe Shawhan. It's leading me to think he's no longer a net positive for the school or the program.
 
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