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Minnesota Golden Gopher Hockey: 2011-2012 Season Thread

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ManBehindTheCurtain said:
Tonight's events set me to thinking about the ancestry of Becky Kortum. Could she possibly of Finnish stock? If so, the three notable absences from the Gopher line up would all be Finns.

I see the game blog noted that Coach Frost says Räty is "a bit nicked up". No word whatsoever (as usual) about Jalosuo or Kortum.

Nice games filling in by both Frischmann and perhaps obviously, by the game's 3rd star, Sletta.
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Having a wife that's a nurse, the school is real limited as to what they can say about player injury and illness. I'm sure you could press the issue if you want, but if the school releases that stuff they can be subject to a lawsuit for HIPA violations.
 
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taz91 said:
Having a wife that's a nurse, the school is real limited as to what they can say about player injury and illness. I'm sure you could press the issue if you want, but if the school releases that stuff they can be subject to a lawsuit for HIPA violations.
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If what you say is true how is that I know that MarQueis Gray was unable to play for the football team because he had turf toe?

This is a gender inequality issue. The local media demands, receives and disseminates information about injury (and illness) affecting the men's teams. There seems to be no interest in providing the same level of coverage for women's teams.
 
Re: Minnesota Golden Gopher Hockey: 2011-2012 Season Thread

ManBehindTheCurtain said:
If what you say is true how is that I know that MarQueis Gray was unable to play for the football team because he had turf toe?

This is a gender inequality issue. The local media demands, receives and disseminates information about injury (and illness) affecting the men's teams. There seems to be no interest in providing the same level of coverage for women's teams.
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You make a good point, but at least for now we have good news - Noora Raty was back in goal. So I guess the original vague description of her injury, that she was "a little banged up" turned out to be accurate, having missed just the one game and then posting a shutout to boot.
 
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D2D said:
. . . at least for now we have good news - Noora Raty was back in goal. So I guess the original vague description of her injury, that she was "a little banged up" turned out to be accurate, having missed just the one game and then posting a shutout to boot.
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I do not wish to argue with Gopher fans, I think we are all on the same side.

Coach Frost in his post game interview at GopherSports says that tonight they were "able to get everyone in the line up who was healthy", thereby indicating that anyone not in the line up was not healthy. Ludwigson warmed up (and I am pretty sure her mother was there) but was described in the game blog as "a late scratch" and did not play.

Both Coach Frost and the GopherSports game blogs are for rights of privacy issues official statements by University spokespersons. Both statements clearly give information about health matters for players which for the ordinary citizen are privacy protected by statute.

The information is available if there were media members willing to pursue it.

That's all I am saying. For the men's teams the demand is present to make all of that information available to fans who want to know. For women's teams no one in the media seems to care. I wonder why.
 
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ManBehindTheCurtain said:
Coach Frost in his post game interview at GopherSports says that tonight they were "able to get everyone in the line up who was healthy", thereby indicating that anyone not in the line up was not healthy. Ludwigson warmed up (and I am pretty sure her mother was there) but was described in the game blog as "a late scratch" and did not play.
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Heard she took a puck to the noodle during warm up. "Headache" was mentioned...hope it's nothing serious.
 
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ManBehindTheCurtain said:
I do not wish to argue with Gopher fans, I think we are all on the same side.

Coach Frost in his post game interview at GopherSports says that tonight they were "able to get everyone in the line up who was healthy", thereby indicating that anyone not in the line up was not healthy. Ludwigson warmed up (and I am pretty sure her mother was there) but was described in the game blog as "a late scratch" and did not play.

Both Coach Frost and the GopherSports game blogs are for rights of privacy issues official statements by University spokespersons. Both statements clearly give information about health matters for players which for the ordinary citizen are privacy protected by statute.

The information is available if there were media members willing to pursue it.

That's all I am saying. For the men's teams the demand is present to make all of that information available to fans who want to know. For women's teams no one in the media seems to care. I wonder why.
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Wizard........it's a battle you may never win. :(
 
Re: Minnesota Golden Gopher Hockey: 2011-2012 Season Thread

ManBehindTheCurtain said:
I do not wish to argue with Gopher fans, I think we are all on the same side.

Coach Frost in his post game interview at GopherSports says that tonight they were "able to get everyone in the line up who was healthy", thereby indicating that anyone not in the line up was not healthy. Ludwigson warmed up (and I am pretty sure her mother was there) but was described in the game blog as "a late scratch" and did not play.

Both Coach Frost and the GopherSports game blogs are for rights of privacy issues official statements by University spokespersons. Both statements clearly give information about health matters for players which for the ordinary citizen are privacy protected by statute.

The information is available if there were media members willing to pursue it.

That's all I am saying. For the men's teams the demand is present to make all of that information available to fans who want to know. For women's teams no one in the media seems to care. I wonder why.
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I don't think you hear a lot about injuries in hockey. How many times in the NHL do year hear about a guy being out with a separated shoulder? Typically it's described and an upper body injury. I guess I don't really see why it's important. As far as Kortum, I think it was mentioned a couple weeks ago that she had mono.
 
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ManBehindTheCurtain said:
Congratulations on the hire to one of the greatest of all Gophers, certainly the very first great Gopher.
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While I agree with you that the original #4 was a great Gopher, I think that her teammate Ambria Thomas would also qualify. Thomas wasn't as prolific a scorer, but still wound up with 200 points. She was a little like Stephens or Ross on later teams in that she could fill a lot of different roles and didn't have to score to have a good game.
 
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I would like to give a sincere thank you and congratulations to GopherSports for the posting of video interviews with the coach and selected players which now seems to be an every game occurrence. There was some of this in the past but if I recall correctly this season is the debut of every game coverage.

It is a huge upgrade in quality of information to be able to see the coach and selected players giving their impressions of the game immediately after the game.

If I am going to complain about some things I should also give praise when a really good job is being done. Kudos to GopherSports.com.
 
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ManBehindTheCurtain said:
I would like to give a sincere thank you and congratulations to GopherSports for the posting of live interviews with the coach and selected players which now seems to be an every game occurrence. There was some of this in the past but if I recall correctly this season is the debut of every game coverage.

It is a huge upgrade in quality of information to be able to see the coach and selected players giving their impressions of the game immediately after the game.

If I am going to complain about some things I should also give praise when a really good job is being done. Kudos to GopherSports.com.
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Totally agree but I have a suggestion: Set aside an area or a separate room to hold the interviews where (a) the sound quality would be better (not as much background noise and no echo) and (b) have a better backdrop appearance wise.
 
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Injury information is based on how much the player as well as the coaches want to release that information. Sometimes just because fans/media want or feel they have the "right to know" the coaches and players also have the right to keep that information confidential if there's a chance for it to be detrimental to the safety of the player and or show a weakness to that player. Each team chooses to release information differently. Football may release more than hockey. Look at the professional level. NFL football gives you almost full disclosure and more so than the NHL. Why? It's all about cash and bets. If coach Frost and the training staff feel there's a chance for a player to be caused harm or if he feels opponents would use that information against the team, that's his decision to keep the safety of the players. As a fan, why would you want to have players caused more harm just so you can know?
 
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play-by-play guy said:
The beans have been spilled...the new Minnesota Gopher assistant is Nadine Muzerall.
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Heard that she should be arriving this coming week and be with the team in Bemidji. Anyone else hear something similar...or different?
 
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brookyone said:
Heard that she should be arriving this coming week and be with the team in Bemidji. Anyone else hear something similar...or different?
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Was told that her facebook page says she hopes to be here by the the middle of next week (or this week depending on when you read this post).
 
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D2D said:
Totally agree but I have a suggestion: Set aside an area or a separate room to hold the interviews where (a) the sound quality would be better (not as much background noise and no echo) and (b) have a better backdrop appearance wise.
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Nah, then it is too sanitized. It's kinda informal and off the cuff rather than feeling staged. Be thankful that it's there at all. It may not seem like much but it takes a good deal of effort by those involved to pull this off, so no need to make it more complicated than it already is.
 
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What's going on with the league so far this weekend?
1. Minnesota absolutely dominates Thurs. and wins 3-0. Don't play as well Friday (or at least MSU played better--offensively) and win 7-0. Certainly didn't see two shutouts in the cards.
2. Did anyone see North Dakota putting up 11 in the first 2 periods agains OSU? The Buckeyes have had goaltending issues the last few seasons, but wow.
3. Did anyone see Bemidji scoring eight? Oh, wait...they played St. Cloud. Forget it.

The only "normal" game was the one in Duluth with Wisconsin pulling out a one-goal win.
 
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play-by-play guy said:
What's going on with the league so far this weekend?
1. Minnesota absolutely dominates Thurs. and wins 3-0. Don't play as well Friday (or at least MSU played better--offensively) and win 7-0. Certainly didn't see two shutouts in the cards.
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The Mavericks were clearly more determined and played like it for much of the rematch. Their infractions and the well oiled Gopher PP did them in Friday night.

The game in Duluth was actually tighter than I expected.
 
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ManBehindTheCurtain said:
If what you say is true how is that I know that MarQueis Gray was unable to play for the football team because he had turf toe?

This is a gender inequality issue. The local media demands, receives and disseminates information about injury (and illness) affecting the men's teams. There seems to be no interest in providing the same level of coverage for women's teams.
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An individual (i.e. Gray) can release information about their own health as they choose. The University is bound by HIPPA. Once Gray makes a comment about it in an interview it's public knowledge and printed in all the papers, mentioned in all the newscasts and on talk radio. So long as a Gopher Women's player says nothing about her injury, it's not public knowledge. No gender inequality issue here. Had Gray kept his mouth shut, it would have been some undefined injury.
 
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