Minnesota Golden Gopher Women's Hockey 2012-2013

[CrazyDave]

Re: Minnesota Golden Gopher Women's Hockey 2012-2013

End of the second period in Bemidji. 3-0 Gophers. Shots are 25-10 for Minnesota (15-7 in the second period). Havel, the goalie, is keeping BSU in this game.

 

[brookyone]

Re: Minnesota Golden Gopher Women's Hockey 2012-2013

Havel, the goalie, is keeping BSU in this game.

Sure is...could be 5 or 6 zip pretty easily.

 

[ManBehindTheCurtain]

Re: Minnesota Golden Gopher Women's Hockey 2012-2013

Looks like Kortum is playing with Brandt-Kessel today.

Lorence with Davis-Bona.

Downey with Terry-Brausen, same as yesterday.

 

[ManBehindTheCurtain]

Re: Minnesota Golden Gopher Women's Hockey 2012-2013

Someone's going to have to tell Grant that WCHA #5 UMD has tied Hockey East #2 BU.

 

[D2D]

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Someone's going to have to tell Grant that WCHA #5 UMD has tied Hockey East #2 BU.

Actually BU is the best in Hockey East; it isn't even close!

 

[CrazyDave]

Re: Minnesota Golden Gopher Women's Hockey 2012-2013

Becky Kortum scores a back-hander of her own off of a rebound to make it 4-0 Gophers with just over 4 minutes to play.

EDIT: And Kessel completes her hat trick!! 5-0 Gophers.

 

[CrazyDave]

Re: Minnesota Golden Gopher Women's Hockey 2012-2013

FINAL: Gophers 5, Beavers 0. Shots were 40-15. Kessel with hat trick. Kortum with a goal and an assist. Räty with 15 saves for her 18th win of the season, 94th of her career, and her 34th career shutout.

 

[ManBehindTheCurtain]

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Everyone who watched the AmericaOne stream should now go to Control Panel/Programs and Features and take this opportune moment to uninstall the Octoshape Streaming Services plug in.

I keep the install program on my desktop so that I can reinstall whenever I want to use the service.

I prefer not to have Octoshape running on my machine any time except when I need it to avail myself of the AmericaOne stream.

 

[brookyone]

Re: Minnesota Golden Gopher Women's Hockey 2012-2013

Let's see...pretty happy with the first half. Enjoy the break. Hope to see extremely similar, if not duplicate results when play resumes.

 

[Eeyore]

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At the point that they have to do it every night and it costs them you can say that. Until then, it's a little like, "The sky is falling!"

Look at my handle, for god's sake. It most certainly is not, "The sky is falling." It's just snowing still. And freezing.

 

[ARM]

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Looks like Kortum is playing with Brandt-Kessel today.

She did at times. It was probably Lorence on the Brandt line most often. Bona also played with #8 and #22, primarily late, and IMO that was the most dangerous of the three combinations. Might all become moot if #14 returns full time. On the third line, Downey may have had the majority of the shifts, but Burns had time as well.

 

[Blackbeard]

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Everyone who watched the AmericaOne stream should now go to Control Panel/Programs and Features and take this opportune moment to uninstall the Octoshape Streaming Services plug in.

I keep the install program on my desktop so that I can reinstall whenever I want to use the service.

I prefer not to have Octoshape running on my machine any time except when I need it to avail myself of the AmericaOne stream.

What's the benefit of doing this?

Just got a new state of the art computer and am having lots of trouble posting and editing posts...the cursor usually disappears for minutes on end and then usually won't move when commanded to when it does appear.

Maybe I should start a thread about that.

 

[ManBehindTheCurtain]

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What's the benefit of doing this?

Google Octoshape.

One article of interest is a TechLifePost entry calling it an invasive enhancement.

Here's a short quote from the article: "Among other things, the ‘enhancement’ turns subscribers’ computers into relay stations, making them part of a grid to, “deliver parts of the video and audio stream to other end users of the Software,” as the Octoshape end user agreement clearly states." In short, they are using your bandwidth to "enhance" their broadcast.

I'm plenty OK with that, I guess, while I am watching the broadcast. I am not OK with the plug in constantly running in the background when I am not watching.

I use it for AmericaOne streams but then immediately uninstall it.

 

[brookyone]

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Moving on then, here is some idle speculation on top 9 forwards for next weekend:

Davis, Terry, Kortum, Brandt, Kessel, Lorence, Menefee, Brausen, Bona.

Brandt and Kortum both played center this weekend, Davis and Terry ended last season both playing center.

Here's a guess just for fun:

Kortum, Lorence, Brausen. They played together this weekend.
Brandt, Menefee, Bona. They played together this weekend.
Davis, Terry, Kessel. The 8-9-10 line. We saw it a little bit last season.

I'll throw the hanging curve ball with some thoughts out of left field (seasonal clearance sale on MLB references).

With the addition of Terry and Davis and associated experimentation:

Kessel, Brandt, Bona
Davis, Terry, Brausen
Lorence, Kortum, Menefee
Burns, Downey or Frischmann, Garzone

Per those long ago musings and after enjoying a large helping of great hockey...I guess in my view these were the optimum combinations up front:

Maryanne Menefee / Hannah Brandt / Amanda Kessel

Rachael Bona / Sarah Davis / Kelly Terry

Meghan Lorence / Becky Kortum / Bethany Brausen

Jordyn Burns or Sam Downey / Katie Frischmann / Brook Garzone

CrazyDave / D2D / Goldy

Pretty good first half campaign for Kortum. Both Bona and Lorence could easily have a handful more Gs with a few more favorable bounces. Brausen as well who's skated great guns from the get go.

 

[D2D]

Re: Minnesota Golden Gopher Women's Hockey 2012-2013

CrazyDave / D2D / Goldy

We'd be 4th line for sure if they got us a Goldy who could skate!

 

[TonyTheTiger20]

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We'd be 4th line for sure if they got us a Goldy who could skate!

I'm okay with D2D at center but Goldy is a left handed shot, no? I'd swap CrazyDave and Goldy to get them on their natural wing but otherwise that's not a bad combination.

 

[ARM]

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Last year at the Frozen Four, Cornell had bear mascott that looked as though he'd not had a lot of ice time at any level, including pick up. So Goldy could take such as him. But having watched his antics on the ice, I don't know that Goldy really has a head for the game -- in more ways than one.

 

[TonyTheTiger20]

Last year at the Frozen Four, Cornell had bear mascott that looked as though he'd not had a lot of ice time at any level, including pick up. So Goldy could take such as him. But having watched his antics on the ice, I don't know that Goldy really has a head for the game -- in more ways than one.

Goldy was at the quarterfinal at Conte in 2011 and we got him to do a "spin your head."

Despite how well the game went for BC, that was still one of the real highlights… For me personally, anyway.

 

[ARM]

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Goldy was at the quarterfinal at Conte in 2011 and we got him to do a "spin your head."

Follow it up with a "Spin your body", and then the Triple-Dog-Dare of spins, the "Spin your tail". Goldy always pretends at first to be perplexed by this request. Goldy has game, just not anything that would be useful in a game.

 

[TonyTheTiger20]

Follow it up with a "Spin your body", and then the Triple-Dog-Dare of spins, the "Spin your tail". Goldy always pretends at first to be perplexed by this request. Goldy has game, just not anything that would be useful in a game.

Noted for future use!

How the hell would he spin his tail? I guess that's just something I'll need to see in person.