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Minnesota Golden Gopher Women's Hockey 2012-2013

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ARM said:
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.
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Let me see, I've seen Goldy on the ice against that stupid Badger, against some silly looking Wildcat (Frozen Four 2006, the cat had fur covering up its skates and didn't even have a stick), that mopey Bulldog up in Duluth, and that Bear, that I can think of, right off the top of my head.

Only the Badger has ever shown even a hint of a chance of staying with Goldy. Again at that 2006 Mariucci Arena festival I recall Bucky and Goldy having a little spirited one on one. I think the Badgers won more that year than just the NCAA title.

But, and further, here is deep double secret information, there is more than one Goldy. At women's games this year we have mostly had the Goldy who can skate only a little bit better than the the under 8 girls skating after the first period. But . . . but when we get the Goldy who CAN skate, that is Goldy I would line up on any 6th line, even with the sight issues involved with having a head that can be turned completely around.

I don't want Joe and Grant to stop, it is more fun when they are on a roll.
 
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I would pay good money to see good Goldy vs. good Baldwin in a good intermission competition.

My money is on Baldwin. Maybe if Goldy competed against some REAL mascots for a change you wouldn't be so high and mighty!!!11one1

Top to bottom, Hockey East's mascot battles leave no chance for a breather. Always have to be on your game. You never know when you'll have a tight center-ice-shot competition break out between mascots during intermission. You gotta keep your head on a swivel!

Good thing there aren't any mascots adept at keeping their aforementioned heads on said swivels out west.
 
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TonyTheTiger20 said:
I would pay good money to see good Goldy vs. good Baldwin in a good intermission competition.
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There was also an Eagle mascot at the FF last year. I take it that wasn't the "good" one. May have been better than the Cornell bear, but then he didn't have to support a head the size of a cage ball.
 
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In 2005 they still let Goldy bring a puck onto the ice. I remember one of the then players being envious of Goldy's slap shot. I still see "that" Goldy from time to time watching games at Ridder.

ARM said:
There was also an Eagle mascot at the FF last year. I take it that wasn't the "good" one. May have been better than the Cornell bear, but then he didn't have to support a head the size of a cage ball.
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Re: Minnesota Golden Gopher Women's Hockey 2012-2013

TonyTheTiger20 said:
I would pay good money to see good Goldy vs. good Baldwin in a good intermission competition.

My money is on Baldwin. Maybe if Goldy competed against some REAL mascots for a change you wouldn't be so high and mighty!!!11one1

Top to bottom, Hockey East's mascot battles leave no chance for a breather. Always have to be on your game. You never know when you'll have a tight center-ice-shot competition break out between mascots during intermission. You gotta keep your head on a swivel!

Good thing there aren't any mascots adept at keeping their aforementioned heads on said swivels out west.
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Thanks TTT20. That is just exactly the sort of insightful real hockey analysis that I come to this forum to read.
 
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Merry Christmas to my GWH fan associates!

I'll be pulling the plug and offline for awhile in the process of a change of residence. Back when I arrange for connectivity service at the new shack...but not sure when that'll be so...

enjoy the holidays and the break!
 
brookyone said:
Merry Christmas to my GWH fan associates!

I'll be pulling the plug and offline for awhile in the process of a change of residence. Back when I arrange for connectivity service at the new shack...but not sure when that'll be so...

enjoy the holidays and the break!
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Back at ya bud, good luck and come back soon.
 
brookyone said:
Merry Christmas to my GWH fan associates!

I'll be pulling the plug and offline for awhile in the process of a change of residence. Back when I arrange for connectivity service at the new shack...but not sure when that'll be so...

enjoy the holidays and the break!
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Back at ya bud, good luck and come back soon.
 
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ManBehindTheCurtain said:
I live in Minnesota and always find it a bit amusing how people here in the south central part of the state go all gaga about the northern part of the state and how it is so remote and cold and so very far from civilization.
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I grew up in the northern part of Minnesota. It was pretty remote, cold, and far from civilization. It doesn't seem as remote these days now that I can drive, but as a kid when I was stuck there, yeah. As for cold, we'd often get 50 below more times in one winter than I've seen days reach 30 below in over 30 years of living in the Twin Cities, so it is quite a bit colder.
 
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ARM said:
I grew up in the northern part of Minnesota. It was pretty remote, cold, and far from civilization. It doesn't seem as remote these days now that I can drive, but as a kid when I was stuck there, yeah. As for cold, we'd often get 50 below more times in one winter than I've seen days reach 30 below in over 30 years of living in the Twin Cities, so it is quite a bit colder.
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I can relate to that. Similar in Ontario, a vast province. Places like Toronto and London are well below the 45th parallel, and much milder than places like Ottawa, Sudbury and North Bay. In this neck of the woods, once you are more than 50-60 miles north of the great lakes, it tends to be 10 degrees (Celcius) colder on many a January day.

Remember days driving from London or Toronto, to Ottawa or Montreal, it would a little below freezing in Toronto, and once you pass Kingston the temp would quickly drop from -5/-10C to -20/-25C in a real hurry.
 
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ARM said:
I grew up in the northern part of Minnesota. It was pretty remote, cold, and far from civilization. It doesn't seem as remote these days now that I can drive, but as a kid when I was stuck there, yeah. As for cold, we'd often get 50 below more times in one winter than I've seen days reach 30 below in over 30 years of living in the Twin Cities, so it is quite a bit colder.
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Sure ARM, I totally get your point.

And I think I get it because I am willing to go head to head about who lived farther north when we were, oh, say 17? Cause I got pretty good cards for that game myself. I can make a couple of guesses about where you are from based on your surname. I know where the Finnish enclaves are up there and I concede that there are a couple that are VERY north. I myself am NOT from Forest Lake. Just sayin'.

And I also agree about the cold. The very first winter I lived in the Twin Cities I never zipped up my jacket. Partly it was because I was going to college and a college kid wouldn't admit to something as uncool as being cold. But mostly it was because the Twin Cities winter was positively balmy compared to what I was used to. I lived in a place where there were days when the high temperature would be 20 below. Not often, I concede, but the Twin Cities winter did not frighten me.
 
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