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Minnesota Golden Gopher Women's Hockey 2012-2013

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Two quick notes in the Pioneer Press from columnist Bob Sansevere...

Two things ...

Noora Raty, goalie for the top-ranked University of Minnesota women's hockey team, is tied for the NCAA record for career victories with 100. She can break the record Friday night, Feb. 1, at home against Minnesota-Duluth. Here is Raty ...

On breaking the record: "Not really a big deal. The only thing that matters to me is the last game this year and if we get a national championship or not."

On the possibility of the 26-0 Gophers finishing the season undefeated: "That definitely would be something. That's something no other team has done. But if we lose one or two games and still win the national championship, it would be a perfect season for us."
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One thing ...

Here is Brad Frost, coach of the top-ranked University of Minnesota women's hockey coach team ...

On how his 26-0 team handles pressure: "Real well. I'm not sure our team feels a whole lot of pressure. I think the media talks about the (NCAA-record 34-game winning and unbeaten) streak and how impressive that is. We talk about it very, very little. After a game, we might say, 'Hey, congratulations. You just won your 33rd or 34th game in a row.'"
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Easier to just post the entire content rather than links, especially since Pioneer Press web site is being flaky this morning.
 
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The top 8 or so teams are probably ALL better than whoever the best team was 8 years ago.
 
Keep Those Links Coming!

Keep Those Links Coming!

brookyone said:
Really? Who? :)

http://www.gophersports.com/sports/w-hockey/spec-rel/013013aaa.html
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LIFT said:
Minnesota Public Radio gave Noora some press:

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2013/01/31/sports/noora-raty-gopher-womens-hockey
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CrazyDave said:
Morning coverage...

Joe Christensen at the Star Tribune: Are Gophers the best women’s hockey team ever? Maybe

Also, co-captains Megan Bozek and Bethany Brausen were on the KARE-11 Morning News this morning.
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Everyone,

Just want to let you know these links are greatly appreciated. Our numbers on this board aren't huge. Sometimes it can feel like no one is reading our posts and links. But we are out here, and we are reading! And the links make it so much easier to keep track of the other teams around the league and nation.

Of course it helps when the media provides good material to link to.;) Glad to see the 2013 Gophers are starting to get the attention they've earned.


Edit: Was able to add pos rep to LIFT's total; but for brooky & CD must spread...
 
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TonyTheTiger20 said:
The top 8 or so teams are probably ALL better than whoever the best team was 8 years ago.
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Conceptually your head is in the right place, but me thinks you picked the wrong example. Pretty sure 2005 was when Wendell/Darwitz squared off with Julie Chu's Harvard team for the title at The Whitt. Both those teams were awesome then, and they'd still be formidable now.
 
pgb-ohio said:
Conceptually your head is in the right place, but me thinks you picked the wrong example. Pretty sure 2005 was when Wendell/Darwitz squared off with Julie Chu's Harvard team for the title at The Whitt. Both those teams were awesome then, and they'd still be formidable now.
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Maybe not top 8 then. Maybe top 4.

Taking nothing away from those great players of the last but the growth of the sport in the last decade has just been nuts. It's probably similar to, say, the undefeated Miami Dolphins team from the 70s. They were awesome back then but would get absolutely throttled by most college teams today.

An extreme example but yeah.

Maybe I need to go a bit further out than 8 years, but not much more.
 
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TonyTheTiger20 said:
Maybe not top 8 then. Maybe top 4.
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I believe both of the 2005 Finalists would do really well today. Now that was a year I was able to attend the title game in person. It was a riveting game, and maybe I was unduly impressed. But I really think the 2005 stars wouldn't take a back seat to anyone, then or now. Would the current teams at #2 through #4 beat the 2005 Finalists with depth? Could be, but I don't think that's obviously the case. As for the current #1, I get to see them in a week, so I'll withhold that judgment until then.

Taking nothing away from those great players of the last but the growth of the sport in the last decade has just been nuts. It's probably similar to, say, the undefeated Miami Dolphins team from the 70s. They were awesome back then but would get absolutely throttled by most college teams today.

An extreme example but yeah.

Maybe I need to go a bit further out than 8 years, but not much more.
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Oh, I agree. And the Dolphins example puts your argument into focus very nicely. I just think of 2005 as a high water mark, and when you casually tossed out the figure of 8 years, you happened to land on it.
 
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Let's Go Gophers!

-6 degrees...a great day for hockey!
 
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Very cold weather, snow falling quickly turning the street system into a giant web of skating rink and an early start were a recipe for a disappointing crowd tonight for a game against a traditional rival.

Instead, 2,538. Third largest of the season, 3rd or 4th largest ever (but below the average for the previous four games which was 2,562), a late arriving crowd but in the end a satisfying throng.

And the hockey lived up to the crowd.

The Gophers produced what for them and the extremely high standards of the season to date was a somewhat lackluster effort but to be fair certainly Duluth had more than a little to do with that. It was a great skating game, up and down, lots of good passing, very entertaining to watch. Count me as one Gopher fan who is going to be quite relieved when McParland completes her period of eligibility and the same goes for Lacquette, two extremely good players. But in the end the Gophers had more extremely high quality scoring chances than the Dogs and Minnesota converted a full hand full of them, 5-0.

The game leaves plenty to look forward to tomorrow including a more reasonable starting time which even with cable TV coverage available might produce the kind of crowd these two teams and this long standing rivalry deserve.

Go Gophers.
 
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ManBehindTheCurtain said:
Very cold weather, snow falling quickly turning the street system into a giant web of skating rink and an early start were a recipe for a disappointing crowd tonight for a game against a traditional rival.

Instead, 2,538. Third largest of the season, 3rd or 4th largest ever (but below the average for the previous four games which was 2,562), a late arriving crowd but in the end a satisfying throng.
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Ran into four late arriving fans...arriving after the first period due to being unaware of the time change. Not everyone is plugged into the various outlets that would make the time change known. They gotta work on getting times set and sticking with them.

Now...Congrats to the 2012-2013 WCHA conference champions! Well done! Oh...and Noora...101! Awesome!

http://www.gophersports.com/sports/w-hockey/recaps/020113aaa.html
 
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Some additional notes on Noora's shutout mark...

Career shutouts - 37 (NCAA record: 39, set by Jessie Vetter, 2005-2009)

Single season shutouts - 11 (new Gopher team record; NCAA record: 14, set by Jessie Vetter, 2008-2009)

Obviously, the single-season team record mark was overlooked tonight. I knew she'd have to do that in order to get to 39, since she started the season with 26, but I had forgotten.

So here's how this shakes out...

2 more shutouts = tie for NCAA career record
3 more shutouts = new NCAA career record; tie for NCAA single-season record
4 more shutouts = :D new NCAA career and single-season records

Edit: Of course, the 37 career shutouts is also a Gopher team record... she blew the old record away some time ago.
 
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So is this new trophy replacing the one that looked like a fruit bowl? If so, I like the change, especially because the writing on the plaque is even readable.

Congratulations to the Gophers on an outstanding season to date. I hope to be able to offer more congratulations before March is over.
 
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From USCHO Recap
“I thought we played really well tonight, and the score doesn’t indicate the play at all,” UMD coach Shannon Miller said. “I do feel the better team won, but the score should have been 3-2 to reflect the play.”
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Evidently effort equals goals...and there goes the shutout.:rolleyes:
 
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