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Minnesota Golden Gopher Women's Hockey 2012-2013

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Saw Burrmidji do this to Gophers last year too; Beavers lost in a shootout. They love blockin' shots.
 
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Eeyore said:
The Gophers really didn't play very hard or very well.
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For the most part, I thought the Gophers tried very hard. The point where I thought that they were lacking a bit at times was their back check. People got in attack mode and didn't have the same zeal for defending that I'm used to seeing. BSU had maybe a half dozen decent scoring chances and managed to score on two of them. Credit the Beav's, but I thought we were very sloppy in how we approached those. That is really the only concern I've had, and I think we've seen that too often in recent weeks.

Coach Frost said that his team was flat in the first period. I don't agree with that either. Shot attempts for the first 20 minutes were 39 to 7. Bemidji State blocked 17 shots in the first period alone. Throughout the game that was the biggest reason why the Gophers didn't score five or six times. It certainly wasn't because they weren't trying.

Erika Wheelhouse must be a walking bruise today, because I think she singlehandedly blocked 20 shots.
 
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ManBehindTheCurtain said:
Dear Gopher Sports Marketing,

Earlier this season I noticed the new mural on the wall behind section 15 of Gopher All-Americas.

Nice touch.

Today for the first time I took a close look.

It is "Rhonda Curtin" not "Curtain".

Better spelling seems to have been earned.
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I had another opportunity this weekend to inspect the mural.

It has been fixed.

It didn't look patched or painted over so it does indeed look as though they had to redo the whole thing.
greenmtngirl said:
And actually, she spells her first name without an "h": Ronda. They got that part right on the mural at least.

I noticed this the first time I saw the new mural, and made this point to both Frosty and the facilities manager earlier this season. I think they are planning to fix it, but as I understand it, it means redoing the whole mural :(
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In any case, both of her names are now spelled correctly.
 
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Amanda Kessel's goal at the :08 mark of the first period on Friday night is, according to my research, the fastest goal for a Gopher at the start of a game. The previous was :11 by Anya Miller on March 1, 2008. I was wondering if anyone else can verify this, and if anyone knows or can find out the fastest goal in any NCAA game since the official NCAA record book doesn't have this category listed.
 
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For the most part, I thought the Gophers tried very hard. The point where I thought that they were lacking a bit at times was their back check. People got in attack mode and didn't have the same zeal for defending that I'm used to seeing. BSU had maybe a half dozen decent scoring chances and managed to score on two of them. Credit the Beav's, but I thought we were very sloppy in how we approached those. That is really the only concern I've had, and I think we've seen that too often in recent weeks.
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There issue with backchecking you noted but in addition to that I thought there was a lot of sloppy finishing as noted in part by the fact that once you subtract the 17 blocked shots and the 13 actual shots you're left with 9 that missed the net, some of which were from pretty close in. Despite how Bemidji played I thought the Gophers should have been up by several goals going into the third. The first Bemidji goal was really soft and the second ended a sequence of bad decisions by several Gopher players. I thought they definitely played better than they did last week in Columbus but well short of great.

And, yeah, teams have been scoring on a distressingly high percentage of their quality chances lately.
 
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Eeyore said:
...I thought there was a lot of sloppy finishing as noted in part by the fact that once you subtract the 17 blocked shots and the 13 actual shots you're left with 9 that missed the net, some of which were from pretty close in.
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Offensively, I don't think that there is much wrong. Despite how easy they often make it look, it is very difficult to do what they do. While moving at a high speed, get your stick on a puck that is also moving quickly, maybe bouncing, hitting a stick or looking like it might, then arriving just as you're trying to time your deflection with seeing where the potential opening is on the goalie. If you're playing Bemidji, then there is also a maze of defensive players' skates, legs, sticks, bodies, and if your last three shots were blocked, you might cut the fourth too fine and miss the net. Kessel is scoring on 27.9 percent of her shots; Brandt on 24.3. There are basketball players who don't convert that high of a percentage. We sit 150 feet away and watch them poke the puck wide of a square foot of net and shake our heads because the puck didn't go in, but we aren't the people who are having our sticks tied up or taking a friendly crosscheck to the back. The other team is responsible for a lot of our failures.

Nice job by Frosty on the tube.
 
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"Unlikely scare." I suppose based on the 2012-2013 Beaver season, but I've seen enough from Bemidji in previous seasons that make me a little uncomfortable with the unlikely characterization per a particular opponent putting a scare into Minnesota. Prior to this series I still considered the Beavers that type of threat. Especially if you get a game out of their 'tender like they did from Havel on Saturday.

I'll just add "whew" and ask, did Mira wear the hard hat? I missed any HH shot.
 
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How often (if ever) does the player who is chosen to wear the hard hat is also named the game's No. 1 star?
 
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Noticed elsewhere on the forum that it sure doesn't take much to get that Michigan-Ohio juice flowing.
 
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ManBehindTheCurtain said:
Noticed elsewhere on the forum that it sure doesn't take much to get that Michigan-Ohio juice flowing.
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Glad you enjoyed it.:o;)

You need to know, however, that the exchange had very little to do with a border battle, and nothing to do with Buckeyes/Wolverines. My "dance partner" has close ties to the Men's Program at Lake Superior State. That part is all to the good; the only relevant point being that the Lakers and Wolverines have entirely separate hockey traditions.

The real problem? He went to a lot of trouble to come over to the Women's Board and pay a charity call on his lessers. One of the unclean had the gall to criticize his post. Intolerable! So he was just throwing any mudball he thought might stick.
 
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