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Minnesota Golden Gopher Women's Hockey 2013-14 Season

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"If they win a gold medal they're going to say we did everything right. If they lose they're going to say we did everything wrong... But I don't think that's how you should look at it. They do some great things. How can you build on that and turn a couple things we could do better?"

she is exactly right, and nobody is going to see this more than Stone.
Gold medal = she will be held up as the second coming by some
Silver Medal = she will be crucified
 
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... so how does this years team stack up against last years?

2013 = scored 136 goals, gave up 27 in WCHA
2014 = scored 116 goals, gave up 29
and I'd say this years team is still getting better
 
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brookyone said:
http://www.gophersports.com/sports/w-hockey/spec-rel/021914aaa.html

WCHA RotW again. Well done ....
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Does anyone know who nominates players for the weekly honors? I've poked around the WCHA site but didn't find how that process works.

I loved the kiss cam video.

Am I the only one that thinks the player photos (http://www.sochi2014.com/en/ice-hockey-teams-united-states-gender-women) for the US women's Olympic team make DMV photos look like works of art? All the other women's teams photos are better.
 
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brookyone said:
http://www.gophersports.com/sports/w-hockey/spec-rel/021914aaa.html

WCHA RotW again. Well done ...
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OldDave said:
Does anyone know who nominates players for the weekly honors? I've poked around the WCHA site but didn't find how that process works.

I loved the kiss cam video.

Am I the only one that thinks the player photos (http://www.sochi2014.com/en/ice-hockey-teams-united-states-gender-women) for the US women's Olympic team make DMV photos look like works of art? All the other women's teams photos are better.
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:) Didn't like the unabridged version eh?
 
OldDave said:
Does anyone know who nominates players for the weekly honors? I've poked around the WCHA site but didn't find how that process works.
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My understanding is that each team may nominate a player in each of the three categories, but they may only nominate a person in one category per week. Thus, if a team has a freshman defenseman that scored six goals as her team won twice in shutouts, the team decides whether to nominate her as OPotW, DPotW, or RotW. For some teams on some weekends, nobody is nominated in one or more categories. Teams tend to try to spread it around, and sometimes they know that a certain player isn't going to win, but just the nomination serves as some level of recognition. How the process works at a given school I have no idea. Is it always the head coach, the entire staff, the SID? No clue, but I'd guess the head coach has the deciding vote if it comes to that, and then the SID puts together the blurb that is used should the player be named by the league.
 
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ARM said:
My understanding is that each team may nominate a player in each of the three categories, but they may only nominate a person in one category per week. Thus, if a team has a freshman defenseman that scored six goals as her team won twice in shutouts, the team decides whether to nominate her as OPotW, DPotW, or RotW. For some teams on some weekends, nobody is nominated in one or more categories. Teams tend to try to spread it around, and sometimes they know that a certain player isn't going to win, but just the nomination serves as some level of recognition. How the process works at a given school I have no idea. Is it always the head coach, the entire staff, the SID? No clue, but I'd guess the head coach has the deciding vote if it comes to that, and then the SID puts together the blurb that is used should the player be named by the league.
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I appreciate the info, although I am a bit more confused than before. The reason is that only two schools nominated players this week. I suppose the other schools recognized that those two schools would probably win all three categories, but I would still have thrown a nomination into the pot if I had a deserving player. I don't think it was a lack of deserving players, so my vote is for the other six teams just shaking their collective heads at the weekend results and not bothering.
 
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OldDave said:
I appreciate the info, although I am a bit more confused than before. The reason is that only two schools nominated players this week. I suppose the other schools recognized that those two schools would probably win all three categories, but I would still have thrown a nomination into the pot if I had a deserving player. I don't think it was a lack of deserving players, so my vote is for the other six teams just shaking their collective heads at the weekend results and not bothering.
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3 Sets of games - 2 sweeps and a split.....so logical that players of the week are likely to come from the sweeping teams.
 
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mnpokecheck said:
3 Sets of games - 2 sweeps and a split.....so logical that players of the week are likely to come from the sweeping teams.
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Good point. I forgot to take into account that not all had played. Hard to have a player of the week when you are idle. Thanks all for the clarifications!
 
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http://www.mndaily.com/sports/womens-hockey/2014/02/20/gophers-seniors-reflect-final-season

At the season’s end, the team will lose two of its top scorers in Davis and Terry, one of its steadiest defensemen in Gillanders and its two-time captain in Brausen.

Minnesota head coach Brad Frost had other words to describe them.

“They’re just jerks. They’re very selfish people who suck at hockey,” Frost said. “That’s about it.”

Frost, of course, was just joking around.
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:D
 
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Sharing for the (probably extremely) few who haven't heard yet...

WCHA regular season championship trophy will be presented before tonight's game (roughly 10 minutes before puck drop).
 
CrazyDave said:
Sharing for the (probably extremely) few who haven't heard yet...

WCHA regular season championship trophy will be presented before tonight's game (roughly 10 minutes before puck drop).
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Are we sure that will still be happening? Reason being, I heard from the commissioner that she won't be there, so someone else will be presenting if it is a go.
 
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The Gophers looked really good tonight. My only disappointment was that Amanda Leveille not only had a shutout but stopped two short handed breakaways and still wasn't one of the three stars.
 
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ARM said:
Are we sure that will still be happening? Reason being, I heard from the commissioner that she won't be there, so someone else will be presenting if it is a go.
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I'm sure it's a regular occurrence for the director of officiating to be handing out the trophy.
 
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