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Minnesota Golden Gophers 2017-18 Season Thread

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The most worrisome part was that I didn't see Katie Robinson on the ice at all during the third period; we may be back down to four defensemen.
 
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Eeyore said:
The most worrisome part was that I didn't see Katie Robinson on the ice at all during the third period; we may be back down to four defensemen.
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Yeah, when Brown took a penalty, Sophie moved back to D for the kill.
 
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D2D said:
Despite the win I came away disappointed from the game tonight. Thought the Gophers' effort just wasn't there after they took the two goal lead (the worst lead in hockey?) towards the end of the 2nd period. I guess after outshooting St. Cloud 12-1 in the first period they thought they could relax and coast for the win? But give credit to the Huskies for never quitting. I thought they actually outplayed the Gophers in the 3rd, which made it "interesting" until the final buzzer.

This Gopher team is not good enough to ever let up, and once again this became painfully obvious this evening. The old saying is "A win is a win", and I guess that's true, but I came away with the distinct feeling that Minnesota MUST be consistently better than they showed tonight if they are to have success in the post season.
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When you get tired, if you continue to attempt to play at maximum output, the first thing to go is your mind, the ability to make good decisions. The body can respond to commands for a while until it too can no longer do as directed.

If you have made a bad decision (or even the least optimum) you put extra demands on your body, compounding the problem. You now have to make up for a less than optimal decision with a body that has little left in the tank.
About 15 years ago in Rochester I saw WI skate with two lines against MN who skated three. WI was beating MN.. If WI had skated three, their lines would have been diluted and MN likely would have had the upper hand. The most interesting thing about the game was if WI would tire and then MN prevail because they weren’t as tired.

It didn’t happen, today there is no way a team can skate two lines and beat another skating three unless there is a big difference in skill between the two teams. I think it is highly unlikely MN could beat SCSU with two lines, as we have seen in the past two games between the two, two blueline pairs are barely enough to survive a win, despite having three lines. And moving Skarzynski to the blueline weakens the ability to score, so although that might help the D, it hurts the overall team.

With 5 healthy blueliners, this team is good enough to make the NCAA, and good enough to beat anybody, but with four, if they are lucky enough to make the NCAA, they will beat nobody. They may not even make the NCAA, without a victory over WI or another near sweep by OSU, their chances of being displaced by someone else is pretty good. They will also likely lose to a team or two below them in the WCHA.
 
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pokechecker said:
When you get tired, if you continue to attempt to play at maximum output, the first thing to go is your mind, the ability to make good decisions. The body can respond to commands for a while until it too can no longer do as directed.

If you have made a bad decision (or even the least optimum) you put extra demands on your body, compounding the problem. You now have to make up for a less than optimal decision with a body that has little left in the tank.
About 15 years ago in Rochester I saw WI skate with two lines against MN who skated three. WI was beating MN.. If WI had skated three, their lines would have been diluted and MN likely would have had the upper hand. The most interesting thing about the game was if WI would tire and then MN prevail because they weren’t as tired.

It didn’t happen, today there is no way a team can skate two lines and beat another skating three unless there is a big difference in skill between the two teams. I think it is highly unlikely MN could beat SCSU with two lines, as we have seen in the past two games between the two, two blueline pairs are barely enough to survive a win, despite having three lines. And moving Skarzynski to the blueline weakens the ability to score, so although that might help the D, it hurts the overall team.

With 5 healthy blueliners, this team is good enough to make the NCAA, and good enough to beat anybody, but with four, if they are lucky enough to make the NCAA, they will beat nobody. They may not even make the NCAA, without a victory over WI or another near sweep by OSU, their chances of being displaced by someone else is pretty good. They will also likely lose to a team or two below them in the WCHA.
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Every now and then you surprise with a well thought out post...Nicely done.

Hey and if you're interested I'm looking to get rid of some vintage Star Wars figures still in the blisterpack. Ma says it time I start thinking about moving on. ;)
 
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Eeyore said:
As I've alluded to before, when pokechecker uses proper punctuation and capitalization, the comment is often interesting and useful. When it trolls, it does so with bad grammar.
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The janitor at work is like this. When he is on his meds he is a decent guy. I wish pukechucker would get the help he so desperately needs. Till then he stays on the ignore list because the interesting stuff is never worth the bile. This is a guy that made homophobic slurs against female hockey players on this board.
 
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Folks, if you're saying that you're ignoring him and then continue to comment on him...You're not really ignoring him are you? ;)
 
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I suppose the glass half full crowd will explain this away but honestly...There is no excuse for the performance of Minnesota so far tonight.
 
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Maybe the Gophers should forgo playing at home and just play on the road for the remainder of the year.
 
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That was a depressing game in every conceivable way. There was a palpable lack of effort, possibly the worst they've played in the eight years I've been following this team; if someone told me that the whole team had salmonella poisoning, I wouldn't be surprised. Lindsey Agnew absolutely deserved to be tossed out for checking from behind; it was a brutal play against a player who was not only facing the other way, but was bent over such that she hit the boards with the top of her head. And my guess is that Kippin Keller, one of the only players who I thought played hard last night, is done for the year, given the way she was carried off the ice.

Hopefully things are better today.
 
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Eeyore said:
That was a depressing game in every conceivable way. There was a palpable lack of effort, possibly the worst they've played in the eight years I've been following this team; if someone told me that the whole team had salmonella poisoning, I wouldn't be surprised. Lindsey Agnew absolutely deserved to be tossed out for checking from behind; it was a brutal play against a player who was not only facing the other way, but was bent over such that she hit the boards with the top of her head. And my guess is that Kippin Keller, one of the only players who I thought played hard last night, is done for the year, given the way she was carried off the ice.

Hopefully things are better today.
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For me it's five years. Hopefully things are better today.

FiveHoleFrenzy said:
I suppose the glass half full crowd will explain this away but honestly...There is no excuse for the performance of Minnesota so far tonight.
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One good thing is I the players on the visitors bench really enjoyed themselves.
 
Call It said:
We have larger issues than home and away. What is Frost doing? A once proud program that top players dreamed about playing for is becoming a laughing stock.
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The team is experiencing what most other "regular" teams go through during any given season, and some of the Gopher (un)faithful are hitting the panic button. I love it. Welcome to the real world Gopher fans!
 
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shelfit said:
The team is experiencing what most other "regular" teams go through during any given season, and some of the Gopher (un)faithful are hitting the panic button. I love it. Welcome to the real world Gopher fans!
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It's more that perpetual whiners will whine.
 
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Eeyore said:
That was a depressing game in every conceivable way. There was a palpable lack of effort, possibly the worst they've played in the eight years I've been following this team; if someone told me that the whole team had salmonella poisoning, I wouldn't be surprised. Lindsey Agnew absolutely deserved to be tossed out for checking from behind; it was a brutal play against a player who was not only facing the other way, but was bent over such that she hit the boards with the top of her head. And my guess is that Kippin Keller, one of the only players who I thought played hard last night, is done for the year, given the way she was carried off the ice.

Hopefully things are better today.
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I'm very interested to see how they perform today. There seemed to be an element of delusion in the team in how hard they didn't come out and play yesterday. They'd had a month off to heal and rest and gear up for the second half of the season. I thought they started to play hard when Agnew committed the major penalty.
 
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Call It said:
We have larger issues than home and away. What is Frost doing? A once proud program that top players dreamed about playing for is becoming a laughing stock.
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I bet if we search hard enough we can still find a top young player out there that wants to play for the Gophers :)
 
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