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Minnesota Golden Gophers 2017-18 Season Thread
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bluffrinkrat
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Re: Minnesota Golden Gophers 2017-18 Season Thread
Maybe just where they eat, especially if they're in Boston for the championship? Just ask a former Minnesota goalie.
Maybe just where they eat, especially if they're in Boston for the championship? Just ask a former Minnesota goalie.
But their future is ahead of them!
bluffrinkrat
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Re: Minnesota Golden Gophers 2017-18 Season Thread
Well, unless you're Marty McFly and your future is all behind you now.
Well, unless you're Marty McFly and your future is all behind you now.
Re: Minnesota Golden Gophers 2017-18 Season Thread
You guys need to watch Dark.
Well, unless you're Marty McFly and your future is all behind you now.
You guys need to watch Dark.
FiveHoleFrenzy
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bluffrinkrat
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Re: Minnesota Golden Gophers 2017-18 Season Thread
Random thoughts. Gophers looked out of gas in the 3rd period (maybe most of the 2nd, too). Having an extra week off was evidently not a good thing. Don't ever remember them having that many icings in a game. Things seemed to go downhill after the third time in the 1st period that the cameraman showed the "three (Gopher) amigos" in the crowd, or the "usual suspects" depending on your point of view. Badgers were buzzing for the last 2 periods and never looked tired at all.
Random thoughts. Gophers looked out of gas in the 3rd period (maybe most of the 2nd, too). Having an extra week off was evidently not a good thing. Don't ever remember them having that many icings in a game. Things seemed to go downhill after the third time in the 1st period that the cameraman showed the "three (Gopher) amigos" in the crowd, or the "usual suspects" depending on your point of view. Badgers were buzzing for the last 2 periods and never looked tired at all.
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bluffrinkrat
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Re: Minnesota Golden Gophers 2017-18 Season Thread
I had never heard of the program, but it sounds interesting. I read about it on Wikipedia. Is the 19th century Austrian physicist Christian Doppler an ancestor to the Doppler family? Don't think he ever worked on time travel or wormholes though.
I had never heard of the program, but it sounds interesting. I read about it on Wikipedia. Is the 19th century Austrian physicist Christian Doppler an ancestor to the Doppler family? Don't think he ever worked on time travel or wormholes though.
bluffrinkrat
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Re: Minnesota Golden Gophers 2017-18 Season Thread
Not since '65 and '69 when the river was threatening downtown St Paul and rising up over Shepard Road. Lot of sandbagging going on then. After the sandbagging it was fun canoeing around Holman Field airport though which was completely under water. Or maybe you meant something else?
Not since '65 and '69 when the river was threatening downtown St Paul and rising up over Shepard Road. Lot of sandbagging going on then. After the sandbagging it was fun canoeing around Holman Field airport though which was completely under water. Or maybe you meant something else?
FiveHoleFrenzy
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Re: Minnesota Golden Gophers 2017-18 Season Thread
This team showed it's flaws in game one and they have been there, in varying degrees, all season long.
This team showed it's flaws in game one and they have been there, in varying degrees, all season long.
Still Eeyore
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Re: Minnesota Golden Gophers 2017-18 Season Thread
Minnesota didn't lose on Friday because they got tired. They played an outstanding first period, forcing Wisconsin into mistakes and opportunistically capitalizing on them; some uncharacteristic sloppiness by the Badgers helped. Then, they left that quality play in the dressing room for the second and third periods. Wisconsin picked up their game, and Minnesota wilted. The tying goal right at the start of the third period was emblematic. Killing a penalty, Taylor Wente got the puck along the half-boards, and, rather than trying to clear the puck, sent it back behind the net. The Gophers never got the puck back, and never got organized, and gave up the goal.
I thought they played very well on Saturday. Wisconsin played a little bit better, and were the team that got a fluky bounce in front of the net to score the only goal of the game. Overall, the Gophers played much tighter, and controlled the play for parts of every period. They just couldn't score.
To me, the mystifying thing about this team isn't the bad passes, though there are plenty of them; it looks like they are prone to panic and either start that endless back-and-forth behind the net that allows a good forecheck like Wisconsin's to completely bottle them up, or they throw the puck down the ice, resulting in icing 80% of the time. But that's explicable. What really strikes me is that they are so poor at receiving passes. The puck bounces off a stick, or gets tangled up in someone's skates far more often than I'm used to seeing. That's something that will need to be fixed.
Minnesota didn't lose on Friday because they got tired. They played an outstanding first period, forcing Wisconsin into mistakes and opportunistically capitalizing on them; some uncharacteristic sloppiness by the Badgers helped. Then, they left that quality play in the dressing room for the second and third periods. Wisconsin picked up their game, and Minnesota wilted. The tying goal right at the start of the third period was emblematic. Killing a penalty, Taylor Wente got the puck along the half-boards, and, rather than trying to clear the puck, sent it back behind the net. The Gophers never got the puck back, and never got organized, and gave up the goal.
I thought they played very well on Saturday. Wisconsin played a little bit better, and were the team that got a fluky bounce in front of the net to score the only goal of the game. Overall, the Gophers played much tighter, and controlled the play for parts of every period. They just couldn't score.
To me, the mystifying thing about this team isn't the bad passes, though there are plenty of them; it looks like they are prone to panic and either start that endless back-and-forth behind the net that allows a good forecheck like Wisconsin's to completely bottle them up, or they throw the puck down the ice, resulting in icing 80% of the time. But that's explicable. What really strikes me is that they are so poor at receiving passes. The puck bounces off a stick, or gets tangled up in someone's skates far more often than I'm used to seeing. That's something that will need to be fixed.
Timothy A
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Re: Minnesota Golden Gophers 2017-18 Season Thread
It's really amazing how puck possession just feeds itself with these 2 teams and once one team got on a roll with it, it was hard for the other to just get possession back with consecutive passes to get out of their D zone and into the O zone.
It's also amazing how poorly/loosely both teams played Friday and how tight both played on Saturday. I was like seeing completely different teams both nights. What is more shocking is that at this point of the season the loose play should have been systematically eliminated by now. Of course UW has some injury issues @ F which can contribute to loose play.
I didn't realize Zumwinkle was your leading scorer, yikes! Of course you will get reloaded from both ends next year so this year is a one year hiatus from dominance, and you never know what might happen yet this year, hang in there. Is Zum a one trick pony with the wicked slappah which I unfortunately saw in person?
It's really amazing how puck possession just feeds itself with these 2 teams and once one team got on a roll with it, it was hard for the other to just get possession back with consecutive passes to get out of their D zone and into the O zone.
It's also amazing how poorly/loosely both teams played Friday and how tight both played on Saturday. I was like seeing completely different teams both nights. What is more shocking is that at this point of the season the loose play should have been systematically eliminated by now. Of course UW has some injury issues @ F which can contribute to loose play.
I didn't realize Zumwinkle was your leading scorer, yikes! Of course you will get reloaded from both ends next year so this year is a one year hiatus from dominance, and you never know what might happen yet this year, hang in there. Is Zum a one trick pony with the wicked slappah which I unfortunately saw in person?
Re: Minnesota Golden Gophers 2017-18 Season Thread
I did not see Game 2. Hopefully the Gophers passed a lot better and maintained possession much longer than in Periods 2 and 3 of Game 1.
Quite often the problem is due to the quality of how the puck is passed, making it difficult for the receiver to catch it cleanly. Instead of gliding smoothly on the ice you'll sometimes see a little roll of the puck, which can cause it to hop up and over the receiver's stick. The problem is compounded if the pass is not on target, barely within the receiver's reach, or when she is skating away from the player passing it. Watching the first game of the series I found myself asking to what degree the percentage of "completed passes" differed between the two teams. After the first period, Wisconsin did a far better job of passing and catching the puck than the Gophers, most notably when they were skating up ice with numbers.
I did not see Game 2. Hopefully the Gophers passed a lot better and maintained possession much longer than in Periods 2 and 3 of Game 1.
Re: Minnesota Golden Gophers 2017-18 Season Thread
With the return of Kelly Pannek and Sarah Potomak, plus a very talented incoming class, I see Zumwinkle making major strides in her scoring and overall play next season. That would be some first line if the coaches decide to put them together.
bluffrinkrat
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No, she provides much more than that to the team. But, she does indeed have a wicked slapshot. The hardest I've seen at Ridder since Lyndsay Wall was letting them go in '04 and '05.
No, she provides much more than that to the team. But, she does indeed have a wicked slapshot. The hardest I've seen at Ridder since Lyndsay Wall was letting them go in '04 and '05.
bluffrinkrat
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Re: Minnesota Golden Gophers 2017-18 Season Thread
The one thing I would wonder about is the speed of that line if they are put together. Everything else they would have in aces. Zumwinkle at times has shown surprising speed with the puck. I too see her making making "major strides" next season. The other two are already there but certainly could even get better. Watch out if they do Badger fans.
The one thing I would wonder about is the speed of that line if they are put together. Everything else they would have in aces. Zumwinkle at times has shown surprising speed with the puck. I too see her making making "major strides" next season. The other two are already there but certainly could even get better. Watch out if they do Badger fans.
2Bladedskates
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Re: Minnesota Golden Gophers 2017-18 Season Thread
Looking ahead to next year's roster........where is everyone going to play? With Potomaks and Pannek back next year you have three forwards that will step in and make an awesome first line. Then you add Schammel, Williamson, Zumwinkle, Wente and Skarzynski you have eight stud forwards. Then you bring in Heise? Geez!!!! There will be a lot of nice forwards that will not see the ice. St. Cloud, Mankato and Bemidji are drooling over some of the "benchwarmers".
Looking ahead to next year's roster........where is everyone going to play? With Potomaks and Pannek back next year you have three forwards that will step in and make an awesome first line. Then you add Schammel, Williamson, Zumwinkle, Wente and Skarzynski you have eight stud forwards. Then you bring in Heise? Geez!!!! There will be a lot of nice forwards that will not see the ice. St. Cloud, Mankato and Bemidji are drooling over some of the "benchwarmers".
bluffrinkrat
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Re: Minnesota Golden Gophers 2017-18 Season Thread
Maybe Skarzynski back to defense, but I'm not sure that's a good idea. Defense and goal will be the main concerns I would think.
Maybe Skarzynski back to defense, but I'm not sure that's a good idea. Defense and goal will be the main concerns I would think.
Re: Minnesota Golden Gophers 2017-18 Season Thread
And Woken isn't a stud forward? I agree we have an abundance of quality forwards, a problem most teams would wish for....now what to do with all of them? If only we could do trades!
And Woken isn't a stud forward? I agree we have an abundance of quality forwards, a problem most teams would wish for....now what to do with all of them? If only we could do trades!