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Minnesota Golden Gophers 2017-18 Season Thread

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A question for regular Ridder attendees (that I forgot to ask Eeyore): There are two seats in the top row of section 2, I think it was, on the aisle between 1 and 2) that are gold; everything else as far as I could see was/is maroon. What's the story there?
 
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A plaque identifies those two seats as reserved for Robert and Kathleen Ridder.

Apparently, they, like many hockey fans, preferred to sit high in the corner.
 
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ManBehindTheCurtain said:
A plaque identifies those two seats as reserved for Robert and Kathleen Ridder.

Apparently, they, like many hockey fans, preferred to sit high in the corner.
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I figured it was something like that. But then people actually sat there. Do they sometimes get left vacant, or am I being too 'literal'?
 
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People sit there. Those are a couple of the best seats in the building, people SHOULD sit there.

If Robert and/or Kathleen actually appeared and wanted to take their reserved seats it would be a story much larger than hockey.
 
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HockeyEast33 said:
I saw that this thread had a recent post and thought it might be interesting. Then I remembered that Minnesota started their off season last weekend and realized that it couldn't be..... see you next year!
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and if you had actually read the thread instead of just being a jerk you would see that many of us expected the offseason to start even earlier. If you are going to insult us you will have to do a whole lot better than that.
 
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It edges into the absurd to be ridiculed for teams falling short of the championship by someone who board name picks him out as a fan of a conference that went 0-2 in the quarterfinals.
 
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Still Eeyore said:
It edges into the absurd to be ridiculed for teams falling short of the championship by someone who board name picks him out as a fan of a conference that went 0-2 in the quarterfinals.
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Not to mention no team from said conference has ever won a NCAA Championship. And a Hockey East team has only finished runner-up 3 times in the tournament's 18 year history. Obviously, it's not a record the league's supporters can brag about with a straight face. However I do think it's just a matter of time before the league's teams start making a better showing in the tournament, and in fact it could very well happen next season. While I don't want to see this happen at the Gophers' expense, more parity across all leagues and their teams can only help grow the game. It should eventually follow the men's, where a different program has won the championship in each of the past seven years.
 
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D2D said:
Not to mention no team from said conference has ever won a NCAA Championship. And a Hockey East team has only finished runner-up 3 times in the tournament's 18 year history. Obviously, it's not a record the league's supporters can brag about with a straight face. However I do think it's just a matter of time before the league's teams start making a better showing in the tournament, and in fact it could very well happen next season. While I don't want to see this happen at the Gophers' expense, more parity across all leagues and their teams can only help grow the game. It should eventually follow the men's, where a different program has won the championship in each of the past seven years.
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I'd rather see the men's imitate the women's where another team in Green and Gold from Potsdam, NY (the men) win the NC$$ Championship for the first time and win it 3 times in a 5 year span. ;)
And Minnesota can win it the other 2 years. :rolleyes:
 
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vicb said:
I'd rather see the men's imitate the women's where another team in Green and Gold from Potsdam, NY wins the NC$$ Championship 3 times in a 5 year span. ;)
And Minnesota can win it the other 2 years. :rolleyes:
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No way, Clarkson has now had its run - and very deservedly so. But for the sake of parity, it's now someone else's turn. ;)

Maybe your Golden Knights can win its first ever on the men's side?
 
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D2D said:
No way, Clarkson has now had its run - and very deservedly so. But for the sake of parity, it's now someone else's turn. ;)

Maybe your Golden Knights can win its first ever on the men's side?
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Women's hockey I think does need more 1st time national championship winners to grow the sport, similar to what happened on the men's side with RPI, Boston U, Harvard and Union when they won for the first... Oh, wait a minute, those teams are probably not good examples to mention on a Gopher hockey fan forum thread. Providence and Cornell are much better examples or maybe BC when they won for the 1st time in 1949.

Not next year though. I'm hoping for a return to normal next year and I don't mean the town in Illinois. :cool:
 
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That is what my previous post was referring to. Read it again. :D
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For the men to win it "3 times in a 5 year span" is a lot different than winning it for the first time ever! Read it again. :D
 
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D2D said:
For the men to win it "3 times in a 5 year span" is a lot different than winning it for the first time ever! Read it again. :D
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I have clarified my original post #825. Read the edited version. ;)
 
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While the increase in parity is definitely a trend throughout all teams, that parity hasn't yet manifested at the very top. Clarkson had to go to OT three times, so that looks like parity.

From 2000-2005, UMD and UM split all six national championships in that six year period. Similarly, UW and UMD combined to win the six NCAA titles from 2006-2011. Now from 2012-2018, Clarkson and UM have combined to win all seven NCAA titles. I'm sure we'll get a different champ soon, but this is the longest it has taken for a third team to be represented in the list.
 
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Just received an e-mail from Gopher fan relations that Don Lucia has stepped down as head coach. Since I've never posted or read anything on the men's fan forum despite along with my late brother and now my wife having been season ticket holders for over 25 years thought I'd post the news here. Kind of ironic because we had just decided 2 days ago to not renew the men's tickets for next year. Getting too old to go to both and we enjoy the women's games more.
 
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bluffrinkrat said:
Just received an e-mail from Gopher fan relations that Don Lucia has stepped down as head coach. Since I've never posted or read anything on the men's fan forum despite along with my late brother and now my wife having been season ticket holders for over 25 years thought I'd post the news here. Kind of ironic because we had just decided 2 days ago to not renew the men's tickets for next year. Getting too old to go to both and we enjoy the women's games more.
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Lucia is the reason I switched over to following the women's game around the time of the Holy Cross debacle. To me, he should have been let go a long time ago and yes, I get that he had teams that won the title in 2002 and 2003, but the program has not even made the NCAA tournament 5 times in the last 10 years.

Once I witnessed a women's game at Ridder I was hooked and have only been to a couple of men's games in the last 12 years (free tickets).

It will be interesting to see the direction they go with a new coach and if any of the assistants will be kept.
 
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FiveHoleFrenzy said:
Lucia is the reason I switched over to following the women's game around the time of the Holy Cross debacle. To me, he should have been let go a long time ago and yes, I get that he had teams that won the title in 2002 and 2003, but the program has not even made the NCAA tournament 5 times in the last 10 years.

Once I witnessed a women's game at Ridder I was hooked and have only been to a couple of men's games in the last 12 years (free tickets).

It will be interesting to see the direction they go with a new coach and if any of the assistants will be kept.
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My wife has been saying it's time for Lucia to go for the past couple of years or so. I tell her that well at least he wins the conference championships, but even that has sounded a little bit stale the past year or so. Then of course there were the 4 losses at Penn State, after which even I was off the Lucia bandwagon for good. Thanks Don for your service! You were a good coach and a great guy but it was time to go.

I can't imagine any of the assistant coaches being kept on when the new guy is hired.
 
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Brad Buetow, lol
the perfect coach for UND's #4 and a certain OSU player from BC (not the college, the province) who I think may have also been #4, or maybe it was 4 minutes in the sin bin

I see Tim A must be snorting mineral spirits again, judging from his post on the men's thread.

so did his daughter get to announce it on 'CCO TV this morning?
 
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I suspect that Gopher men's hockey fans are going to be disappointed if they think that a new coach will mean being in the NCAA tournament every year and a championship more than once a decade.
 
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bluffrinkrat said:
My wife has been saying it's time for Lucia to go for the past couple of years or so. I tell her that well at least he wins the conference championships, but even that has sounded a little bit stale the past year or so. Then of course there were the 4 losses at Penn State, after which even I was off the Lucia bandwagon for good. Thanks Don for your service! You were a good coach and a great guy but it was time to go.

I can't imagine any of the assistant coaches being kept on when the new guy is hired.
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It is not coincidence that his team stopped listening to him after 19 years. That is when it was time for each of my children to leave home, as I had (in their opinion) gotten progressively stupider over the years. Don will stay involved from a distance, as I did with my children, and like me he will become smarter over the years, until one day he will be hired to take over a program where the players have stopped listening to the coach.

That is where the personal parallel ends, as I have not been hired by someone else's adult children.
 
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