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Minnesota Gopher Women's Hockey 20-21

Timothy A said:
That was not good. Is it me just looking through red and white sunglasses, or does Bench lack a feel for the game? Or does the MN gig just have too much pressure? She looked very average out here, when you needed an eye popping save it just never happened.
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I don’t know what game you were watching, but Bench was left out to dry for two games straight. She might want the 4th goal back from Friday, but other than that not much that could’ve been done on her part. “Needed an eye popping save” she did manage to stop two badger breakaways as well as make consistent saves on Olympic level players in the slot. Badger goals were scored from rushes with poor defense by the Gophers and not from sustained possession, which goes to show how she can manage a game if she was given just a fraction of help.
 
livingintheglorydays123 said:
I don’t know what game you were watching, but Bench was left out to dry for two games straight. She might want the 4th goal back from Friday, but other than that not much that could’ve been done on her part. “Needed an eye popping save” she did manage to stop two badger breakaways as well as make consistent saves on Olympic level players in the slot. Badger goals were scored from rushes with poor defense by the Gophers and not from sustained possession, which goes to show how she can manage a game if she was given just a fraction of help.
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You mentioned the 4th Wisconsin goal that Watts scored on Friday and I would agree that was a goal that, most of the time, goalies will make the save on. But overall, other than nit-picking about a little better rebound control, she was hung out to dry by Minnesota's so called defense.

What I'm curious to see is how this coaching staff is going to try and cover up the deficiencies that exit in Minnesota's defense. They were exposed early on in the first series of the year against OSU and they even gave up 41 shots in a game against Mankato. Hey, maybe they could schedule more games against SCSU.
 
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4-3 Gophers up after two periods. Many boneheaded turnovers by the Minnesota defense has kept OSU in this...

Like a broken record but sheesh, the video feed is just amateur hour. Is it too much to ask for an announcer? Probably, but maybe that's a good thing...
 
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robertearle said:
("broken record" makes me laugh these days. It is double anachronism. Records are mostly gone, and records that "broke" were made of shellack, pre-World War II. I try to catch myself, but I still say it occasionally.)
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True...It would be better said "like a record that skips". 7-4 final the Gophers add to their 2 goal lead with an ENG. #11 for Minnesota with one of the stupidest penalties you'll ever see with just over 2 minutes left in the 3rd period up by 2 goals...

Oh and records are still around plus the younger generation is into them. Not just old fuddy-duds like me.
 
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Another game where Minnesota was outshot by a fair margin (43-30). It has been a problem right from the get-go and they are not making adjustments to rectify the problem.
 
You're up 2-0 and then you give up a terrible goal from the far side below the dot. That one is on Bench.

After 2 periods its 2-1 Minnesota.
 
FiveHoleFrenzy said:
When you can't play defense this is why you give up the lead...
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I was ready to be happy with stealing just the one 'standings point' with the EA goal. But two points!

Really good game. Gophers better early, UW better late. Obviously, could have gone the other way.

(I just pulled up the men's game. Wow, those Gopher uniforms are ugly! I like the 'regular' ones, and don't mind the more gold ones. But these are bad.)
 
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robertearle said:
(I just pulled up the men's game. Wow, those Gopher uniforms are ugly! I like the 'regular' ones, and don't mind the more gold ones. But these are bad.)
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Eliminates the need to drop the breezers to pee. It's quite revolutionary if I do say so myself. Those crazy rodents just think of everything, don't they?

I really enjoyed the announcer team for the gals, not homerish at all. Way better then the 2 clowns who call the men's games.
 
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