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Minnesota Gopher women's hockey off season thread for summer 2014

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A week or so ago, a friend was enthusing about it being baseball season again and he claimed it was the only sport that had the concept of a perfect game. I asked what about bowling. Now bowling is being discussed on another thread here, and I began to wonder what a perfect game in hockey would be. (What else is the offseason for?)

That made me remember watching the 2012 semi-final game on NCAA.com when they had a technical glitch and the only camera transmitting for about 10 minutes was the overhead shot of Raty in the goal crease. At first I was irritated, but then I realized that you could tell a lot about what was happening just from watching her. As I remember it, we never saw the puck that whole time and my thought was “the Gophers are playing a perfect game right now”.

Putting the two together, my thought is that a perfect game in hockey might be the one where a team gives up no goals and the goalie makes no saves. I’ve dithered about other stats, but keep coming back to just the two: zero GA, zero saves. Thoughts?
 
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OldDave said:
.........Putting the two together, my thought is that a perfect game in hockey might be the one where a team gives up no goals and the goalie makes no saves. I’ve dithered about other stats, but keep coming back to just the two: zero GA, zero saves. Thoughts?
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Jan 31,2014 Clarkson has 2/3 of a perfect game using this criteria ;) .

http://www.uscho.com/box/womens-hockey/2014/01/31/clarkson-vs-union/
 
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OldDave said:
Putting the two together, my thought is that a perfect game in hockey might be the one where a team gives up no goals and the goalie makes no saves. I’ve dithered about other stats, but keep coming back to just the two: zero GA, zero saves. Thoughts?
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Throw in a certain coach getting the boot a la Gardy and a perfect game you have. Or my "perfect game" concept anyway. ;)

I have this image in my head...coach runs onto the ice and attempts to kick ice shavings onto the official. Storms off to the locker room in a sparkly huff.
 
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brookyone said:
Throw in a certain coach getting the boot a la Gardy and a perfect game you have. Or my "perfect game" concept anyway. ;)
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I used to be in your camp beck in 2005 or so, but I've come to appreciate how lucky we are to have the coaches we've had in the WCHA. I'm glad she's still in Duluth. Besides, I think you are jealous that you cannot tweak the refs nearly as well as she does. It's much better for you health if you just smile and appreciate the artistry.
 
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OldDave said:
I used to be in your camp beck in 2005 or so, but I've come to appreciate how lucky we are to have the coaches we've had in the WCHA. I'm glad she's still in Duluth. Besides, I think you are jealous that you cannot tweak the refs nearly as well as she does. It's much better for you health if you just smile and appreciate the artistry.
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I'm jealous for not being able to wear my glitter jacket to sporting events without getting mugged.
 
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OldDave said:
my thought is that a perfect game in hockey might be the one where a team gives up no goals and the goalie makes no saves. I’ve dithered about other stats, but keep coming back to just the two: zero GA, zero saves. Thoughts?
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Perfect perhaps. Boring more like it !. DId you watch the Blues-Hawks OT last night. Now that was exciting hockey. Lot's of great play. Lot's of excitement, but also a lot of mistakes......

To further my thoughts on the subject.........

A perfect game by a pitcher in Baseball is to allow no one on base for the whole game.......The hockey equivalent would be a shutout by the Goalie. Both cases "Garantees" a win for your team. Both the Pitcher and the Goalie need help from their teammates to achieve this level of excellence.

A perfect game in Bowling is to throw all strikes........ The hockey equivalent would be that All your shots go in.....Unlikely to ever happen.

A perfect season is an unblemished record, no ties, 100% wins......Rare, but can happen in any sport/competition.


My point in these examples.....Perfect games are examples of individuals within a team recording a perfect game from a statistics point of view. There is no such thing as a perfect game as measured from a team concept (even in perfect games by goalies or pitchers, mistakes can and do happen in the game, but they can be covered by team mates. (a good catch on the warning track, a great save by the goaler, a great block by the D etc)....

Therefore IMHO, there is no such thing as a perfect team game, other than the trying to express the fact that "The team played a well executed game".
 
OnMAA said:
A perfect game by a pitcher in Baseball is to allow no one on base for the whole game.......The hockey equivalent would be a shutout by the Goalie. Both cases "Garantees" a win for your team. Both the Pitcher and the Goalie need help from their teammates to achieve this level of excellence.
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A hockey shutout is equivalent to a baseball shutout, not a perfect game. Nothing goes onto the part of the scoreboard that matters when a runner gets to first base, just like a SOG shows up on the shot chart, but not goals allowed. If you never allow a run in baseball, you will never lose, just like not allowing a goal in hockey.
 
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ARM said:
If you never allow a run in baseball, you will never lose, just like not allowing a goal in hockey.
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Only in baseball if you never allow a run you will ALWAYS win, unlike in hockey where the two teams can skate to a scoreless tie*.

*except for leagues like the WCHA women's where the shootout will determine the "winner", or in the playoff season where you typically play however many overtimes it takes to determine a winner.
 
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And there's the fun fact that the pitcher that took a perfect game the longest, 36 consecutive outs, turned into a loss.
 
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OnMAA said:
A perfect game by a pitcher in Baseball is to allow no one on base for the whole game........
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I took a slightly different tack on this. A perfect game in baseball is to allow the opponent no scoring opportunity, and it requires a team effort (even though the pitcher gets "credit"). When I applied the concept of allowing no scoring opportunity to hockey, I ended up with no shots allowed. As far as I am concerned, the goalie would get "credit" for the perfect game despite not making a save (just like a pitcher might not make a single out in a perfect game).
 
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ManBehindTheCurtain said:
Harvey Haddix.
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My father listened to that game on the radio, as a Pirates fan. (He was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan and after they moved he found he could get the Pirates radio broadcast at night, and so chose them as his new team.) He was also in the crowd for Mazeroski's home run to end Game 7 in 1960 when he was a student at Carnegie Tech; he never lets anyone forget that.
 
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We have a Ray Charles game where the # of my goals exceeds the # of your shots.
 
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