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Minnesota Gophers 2021-2022

ManBehindTheCurtain said:
Boreen came back to the bench but did not return to play. She came out for the post game hand shake line and seemed at first to be testing her knee and if I must judge from the cheap seats it looked to me like she was not too bad. She and all of the rest of us will know quite a bit more in the morning but it appears for now at least no structural damage.
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Thanks for the info! Hoping to see her yet this series, but really hoping to see her by next weekend!!
 
Joel Johnson should demand that Heise, Skaja, and Boreen be drug tested in between the first and second period!!
 
ManBehindTheCurtain said:
It is easy and a pleasure to admire the Saint Thomas level of effort. Their talent level is at this time seriously deficient for the WCHA.
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Two top players gone for the Olympics, head coach gone most of the season, one year from D3. They put on a good show against the two teams just above them. They also have an administration that seems happy to put some big money behind the program. I am willing to wait until next year to pass judgement on their talent level.
 
Steamboat said:
Two top players gone for the Olympics, head coach gone most of the season, one year from D3. They put on a good show against the two teams just above them. They also have an administration that seems happy to put some big money behind the program. I am willing to wait until next year to pass judgement on their talent level.
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They do have some top talent coming in next season but they will be freshmen, lacking experience. It'll likely take two or more additional talented classes for the Tommies to become consistently successful (top half ?) in the always tough WCHA.
 
Gophers will play Ohio State tomorrow at 1:00pm CST for the Final Faceoff title. The Buckeyes were badly outshot but managed a 2-1 win over the BADgers.
 
That was one of the best games Minnesota has played all year. They scored early, and then just sucked the air out of the game.

One of the enduring mysteries of this season is how Savannah Norcross only has eight penalty minutes all year. She plays like someone on the other team murdered her puppy.

Edit: I just looked at her career stats, and it seems that her cloaking device was out of order as a sophomore, because her penalty minutes go 4/88/4/8.
 
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I am really encouraged by the overall improvement the Gophers have shown of late. And it's showing up on the scoreboard - with today's win they've won their last 10 and appear to be peaking at just the right time.
 
Still Eeyore said:
One of the enduring mysteries of this season is how Savannah Norcross only has eight penalty minutes all year. She plays like someone on the other team murdered her puppy.
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The refs are so busy watching #16, that as long as Norcross and Audrey W. don't murder anyone, they ought to be fine.
 
From what I can tell, according to TTT, today's game is for the overall number one seed in addition to the banner.
 
KTDC said:
From what I can tell, according to TTT, today's game is for the overall number one seed in addition to the banner.
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With the expansion to 11 teams, #1 seed doesn't mean as much as it used to. In the past, most years it would mean a matchup vs the CHA winner, who'd be carrying a #15 or so ranking in the Pairwise. Or if there were an upset winner in one of the tournaments maybe some thing even lower. Now it likely means you get #8 or #7. And there just isn't all that much difference to the teams at that level. At least not this year. You're #1? Congrats, you get to play Duluth!
 
robertearle said:
With the expansion to 11 teams, #1 seed doesn't mean as much as it used to. In the past, most years it would mean a matchup vs the CHA winner, who'd be carrying a #15 or so ranking in the Pairwise. Or if there were an upset winner in one of the tournaments maybe some thing even lower. Now it likely means you get #8 or #7. And there just isn't all that much difference to the teams at that level. At least not this year. You're #1? Congrats, you get to play Duluth!
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Acknowledged. Waiting on the committee but it probably just boils down to last change!
 
Up 2-0 going into the 3rd and you get beat 3-2 in OT...Thankfully this was a game that didn't have any more on the line than pride. Disappointed just in the fact that they suck against OSU when it really matters. Even with that it was a fun game to watch.
 
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robertearle said:
With the expansion to 11 teams, #1 seed doesn't mean as much as it used to. In the past, most years it would mean a matchup vs the CHA winner, who'd be carrying a #15 or so ranking in the Pairwise. Or if there were an upset winner in one of the tournaments maybe some thing even lower. Now it likely means you get #8 or #7. And there just isn't all that much difference to the teams at that level. At least not this year. You're #1? Congrats, you get to play Duluth!
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More than the quarterfinal round, I thought that the big difference in some seasons was that the #1 seed could avoid #2 and #3 until the final. I agree that it doesn't look to matter as much this year when teams throughout the bracket are capable of knocking off the top teams. However ...

This year, I wouldn't be shocked to see the committee send Clarkson and Wisconsin to Minneapolis. I can't see them suddenly being all about flights. We'll see.
 
ARM said:
More than the quarterfinal round, I thought that the big difference in some seasons was that the #1 seed could avoid #2 and #3 until the final. I agree that it doesn't look to matter as much this year when teams throughout the bracket are capable of knocking off the top teams. However ...

This year, I wouldn't be shocked to see the committee send Clarkson and Wisconsin to Minneapolis. I can't see them suddenly being all about flights. We'll see.
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Yeah, the telltale 'choice' on full bracket integrity will be whether they move Wisconsin to avoid an ECAC matchup between Quinnipiac and Clarkson. Or maybe a 'minimize flights' choice by sending Harvard to the Northeastern 'regional' instead of Syracuse. (But not both, because they would just be creating a different ECAC matchup.)
 
Offsides Guy said:
I know some on this thread have been critical of Bench but she really played well today...
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This is from Sunday, but it was true today, as well, right up until it wasn't.

Seemed like a harmless play, but all the same, #9 has to stop making these "cute" plays at her offensive blue line. They tend to wind up in your net, like that one did. Stronger on the puck, and come back hard if you turn it over.
 
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