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Minnesota Gophers 2021-2022

The Eagles scored midway through the 3rd period to tie it at 1-1 only to have Colgate answer to make it a 2-1 game, which is how it ended. If the Gophers get by Mercyhurst they better be ready because Colgate looked very good.
 
Gophers top Mercyhurst 4-0. Lauren Bench with the shutout. Will take on Colgate for the Smashville championship.

Good luck ladies!
 
Good day for the Gophers, good day for the WCHA and the Pairwise. St. Cloud wins, Bemidji wins, only UMD lets us down. If Ohio can put Pennsylvania back into the box and if UMD can do a little better and if Gophers can beat Colgate again the conference will be in position to land that 3rd berth in the post season tournament. Lots of hockey left to play.
 
Huge letdown by the seemingly promising Gophers. If you are going to be relevant at the end of the season and even perhaps more importantly relevant next weekend in Madison you have to somehow solve the red hot goaltender and win that game.

Devastating news about Ostertag.
 
ManBehindTheCurtain said:
Huge letdown by the seemingly promising Gophers. If you are going to be relevant at the end of the season and even perhaps more importantly relevant next weekend in Madison you have to somehow solve the red hot goaltender and win that game.
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Think you’re being too dramatic. Promising Gophers? Your team is 12-4, ranked No. 4 in PWR and No. 3 nationally. This was Colgate’s first solid win over a top-10 team, but that doesn’t mean the Raiders won’t be ‘relevant’ at the end of the season.

Game could have gone either way; Colgate was playing with a backup, rookie goaltender. Your team swept the series on the road, has won its last 11 games, has not lost OOC in 4+ years…given your competitive conference, the Gophers will be fine.
 
ManBehindTheCurtain said:
Huge letdown by the seemingly promising Gophers. If you are going to be relevant at the end of the season and even perhaps more importantly relevant next weekend in Madison you have to somehow solve the red hot goaltender and win that game.

Devastating news about Ostertag.
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I agree with you. I don't think you are being too dramatic! Forwards that look good and don't score is something I was hoping would improve.

WHAT"S GOING ON WITH OSTERTAG!?!?!?
 
One thing I was wondering was if the officials picked up their bonuses from all the extra work they put in during yesterday’s game with Colgate?
 
KTDC said:
Forwards that look good and don't score is something I was hoping would improve.
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They have become a one line team and when that line falters you get a loss to toothpaste. Would be nice if the braintrust think about trying some different combinations but with this team having too many puck hogs I'm not sure that would be helpful either.
 
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I do not believe that the play of all nine of the forwards they are using is so stellar that it precludes giving more ice time to at least one of the forwards they are not using.
 
ManBehindTheCurtain said:
I do not believe that the play of all nine of the forwards they are using is so stellar that it precludes giving more ice time to at least one of the forwards they are not using.
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I would like to see Emma Conner. She certainly seemed to be a scoring specialist at Edina. I don’t know what she looks like in practice, but I thought she looked respectable for a first series of the year freshman against Ohio State.
 
KTDC said:
I would like to see Emma Conner. She certainly seemed to be a scoring specialist at Edina. I don’t know what she looks like in practice, but I thought she looked respectable for a first series of the year freshman against Ohio State.
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I've wondered about Conner also, but then who do you sit? And would it make sense to put her in there against Wisconsin?
 
D2D said:
I've wondered about Conner also, but then who do you sit? And would it make sense to put her in there against Wisconsin?
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I felt it should be Skaja…(I assume lots disagree!) But two weeks in a row at the end of games they sat Boreen, not Skaja, when they played extra forwards so that dream sort of diminished for me!

And also, I wasn’t thinking of breaking that plan out for the first time against Wisconsin…lol
 
KTDC said:
I felt it should be Skaja…(I assume lots disagree!) But two weeks in a row at the end of games they sat Boreen, not Skaja, when they played extra forwards so that dream sort of diminished for me!
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I think I remember it being mentioned that Boreen has had some lingering issues with her back.
 
FiveHoleFrenzy said:
I think I remember it being mentioned that Boreen has had some lingering issues with her back.
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Yes, Boreen definitely left one of the SCSU games after a period for injury-related reasons.

IMO, having Skaja and Boreen with Heise gives you better chemistry than you'd have with certain other trios that might be more talented. Skaja doesn't have great hands, but she brings her lunch bucket and is willing to go to work, and she has good wheels, so she wouldn't be the person that I would drop to free up a space for someone else. The way it usually goes, I'm sure that someone will be injured soon and a spot for Connor will be created that way.
 
Another recruiting loss to the Badgers with a 2023 rectruit from Chicago Mission chosing them. Honestly, the 22 recruiting class is looking pedestrian. The 23 recruitng class might even be worse. I have no idea what is going on with this staff but they are losing to their rivals on the ice and off the ice. They are becoming the bc of the west
 
FiveHoleFrenzy said:
They are becoming the bc of the west
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Wouldn't we more accurately be another UMD? If your dire prediction comes true, then the Gophers would be a once-championship program that is now battling to be the third-best team in the league. And if we fall off even more, then we'd be like UNH. BC strikes me as being closer to Dartmouth, a team that attracted top-level recruits and advanced to Frozen Fours, but didn't do much once it got there, and is now in decline.
 
ARM said:
Wouldn't we more accurately be another UMD?
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Maybe, but I think they are doing a better job of recruiting than the big sister campus.

I'm opting out of following this team and getting on the bandwagon for St. Thomas if this staff turns this program into a UNH...
 
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