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Minnesota Gophers 2022-23

Timothy A said:
I think that this is a huge plus for these players. They both could be ROTY candidates.
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While I agree that Laitinen in particular will not be an average frosh, it is tough for a D to figure in something like an ROTY unless she is very offensive oriented. From what I've seen, the high-profile rookie D joining the Badgers in the fall are more likely to jump into the rush.

As for Bouveng, I'd think that she is likely to be caught in a numbers game, at least early. When it comes to getting prime ice time, one would think that at a minimum, she will be behind G. Zumwinkle, Heise, Boreen, Skaja, Murphy, and Hemp. More than likely, she'll start behind Oden, Huber, A. Wethington, and Norcross as well. A kid has to be able to get on the ice to gain recognition.
 
ARM said:
While I agree that Laitinen in particular will not be an average frosh, it is tough for a D to figure in something like an ROTY unless she is very offensive oriented. From what I've seen, the high-profile rookie D joining the Badgers in the fall are more likely to jump into the rush.
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The Sinners, just in general, have a better chance of having the ROTY.

ARM said:
As for Bouveng, I'd think that she is likely to be caught in a numbers game, at least early. When it comes to getting prime ice time, one would think that at a minimum, she will be behind G. Zumwinkle, Heise, Boreen, Skaja, Murphy, and Hemp. More than likely, she'll start behind Oden, Huber, A. Worthington, and Norcross as well. A kid has to be able to get on the ice to gain recognition.
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Minor correction made...The forward depth on Minnesota's roster is just crazy. To the point that if they mainly roll 3 lines, which is what they typically do, a lot of good players will not be getting ice time.
 
Idle, mid-summer question for my Twin Cities friends:

I'm watching the Brewers playing the Twins right now - though I'm also listening to the radio broadcast, because I generally like them better than the TV people. And as it most always will, the name Paul Molitor came up. And the Brewer radio guy (not Uecker, he doesn't do road games anymore) referred to Molitor as "a Minneapolis native". Which I know to be incorrect; he's from St Paul.

And the question occurs to me: would that annoy people from St Paul? Does that sort of 'rivalry' exist between the cities? Or would be "eh, whatever"?
 
robertearle said:
And the Brewer radio guy (not Uecker, he doesn't do road games anymore) referred to Molitor as "a Minneapolis native". Which I know to be incorrect; he's from St Paul.

And the question occurs to me: would that annoy people from St Paul? Does that sort of 'rivalry' exist between the cities? Or would be "eh, whatever"?
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People who aren't from the Midwest tend to use "Minneapolis" and "Minnesota" interchangeably, as if they are two names for the same thing; don't know where the Brewers announcer is from originally. My guess is that the level of annoyance would be dependent on who said it. If the speaker is from Minneapolis, then the annoyance would be higher. When it comes to developing star baseball players in (fairly) recent times, there isn't that much of a rivalry, as they tend to be either from St. Paul (Winfield, Morris, Molitor, Mauer) or elsewhere in MN (Hrbek, Steinbach, Perkins). I guess Brad Hand is from Minneapolis, but I wasn't even aware of that.
 
robertearle said:
Idle, mid-summer question for my Twin Cities friends:

I'm watching the Brewers playing the Twins right now - though I'm also listening to the radio broadcast, because I generally like them better than the TV people. And as it most always will, the name Paul Molitor came up. And the Brewer radio guy (not Uecker, he doesn't do road games anymore) referred to Molitor as "a Minneapolis native". Which I know to be incorrect; he's from St Paul.

And the question occurs to me: would that annoy people from St Paul? Does that sort of 'rivalry' exist between the cities? Or would be "eh, whatever"?
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Simple answer--yes! Quite an intense rivalry between the two cities, which have very different characteristics, personalities if you will. I just came back from a tournament in Providence and the people who knew Minnesota would inform their partners about the difference between the two cities. Now that St. Thomas is in the WCHA, we can really get some inter-city animosity stirred up. "We don't need no stinkin' badgers!" I think is how the line from the movie goes.
 
Steamboat said:
Simple answer--yes! Quite an intense rivalry between the two cities, which have very different characteristics, personalities if you will. I just came back from a tournament in Providence and the people who knew Minnesota would inform their partners about the difference between the two cities. Now that St. Thomas is in the WCHA, we can really get some inter-city animosity stirred up. "We don't need no stinkin' badgers!" I think is how the line from the movie goes.
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The Original...from the movie "Treasure of the Sierra Madre"

Badges...

From UHF...Most likely what you are referring to.

Badgers...
 
The Finnish language and Hungarian language are related to each other and to no others. Some of the original group went north, some stayed to the south. I'm Hungarian, just an odd bit of trivia.
 
drewkal said:
The Finnish language and Hungarian language are related to each other and to no others. Some of the original group went north, some stayed to the south. I'm Hungarian, just an odd bit of trivia.
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I am speechless. Or am I? This may be one of the best posts of all time.
 
drewkal said:
The Finnish language and Hungarian language are related to each other and to no others.
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Plus Estonian and a couple of languages spoken in western Siberia. It should also be noted that, while Finnish and Hungarian are both Ugric languages, they are not at all mutually intelligible. They have about as much in common as English and Albanian, which are both Indo-European languages.

Some of the original group went north, some stayed to the south. I'm Hungarian, just an odd bit of trivia.
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Finns and Hungarians entered Europe in entirely separate migrations, 2,000 to 3,000 years apart. The exact timing of the Finns arrival in their current home isn't known, but was somewhere between 3,000 BCE and 1,500 BCE. The Magyars showed up in the Carpathian Basin in the 9th century CE. It's worth noting that Attila the Hun was not related to the people we now call Hungarian; exactly how they ended up with a similar name is a matter of some controversy among those who really care about such things.
 
Still Eeyore said:
Plus Estonian and a couple of languages spoken in western Siberia. It should also be noted that, while Finnish and Hungarian are both Ugric languages, they are not at all mutually intelligible. They have about as much in common as English and Albanian, which are both Indo-European languages.

Finns and Hungarians entered Europe in entirely separate migrations, 2,000 to 3,000 years apart. The exact timing of the Finns arrival in their current home isn't known, but was somewhere between 3,000 BCE and 1,500 BCE. The Magyars showed up in the Carpathian Basin in the 9th century CE. It's worth noting that Attila the Hun was not related to the people we now call Hungarian; exactly how they ended up with a similar name is a matter of some controversy among those who really care about such things.
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BCE? That's a new one to me and I was a history major, albeit that may have been 25 years ago when I was in college.
 
Timothy A said:
BCE? That's a new one to me and I was a history major, albeit that may have been 25 years ago when I was in college.
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Before the Common (or Current) Era. CE is, fairly obviously from that, Common (or Current) Era. It's used since it's pretty rude to date things by referencing a religion that most of the world's population doesn't believe in.
 
Still Eeyore said:
It's used since it's pretty rude to date things by referencing a religion that most of the world's population doesn't believe in.
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Typical human "fix;" change the name of something because someone might be offended by it, when in reality, it is still based on the same thing.

The main problem is that there isn't an obvious event to base a starting point upon. Scientifically, it would likely make sense to originate the scale when the earth first began revolving around the sun, given that is what a year measures. Good luck with that. Even if you could figure it out, we might find the resulting year total to be a bit cumbersome in everyday life.

It's all about as arbitrary as the number in a checkbook. Q: "You've written 9,228 checks?" A: "No, I started my account at 4,321 because I didn't want it to look like a new account." Then people quit writing checks and nobody had to worry about such problems.

Maybe somebody will blow up the planet and nobody will need to think it's rude that years were once denoted by offensive symbols like B.C. That will be comforting.
 
ARM said:
Maybe somebody will blow up the planet and nobody will need to think it's rude that years were once denoted by offensive symbols like B.C. That will be comforting.
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We are destroying the planet, and I find no comfort in that. Many of us on this forum are old enough to remember the diversity of wildlife that used to surround our houses. Flocks of birds, trees full of butterflies, bats flying through the open porch at night to eat the insects attracted by the light. It is rare now to see a bat. I haven't seen a toad in my yard for several years. Bird species are greatly diminished. We have succeeded in conquering Nature, and it appears that achievement will bite us in the behind.
 
Still Eeyore said:
Before the Common (or Current) Era. CE is, fairly obviously from that, Common (or Current) Era. It's used since it's pretty rude to date things by referencing a religion that most of the world's population doesn't believe in.
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Christianity and Islam both for lack of a better word "reference" the same Christ timeline-wise and that does indeed account for over half of the world's population.
 
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