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Minnesota Gophers Season Thread: 2014-2015

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If you were able to isolate to even strength shot attempts I'd say we have something. Goal based stats don't really tell us much as there's a lot of luck and small sample size noise.

Really not all that surprising that Michigan is #1. If I had to guess their 5 on 5 sh% is through the roof.
 
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trixR4kids said:
If you were able to isolate to even strength shot attempts I'd say we have something. Goal based stats don't really tell us much as there's a lot of luck and small sample size noise.
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Brilliant observation Trix!:) That's why in my previous post I mentioned "not controlling for the confound" when using G/SOG.;) I have not found any info that isolate PPSOG or ESSOG yet.
 
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Fair enough. I just don't see the point in focusing on (in practice like you suggested) the games where the team gets unlucky vs the games where the team gets vastly outplayed. At this point it obviously doesn't matter how they're losing games with as much ground as they need to make up but I'd argue that they'd be better served focusing on other things in practice.
 
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I'm rechecking for errors and will repost.
 
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HarleyMC said:
Every B1G team website and then a lot of math + time.:D
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Seems pretty manual so obviously a risk for error. But hey if you have the time...

Does the data have SH shots then? Because otherwise you're not getting a true count of ES shots.
 
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I wonder what Wisconsin's would be if you were to exclude Besse?
 
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HarleyMC said:
Brilliant observation Trix!:) That's why in my previous post I mentioned "not controlling for the confound" when using G/SOG.;) I have not found any info that isolate PPSOG or ESSOG yet.
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Try CHN "metrics.
 
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Hammy said:
I wish that the issues with this team were simply something that can be fixed with extra attention to detail in practice, etc.

But this team is plagued by chemistry/relationship issues and it is having major impact on everything. But none of this will ever be discussed in post-game interviews, radio shows with the coach, etc.

Before the season, I never would have envisioned the cluster****** that it has become behind the scenes this year.

The "leadership" of many of the upperclassmen this year is about the worst I have seen since the days of Wyatt Smith (who treated young guys like lepers at the end of the Woog years).
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So there are 'a-holes', and 'complete a-holes'. With the former, a teammate can learn to tolerate another's actions if winning is abundant. But problems are exacerbated with the frustration of losing. With complete a-holes, their attitude can poison an entire team, especially if there are allies that cause factions. I am assuming we are dealing with the former here, so winning could help improve the tension, since they were able to do so well last year with much of the same cast? Or don't you have a good enough sense? In other words, what is your guess, if this teams goes on a little streak, will some of the chemistry issues fade, or does it appear fatal?
 
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HarleyMC said:
If you play this game long enough, my experience is psychologically you often play better in front of a crowd. "Difficult to replicate desperation"? Not at all...especially considering who your coaches are, how they run practices, how much player evaluation is based upon those practices and whether you play, how much you play, and where you play are all hanging in the balance.:) My final comment in regards to the original topic of discussing the Gophers shooting woes is the coaches definitely know how to emulate a game situation for real time shot practice.
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Ok, so we agree that playing in a live-game situation does affect things.
Not only does it seem illogical to assume those effects are likely to manifest in one direction, but it runs counter to my own experience. I think even casual observers can see that pressure situations don't affect all players the same way. I'd take that one step further and say those situations don't always affect the same player in the same way from season to season, game to game or even shift to shift depend how a particular game plays out.

I appreciate the attempt to bring the discussion back to the original point. In that regard, I'd say coaches can plan and implement training to emulate the mechanics of a game situation, but they can only facilitate in emulating the psychological and emotional aspects of a game situation; players and team leaders have a vastly greater influence over that. And so I will say again that I have no problem criticizing the coaching staff in the areas it is merited, but the team's difficulties in converting quality opportunities into goals isn't,in my opinion, one of those areas. I'm content agreeing to disagree on that point. :)

Not that it needs to be said, but feel free to take the last word ;)
 
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Gophers will be fine. All they need to do is play like they did for that 1 minute 40 sec last night for the next 1140 minutes.
 
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JFC!!! Michigan loses. Other teams just ahead of them in pairwise lose, and Gophs get a tie. And what was with the trip call on Kloos??? He collides with a Badger, neither of which seemed to have seen the other, falls down and slides backwards into another Badger's legs and gets a tripping penalty that results in a PP that ties the score. Granted, they had plenty of chances that they failed to bury that would have made that goal moot, but I hate to see calls like that affect the game.
 
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I, Brenthoven, of sound mind and body, renounce tArrogance until next season. I shall be a normal fan for the rest of the current season. tArrogance shirt shall not see the light of day until the opening game of next season. I shall not assume any sweeps, nor predict any sweeps. It is with a heavy heart I make this statement.
 
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Hope C Reilly is ok. That knee on knee hit was bad, cheap becky player should have been thrown from the game after that.

crap call there
 
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SanTropez said:
Hope C Reilly is ok. That knee on knee hit was bad, cheap becky player should have been thrown from the game after that.

crap call there
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And, just to rub salt in the wound, McGuire scores the deciding shootout goal in the 7th round.
 
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