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Minnesota @ Nebraska Omaha, Feb. 24-25: Worst. Drive. EVER.

Re: Minnesota @ Nebraska Omaha, Feb. 24-25: Worst. Drive. EVER.

Red Cows said:
8000 seat arena

Every fan I have talked to around here about this topic around here would have a conniption if they built a rink that small.

UNO has averaged more fans than that on an yearly basis for 8 of the 15 years of the program! Your Tribune hockey blogger does not have all the facts on this one.
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Huh? You'd be lucky to have an 8,000 seat arena. Half of the seats were empty for the Gopher game last night. It must be a morgue when the doormats visit.
 
Re: Minnesota @ Nebraska Omaha, Feb. 24-25: Worst. Drive. EVER.

MAVFANJEFF said:
Completely? No. Slightly yes.
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Getting dominated for about 2/3 of the game = "slightly" outplayed? Really? Watch the game again and count the number of quality chances. By my estimate, that tally was about 16-8 in MN's favor, and three of those Gopher chances hit the pipe (one of UNO's did).
You don't get completely out played and end up in OT.
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You are ignoring the importance of a goalie playing well.
 
Re: Minnesota @ Nebraska Omaha, Feb. 24-25: Worst. Drive. EVER.

A few observations.

Gopher fan showed well and the ones around us, at least, were a hoot. They added a lot to the atmosphere in the area where we sit, which is mostly populated by season ticket holders like us.

This was the first time I have ever seen the opposing team's fans chasing down an opponent's athletic director for autographs in the concourse before a game. That was hilarious. We are the only school in America where everybody in D-1 hockey knows who our head coach is and also knows who our athletic director is, besides.

I noticed in the warm-ups that Minnesota is the first team we have played in some time that I thought was physically as big as we are.

There wasn't any real stretch of the game where I thought Minnesota overall looked or played any better than we did. There was about a 3 minute stretch after UNO scored short-handed that we really looked like world beaters and had the Gophers on their heels. That was only point in the game where I thought one team really looked better than the other.

The officiating was very shaky, particularly as the game went on, and I thought the game got called more like we were playing on their ice. I am surprised there hasn't been a little more discussion here about that. I've said it before and I will say it again, I never thought it was humanly possible that anything could make me wish for CCHA refs. WCHA officials are atrocious. As the game went on, the refs swallowed their whistles, particularly to the detriment of UNO.

Our defense continues to be the Achilles heel of this team. We have, by far, allowed the most goals of any team with a winning record in the conference. We only gave up 99 goals all season last year. We haven't even gotten to the end of the regular season and we have already given up 96 this year.

On to tonight's game, which looks like it will be played in front of upwards of 12,000.
 
Re: Minnesota @ Nebraska Omaha, Feb. 24-25: Worst. Drive. EVER.

cross cheque said:
"completely outplayed" "best team lost" etc... That's what the rest of the hockey world calls tArrogance. Ask them who they played first round of the WCHA playoffs last year.
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We have a little over a year of you having to find new material.
 
Re: Minnesota @ Nebraska Omaha, Feb. 24-25: Worst. Drive. EVER.

MN could win the conference tonight, depending on this game and tUMD's game.
 
Re: Minnesota @ Nebraska Omaha, Feb. 24-25: Worst. Drive. EVER.

MAVFANJEFF said:
Inconsistantly good. Too bad they couldn't have played like that against Bemidgi. Wait for next year Massa is going to be a rock. Like I said earlier, sorry about the organist.
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Stop apologizing for the organist. I thought it was dandy. UNO looked pretty darn good for some big stretches. Most of that second we were on our heels....should be fun tonight.
 
Re: Minnesota @ Nebraska Omaha, Feb. 24-25: Worst. Drive. EVER.

Yes, technically a tie. However, the first tiebreak is head to head. So, if Minnesota wins tonight and CC wins tonight, Minnesota wins the McNaughton Cup, and the #1 seed in the WCHA playoffs.
 
Re: Minnesota @ Nebraska Omaha, Feb. 24-25: Worst. Drive. EVER.

state of hockey said:
I noticed when the person played Van Halen's "Jump" really poorly. Brent and a few others can vouch that I can do a much better job.
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Funny, the group I was watching with all kind of looked at each other with the "really?" look when they started playing "Jump"
 
Re: Minnesota @ Nebraska Omaha, Feb. 24-25: Worst. Drive. EVER.

Red Cows said:
There wasn't any real stretch of the game where I thought Minnesota overall looked or played any better than we did. There was about a 3 minute stretch after UNO scored short-handed that we really looked like world beaters and had the Gophers on their heels. That was only point in the game where I thought one team really looked better than the other.
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I'm going to disagree that the team that not only had more shots but more quality scoring chances was the team to not look better at any stretch during the game.
 
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Re: Minnesota @ Nebraska Omaha, Feb. 24-25: Worst. Drive. EVER.

dxmnkd316 said:
Funny, the group I was watching with all kind of looked at each other with the "really?" look when they started playing "Jump"
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Daddy Mac will make you....

(yes I know that's a different, "Jump"...)
 
Re: Minnesota @ Nebraska Omaha, Feb. 24-25: Worst. Drive. EVER.

Red Cows said:
The officiating was very shaky, particularly as the game went on, and I thought the game got called more like we were playing on their ice. I am surprised there hasn't been a little more discussion here about that. I've said it before and I will say it again, I never thought it was humanly possible that anything could make me wish for CCHA refs. WCHA officials are atrocious. As the game went on, the refs swallowed their whistles, particularly to the detriment of UNO.
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Welcome to the WCHA. I'm not sure I agree that the swallowing of whistles was only to UNOs detriment, but I have to completely agree, the refs performed exactly as I expect any crew with Shep to do. You never know what they will and won't call, or under what circumstances, there were bad calls against both teams, as well as calls they SHOULD have made against both that were let go for no apparent reason.

I don't mind refs calling things really close, or letting a lot of stuff go, as long as they're consistent throughout the game. Last night, they couldn't seem to make up their minds which way to go with it (typical Shep) which completely ruins any sort of flow or predictability.
 
Re: Minnesota @ Nebraska Omaha, Feb. 24-25: Worst. Drive. EVER.

Red Cows said:
A few observations.

Gopher fan showed well and the ones around us, at least, were a hoot. They added a lot to the atmosphere in the area where we sit, which is mostly populated by season ticket holders like us.

This was the first time I have ever seen the opposing team's fans chasing down an opponent's athletic director for autographs in the concourse before a game. That was hilarious. We are the only school in America where everybody in D-1 hockey knows who our head coach is and also knows who our athletic director is, besides.

I noticed in the warm-ups that Minnesota is the first team we have played in some time that I thought was physically as big as we are.

There wasn't any real stretch of the game where I thought Minnesota overall looked or played any better than we did. There was about a 3 minute stretch after UNO scored short-handed that we really looked like world beaters and had the Gophers on their heels. That was only point in the game where I thought one team really looked better than the other.

The officiating was very shaky, particularly as the game went on, and I thought the game got called more like we were playing on their ice. I am surprised there hasn't been a little more discussion here about that. I've said it before and I will say it again, I never thought it was humanly possible that anything could make me wish for CCHA refs. WCHA officials are atrocious. As the game went on, the refs swallowed their whistles, particularly to the detriment of UNO.

Our defense continues to be the Achilles heel of this team. We have, by far, allowed the most goals of any team with a winning record in the conference. We only gave up 99 goals all season last year. We haven't even gotten to the end of the regular season and we have already given up 96 this year.

On to tonight's game, which looks like it will be played in front of upwards of 12,000.
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Glad to hear the Gopher fans were welcomed and appreciated for their passion. It is too bad their arrogance didn't reflect on the team properly. ;)

I thought MN was the better team in the first, UNO was in the second, and MN in the third/OT as UNO ran out of gas. Overall, it was a great game that I thought the Gophers might let slip out of their hands. UNO is a good team that plays like a Dean Blais team fast and hard. Not as dirty as when he was in UND. I like this team better.

Tonight I look for UNO to run out of gas earlier and the Gophers to win in regulation. The cup can come home next week.
 
Re: Minnesota @ Nebraska Omaha, Feb. 24-25: Worst. Drive. EVER.

Steve_MN said:
Welcome to the WCHA. I'm not sure I agree that the swallowing of whistles was only to UNOs detriment, but I have to completely agree, the refs performed exactly as I expect any crew with Shep to do. You never know what they will and won't call, or under what circumstances, there were bad calls against both teams, as well as calls they SHOULD have made against both that were let go for no apparent reason.

I don't mind refs calling things really close, or letting a lot of stuff go, as long as they're consistent throughout the game. Last night, they couldn't seem to make up their minds which way to go with it (typical Shep) which completely ruins any sort of flow or predictability.
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I honestly believe that UNO has been victimized by the officials since we came into the league at the expense of the teams that are "supposed" to be better, or, are old guard, more "established" teams. We have had so many controversial calls, and, no-calls go against us the past two seasons that it can't be an accident. Anybody watch us play CC last weekend on national television? How about the NCAA tournament last year? Forget whether that call was right or wrong for a minute. I submit to you that if we weren't playing Michigan or someone else of their "ilk" in that game that that would not have been a goal. Pitchers used to say Ted Williams would get the benefit of the doubt when there was two strikes on him and he took a close pitch. The umpires supposedly would say to themselves something like, "It must not be a strike because, if it was, Ted Williams would have swung at it". I think the Michigans, North Dakotas, & Minnesotas (and some others) of the college hockey world get the benefit of "who they are" with the officials, a lot. The no-call last night in overtime against the Gophers right before they scored to win the game was a beautiful example.

Just one fan's opinion. I bet there are people that completely agree with me and I bet there are people that completely disagree with me on this one.
 
Re: Minnesota @ Nebraska Omaha, Feb. 24-25: Worst. Drive. EVER.

Red Cows said:
The no-call last night in overtime against the Gophers right before they scored to win the game was a beautiful example.

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Just because some fans in the crowd belly-ache doesn't make it a penalty, I saw no infraction worthy of a call in OT.
 
Red Cows said:
I honestly believe that UNO has been victimized by the officials since we came into the league at the expense of the teams that are "supposed" to be better, or, are old guard, more "established" teams. We have had so many controversial calls, and, no-calls go against us the past two seasons that it can't be an accident. Anybody watch us play CC last weekend on national television? How about the NCAA tournament last year? Forget whether that call was right or wrong for a minute. I submit to you that if we weren't playing Michigan or someone else of their "ilk" in that game that that would not have been a goal. Pitchers used to say Ted Williams would get the benefit of the doubt when there was two strikes on him and he took a close pitch. The umpires supposedly would say to themselves something like, "It must not be a strike because, if it was, Ted Williams would have swung at it". I think the Michigans, North Dakotas, & Minnesotas (and some others) of the college hockey world get the benefit of "who they are" with the officials, a lot. The no-call last night in overtime against the Gophers right before they scored to win the game was a beautiful example.

Just one fan's opinion. I bet there are people that completely agree with me and I bet there are people that completely disagree with me on this one.
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So you basically have no faith in the integrity of the referees?
 
Re: Minnesota @ Nebraska Omaha, Feb. 24-25: Worst. Drive. EVER.

Red Cows said:
I honestly believe that UNO has been victimized by the officials since we came into the league at the expense of the teams that are "supposed" to be better, or, are old guard, more "established" teams. We have had so many controversial calls, and, no-calls go against us the past two seasons that it can't be an accident. Anybody watch us play CC last weekend on national television? How about the NCAA tournament last year? Forget whether that call was right or wrong for a minute. I submit to you that if we weren't playing Michigan or someone else of their "ilk" in that game that that would not have been a goal. Pitchers used to say Ted Williams would get the benefit of the doubt when there was two strikes on him and he took a close pitch. The umpires supposedly would say to themselves something like, "It must not be a strike because, if it was, Ted Williams would have swung at it". I think the Michigans, North Dakotas, & Minnesotas (and some others) of the college hockey world get the benefit of "who they are" with the officials, a lot. The no-call last night in overtime against the Gophers right before they scored to win the game was a beautiful example.

Just one fan's opinion. I bet there are people that completely agree with me and I bet there are people that completely disagree with me on this one.
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Meet the new Jan.
Same as the old Jan.
 
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