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Re: Minnesota Women's Hockey 2015-2016 (Part 2) -- Amanda Kessel Enhanced
you'd think it was an election year or sumthin'
you'd think it was an election year or sumthin'
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Minnesota Women's Hockey 2015-2016 (Part 2) -- Amanda Kessel Enhanced
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ARM
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Re: Minnesota Women's Hockey 2015-2016 (Part 2) -- Amanda Kessel Enhanced
Your question remains, but just as an FYI note, the Gophers moved the senior banquet from after the season to the Thursday before Senior Weekend so that parents who had to travel a long distance would have a chance to attend both with one trip. I attended about 10 of them (both after the season and near the end of the season), but the last couple haven't fit into my work schedule.
Re: Minnesota Women's Hockey 2015-2016 (Part 2) -- Amanda Kessel Enhanced
As locker sponsors we get two free tickets every year. Boosters are really an afterthought as the night is for the girls, particularly the seniors, and their families. It is always a real treat to see the players in street clothes as it personalizes them so much and the seniors always have something interesting to relate about the team and/or their time at the U. It is a fun evening. People can buy tickets for the evening but I don't know many that do. A bigger crowd would be a nice way to honor the women.
As locker sponsors we get two free tickets every year. Boosters are really an afterthought as the night is for the girls, particularly the seniors, and their families. It is always a real treat to see the players in street clothes as it personalizes them so much and the seniors always have something interesting to relate about the team and/or their time at the U. It is a fun evening. People can buy tickets for the evening but I don't know many that do. A bigger crowd would be a nice way to honor the women.
Re: Minnesota Women's Hockey 2015-2016 (Part 2) -- Amanda Kessel Enhanced
As the guy who processes the checks . . .
I'd say about half of the club members in attendance are locker sponsors, and half buy a ticket. It's a little hard to tell, because most of the purchased tickets are for extra family members of the players (the staff, the players and two parents of each have their tickets covered by the club).
As the guy who processes the checks . . .
I'd say about half of the club members in attendance are locker sponsors, and half buy a ticket. It's a little hard to tell, because most of the purchased tickets are for extra family members of the players (the staff, the players and two parents of each have their tickets covered by the club).
Re: Minnesota Women's Hockey 2015-2016 (Part 2) -- Amanda Kessel Enhanced
To give some numbers, a basic membership in the Power Play Club is $40 for an individual and $80 for a family. That's less than the tickets to the banquet would be, so you don't get a ticket with your membership except at higher tiers. My understanding is that some of the booster clubs charge a lot more for even their lowest membership tier, but I think you're better served with making the basic one pretty cheap, unless you're at a number of members that leaves you resource constrained somewhere.
To give some numbers, a basic membership in the Power Play Club is $40 for an individual and $80 for a family. That's less than the tickets to the banquet would be, so you don't get a ticket with your membership except at higher tiers. My understanding is that some of the booster clubs charge a lot more for even their lowest membership tier, but I think you're better served with making the basic one pretty cheap, unless you're at a number of members that leaves you resource constrained somewhere.
Re: Minnesota Women's Hockey 2015-2016 (Part 2) -- Amanda Kessel Enhanced
Thanks guys for the insight....you're aware of what went down up here, and while I respect the team and family having a chance to celebrate, many of us here who have been with the team and supported the team when the University didn't, would also have liked to have the chance to honor the players and teams accomplishment......according to the AD and Assoc. AD, we're family! Unfortunately it's a totally different situation on the men's side....
Thanks guys for the insight....you're aware of what went down up here, and while I respect the team and family having a chance to celebrate, many of us here who have been with the team and supported the team when the University didn't, would also have liked to have the chance to honor the players and teams accomplishment......according to the AD and Assoc. AD, we're family! Unfortunately it's a totally different situation on the men's side....
Re: Minnesota Women's Hockey 2015-2016 (Part 2) -- Amanda Kessel Enhanced
Its all about the benjamins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNTBb1u6UGg
Its all about the benjamins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNTBb1u6UGg
Re: Minnesota Women's Hockey 2015-2016 (Part 2) -- Amanda Kessel Enhanced
I'm going to write an ode to Hannah Brandt.
Hannah Brandt is class. I don't like the thought of going to games next year realizing she's not playing for the Gophers anymore. She had 285 or 286 career points. That's #1 in Gopher history and I believe it is number two in NCAA history. I wish she had been healthy her senior season because she deserved it and I would have liked to have seen what she could have done with a complete healthy final year. I thought when Amanda Kessel came back she shifted her mentality a bit and became more focused on feeding Kessel than on scoring herself.
I loved how she played all out at all times. I remember earlier this season in a game when the dogs had been called off. You wouldn't know it the way she would fly over the boards for every shift. She skated hard as ever and was the best on the team at figuring out good things to do with the puck that wouldn't cause a goal or cause the other team to look bad.
She was tough and backed down from no one but there was almost no extra-curricular. This season she fighting to free the puck from a goaltender who was trying to freeze it and the referee blew the whistle in the middle of her swinging her stick and Hannah just stopped in mid swing and turned and skated away. She didn't hit the goaltender because her momentum was already going or try to make a statement in front of the crease. I thought that pure Hannah Brandt.
She turned up big in the NCAA tournament. A goal in all three tourney games last year and they were all beauties. Getting the puck behind the goal line just seconds into the championship game this year and making that really firm but perfect pass to Potomak made a huge statement for that game.
I even thought she was one of the best spokesmen/interviews on the team. I saw one interview late in the year she was talking about the Clarkson game. She felt the team had a bit of an attitude issue because they were feeling kind of “invincible”. But she didn’t really blame the team for that because “they kind of were invincible” at the time. She didn’t mean the team literally couldn’t lose a game, but that they had won so many games and lost so few over the last 2+ years they just couldn’t help but feel that way. Now normally I would hate hearing a comment like that, except she was being honest and perceptive and exactly right. That was the challenge of that time period. (And Clarkson wouldn’t let them get away with it
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Hey Hannah, thamks for going to the U of M and being a Gopher for four years and best of luck to you!
I'm going to write an ode to Hannah Brandt.
Hannah Brandt is class. I don't like the thought of going to games next year realizing she's not playing for the Gophers anymore. She had 285 or 286 career points. That's #1 in Gopher history and I believe it is number two in NCAA history. I wish she had been healthy her senior season because she deserved it and I would have liked to have seen what she could have done with a complete healthy final year. I thought when Amanda Kessel came back she shifted her mentality a bit and became more focused on feeding Kessel than on scoring herself.
I loved how she played all out at all times. I remember earlier this season in a game when the dogs had been called off. You wouldn't know it the way she would fly over the boards for every shift. She skated hard as ever and was the best on the team at figuring out good things to do with the puck that wouldn't cause a goal or cause the other team to look bad.
She was tough and backed down from no one but there was almost no extra-curricular. This season she fighting to free the puck from a goaltender who was trying to freeze it and the referee blew the whistle in the middle of her swinging her stick and Hannah just stopped in mid swing and turned and skated away. She didn't hit the goaltender because her momentum was already going or try to make a statement in front of the crease. I thought that pure Hannah Brandt.
She turned up big in the NCAA tournament. A goal in all three tourney games last year and they were all beauties. Getting the puck behind the goal line just seconds into the championship game this year and making that really firm but perfect pass to Potomak made a huge statement for that game.
I even thought she was one of the best spokesmen/interviews on the team. I saw one interview late in the year she was talking about the Clarkson game. She felt the team had a bit of an attitude issue because they were feeling kind of “invincible”. But she didn’t really blame the team for that because “they kind of were invincible” at the time. She didn’t mean the team literally couldn’t lose a game, but that they had won so many games and lost so few over the last 2+ years they just couldn’t help but feel that way. Now normally I would hate hearing a comment like that, except she was being honest and perceptive and exactly right. That was the challenge of that time period. (And Clarkson wouldn’t let them get away with it
)Hey Hannah, thamks for going to the U of M and being a Gopher for four years and best of luck to you!
ARM
Fan of chipmunk-like mascots.
Re: Minnesota Women's Hockey 2015-2016 (Part 2) -- Amanda Kessel Enhanced
http://www.foxsports.com/north/video/state-of-hockey-hannah-brandt-122215
Nice job. As coach Frost often said, "Hannah is so special." What I think I like most about her is that when you speak to her or watch her, you still see the little girl from this story:
http://www.foxsports.com/north/video/state-of-hockey-hannah-brandt-122215
FiveHoleFrenzy
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Re: Minnesota Women's Hockey 2015-2016 (Part 2) -- Amanda Kessel Enhanced
Great stuff...Thanks for this.
She mentioned at the end of the video that ARM linked that she has a goal of making the 2018 Olympic team. Closed circuit to USA hockey, don't screw up like in 2014 and not have her on the team.
I'm going to write an ode to Hannah Brandt.
Hannah Brandt is class. I don't like the thought of going to games next year realizing she's not playing for the Gophers anymore. She had 285 or 286 career points. That's #1 in Gopher history and I believe it is number two in NCAA history. I wish she had been healthy her senior season because she deserved it and I would have liked to have seen what she could have done with a complete healthy final year. I thought when Amanda Kessel came back she shifted her mentality a bit and became more focused on feeding Kessel than on scoring herself.
I loved how she played all out at all times. I remember earlier this season in a game when the dogs had been called off. You wouldn't know it the way she would fly over the boards for every shift. She skated hard as ever and was the best on the team at figuring out good things to do with the puck that wouldn't cause a goal or cause the other team to look bad.
She was tough and backed down from no one but there was almost no extra-curricular. This season she fighting to free the puck from a goaltender who was trying to freeze it and the referee blew the whistle in the middle of her swinging her stick and Hannah just stopped in mid swing and turned and skated away. She didn't hit the goaltender because her momentum was already going or try to make a statement in front of the crease. I thought that pure Hannah Brandt.
She turned up big in the NCAA tournament. A goal in all three tourney games last year and they were all beauties. Getting the puck behind the goal line just seconds into the championship game this year and making that really firm but perfect pass to Potomak made a huge statement for that game.
I even thought she was one of the best spokesmen/interviews on the team. I saw one interview late in the year she was talking about the Clarkson game. She felt the team had a bit of an attitude issue because they were feeling kind of “invincible”. But she didn’t really blame the team for that because “they kind of were invincible” at the time. She didn’t mean the team literally couldn’t lose a game, but that they had won so many games and lost so few over the last 2+ years they just couldn’t help but feel that way. Now normally I would hate hearing a comment like that, except she was being honest and perceptive and exactly right. That was the challenge of that time period. (And Clarkson wouldn’t let them get away with it
Hey Hannah, thamks for going to the U of M and being a Gopher for four years and best of luck to you!
Great stuff...Thanks for this.
She mentioned at the end of the video that ARM linked that she has a goal of making the 2018 Olympic team. Closed circuit to USA hockey, don't screw up like in 2014 and not have her on the team.
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bluffrinkrat
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Re: Minnesota Women's Hockey 2015-2016 (Part 2) -- Amanda Kessel Enhanced
Another ode to Hannah.
Speed is a wonderful thing to have in hockey, but it is certainly not the only thing. I've watched a lot of players over the years that would fly down the rink with the puck, but once they got there they would either lose the puck right away or just seem confused as to what to do with it. Hannah never seemed confused when she was on the rink with or without the puck. She had as good a hockey sense as any player I've ever seen. She played as good an all around game as any player I've ever seen.
The goal that always comes to my mind with Hannah is her short-handed bank shot off of BU's Kerrin Sperry from behind the net in the 2013 championship game. Lucky? Maybe a little, but there is a saying about good players and luck. In that same tournament against ND Hannah scored the first goal of the game on a pass from Kessel and then in the next game with BC she tied the game at one with a tip on a Bozek blast from the point. Since both games went to overtime they were big goals indeed.
We're going to miss her next year with the Gophers, but it was a joy to watch her play for four years.
Another ode to Hannah.
Speed is a wonderful thing to have in hockey, but it is certainly not the only thing. I've watched a lot of players over the years that would fly down the rink with the puck, but once they got there they would either lose the puck right away or just seem confused as to what to do with it. Hannah never seemed confused when she was on the rink with or without the puck. She had as good a hockey sense as any player I've ever seen. She played as good an all around game as any player I've ever seen.
The goal that always comes to my mind with Hannah is her short-handed bank shot off of BU's Kerrin Sperry from behind the net in the 2013 championship game. Lucky? Maybe a little, but there is a saying about good players and luck. In that same tournament against ND Hannah scored the first goal of the game on a pass from Kessel and then in the next game with BC she tied the game at one with a tip on a Bozek blast from the point. Since both games went to overtime they were big goals indeed.
We're going to miss her next year with the Gophers, but it was a joy to watch her play for four years.
Re: Minnesota Women's Hockey 2015-2016 (Part 2) -- Amanda Kessel Enhanced
All this & to add to what ARM said, she is just a great kid. A lot of people with her talent it could go to their head but not Hanna. You bet we'll miss her on the ice but I think the team will miss her in the locker room more.
All this & to add to what ARM said, she is just a great kid. A lot of people with her talent it could go to their head but not Hanna. You bet we'll miss her on the ice but I think the team will miss her in the locker room more.
Re: Minnesota Women's Hockey 2015-2016 (Part 2) -- Amanda Kessel Enhanced
And the above posts brought a tear to my eye...thank you, Hannah, for all you've done for the GWH program, and best of luck to you.
brookyone
Deport Right Wing Nuts
Re: Minnesota Women's Hockey 2015-2016 (Part 2) -- Amanda Kessel Enhanced
https://thecoachessite.com/2016/04/20/brad-frost-athletes-first/
Class act.
https://thecoachessite.com/2016/04/20/brad-frost-athletes-first/
Class act.
brookyone
Deport Right Wing Nuts
Re: Minnesota Women's Hockey 2015-2016 (Part 2) -- Amanda Kessel Enhanced
http://www.gophersports.com/sports/w-hockey/spec-rel/042716aaa.html
http://www.gophersports.com/sports/w-hockey/spec-rel/042716aaa.html
Re: Minnesota Women's Hockey 2015-2016 (Part 2) -- Amanda Kessel Enhanced
Ex-Gopher Amanda Kessel is highest-paid women’s hockey player
Ex-Gopher Amanda Kessel is highest-paid women’s hockey player
brookyone
Deport Right Wing Nuts
Re: Minnesota Women's Hockey 2015-2016 (Part 2) -- Amanda Kessel Enhanced
I'd be particularly interested in any thoughts on goalie Serena D'Angelo from those more familiar with her. Along with any of the usual speculation on line configurations etc.
...finding room for another piece of hardware...updating Ridder exterior signage etc. etc.
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Perhaps an off-season thread is in order?
I'd be particularly interested in any thoughts on goalie Serena D'Angelo from those more familiar with her. Along with any of the usual speculation on line configurations etc.
...finding room for another piece of hardware...updating Ridder exterior signage etc. etc.
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Re: Minnesota Women's Hockey 2015-2016 (Part 2) -- Amanda Kessel Enhanced
Nice article about Amanda from the Wild site: http://wild.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=112605
Nice article about Amanda from the Wild site: http://wild.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=112605