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Minnesota Women's Hockey 2025-26

Looks like Minnesota doubled them up in shots.

I wonder what the Olympic letdown is like for all these players. Some Pw players are on LTIR, the men are millionaires and will figure it out (they are better at coasting in reg season games), and the college women are right back at it. I always forget they are students too. Certainly they are not the first to do it and these are problems many would love to have but the mental exhaustion must be there.
 
Timothy A said:
Quite honestly, it was completely shocking to see the place so empty. Was there something other things going on in town besides that?
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There is always a lot going on in town, but nothing that should greatly impact women's hockey. The MN girls state tournament ended last weekend. However, the opening weekend of WCHAs has always drawn terribly. A good portion of Minnesota crowds come via youth team attendance, and that ends with the regular season. The interest in watching the likes of BSU, MSU, or SCSU for the 5th, 6th, and in recent years, 7th time just isn't there. So, you are left with the core fans, and of late, there aren't many of those. The weather was okay (fairly warm but high NW winds), but TV access was enough for all but the faithful.
 
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Lindsay said:
Looks like Minnesota doubled them up in shots.

I wonder what the Olympic letdown is like for all these players. Some Pw players are on LTIR, the men are millionaires and will figure it out (they are better at coasting in reg season games), and the college women are right back at it. I always forget they are students too. Certainly they are not the first to do it and these are problems many would love to have but the mental exhaustion must be there.
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Noting that the goalie who stopped all 42 shots from the Gophers was/is an Olympian, too. No discernible let-down from her.
 
ARM said:
There is always a lot going on in town, but nothing that should greatly impact women's hockey. The MN girls state tournament ended last weekend. However, the opening weekend of WCHAs has always drawn terribly. A good portion of Minnesota crowds come via youth team attendance, and that ends with the regular season. The interest in watching the likes of BSU, MSU, or SCSU for the 5th, 6th, and in recent years, 7th time just isn't there. So, you are left with the core fans, and of late, there aren't many of those. The weather was okay (fairly warm but high NW winds), but TV access was enough for all but the faithful.
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The loss has the Gophers on the verge of missing out hosting the #4 vs #5 NCAA game. If there's that much apathy, maybe that's an appropriate outcome.
 
robertearle said:
The loss has the Gophers on the verge of missing out hosting the #4 vs #5 NCAA game. If there's that much apathy, maybe that's an appropriate outcome.
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It should probably be a thing that if you get bounced from your conference tourney in a best-of-three quarter that there's no NCAA Tournament for you (and I don't just mean hosting). I know that playing in NCAAs after sitting out the league semis was the case for somebody a few years back ... Princeton? It's all a blur.
 
ARM said:
It should probably be a thing that if you get bounced from your conference tourney in a best-of-three quarter that there's no NCAA Tournament for you (and I don't just mean hosting). I know that playing in NCAAs after sitting out the league semis was the case for somebody a few years back ... Princeton? It's all a blur.
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I looked into this about the team that sat out the league semis, and it seems to have been Harvard in 2021-22. They won the ECAC regular season title, then lost to Princeton in a quarterfinal series going to 3 games.

Then in the NCAA tournament, Harvard still got in but lost in the opening round to UMD (who went on to defeat Minnesota and Northeastern but lose to OSU).
 
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BowWowWow said:
I looked into this about the team that sat out the league semis, and it seems to have been Harvard in 2021-22. They won the ECAC regular season title, then lost to Princeton in a quarterfinal series going to 3 games.

Then in the NCAA tournament, Harvard still got in but lost in the opening round to UMD (who went on to defeat Minnesota and Northeastern but lose to OSU).
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Great find! There was a Princeton indirectly involved in that year, but the one I was remembering was longer ago. In 2015-16, the Tigers lost the third QF game to SLU in OT. Princeton then visited Minnesota for the NCAAs after watching the rest of the ECAC tournament.

Princeton hasn't had much luck with the NCAA Tournament -- three trips to Minneapolis for quarters, and then they finally got a different opponent/destination in 2020, and Covid happens so the tourney doesn't.
 
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