Hockeybuckeye
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Well, on the positive side there's a chance of getting to watch more women's hockey on Sunday. 
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Minnesota Women's Hockey 2025-26
- Thread starter robertearle
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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.
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.
FiveHoleFrenzy
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You are assuming there is a chance the tunnelers don't get swept later today. The way they are playing right now? That is not a given.Well, on the positive side there's a chance of getting to watch more women's hockey on Sunday.
ARM
Fan of chipmunk-like mascots.
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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robertearle
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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.
Hockeybuckeye
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I said there's a chanc of a Sunday game, I never said there will be one but it would be an exciting game to watch.
robertearle
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I was wondering if she was. Maybe they should have actually let her play! None the less Olympics and then right into league playoffs is intense.
Unfortunately she was hurt by a gopher in the first series of the year. She is a rock star
ARM
Fan of chipmunk-like mascots.
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.
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).