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Ohio State 2013/2014 - Third year in Oz

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camilo said:
Inupiat = the name of the people of Northern and NW AK (Barrow, Nome and Kotzebue being the hub towns of the areas I'm talking about ... as opposed to the similar, but distinct groups in SW AK and Siberia, the Yupik). Inupiaq = the language of the Inupiat people. I don't believe that Alaskan Inupiat people refer to themselves as Inuit, but have no idea if that means they're culturally distinct or not.

Nanook = male polar bear, Nanau (?) = female polar bear. Not really sure of that, but I seem to recall there's a female version of the polar bear name in Inupiaq. This is interesting, and I may be totally FOS, because I don't think the women's teams at Alaska call themselves the "Lady Nanooks", a silly convention of a lot of HS and college teams.

The word Nanook is pronounced NA nook, not na NOOK. The a in NA sounds like the a in happy, not like in awe or balloon. "nook" is really pronounced shorter than the oo in a word like look, and nothing like the oo in balloon. It's more like uk, ... and if you're a Inupiaq speaker, the K sound really is a unique hard sound fairly typical (to my ears) of the Inupiaq language, sounded with the back of the tongue in the back of the throat, kind of like a q and a k together. I think a more accurate spelling is Nanuq. But an American K is fine and is what English speakers use. Just don't emphasize the last syllable, that's the only truly cheechako mistake you could make.

It could be that my understanding proves that a little knowledge is worse than none, but that's about the extent of what I know or think I know having been in those areas years ago.
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Dude, I've been here over 50 years and I've never ready anything better about my team's name! I'm going save it for another re-post down the line, cause there will be a need teach BS(?) history to the outside world again.
 
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Again OSU let a goal in in the last seconds of the period! Martell retreated in front of the Alaska player approaching the net instead of skating into him challenging him for the puck. His actions allowed quite a bit of open ice between the two for Alaska to get off a blast. Also we were sluggish on several plays Alaska had in our zone to be just standing in front of our net and not coming out to take on the players with the puck. Nothing good comes from a stagnant defense!
 
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Huge win and 3 points tonight. After giving up that terrible last minute goal to tie it in the 2nd period i thought they played a very good 3rd period. They had more jump and that created some great chances. Now the task coming home and shaking off the jet lag to have a great week of practice to get ready for the Broncos who i think is the best team in this conference. With the win and Michigan loss that now means for the first time in a very long time Ohio State will finish ahead of Michigan in the League standings.
 
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I don't know how we did it but we got some opprotunities in the 3rd and took them. I was still worried as at times we were still too soft on D giving the Nanooks way too much cushion allowing them to take shots. Hjelle alone saved the game for us being back in form tonight.
My vote goes to Brady for game MVP!
 
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THE OHIO STATE said:
Brady is the main reason for most of the Buckeyes wins this year. I hope he can stay strong going into the playoffs soon.
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I hear you. The series against Western will be a hard fought one for the wins. Fortunately it's a home series.
Also I can't wait for the series against Michigan, there's only about 36 scattered seats left for sale before they have to open up the 3rd level for ticket sales. Looks like it may be the largest crowd of the season!
 
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Hockeybuckeye said:
I hear you. The series against Western will be a hard fought one for the wins. Fortunately it's a home series.
Also I can't wait for the series against Michigan, there's only about 36 scattered seats left for sale before they have to open up the 3rd level for ticket sales. Looks like it may be the largest crowd of the season!
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Is for just friday or both days of the Michigan series?
I am looking forward to this weekend's series to see how they match up with Western. One thing they will have to do is stay out of the penalty box the Western PP is very dangerous.
 
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After taking it on the chin Friday night nice to bounceback and get the split!
 
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klbaum1077 said:
Is for just friday or both days of the Michigan series?
I am looking forward to this weekend's series to see how they match up with Western. One thing they will have to do is stay out of the penalty box the Western PP is very dangerous.
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My bad, I meant to say for the Saturday game. There are still good seats left for Friday. See what happens when you post at 2:30 in the morning!
 
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I cannot stand WMU as of late. They win a couple meaningless games against Michigan at the JLA and they think they're God's gift to hockey. I mean no offense, but even you guys have a Frozen Four banner/regional title trophy. They don't even have that, yet they act like they're a perennial power like Michigan is.

I mean, I do feel kind of bad for them. Not only did they get rejected from Michigan, but state too! That said, I hope you guys pound them and cost them the CCHA title. As for the week after, well, Michigan will do the talking for me ;)
 
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MGoBlueHockey said:
I cannot stand WMU as of late. They win a couple meaningless games against Michigan at the JLA and they think they're God's gift to hockey. I mean no offense, but even you guys have a Frozen Four banner/regional title trophy. They don't even have that, yet they act like they're a perennial power like Michigan is.

I mean, I do feel kind of bad for them. Not only did they get rejected from Michigan, but state too! That said, I hope you guys pound them and cost them the CCHA title. As for the week after, well, Michigan will do the talking for me ;)
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I am feeling the same way about them and you add Andy Murray's crying ***** and to the mix and it gets worse. He whines so much about everything and his players feed off that and they whine too. As for the fans i cant really stand them either See you in 2 weeks.
 
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MGoBlueHockey said:
I cannot stand WMU as of late. They win a couple meaningless games against Michigan at the JLA and they think they're God's gift to hockey. I mean no offense, but even you guys have a Frozen Four banner/regional title trophy. They don't even have that, yet they act like they're a perennial power like Michigan is.

I mean, I do feel kind of bad for them. Not only did they get rejected from Michigan, but state too! That said, I hope you guys pound them and cost them the CCHA title. As for the week after, well, Michigan will do the talking for me ;)
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Typical Michigan arrogance...
 
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Lawson_lunatic27 said:
Should have clarified I was referring to the "special" kind of arrogance you find in Ann Arbor!
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Hard not to have some arrogance when you've been so good for over 2 decades. Oh darn, I'll take being called arrogant if it means the hockey program is a perennial power.
 
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MGoBlueHockey said:
Hard not to have some arrogance when you've been so good for over 2 decades. Oh darn, I'll take being called arrogant if it means the hockey program is a perennial power.
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Good! So you, myself and the rest of college hockey agrees your a perennial arrogant ***hole. The (the) Ohio State thread seems like a fitting place to come to this understanding no?
 
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Lawson_lunatic27 said:
Good! So you, myself and the rest of college hockey agrees your a perennial arrogant ***hole. The (the) Ohio State thread seems like a fitting place to come to this understanding no?
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Yep. We pretty much have come to embrace it at Michigan. It boosts it even more and adds more satisfaction when people whine and point their finger like children at it.

Maybe if your program even sniffed the success Michigan's has, you'd understand. And this is just hockey.

You think I'm bad? Talk to a notre dame football fan.
 
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One thing I have to give to Michigan is that most other schools in the conference have stolen and copied their hockey chants. We have our own um, rather unique one we yell when the one minute left in the period is announced that no one has copied yet. lol!
 
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