Patty Kazmaier 2024

[ARM]

For Duggan, it is her making a diving poke check at the offensive blue line, either to hold the zone or to break up a potential break the other way.

She was very good at making hockey plays.

The one-a-year aspect of the Kaz gets in the way of assembling a Who's Who list. Agosta didn't win it, although she has the NCAA career points record. Darwitz didn't although she holds the UM and NCAA record for points in a season, and Brandt didn't, although she holds the UM record for career points. Nobody from UMD ever won. I think that's part of Miller's legacy, showing just how popular she was with her peers. Instead, Harvard won five of the first eight during the NCAA Tournament era.

 

[Hockeybuckeye]

Mrs.Hockeybuckeye and I are going to the award ceremony just so we can take up two seats and make it two less Badgers get in. (Wink)

 

[Timothy A]

Mrs.Hockeybuckeye and I are going to the award ceremony just so we can take up two seats and make it two less Badgers get in. (Wink)

Be sure to wear your tOSU jerseys so we can identify you lol.

 

[Hockeybuckeye]

Be sure to wear your tOSU jerseys so we can identify you lol.

Don't worry, I won't be hard to miss.

 

[NMH]

It's totally mind blowing that Knight never won it. I understand why, but one would just assume a person of her stature in the women's game would have won it. I guess she got buried on those deep UW teams LOL.

I used to say, tongue in cheek, that she spent her Kaz year centralized for the Olympics.

 

[Timothy A]

Any final thoughts on who y'all think the winner's going to be? The voting closed long ago, but Simms and O'Brien are continuing with clutch play against the top end teams, so all those points they accumulated weren't against just against the little sisters of the poor, which is the argument always used against Wisconsin players.

 

[Lindsay]

Any final thoughts on who y'all think the winner's going to be? The voting closed long ago, but Simms and O'Brien are continuing with clutch play against the top end teams, so all those points they accumulated weren't against just against the little sisters of the poor, which is the argument always used against Wisconsin players.

I think it’s going to be Daniels.

Simms looks unreal out there, and will win it before she graduates.

 

[Silverpigeon]

OB or Simms win PK. Elite players for an elite program.

 

[Silverpigeon]

I can think of two fired up ladies playing for the Ship.

 

[Timothy A]

The winner's team finished 4th in their league, how valuable was she really? She was handily outscored by the Badger girls. Watts a joke.

 

[robertearle]

The winner's team finished 4th in their league, how valuable was she really? She was handily outscored by the Badger girls. Watts a joke.

You want 'good omens, bad omens'?

2012 - Decker wins the Kaz, Wisconsin loses to Minnesota in the final the next day.
2017 - Desbiens wins the Kaz, Wisconsin loses to Clarkson in the final the next day.

(we could even mention last year and Sophie Jaques.)

 

[PuckLover]

The winner's team finished 4th in their league, how valuable was she really? She was handily outscored by the Badger girls. Watts a joke.

Two things - Points. Per. Game. (1.974, 1.825, 1.735). Daniel was third, but the margin was not "handily outscored." Second, Wisconsin loses probably zero more games if Simms or OB had not played. Ridiculously stacked team. They were surrounded by other all-stars (which translates into charity points). Cornell loses many more without Daniel.

Certainly possible to make an argument in favor of the other two. Not reasonable to call this selection a joke. Daniel is a worthy Patty Kaz.

 

[ARM]

The winner's team finished 4th in their league, how valuable was she really?

It's never been an MVP award.

Congratulations to Izzy Daniel on being the first player from Cornell, a program that has had many great ones, to win the Kaz!

 

[Timothy A]

You want 'good omens, bad omens'?

2012 - Decker wins the Kaz, Wisconsin loses to Minnesota in the final the next day.
2017 - Desbiens wins the Kaz, Wisconsin loses to Clarkson in the final the next day.

(we could even mention last year and Sophie Jaques.)

Yeah I certainly thought about that.

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[robertearle]

Second, Wisconsin loses probably zero more games if Simms or OB had not played. Ridiculously stacked team.

(worth noting that Simms missed two games this year, and one was the second game at Ohio State, a 2-1 OT loss. Kaz top ten finalist Caroline Harvey also missed both games in Ohio that weekend. Missing two top ten Kaz players in an OT loss? Yeah, that might have made 'the difference'.)

 

[Lindsay]

Izzy Daniel. No s. Oops, I’ve always thought it was Daniels. Congrats to her!

 

[Hockeybuckeye]

Always an interesting experience to be at the show.
I met and spoke with Patty's daughter & granddaughter. I thought the granddaughter favors Patty a lot. Her and my granddaughter have one thing in common, they both lost their grandmothers to cancer before they were born.

 

[BowWowWow]

Congrats to Izzy Daniel - what an amazing player! She gave a very nice speech and complimented especially the other top-3 finalists.

Given as long-running a program as Cornell is since the early '70s, some of Daniel's stats are written as, for example, "third in the NCAA Era."

I see that Patty Kazmaier's sister played ice hockey at UNH. The first winner of the award, also a UNH player, Brandy Fisher, took part yesterday. She and fellow UNH alum Kacey Bellamy wrote signatures for a procession of youth hockey players afterward.

Photos from yesterday are a bit shadowy. The power went out in the lobby, partway through things, and although it fortunately came back on, they may not have set up the lights and background quite right.

Great talking with Hockeybuckeye on Friday and yesterday!

 

[ARM]

The power went out in the lobby, partway through things...

In 2013, the year when all three finalists were Gophers, there was a fire alarm (kitchen fire at the facility, IIRC) during the ceremony. The bonus was that the finalists were able to include photos with the first responders and the firetruck in their memories of the day.