Offsides Guy
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And all the Buckeyes watching the puck...
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Playoff Results 2021
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And all the Buckeyes watching the puck...
FiveHoleFrenzy
Well-known member
Yuckeyes living up to their nickname...No amount of Muzzinator yelling is going to fix this.
Offsides Guy
Active member
Can I change my 3-2 to 5-0? Is this the most aggressive WI’s played all year?
FiveHoleFrenzy
Well-known member
Not a fan of what I just saw from the sinner goaltender...F that.
Yuckeyes have some life!
Yuckeyes have some life!
robertearle
Well-known member
Wisconsin's NCAA shutout streak comes to an end. Four games and 36 minutes. :-(
TitleIXHockey
Golden Knight
Aww, almost guaranteed us a new champion Ohio State.
Offsides Guy
Active member
I should have stuck with 3-2. OSU’s going to be bummed if they review the tape and see the missed scoring chances. Also thought Muzz rode that top line a bit more than she should have. The third line seemed to be producing the best chances.
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robertearle
Well-known member
I expected nothing less, but great job by OSU to battle back like that. That got *nervous*!
TitleIXHockey
Golden Knight
Mark Johnson in national title games
Vs. 1-3 seed
2-3
Wins
2. Minnesota, 2019
3. Mercyhurst, 2009
Losses
2. Clarkson, 2017
2. Minnesota, 2012
3. UMD, 2008
vs 4 and below
3-0
Wins
BU, 2011
UMD, 2007
4. Minnesota, 2006
Vs. 1-3 seed
2-3
Wins
2. Minnesota, 2019
3. Mercyhurst, 2009
Losses
2. Clarkson, 2017
2. Minnesota, 2012
3. UMD, 2008
vs 4 and below
3-0
Wins
BU, 2011
UMD, 2007
4. Minnesota, 2006
robertearle
Well-known member
I think the key takeaway there - for me, anyway - is that they are going to play an NCAA championship game for the 20th time on Saturday, and Mark Johnson has gotten his team to that game NINE TIMES now.
Lurky McLurkface
New member
For those who couldn't watch the games live, the NCAA has a page with game highlight video of both semi-final games
robertearle
Well-known member
BTW: The referees for the Wisconsin - Ohio State game tonight were from Hockey East. In fact, the same pair worked the HE championship game between Northeastern and Providence two weeks ago.
ARM
Fan of chipmunk-like mascots.
And given that he'd have had a hard time getting his team to the tournament in 2001, 2002, or 2010, because he wasn't coaching one, he has nine of his 17 teams in the final. Not too shabby.
Hockeybuckeye
Well-known member
Well it's taken me this long to get out of my mood to post so let me start off by saying congratulations to Wisconsin on the win.
I think in their win they covered the two most important fundamentals - coaching and execution. Wisconsin knows us well enough to not get caught by our defense trapping them deep by using the quick passes before we can establish coverage and it seems their game plan was to set it up to get the puck to the open side of the net neutralizing our goaltender. On the second goal for the Badgers on the slo mo replay close up you could clearly see Ohio State's players eyes were locked on the puck and not seeing Wisconsin getting into position for the pass to the far side until it was too late. Also the same pattern of officiating seemed present as it had all tournament where the whistles went silent by the 3rd period which I think Wisconsin took advantage of with a more physical game than they could get away with in a regular WCHA game which really worked well with a player like Curl. OSU was unwilling to get that physical risking a penalty when down in the score.
OSU certainly had their chances but when you whiff on the puck on a wide open net you blew your best chances. We just seemed slightly off in our game and at this stage near perfection was required to advance.
I think in their win they covered the two most important fundamentals - coaching and execution. Wisconsin knows us well enough to not get caught by our defense trapping them deep by using the quick passes before we can establish coverage and it seems their game plan was to set it up to get the puck to the open side of the net neutralizing our goaltender. On the second goal for the Badgers on the slo mo replay close up you could clearly see Ohio State's players eyes were locked on the puck and not seeing Wisconsin getting into position for the pass to the far side until it was too late. Also the same pattern of officiating seemed present as it had all tournament where the whistles went silent by the 3rd period which I think Wisconsin took advantage of with a more physical game than they could get away with in a regular WCHA game which really worked well with a player like Curl. OSU was unwilling to get that physical risking a penalty when down in the score.
OSU certainly had their chances but when you whiff on the puck on a wide open net you blew your best chances. We just seemed slightly off in our game and at this stage near perfection was required to advance.
Offsides Guy
Active member
This really was a game of inches for OSU. They just missed either the net or getting the puck settled on their sticks a few times. Puck luck seemed against them.
FiveHoleFrenzy
Well-known member
I was thinking this during the game...The sinners seem to be living a charmed life right now.
robertearle
Well-known member
It isn't like Wisconsin didn't have "near misses" yesterday. Lacey Eden put a dent in the crossbar that would have made it a 4-0 game, for example.