Rep Retirement Lodge 102: Hockey Sucks!!!

[A Shot and a Goal]

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My bad but all the more reason to get your boys some help stat!

The boys have Michigan Tech coming in to town next weekend. Does that qualify as "help?"

 

[Ralph Baer]

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So far, everyone likes their jerseys.

 

[Twitch Boy]

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The boys have Michigan Tech coming in to town next weekend. Does that qualify as "help?"

That's not just help, that's a federal aid campaign.

 

[A Shot and a Goal]

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That's not just help, that's a federal aid campaign.

Hey Twitch, I'm always in favor of helping people find ways to save money. I'd be willing to let Tech mail four points to Denver and let the Huskies spend next weekend in Houghton. Run that proposal by coach Russell and see what he says.

 

[Twitch Boy]

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Hey Twitch, I'm always in favor of helping people find ways to save money. I'd be willing to let Tech mail four points to Denver and let the Huskies spend next weekend in Houghton. Run that proposal by coach Russell and see what he says.

But then you lose all that gate income.

I've got a better idea. Start the game as normal. Every 10 minutes, remove one DU player from the ice, until eventually it's Tech vs. Cheverie for the final 10 minutes. Kinda like the goalie skills competition from hell.

 

[A Shot and a Goal]

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But then you lose all that gate income.

Fair point. Let the games begin!!

 

[JF_Gophers]

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But then you lose all that gate income.

I've got a better idea. Start the game as normal. Every 10 minutes, remove one DU player from the ice, until eventually it's Tech vs. Cheverie for the final 10 minutes. Kinda like the goalie skills competition from hell.

I think I would still take DU to win that game. Since skill is involved.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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I think I would still take DU to win that game. Since skill is involved.

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Particularly when it's Chevy's skills versus the "skill" of our "goal scorers".

Remember Twitch, half the shots will be high and wide and the other half will be soft wristers into Chevy's chest pads. Even if there's no one to defend.

 

[walrus]

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am I the only happy hockey fan?

Go play in the road

 

[A Shot and a Goal]

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Fixed.

The Oakland/Buffalo club game was entertaining. Buffalo's coach was ejected for going on a tirade about 15 minutes into the 1st period, then apparently tried to pull a Gwoz and go back into the locker room during the intermission, earning himself another DQ. I was behind the scorer's table with mel & HuskyNation, and got to be in the middle of some cross-penalty bench jawing.

Oh, and this was the most lopsided hockey game I've ever attended, as Oakland won 13-0.

Hi Fade, You "fixed" my post by saying Tech is having a tough three decades. Sadly, that's a fair statement.

I consider myself fortunate to be able to say I've been attending college hockey games longer than most of the posters on this website have been alive.

I vivdily remember what I call "Tech's glory years." In the springs of 1974-1975-1976 something happened which I don't expect to see duplicated in my lifetime. Two teams--Tech and Minnesota--met for the NCAA title three straight years.

Under coach John MacInnes,Tech was absolutely terrific in those years. In 1976 the NCAA title game was played just up the street in DU's old arena. With Mike Zuke, George Lyle, Jim Mayer, Warren Young and Dave Joelson [just to name a few] the Huskies were loaded with talent. It's true that Minnesota won the title that year--and in two of the three years--but Tech was a dominant force in college hockey in the mid 1970s.

I remember the goal Dave Joelson scored --in double OT I believe--to beat Brown enabling Tech to reach the title game for the third straight year. It remains one of the most entertaining tournament games I've ever seen.

I am simultaneously a longtime Denver fan and enthusiastic fan of the WCHA. Speaking only for myself, I take no enjoyment from seeing any team and its fans--in this case, Tech--in the position of having to endure an interminably long period of hockey ineptitude.

As for next weekend's series between Denver and Tech....I remember the 2004-2005 season during which Denver was on its way to the second of two consecutive NCAA titles. Tech was in the midst of what became an 8-25 season record. The Huskies came to Denver in January and on the first night goalie Cam Ellsworth led Tech to a 3-0 shutout win over a Denver team which won the NCAA title three months later. There is always so much talent in the WCHA that I never dismiss the possibility that a team can go on the road--and in the face of what seems to be overwhelming odds--earn an impressive victory.

Tech's ability to compete favorably against all WCHA opponents won't reappear overnight. But please understand there are fans outside Houghton who will enjoy seeing a renaissance in Tech's hockey fortunes. Hang in there.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Tech's ability to compete favorably against all WCHA opponents won't reappear overnight. But please understand there are fans outside Houghton who will enjoy seeing a renaissance in Tech's hockey fortunes. Hang in there.

I don't doubt that.

I occasionally wonder how Ellsworth would've fared playing behind the 06-07 team. He is Tech's all-time leader in saves, and managed a .916 SV% his senior year (04-05), despite carrying a 3.23 GAA. The games that Tech won during the late Sertich & early Russell years could usually be credited to his play, and some of their more respectable-looking losses frequently occurred because he'd make 40+ saves in a 1-0 or 2-1 game.

Last I read, he is now an assistant coach in the USHL.

 

[bigblue_dl]

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Hellllooooo Lodge!

Two TV plan today, so I can watch the race and the Olympics! Yeee-haw!

Go Mark Martin! and USA!

 

[A Shot and a Goal]

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I don't doubt that.

I occasionally wonder how Ellsworth would've fared playing behind the 06-07 team. He is Tech's all-time leader in saves, and managed a .916 SV% his senior year (04-05), despite carrying a 3.23 GAA. The games that Tech won during the late Sertich & early Russell years could usually be credited to his play, and some of their more respectable-looking losses frequently occurred because he'd make 40+ saves in a 1-0 or 2-1 game.

Last I read, he is now an assistant coach in the USHL.

The 2004-2005 Denver team ended its season by winning a second straight NCAA title. The team was shut out twice that year. CC held DU scoreless in the Springs with Curtis McElhinney in goal. He's currently the backup to Miikka Kiprusoff in Calgary.

Denver was shut out once at home that season. By Michigan Tech. With Cam Ellsworth in goal. He beat Denver 3-0 on Friday night and Denver came back to beat Tech 1-0 on Saturday night.

Let me be VERY clear about this===> a goalie playing on a team which lost three of every four games it played that season, played both games, on the road, against a team that would win a second national championship that season and allowed one goal in the series. If Tech can recruit and/or develop its "next Cam Ellsworth" the Huskies will be well on their way back to respectability in the WCHA. In my book, Ellsworth was a fine goalie.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Denver was shut out once at home that season. By Michigan Tech. With Cam Ellsworth in goal. He beat Denver 3-0 on Friday night and Denver came back to beat Tech 1-0 on Saturday night.

Let me be VERY clear about this===> a goalie playing on a team which lost three of every four games it played that season, played both games, on the road, against a team that would win a second national championship that season and allowed one goal in the series. If Tech can recruit and/or develop its "next Cam Ellsworth" the Huskies will be well on their way back to respectability in the WCHA. In my book, Ellsworth was a fine goalie.

Also worth noting - two weekends after that series, and following a 6-2 beating of Notre Dame in Green Bay (they hadn't hired JJ yet), last place Tech swept the #4 Gophers in Minneapolis for the first time since 1971. From what I'm told, they almost missed the start of the Friday game due to bad weather & the resulting traffic jams.

 

[Twitch Boy]

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The 2004-2005 Denver team ended its season by winning a second straight NCAA title. The team was shut out twice that year. CC held DU scoreless in the Springs with Curtis McElhinney in goal. He's currently the backup to Miikka Kiprusoff in Calgary.

Denver was shut out once at home that season. By Michigan Tech. With Cam Ellsworth in goal. He beat Denver 3-0 on Friday night and Denver came back to beat Tech 1-0 on Saturday night.

Let me be VERY clear about this===> a goalie playing on a team which lost three of every four games it played that season, played both games, on the road, against a team that would win a second national championship that season and allowed one goal in the series. If Tech can recruit and/or develop its "next Cam Ellsworth" the Huskies will be well on their way back to respectability in the WCHA. In my book, Ellsworth was a fine goalie.

We had that man for a while, too - a man by the name of Michael-Lee Teslak. His stellar play in 2006-07, along with solid backup play from Rob Nolan, led an offensively-challenged Tech to gut out a 3-game series against CC and make their first Final Five since USCHO was founded.

However, we learned that a team cannot exist on goalie alone, as Wisconsin ended our Cinderella run before it even started 4-0 at the F5. Jamie knew about this problem, and had high-scoring recruit Casey Pierro-Zabotel signed, sealed and delivered...until he failed his clearinghouse exams and went to world juniors instead. Teslak was solid, but Nolan fell off, and the offense continued to suffer. We slid all the way to ninth courtesy of a super-stacked WCHA and almost knocked off UND in 3 games, but no dice.

Teslak left early for the pros, what little offense we did have graduated, and Nolan struggled as top banana. Now we had no goalie and even worse offense. The team began to lose confidence, and that leads us to where we are today.

 

[nmupiccdiva]

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So, we moved the Denver-Tech thread to tLodge??

My team's playing the fake U of M this weekend (sorry, wT). Who knows what's going to happen there.


In other news... I'm watching NASCAR.

Have a good Sunday, Lodge. Celebrate the love in your life today, whatever it is.

 

[GreatLakerMohawk]

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Hi kids. The drive back from Dartmouth should be called the "Road of Nothingness."

Good Lord, Vermont sucks.

 

[bostonewe]

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am I the only happy hockey fan?

Don't worry, next weekend I'll be sending out vulgar texts again.

Nope - as Scarlet said, we BU fans are pretty happy.

Just checking in from Boston. Have been pretty much glued to the tv since Friday night (except for watching hockey). I love Olympic season (and having a DVR has been great for capturing the stuff I've missed).

Making three layer chocolate cake with ganache (fancy name for fudge) and Giada's Chicken Tetrazini for dinner tonight.

Off to do stats and psych for now though.

 

[hockeyplayer1015]

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Watching some biathlon on NBC. Tim Burke, an american shooter, is from Paul Smiths, NY; about an hour from where I live, and about 45 minutes from Lake Placid, NY.

 

[bigblue_dl]

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Watching some biathlon on NBC. Tim Burke, an american shooter, is from Paul Smiths, NY; about an hour from where I live, and about 45 minutes from Lake Placid, NY.

There was a question about the guns they use in the olympic thread, I said that you might know the answer.