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After two, Minnesota and BU are tied at 0. Shots are 24-4 in favor of Minnesota. Attempted shots are 54-11. The Terriers had one really good scoring chance in the second, producing 2 of their 4 shots, but have otherwise looked like they are playing for a 0-0 tie.
 
Get out the sandbags in rodentapolis...the Badgers bust the dam twice and score 5 straight Friday and 4 straight Saturday to sweep.
 
Timothy A said:
Get out the sandbags in rodentapolis...
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Are we sandbagging though? I think we're fairly realistic about a team that is on pace to finish behind both UMD and SCSU in the WCHA, based on results versus last year's top five. If the Badgers go down three on the road against either of those teams, I doubt that UW wins.
 
ARM said:
Are we sandbagging though? I think we're fairly realistic about a team that is on pace to finish behind both UMD and SCSU in the WCHA, based on results versus last year's top five. If the Badgers go down three on the road against either of those teams, I doubt that UW wins.
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FWIW: Wisconsin did indeed go down three at Duluth last year - end of January - and scored four in the third period to win 5-4. Gascon was in goal.
 
ARM said:
Are we sandbagging though? I think we're fairly realistic about a team that is on pace to finish behind both UMD and SCSU in the WCHA, based on results versus last year's top five. If the Badgers go down three on the road against either of those teams, I doubt that UW wins.
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No MN posters are not sandbagging, I didn't mean to imply that. I was just finding an interesting way to use that word in terms of what we all witnessed.
 
robertearle said:
FWIW: Wisconsin did indeed go down three at Duluth last year - end of January - and scored four in the third period to win 5-4.
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IMO, UMD and SCSU are different teams than they were at the start of 2024. The former has a different coach and some impact players; the latter was on a downward spiral. Wisconsin wasn't really the point of the comparison in any case, but rather that I don't think the Gophers stack up very well defensively compared to the other two. I have no way to prove this; it's just the impression that I get from watching a never-ending pattern of UM failing to hold leads against contending teams, even those of multiple goals.
 
Union upsets #9 Cornell, 3-2, to bring their ECAC record to 3-0, in first place :eek: one point ahead of Brown.
 
Back for the new year ...

St. Thomas takes down UMD (4-3 OT) for the second straight day.

Cornell needs an EA goal with 11 seconds left to get to OT with Dartmouth. EDIT: Cornell scores on both Shootout attempts to take the extra (half) point, or whatever one gets for winning a SO in ECAC these days.

SLU only needs 17 shots to score six times and outlast Clarkson, 6-5, in a back-and-forth affair.
 
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ARM said:
Cornell needs an EA goal with 11 seconds left to get to OT with Dartmouth. EDIT: Cornell scores on both Shootout attempts to take the extra (half) point, or whatever one gets for winning a SO in ECAC these days.
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The shootout currently only is used for tiebreakers in the standings at the end of the season - both ECAC teams receive 1.5 points.

The Dartmouth play-by-play announcer made the interesting point that Dartmouth is undefeated in its last 7 games. (In that time they won 2 shootouts and lost one as well). They lost all 14 games before that.

Further scores:
Colgate wins 3-2 in OT at Harvard, after coming back from being down 2-1 late in the 3rd.
Quinnipiac beats Yale 2-1. And all other ECAC games were either one-goal contests or shootouts as well.
 
Quinnipiac and Brown play to a 0-0 tie. Quinnipiac wins the 11-round shootout (6-5). Kaley Doyle, the Quinnipiac goaltender, transferred from Brown. Rory Edwards was in net for Brown. The last player to shoot for Brown simply collided with Doyle as she came out of the net, thus ending the shootout.
 
BowWowWow said:
Quinnipiac and Brown play to a 0-0 tie. Quinnipiac wins the 11-round shootout (6-5).
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A bit strange that after a game where neither team could do anything against the goalies, the shootout produces a reversal where both netminders come out on top only about half the time.
 
ARM said:
A bit strange that after a game where neither team could do anything against the goalies, the shootout produces a reversal where both netminders come out on top only about half the time.
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Yes, and remember when ties used to be real outcomes. Teams that skate to a tie deserve the tie, whether it’s exhilarating or disappointing. Why should the excitement of sixty minutes of play give way to the current theater of OT?

The Brown-QU game is a perfect case in point. The thrill of 0-0 after three periods is followed by the buzz-kill of essentially what are two types of stick-handling drills: the three-on-three ballet choreographed by that game’s best possessing team, then the shootout, which all agree is a crapshoot. Full of tension? Sure. Full of the drama of an intensively fought regulation time standoff? Not so much.
 
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