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St. Cloud State at Alaska-Anchorage - Hoping Not For a Split

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Just a side note, the Bemidji series in Feb is also free to watch on TPT channel 2. I suppose the trap is so boring to watch they have to give it away.

Last year the d was bringing it up and holding the puck too long-playing right into the trap at the blue line. That messed up the FWD's timing and they were getting in too tight- gaps and hesitating-poor puck support. It took them a game and a game and a period to figure it out last year. They weren't very patient and were forcing it. I think they blew AA out the last game, 5 goals in the last period.
 
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hockeykrazy said:
I am pretty sure they do, I remember watching UAA and Minnesota earlier this year online for free.

Just checked, yes they do. Just go to GoSeawolves.com and to the schedule page and click on the live video icon and you'll get a free feed.

Link...click on Watch
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UAA is always free. Although when it's against MN, it seems to crash or delay a bit. Doubt you'd have the same problem with SCSU fans. ;)
 
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Biddco said:
Okay I lied...it was 2 minutes of my life I'm not getting back.
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I've heard it gets really good right after the 2 min mark, you should probably watch it again. Just to be safe.
 
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Its been almost two days since anyone posted in this thread. This series is second tier (at best), just like UAA.

Huskies Sweep
 
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Here's my call.

Friday: 3-1 UAA. Probably scores an empty better.

Saturday: 4-2 SCSU. Close game til the last period and then Huskies score 2 unanswered.


Hope UAA sweeps though.
 
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Let's look inside the numbers:

In conference play, SCSU has scored 3.12 goals/game vs 2.00 goals/game for UAA. SCSU has allowed a league-leading 2.00 goals/game, UAA has allowed 3.33 goals/game. Factor in UAA being next to last in the league on the power play and in dead last in the league on the penalty kill, and I would say that the Huskies should sweep this series. 3-1 Friday and 5-1 Saturday.
 
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Tipsy McStagger said:
Let's look inside the numbers:

In conference play, SCSU has scored 3.12 goals/game vs 2.00 goals/game for UAA. SCSU has allowed a league-leading 2.00 goals/game, UAA has allowed 3.33 goals/game. Factor in UAA being next to last in the league on the power play and in dead last in the league on the penalty kill, and I would say that the Huskies should sweep this series. 3-1 Friday and 5-1 Saturday.
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I wish it were that easy.....:eek:
 
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Here are some more stats...I was bored.

On Fridays:
Goals For...UA: 1.00. SCSU: 3.33.
Goals Against...UA: 3.00. SCSU: 2.33.

On Saturdays:
Goals For...UA: 3.5. SCSU: 3.166.
Goals Against...UA: 2.66. SCSU: 2.83.

In away games SCSU has 2.5 goals for and has allowed 3.00.
UA has scored 2.28 at home and allowed 2.57.

These stats have included exhibition games.

In regards to power play and penalty kill differences, both teams fall below the middle mark.
 
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scsutommyboy said:
I wish it were that easy.....:eek:
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I was just trying to point out just how far apart these teams really are, but obviously anything can happen. In my opinion this is the best team we have had since the first year I followed the team '01-'02. These are the kind of series you have to sweep if you want to get to 40 points and possibly win a MacNaughton.
 
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Tipsy McStagger said:
I was just trying to point out just how far apart these teams really are, but obviously anything can happen. In my opinion this is the best team we have had since the first year I followed the team '01-'02. These are the kind of series you have to sweep if you want to get to 40 points and possibly win a MacNaughton.
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That's quite a statement... but I think you might be right. I'd say three years ago and our lone NCAA win's squad would be the only team that might have been better; this team is certainly better at the blueline... forward I think arguments could be made either way.... and I think that Mike Lee and Dunn right now would have to get an edge over Ryan and company, but Faragher is playing lights out and if he can keep it up for a longer time period, this year's team could have the edge between the pipes too.
 
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The Seawolves haven't played their best hockey every night. But when they have they have skated well with anybody. Ask UND fans about the Saturday night game at the ralph. Ask gopher fans about the Saturday night game in Anchorage. And ask anybody who watched the two games in Bemidji. UAA hasn't gotten the results but they've played solid hockey in 4 of the 6 WCHA games they have played. And they are 2-1-1 in non-conference with the loss coming to UND and the tie being a last minute extra attacker goal against Air Force. Sure beating Merrimack and Canisius isn't anything to brag about.

In any case, assuming that the standings are some sort of gauge of favorites on a weekend is foolish. A sweep for UAA this weekend could put them in 7th place in the standings (obviously depending on other results) and they have played two fewer conference games than 8 other teams in the league. That smaller sample size alone makes the statistics less than fully enlightening.

The Seawolves have been getting decent goaltending, playing solidly on the backend, their defensemen have been involved offensively and there is some good dynamic play up front with plenty of wheelage. There certainly isn't anything like a walkover here and it wouldn't surprise me to see UAA with 7 points in those precious "standings" at the end of Saturday night.
 
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uaafanblog said:
The Seawolves haven't played their best hockey every night. But when they have they have skated well with anybody. Ask UND fans about the Saturday night game at the ralph. Ask gopher fans about the Saturday night game in Anchorage. And ask anybody who watched the two games in Bemidji. UAA hasn't gotten the results but they've played solid hockey in 4 of the 6 WCHA games they have played. And they are 2-1-1 in non-conference with the loss coming to UND and the tie being a last minute extra attacker goal against Air Force. Sure beating Merrimack and Canisius isn't anything to brag about.

In any case, assuming that the standings are some sort of gauge of favorites on a weekend is foolish. A sweep for UAA this weekend could put them in 7th place in the standings (obviously depending on other results) and they have played two fewer conference games than 8 other teams in the league. That smaller sample size alone makes the statistics less than fully enlightening.

The Seawolves have been getting decent goaltending, playing solidly on the backend, their defensemen have been involved offensively and there is some good dynamic play up front with plenty of wheelage. There certainly isn't anything like a walkover here and it wouldn't surprise me to see UAA with 7 points in those precious "standings" at the end of Saturday night.
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I saw that MN Saturday night game (and I also saw the MN Friday game)... if that's your A-game, then pray SCSU doesn't bring their A game, or you'll have the same number of points you started with after Saturday.
 
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Playing solid hockey and skating well with other teams is enough for you to have a reasonable expectation of sweeping this weekend? When you havent even won ONE conference game yet? Whatever helps you keep hope alive...
 
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uaafanblog said:
Show me where anything I said could be so pathetically misconstrued as to indicate such a connotation.

The ONLY phrase that remotely approaches any such thing was "I wouldn't be surprised" ... Here are some other things that wouldn't surprise me.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that your father beat your mother.
I wouldn't be surprised if you had ambiguous genitalia.
I wouldn't be surprised to hear that you regularly dine on horse droppings.
I wouldn't be surprised if you couldn't find your food stamps hidden under the soap.
I wouldn't be surprised if you had a cleft palette.
I wouldn't be surprised to read that your mother had secret photos of you engaged in zoophilia.
I wouldn't be surprised if I learned that you stood behind archery targets as a child.
I wouldn't be surprised you were the guy that ran for homecoming queen at SCSU.
I wouldn't be surprised that someone knocking on your cranium would be answered with bell-like sounds.
I wouldn't be surprised to find your picture next to drooler in the dictionary.

See .. um; I'm not easily surprised. At this point though, I would be surprised if you don't respond with something stupid.
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Great, I don't have to point it out for you. It was the "I wouldn't be surprised" part.

sur·prise

noun /sə(r)ˈprīz/ 
surprises, plural

An unexpected or astonishing event, fact, or thing
- the announcement was a complete surprise

A feeling of mild astonishment or shock caused by something unexpected
- much to her surprise, she'd missed him

Denoting something made, done, or happening unexpectedly
- a surprise attack

Denoting a class of complex methods of change-ringing
- surprise major

Above I pasted some definitions of surprise. Multiple definitions referring to a reaction to something unexpected. If your expectation is that UAA will not sweep this series, then you would be surprised if they did because to you that would be unexpected. So if you say it wouldn't surprise you if UAA swept, that means it isn't unexpected, which means you do think it is reasonable that UAA can sweep.

It wouldn't surprise me if you had your own definition of the word surprise, because you obviously have definitions of other words that go against the norm. While you refer to UAA having "decent goaltending", most other fans would refer to their team's goaltending as "crappy" if their goalies had save percentages below .900. Or when you refer to UAA having "dynamic play up front", other people might view it as having "problems scoring goals" when their team is in the bottom 25% of Division I teams in scoring goals. Your definition of "playing solidly on the backend" is equally puzzling, because UAA is just as bad at keeping goals out of their own net as they are putting them in the other teams net (46th out of 59 teams). But until I am accepted into MENSA like you, and receive my copy of the Smart Persons' Dictionary, I will just continue defining the Seawolves as a bad hockey team.
 
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Fixed Your Post
 
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