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Sun Devil Hockey

2nd game of the tournament was not pretty but Sparky pulled it out, won the inaugural Adirondack Winter Invitational, bringing the hardware home. Next up - the 5th Desert Hockey Classic with ASU welcoming UMass-Lowell, Omaha, Harvard to the thaw out in the desert & have some holiday fun!
 
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Sol Diablo said:
The good news : 10 straight wins, back to back weekend tournament championships. The bad news: it hasn't helped PWR.
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The Pairwise, for a variety of reasons, is more Eastern-centered this year than in the last few years. With interconference play largely done (except ASU, of course), it's going to be hard for any of the Western teams to move up much.
 
purpleinnebraska said:
The Pairwise, for a variety of reasons, is more Eastern-centered this year than in the last few years. With interconference play largely done (except ASU, of course), it's going to be hard for any of the Western teams to move up much.
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Coach Powers took his best guess at playing power schools combined with the logistics of open schedules, just didn't work out. However, in attempting to be objective, if ASU had been able to schedule higher ranked schools they likely would have had a few more losses.
 
One of the biggest things hurting ASU is all the home games. Yeah, it's great for fans, but it's impossible to pick up bonus points for road wins when you rarely leave your home rink.
 
Sol Diablo said:
Coach Powers took his best guess at playing power schools combined with the logistics of open schedules, just didn't work out. However, in attempting to be objective, if ASU had been able to schedule higher ranked schools they likely would have had a few more losses.
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Even this weekend, I thought Cornell would be higher than #19 in the Pairwise. But a sweep could really move ASU up.
 
moose97 said:
One of the biggest things hurting ASU is all the home games. Yeah, it's great for fans, but it's impossible to pick up bonus points for road wins when you rarely leave your home rink.
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Yup, A drawback to having great winter weather! (smiley face inserted here);)
 
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moose97 said:
You are aware that Alaska had a power play at the end of the game, which means they had an extra player on the ice, which means duh, of course they got an extra 2 penalties for an extra 15 minutes
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It was actually 5 on 3 for Alaska at the last faceoff. Which ended up as a 30 PIM swing at the end. It was a pretty tight skating and relatively clean game up until the last 2 minutes where the Nanooks scored twice on a major powerplay.
 
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