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UMD - Bulldogs -'11-'12 Season Thread
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JosephPSchmoe
I'll say it if you won't
Re: UMD - Bulldogs -'11-'12 Season Thread
Goals from Ambroz, Posa (yes), Wong, Winberg and two from McParland. Assists to Winberg, Wilson, Lacquette, Cournoyer and two for Irwin. Shots on goal favored the Bulldogs 48-24. UMD was 2 of 4 on the power play, but dang...ten penalties. I don't know how much you learn playing a team like UCONN, but it's all good. Now it's time to start putting some conference points up there.
Goals from Ambroz, Posa (yes), Wong, Winberg and two from McParland. Assists to Winberg, Wilson, Lacquette, Cournoyer and two for Irwin. Shots on goal favored the Bulldogs 48-24. UMD was 2 of 4 on the power play, but dang...ten penalties. I don't know how much you learn playing a team like UCONN, but it's all good. Now it's time to start putting some conference points up there.
Re: UMD - Bulldogs -'11-'12 Season Thread
They have a nasty habit of doing that...better luck tomorrow night.
They have a nasty habit of doing that...better luck tomorrow night.
ARM
Fan of chipmunk-like mascots.
Re: UMD - Bulldogs -'11-'12 Season Thread
Haven't there been fairly recent seasons where the PP was the weak point of an otherwise strong UMD team? Not shorties, though, more like they struggled to score with the advantage. Still early in the year, so not surprising if there are kinks to be removed.
Haven't there been fairly recent seasons where the PP was the weak point of an otherwise strong UMD team? Not shorties, though, more like they struggled to score with the advantage. Still early in the year, so not surprising if there are kinks to be removed.
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There were a few seasons when the PP was so bad you joked that they should decline the penalty.. yet as you say, it wasn't short handed goals as a result so much. It's not that the PP is *that* bad, it's scoring at 26% so far.. it's the blue line play on it with the two costly mistakes late in third periods so far (and 3 shorthanded goals overall already in 5 games)
There were a few seasons when the PP was so bad you joked that they should decline the penalty.. yet as you say, it wasn't short handed goals as a result so much. It's not that the PP is *that* bad, it's scoring at 26% so far.. it's the blue line play on it with the two costly mistakes late in third periods so far (and 3 shorthanded goals overall already in 5 games)
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ARM
Fan of chipmunk-like mascots.
Re: UMD - Bulldogs -'11-'12 Season Thread
Five of those where surrendered by the end of October, and then nothing until the first round of the WCHA tournament.
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It's freshman. It's freshman mistakes. Costly mistakes, but hopefully mistakes that create big leaps in learning. The game loss against BC was a freshman turning over the puck ( I believe it was Tea) and tonight, McParland (who obviously has some great skills) just stood there with the puck on our own PP and didn't move with it.
Despite the crushing ending, it was a great game of hockey. I expect nothing less from these two. Had a lovely chat with some very complimentary Wisconsin fans and it was nice to experience a little mutual respect for our respective teams.
Tonight is a new opportunity.
It's freshman. It's freshman mistakes. Costly mistakes, but hopefully mistakes that create big leaps in learning. The game loss against BC was a freshman turning over the puck ( I believe it was Tea) and tonight, McParland (who obviously has some great skills) just stood there with the puck on our own PP and didn't move with it.
Despite the crushing ending, it was a great game of hockey. I expect nothing less from these two. Had a lovely chat with some very complimentary Wisconsin fans and it was nice to experience a little mutual respect for our respective teams.
Tonight is a new opportunity.
JosephPSchmoe
I'll say it if you won't
Re: UMD - Bulldogs -'11-'12 Season Thread
If they're going to give the defense time to learn, they need to put some more points up on the board for insurance. Wisconsin's too good to let a one-goal deficit worry them much. I'm impressed with the freshmen so far, mistakes aside. Bodes well for later in the year. All in all a good game despite the final score, a fun game to watch.
If they're going to give the defense time to learn, they need to put some more points up on the board for insurance. Wisconsin's too good to let a one-goal deficit worry them much. I'm impressed with the freshmen so far, mistakes aside. Bodes well for later in the year. All in all a good game despite the final score, a fun game to watch.
Blackbeard
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Re: UMD - Bulldogs -'11-'12 Season Thread
Schmoseph...I'm dragging your comment from last night in the other thread over to this thread to comment on it here. Your comment was... "Wisconsin leads UMD 3-2 after two. I'm a homer, but those were two shaky goals by Wisconsin. Good game so far!"
I'll say it if you won't.
Harrs was asleep on the first and third goals just as she was for two in the second game vs BC two weeks ago...handing BC the game. She seems to be totally confused about what to do about "unusual" shots this season so far. Neither was she close on the Hilary Knight breakaway goal but then again I doubt many goalies would have stoned Knight in that situation. For the last few years she, meaning Knight, has been and still is my first round draft pick if I was ever in that position...tremendous player.
In perusing the USCHO stats, Harss is going to have to improve her game substantially if the 'Dogs hope to win many games against decent competition...an almost 3.0 GAA isn't going to cut it. She's going to have to cut that in half...which I don't believe she has ever yet come close to accomplishing. I know it doesn't help if the defence hangs you out to dry but the goaltender is part of the defence.
Something else I've noticed as I've read the post game write ups on the various teams' websites so far this season. It seems like the 'Dogs have someone new at those controls...someone who appears to have cut their teeth incubating in the spin doctor lab at the US Government (or most other governments for that matter). I haven't seen quite the same BS in other teams' writeups. While I understand that you want to create excitement and be complimentary if you can, you quickly lose credibility by overusing hyperbole that doesn't apply. Harss' performance was called "brilliant"! Although she stopped a lot of shots most of them were fairly routine...She made one extremely good (pad) second save from close range and a few others that were decent but most were routine pad saves effected by dropping down into the butterfly position...standard operating procedure with goalies nowadays. There's not necessarily a direct corelation between stopping a lot of shots and performing brilliantly...the key factor is the quality of the shots. A goalie can perform brilliantly with only 10 shots on goal in a game as long as they had to stand on their head to stop them. And her gafs more than compensated for the one or two very good saves that she made. My point is that whoever is writing this stuff should really pay attention to the details of the game, if they watch them at all, because references like that are embarrasing for them, whether they are aware of it or not.
One more comment on the same point, Tom Hansen, upon Harss' stopping a clear/unobstructed shot from just inside the point which was shot right into her midsection, loudly injected something to the effect that "Harrs is having a huge game"!!! Most posters on this forum could have stopped that shot since virtually no special skill was required. I was wondering what game he was watching. This is not to take away from Harss' abilities but just to say that a decent/average or even poor performance shouldn't be spun into a completely different colour. It's ethically dishonest.
Someone also needs to tell him how to pronounce "Lacquette".
It also seems to me that Wilson is going to have to start playing like she really means it...meaning that she usually stops after the initial attack on the opponent's net instead of maintaining intensity or even increasing it. Too often she glides when she needs to skate and seems content at getting beaten to the puck when she could have gotten there first had she skated hard. She seems to not be hungry enough about second or third opportunities that she might help create after the initial rush by maintaining or even increasing her intensity level after the failed first attempt while the puck is still in the opponents' end. She has the ability but doesn't seem to have the desire...she needs to play with intensity for an entire game at a time.
McParland is looking like she is living up to the billing...nice player to watch.
Who was the defender who took that ill advised shot into 6 red legs at the end of the game with no one behind her to back her up that a few seconds later resulted in the pass to Knight at the boards around center ice and the breakaway for the game winning goal? I didn't catch who that was. I was impressed with Villila last night...hopefully it wasn't her.
I was really wanting to watch the UW-UM series last week but wasn't able to. I wonder if those games were as good as last night's game. UM sounds like they have a much improved team this year.
One last point...in addition to their tremendous talent it is starting to seem to me that UW has built up an ample supply of horseshoes that they've got stashed in the back room that is being drawn down...witness getting out of Dodge against UND a couple weeks ago, the NCAA Quarter Final vs UMD back in March and then again last night.
Hopefully the 'Dogs will play even better tonight and come away with a win. I was pleased to see UM at least get one game from UW. But it was an extremely good game last night despite the gafs.
Schmoseph...I'm dragging your comment from last night in the other thread over to this thread to comment on it here. Your comment was... "Wisconsin leads UMD 3-2 after two. I'm a homer, but those were two shaky goals by Wisconsin. Good game so far!"
I'll say it if you won't.
Harrs was asleep on the first and third goals just as she was for two in the second game vs BC two weeks ago...handing BC the game. She seems to be totally confused about what to do about "unusual" shots this season so far. Neither was she close on the Hilary Knight breakaway goal but then again I doubt many goalies would have stoned Knight in that situation. For the last few years she, meaning Knight, has been and still is my first round draft pick if I was ever in that position...tremendous player.
In perusing the USCHO stats, Harss is going to have to improve her game substantially if the 'Dogs hope to win many games against decent competition...an almost 3.0 GAA isn't going to cut it. She's going to have to cut that in half...which I don't believe she has ever yet come close to accomplishing. I know it doesn't help if the defence hangs you out to dry but the goaltender is part of the defence.
Something else I've noticed as I've read the post game write ups on the various teams' websites so far this season. It seems like the 'Dogs have someone new at those controls...someone who appears to have cut their teeth incubating in the spin doctor lab at the US Government (or most other governments for that matter). I haven't seen quite the same BS in other teams' writeups. While I understand that you want to create excitement and be complimentary if you can, you quickly lose credibility by overusing hyperbole that doesn't apply. Harss' performance was called "brilliant"! Although she stopped a lot of shots most of them were fairly routine...She made one extremely good (pad) second save from close range and a few others that were decent but most were routine pad saves effected by dropping down into the butterfly position...standard operating procedure with goalies nowadays. There's not necessarily a direct corelation between stopping a lot of shots and performing brilliantly...the key factor is the quality of the shots. A goalie can perform brilliantly with only 10 shots on goal in a game as long as they had to stand on their head to stop them. And her gafs more than compensated for the one or two very good saves that she made. My point is that whoever is writing this stuff should really pay attention to the details of the game, if they watch them at all, because references like that are embarrasing for them, whether they are aware of it or not.
One more comment on the same point, Tom Hansen, upon Harss' stopping a clear/unobstructed shot from just inside the point which was shot right into her midsection, loudly injected something to the effect that "Harrs is having a huge game"!!! Most posters on this forum could have stopped that shot since virtually no special skill was required. I was wondering what game he was watching. This is not to take away from Harss' abilities but just to say that a decent/average or even poor performance shouldn't be spun into a completely different colour. It's ethically dishonest.
Someone also needs to tell him how to pronounce "Lacquette".
It also seems to me that Wilson is going to have to start playing like she really means it...meaning that she usually stops after the initial attack on the opponent's net instead of maintaining intensity or even increasing it. Too often she glides when she needs to skate and seems content at getting beaten to the puck when she could have gotten there first had she skated hard. She seems to not be hungry enough about second or third opportunities that she might help create after the initial rush by maintaining or even increasing her intensity level after the failed first attempt while the puck is still in the opponents' end. She has the ability but doesn't seem to have the desire...she needs to play with intensity for an entire game at a time.
McParland is looking like she is living up to the billing...nice player to watch.
Who was the defender who took that ill advised shot into 6 red legs at the end of the game with no one behind her to back her up that a few seconds later resulted in the pass to Knight at the boards around center ice and the breakaway for the game winning goal? I didn't catch who that was. I was impressed with Villila last night...hopefully it wasn't her.
I was really wanting to watch the UW-UM series last week but wasn't able to. I wonder if those games were as good as last night's game. UM sounds like they have a much improved team this year.
One last point...in addition to their tremendous talent it is starting to seem to me that UW has built up an ample supply of horseshoes that they've got stashed in the back room that is being drawn down...witness getting out of Dodge against UND a couple weeks ago, the NCAA Quarter Final vs UMD back in March and then again last night.
Hopefully the 'Dogs will play even better tonight and come away with a win. I was pleased to see UM at least get one game from UW. But it was an extremely good game last night despite the gafs.
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JosephPSchmoe
I'll say it if you won't
Re: UMD - Bulldogs -'11-'12 Season Thread
Can't argue with any of that. And I can't get the B2TV feed link to work, so I'm not watching the game (yet.) Dammit.
Can't argue with any of that. And I can't get the B2TV feed link to work, so I'm not watching the game (yet.) Dammit.
Re: UMD - Bulldogs -'11-'12 Season Thread
Hopefully after tonight, everything bad that can happen.. has happened.. scoring on themselves on a delayed powerplay with a missed pass in the offensive zone that slid all the way down into the net while Harss was getting to the bench for the extra attacker.. ironically the girl who was getting the penalty was closest to the puck when it went the other way and got credit for the goal.
Hopefully after tonight, everything bad that can happen.. has happened.. scoring on themselves on a delayed powerplay with a missed pass in the offensive zone that slid all the way down into the net while Harss was getting to the bench for the extra attacker.. ironically the girl who was getting the penalty was closest to the puck when it went the other way and got credit for the goal.
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Wow, I just thought we saw two pretty darn good hockey games!! There's certainly room for improvement in every phase of UMD's game - tending, D, O, special teams and coaching. But, I think there's a LOT to be excited about despite the losses. UMD has a couple of very special players in Lacquette and McParland!! Haley's leading by example with her play, Willy's scoring, Harss and Steck look like they'll be getting it done. I was afraid that WI was going to skate all over them, be faster and more skilled. But, that wasn't UMD's problem. They skated with and had just as much talent as the Badgers. The badgers were more composed and took advantage of their opportunities. If UMD had done the same . . . well then UMD comes away with two wins. UMD will learn from this experience - these early season gaffes will only make them better.
Improvement needed? Yes!! As my friend Tom said, "this team doesn't know yet how really good they can be." I couldn't agree more. Looking forward to the games against UND . .
GO DOGS!!!!
Wow, I just thought we saw two pretty darn good hockey games!! There's certainly room for improvement in every phase of UMD's game - tending, D, O, special teams and coaching. But, I think there's a LOT to be excited about despite the losses. UMD has a couple of very special players in Lacquette and McParland!! Haley's leading by example with her play, Willy's scoring, Harss and Steck look like they'll be getting it done. I was afraid that WI was going to skate all over them, be faster and more skilled. But, that wasn't UMD's problem. They skated with and had just as much talent as the Badgers. The badgers were more composed and took advantage of their opportunities. If UMD had done the same . . . well then UMD comes away with two wins. UMD will learn from this experience - these early season gaffes will only make them better.
Improvement needed? Yes!! As my friend Tom said, "this team doesn't know yet how really good they can be." I couldn't agree more. Looking forward to the games against UND . .
GO DOGS!!!!
brookyone
Deport Right Wing Nuts
Re: UMD - Bulldogs -'11-'12 Season Thread
Whopper of a series this one. UMD really motivated to procure their first conference points. UND looking to emphasize every weekend that they are for real and the roster to do it. A sweep by either would be a big boost.
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Should be an awesome series! I think it was rugger that said Lacquette was going to be a monster- she would be in that category where you hate playing against her but love having her on your side. She is pretty nasty back there! McP is goin to be great as well- Nice set of hands and size to boot! I'm starting to like Hickel- this gal can play! Should be interesting to see how the Lammy's play this wknd!
2 game winning streak for the HABS! Just the beginning!!!
Should be an awesome series! I think it was rugger that said Lacquette was going to be a monster- she would be in that category where you hate playing against her but love having her on your side. She is pretty nasty back there! McP is goin to be great as well- Nice set of hands and size to boot! I'm starting to like Hickel- this gal can play! Should be interesting to see how the Lammy's play this wknd!
2 game winning streak for the HABS! Just the beginning!!!