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WCHA 2025-26

This week all eyes are on Bemidji MN as the unranked Beavers host the 14th ranked Tommies of St. Thomas.

It's really unfair that the Tommies dropped a spot after taking the former #2 team, now #3 team in the country to OT in game 1 of that series. Worse yet the team who jumped them has a losing record. Then, interesting enough, UM jumps to #2 after an impressive win over UW, however they lose the next game more impressively to UW. Perhaps the #2 team was being punished by getting taken to OT by the #13 Tommies. St. Cloud does not get punished at all after getting swept by the #5 team in the country, though they outshot them in 5 of 6 periods I believe and 1 lose was in OT. St. Cloud being #10 with a 4-8 record is a joke in itself, with the 4 wins being against a murder's row of St. Thomas (1), UConn (1) and Lindenwood (2). What are the Voters doing?
 
Timothy A said:
This week all eyes are on Bemidji MN as the unranked Beavers host the 14th ranked Tommies of St. Thomas.

It's really unfair that the Tommies dropped a spot after taking the former #2 team, now #3 team in the country to OT in game 1 of that series. Worse yet the team who jumped them has a losing record. Then, interesting enough, UM jumps to #2 after an impressive win over UW, however they lose the next game more impressively to UW. Perhaps the #2 team was being punished by getting taken to OT by the #13 Tommies. St. Cloud does not get punished at all after getting swept by the #5 team in the country, though they outshot them in 5 of 6 periods I believe and 1 lose was in OT. St. Cloud being #10 with a 4-8 record is a joke in itself, with the 4 wins being against a murder's row of St. Thomas (1), UConn (1) and Lindenwood (2). What are the Voters doing?
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Minnesota and Ohio separated by a single 'point' in the poll. As close to "tied" as it gets without being literally tied.

(Cornell must has "stolen" a 3rd place vote.)
 
Oh the Tommettes fail to fully capitalize this last weekend. A 5-0 game 1 win was followed up by 2-1 loss in which they did outshoot BSU by almost a 2:1 margin. They could have jumped MSU and tied UMD for 4th with UMD visiting them next.
 
Y'all are so shy these days......

Kato at TWSNBN - Meh
UMD at ST T - I don't think the Tommies are ready for prime time.....or are they?
UW at St. Cloud - Has the last place team in any league in the history of college hockey in either gender been ranked 10th or higher after playing 12 games? I think we are looking at a Guinness Book of World Records situation right now. I hope UW gives them no legit reason to stay ranked at all.
BSU at UM m/stp - regardless of the scores, after seeing UM m/stp in person for 2 games, they were the best rodent team I have seen in years. Their depth of skill is deeper.
 
Bemidji vs Minnesota - Bemidji scored 15 seconds into the game. In the second period (!?!), Gophers went up 2-1. Then Bouveng (I think) took a roughing penalty in front of the Bemidji goal, followed by you-know-who getting a penalty for shooting the puck WELL after the whistle. And Bemidji converted on the 5-on-3.

2-2, end of the second period. Hard to believe it will stay that way for long, but still ... Minn will start the third on the power play.

(They're playing in Mariucci?)
 
robertearle said:
Bemidji vs Minnesota - Bemidji scored 15 seconds into the game. In the second period (!?!), Gophers went up 2-1. Then Bouveng (I think) took a roughing penalty in front of the Bemidji goal, followed by you-know-who getting a penalty for shooting the puck WELL after the whistle. And Bemidji converted on the 5-on-3.

2-2, end of the second period. Hard to believe it will stay that way for long, but still ... Minn will start the third on the power play.

(They're playing in Mariucci?)
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Field Trip Day. Loudest game of the year. Too many kids to fit at Ridder. Dan said on the radio broadcast they gave away close to 5,000 tickets.
 
Not sure how much the big ice helps them versus UW, as that tends to ultimately favor the team that has better speed and puck skills. When Eric Rud was their coach, he told me that versus UM, he felt that the wide surface hurt his team more than it helped.
 
robertearle said:
Particularly at home (on the large ice sheet).
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IDK, UW outshot them both games. I need to get eyes on game 2 to figure out how they managed to give up 38 shots while having 56 themselves. Typically you don't get 56 shots without bottling up a team in their D zone for long periods of time.
 
ARM said:
Not sure how much the big ice helps them versus UW, as that tends to ultimately favor the team that has better speed and puck skills. When Eric Rud was their coach, he told me that versus UM, he felt that the wide surface hurt his team more than it helped.
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When they played those fill the bowl games in the Kohl Center when it still had the big ice sheet, UW struggled in those games.
 
Timothy A said:
Y'all are so shy these days......

Kato at TWSNBN - Meh
UMD at ST T - I don't think the Tommies are ready for prime time.....or are they?
UW at St. Cloud - Has the last place team in any league in the history of college hockey in either gender been ranked 10th or higher after playing 12 games? I think we are looking at a Guinness Book of World Records situation right now. I hope UW gives them no legit reason to stay ranked at all.
BSU at UM m/stp - regardless of the scores, after seeing UM m/stp in person for 2 games, they were the best rodent team I have seen in years. Their depth of skill is deeper.
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Only UW pooped the bed out of the favorites. They indeed gave St Cloud a reason to be ranked 10th in game 2, but they still are in last place in the league. I knew I put the jinx on them. Sorry ladies.

This week:

UM UMKato home n home. The en fuego rodents stay en fuego.
Tommies at UW. Da BADgers are 2-1-1 in their last 4.
St. Cloud at BSU. The battle of last place teams.
TWHNBN at UMD. UMD is fighting for relevancy in battle for the league title.
 
Timothy A said:
When they played those fill the bowl games in the Kohl Center when it still had the big ice sheet, UW struggled in those games.
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But LaBahn also has a larger than 'normal' sheet: St Cloud 100 feet, Kohl (used to be) 94 feet (IIRC), LaBahn 90 feet, NHL/normal 85 feet.

Somebody smarter than me has to make that all make sense of that.
 
I heard the theory that the increased width changes the angles of plays originating near the boards and throws off goalies and skaters. If UW was still a lockdown team like it was 20 years ago, then I could see where having to defend more ice would throw off their gameplan of taking away time and space. In recent years, the Badgers have the puck on their sticks an awful lot, so wider should help them more than it hurts. In 2022-23, UW had that stretch where it struggled to score. Of late, the few struggles have been more on the defensive end than offensively. Maybe those who watched Saturday's game can say if wider ice factored into the goals against.
 
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