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WCHA 21-22 Season

Lindsay said:
Good rant. I don’t know the answer but it’s apparent that a lot of things don’t make sense on this issue. Stalemate for a little while longer I guess.

Watts had a challenge to break Agostas record. It was going to be tough, with cancelled games it’s not happening ( especially cancelled games against the tommyettes ).

Id like to see OSU win a reg season championship; again the cancelled games messes with things, takes it out of the teams control a bit.

Frustrating, didn’t think we’d still be here.
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It felt good to let it out. I was inspired by Clark Griswold's meltdown in the Christmas vacation movie.

Watts breaking Agosta's record by getting an extra season to play to me would be meaningless. To mean something, it would have to be done in the same amount of seasons.

I hope the league is working behind the scenes to figure out how to get the lost games made up.
 
Steamboat said:
Scoreless after 1 period in Duluth. Beavers being Beavers.
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Then the 2nd and 3rd period happened with UMD scoring 4 in each of those periods.

Minnesota give up the first goal to Mankato (#5 still driving me nuts) and then proceeds to score the next 4 goals (a hat trick by Potomak) and lead 4-1 after 1 period. If the stats are right it says Minnesota put up 26 shots in the period...
 
FiveHoleFrenzy said:
Minnesota give up the first goal to Mankato (#5 still driving me nuts) ...
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Perhaps, and I know the cringe-worthy plays of which you speak. At the same time, you have to also give her credit for the positive plays that she makes. She's tops on the team in +/- for a reason.

Speaking of the plus side of things, I thought that the back check yesterday looked very good.
 
Sydney Shearen suited up and played for Mankato yesterday. I am reasonably sure that she had some ice time earlier this season for the Gophers which would point to elimination of the former requirement that transfers within the WCHA sit out a year before becoming eligible to play for their new team.
 
ARM said:
Perhaps, and I know the cringe-worthy plays of which you speak. At the same time, you have to also give her credit for the positive plays that she makes. She's tops on the team in +/- for a reason.

Speaking of the plus side of things, I thought that the back check yesterday looked very good.
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#5 could stand to simplify her game. She rushes the puck far too often and hangs on to the puck more than she should. Job 1 for this group of Gopher defensemen should be getting the puck to their forwards. That doesn't happen enough with #5. I prefer how #13 and #14 have adjusted their games from how they played in High School.

This is why it is very disappointing that #22 from Edina is going to the Sinners (along with Harvey) The Gophers really could use someone who legitimately can rush to puck from the defensive zone. #5 is not that player even though she thinks she is.
 
FiveHoleFrenzy said:
#5 could stand to simplify her game.
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This I agree with, but I think it is true of a lot of Gophers. Take #16 for example. Pass the puck and get it back, put a shot on net and hunt a rebound, something simple. One doesn't have to try to stickhandle through the other team, eventually turn it over, and have your teammates standing flat footed and watching.

FiveHoleFrenzy said:
The Gophers really could use someone who legitimately can rush to puck from the defensive zone.
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Or they can just recognize that it is faster to move the puck to the forwards, like UW has done for years. Bozek was as good at rushing the puck as the Gophs have ever had, but when she'd get to the attacking net, it seemed like her teammates usually had no idea of how to join the play.
 
Minnesota tried giving up more goals but with the Goaltending change at the start of the period #33 was very good. Gophers score 2 to tie it up at 3 after 2 periods.
 
Minnesota Loses in overtime 5-4. Disappointed in how the Gophers played but maybe this was more about Mankato playing well and finally getting a win against Minnesota. Hats off to them on their effort this afternoon.
 
MSU blocked a lot of shots and contested better in their own zone, but UM was very sloppy in their own end, and just not strong enough on the puck. The more deserving team today likely won.
 
ManBehindTheCurtain said:
Sydney Shearen suited up and played for Mankato yesterday. I am reasonably sure that she had some ice time earlier this season for the Gophers which would point to elimination of the former requirement that transfers within the WCHA sit out a year before becoming eligible to play for their new team.
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The biggest news of the weekend.
 
Full slate of compelling matchups....

St. Cloud at BSU
Kato/Tommies home and home
UMD at tOSU
UW at UMtc

UMtc could have been in first place all alone if they hadn't had an oops last weekend. A MSU and OSU sweep would put MSU on the heels of UMD.
 
ManBehindTheCurtain said:
Points percentage is asinine. Can someone help these people?
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I agree. Try harder to play the friggin games. All the lost time when the players were back to school to play the cancelled games the last 2 weeks and no school going on is a tremendous missed opportunity to get a handle on it.
 
Okay, here's one that would work: Calculate in decimal the proportion of points won against each of the other teams in the conference for games played and then total them. Undefeated, untied season would be 7. It would not matter if you played one game or four against any opponent, the impact of the season series against each opponent would be equal to the impact of the season series for every opponent.
 
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