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WCHA 21-22 Season

Probabilities to win the Final Face-off have been released:

Ohio State 40%
Minnesota 30%
Wisconsin 22%
UMD 8%

These may change by game time!
 
KTDC said:
Probabilities to win the Final Face-off have been released:

Ohio State 40%
Minnesota 30%
Wisconsin 22%
UMD 8%

These may change by game time!
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I'd flip it to Minn 40%, OSU 30%, because Minn has home ice. Otherwise, no real quibbles.
 
KTDC said:
I don't know, I think you're crazy, I think it's 30, 30, 30, 10 !!
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Based on their marked late season improvement* by the home team, I'll go with 40, 30, 20, 10.
*8-1 in last 9, including 3-1 against Wisconsin and OSU
 
KTDC said:
I don't know, I think you're crazy, I think it's 30, 30, 30, 10 !!
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You provided my LOL of the day. Are you starting to be like pokechecker, where it seemed like there were at least two different people using one account?

robertearle said:
I'd flip it to Minn 40%, OSU 30%, because Minn has home ice.
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If it were to come down to those two, OSU has won the last five times that they met on that ice, plus eight of the last nine. Home ice indeed.
 
robertearle said:
I'd flip it to Minn 40%, OSU 30%, because Minn has home ice. Otherwise, no real quibbles.
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Just want to remind you that 2 of these 3 teams can beat Minnesota on their home ice. By my numbers the Gophers have a slightly better road record than a home record. We will see if 4 games against St. Thomas was good or bad for the real post season test.
 
One of the interesting thing to watch in the first semifinal today is how hard Maura Crowell works to avoid having that top line take defensive zone faceoffs. She rarely sends them out for one, and when she does, there is usually a specific reason: after a penalty kill (and that line rarely kills penalties); when they're down three goals halfway through the third period and she just needs to maximize their shifts. There was one instance today when they had been out for less than 15 seconds, and came off for the d-zone draw.

I also don't think that line is very good defensively. They were -3/-2/-3 today. They remain terrifying on offense, but I've moved them down a few notches in how I think of them overall.
 
Here is the matchup we were looking for -- No.1 vs No.2 for the trophy. The Gophers looked mighty good from my seat today. Anyone wish to place odds on the outcome tomorrow?
 
I was at Ridder for the first game and the first period of the second game. But I had anticipated that if the Gophers won their game that the second game was going to have to be uber exciting off the opening draw to keep me in the building. I set the DVR to record the second game and we came home and watched the final two periods on TV.

I do not blame Julie Friend and I do not blame that worthless person in a suit sitting next to her but that was pretty much the most insulted I have been by a TV broadcast of a women's hockey game. Rather than broadcasting the second period they did an interview with a former player while letting the game play in the very much background. At one point the worthless person in a suit actually complained that the game had unexpectedly produced three goals within such a short period of time that it was disrupting the very very meaningful interview.

The decision to go with this format (interview instead of game coverage) was made by well meaning people with experience and training in their chosen profession of TV production. Maybe they are right. Maybe the audience for this particular type of TV programming is so diffuse that the broad sweep to try to keep people with only slight interest in the game watching is the intelligent business decision.

As a hockey fan I only wished that the two of them would turn their attention to the compelling drama threatening to occur on the ice.
 
ManBehindTheCurtain said:
I was at Ridder for the first game and the first period of the second game. But I had anticipated that if the Gophers won their game that the second game was going to have to be uber exciting off the opening draw to keep me in the building. I set the DVR to record the second game and we came home and watched the final two periods on TV.

I do not blame Julie Friend and I do not blame that worthless person in a suit sitting next to her but that was pretty much the most insulted I have been by a TV broadcast of a women's hockey game. Rather than broadcasting the second period they did an interview with a former player while letting the game play in the very much background. At one point the worthless person in a suit actually complained that the game had unexpectedly produced three goals within such a short period of time that it was disrupting the very very meaningful interview.

The decision to go with this format (interview instead of game coverage) was made by well meaning people with experience and training in their chosen profession of TV production. Maybe they are right. Maybe the audience for this particular type of TV programming is so diffuse that the broad sweep to try to keep people with only slight interest in the game watching is the intelligent business decision.

As a hockey fan I only wished that the two of them would turn their attention to the compelling drama threatening to occur on the ice.
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Hear! Hear!
 
I hear you, but please, MN always does it right, or as right as they can. The announcers knew all the names, numbers and stats for all four teams. And they were enthusiastic!

Maybe we should back go to the single camera, with no announcers, like at OSU?
 
Still Eeyore said:
One of the interesting thing to watch in the first semifinal today is how hard Maura Crowell works to avoid having that top line take defensive zone faceoffs. ... There was one instance today when they had been out for less than 15 seconds, and came off for the d-zone draw.
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She could also be trying to get a particular matchup. Maybe she wants them out versus a particular forward line or D pair. Once the third pair became Zumwinkle and Dunne, that is a far less experienced duo that Brown/Wethington or Knowles/Hengler.
 
Gophers want to "Get back, get back
Get back to where they once belonged"

Buckeyes: "You think so? Think again!"

I think it could get intense!
 
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