robertearle
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Univ of Ohio Bobcats
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WCHA 21-22 Season
- Thread starter Timothy A
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Univ of Ohio Bobcats
ARM
Fan of chipmunk-like mascots.
There's usually not a ton to talk about this penultimate day of the tournament, and now we don't even have the Patty Kaz ceremony. So I'm looking back to where we started. Obviously, Tim is taunting the Goph's here, but it is almost embarrassing the number of times he had to stick up for them while Minnesota fans were ready to give up. Ultimately, we were right, while still being mostly wrong.
As fans, we talk a good game, but we tend to be wrong an awful lot. I remember tOSU fans, when they weren't lamenting the missing article, noun, and any other missing word in between, chastising their team for losing to lesser teams like tUMD. And I remember Bulldogs fans -- no wait, I really don't, because they don't have a team thread, so it gets tough to remember if they bleed the UMD shade of maroon & gold, or they're just another Eastern troll calling one of the WCHA contenders overrated.
But if we don't know what will happen, look back at the preseason predictions of the coaches:
https://wcha.com/women/articles/202...isconsin-tops-wcha-preseason-coaches-poll.php
Technically, Wisconsin wasn't the unanimous choice to win the league, but that's always true because a coach can't vote for his own team. It made sense, though, especially after a number of seasons where they picked somebody else and UW won the regular season. tOSU also got love from the posters, and I remember thinking, yeah, they've added a lot of players, but I'd trade them all for Giguere. So I was a little bit right, but mostly wrong.
That's how the coaches preseason picks were -- mostly wrong. The Badgers finished third and were the only team from the top of the WCHA to not win a trophy. For the individual awards, they had Watts as PotY. For Pre All-WCHA they didn't have Jaques or Heise making the team. Maybe they suffer from the same problem that we have, in that it is hard to be accurate when you're so biased.
Anyway, we're just a day away from the start of the offseason and countless chances to be wrong again. I look forward to exchanging pretend insults with those of you obsessed enough to stick around over the summer.
bluffrinkrat
New member
I'm all in on OSU winning it all tomorrow because of Muzerall and West. Go former Gophers! My wife wants them to win because they haven't won one yet unlike those nasty Bulldogs who knocked our favorite team out of the tourney.
What I find most rewarding is how many college players from all the teams originated in the Minnesota State High School system. We are surely spoiled here in Minnesota being able to watch these young talents develop. I have no problem with seeing them excel in their chosen sport at other schools around the country. I just wish there was some slight measure of parity with what the young men have available.
ARM
Fan of chipmunk-like mascots.
There is a lot more West in men's hockey. In women's, every team has to count. I think of the CHA as a Western league, but I know that if a Mercyhurst, Penn St, or RMU ever wins, then somebody from Hockey East will point to it as evidence of how strong Eastern hockey is compared to those overrated teams out west.
People will say that Bemidji and the like have never won anything, but over the years, the WCHA has done very well in the rankings in part because teams like the Beavers and Mavericks have beaten some Eastern teams that they weren't expected to beat. Plus, with as hard as those teams work, they help the top teams to improve over the course of the year.