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WCHA Thread IV

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CrazyDave said:
Posted today on WCHA.com - WCHA Women Have Parity - Behind Minnesota

I'm kinda scratching my head and asking, "what's the point of this article?" :confused:
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I'm not sure what parity they are talking about - there is 4-5 loss difference between 2/3 and 4/5 and greater than that to 1st. But Idalski does talk about that "everybody in our league this year has four automatic losses to Minnesota", so maybe that is the parity.;) It seems like Idalski is just testy that UND tied for 2nd for their highest WCHA finish and that has always been good enough for a spot in the NCAAs....can't blame him.
 
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Conference annual awards - http://www.wcha.com/women/pres1213/201303/mar7awa.php

Player of the Year & Scoring Champion - Amanda Kessel (Minnesota)
Outstanding Student-Athlete of the Year - Jocelyne Lamoureux (North Dakota)
Defensive Player of the Year - Megan Bozek (Minnesota)
Rookie of the Year - Hannah Brandt (Minnesota)
Goaltending Champion - Noora Räty (Minnesota)
Coach of the Year - Brad Frost (Minnesota)

First Team - Amanda Kessel (MIN), Brianna Decker (WIS), Hannah Brandt (MIN), Megan Bozek (MIN), Monique Lamoureux (UND), Noora Räty (MIN)

Second Team - Jocelyne Lamoureux (UND), Michelle Karvinen (UND), Jenna McParland (UMD), Brigette Lacquette (UMD), Jessica Wong (UMD), Alex Rigsby (WIS)

Third Team - Lauren Smith (MSU), Josefine Jakobsen (UND), Kelly Terry (MIN), Mira Jalosuo (MIN), Rachel Ramsey (MIN), Kayla Black (UMD)

Rookie Team - Hannah Brandt (MIN), Maryanne Menefee (MIN), Meghan Dufault (UND), Milica McMillen (MIN), Courtney Burke (WIS), Kayla Black (UMD)

Plus the All-WCHA Academic Team, with 100 members.
 
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CrazyDave said:
Conference annual awards - http://www.wcha.com/women/pres1213/201303/mar7awa.php

Player of the Year & Scoring Champion - Amanda Kessel (Minnesota)
Outstanding Student-Athlete of the Year - Jocelyne Lamoureux (North Dakota)
Defensive Player of the Year - Megan Bozek (Minnesota)
Rookie of the Year - Hannah Brandt (Minnesota)
Goaltending Champion - Noora Räty (Minnesota)
Coach of the Year - Brad Frost (Minnesota)

First Team - Amanda Kessel (MIN), Brianna Decker (WIS), Hannah Brandt (MIN), Megan Bozek (MIN), Monique Lamoureux (UND), Noora Räty (MIN)

Second Team - Jocelyne Lamoureux (UND), Michelle Karvinen (UND), Jenna McParland (UMD), Brigette Lacquette (UMD), Jessica Wong (UMD), Alex Rigsby (WIS)

Third Team - Lauren Smith (MSU), Josefine Jakobsen (UND), Kelly Terry (MIN), Mira Jalosuo (MIN), Rachel Ramsey (MIN), Kayla Black (UMD)

Rookie Team - Hannah Brandt (MIN), Maryanne Menefee (MIN), Meghan Dufault (UND), Milica McMillen (MIN), Courtney Burke (WIS), Kayla Black (UMD)

Plus the All-WCHA Academic Team, with 100 members.
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The fact that there are no Ohio State players on any of these teams speaks volumes about the great job Coach Nate Handrahan is doing with our program.
 
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osualum86 said:
The fact that there are no Ohio State players on any of these teams speaks volumes about the great job Coach Nate Handrahan is doing with our program.
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Actually, I do feel for you. ARM wrote the following in the Minnesota thread, and I concur with the sentiment.
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The one problem I had was that sure, it was great winning all of those awards, but on Friday, we have to play an OSU team that came to the WCHA Banquet and didn't get any recognition outside of the scholastic awards. After sitting there watching a ton of other people go up to accept awards, might they not feel they have something to prove? If I'm remembering correctly, Lauren Smith of MSU was the only member of a team that was seeded lower than fourth that made any of the ALL-WCHA teams. It was spread around a little more last year.
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And not even the "Ohio State might have something to prove" angle, but that only one player from the bottom four teams got any recognition. As well as the Gophers did this season, that didn't seem quite right.

On a side note, I was also taken aback that UMD had four players on the First, Second, and Third teams, combined, compared to only two for Wisconsin.
 
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osualum86 said:
The fact that there are no Ohio State players on any of these teams speaks volumes about the great job Coach Nate Handrahan is doing with our program.
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I do think that there should have been, and there were places were somebody could have made the list, like Chelsea Knapp or Kari Schmitt in particular.
 
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CrazyDave said:
Actually, I do feel for you. ARM wrote the following in the Minnesota thread, and I concur with the sentiment.

And not even the "Ohio State might have something to prove" angle, but that only one player from the bottom four teams got any recognition. As well as the Gophers did this season, that didn't seem quite right.

On a side note, I was also taken aback that UMD had four players on the First, Second, and Third teams, combined, compared to only two for Wisconsin.
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Wisco does seem to be a bit underrepresented with only two selections on the three teams. Somehow they found a way to finish 2nd, seems like Packer as a top ten scorer would have been an logical choice. Not sure MJ gets caught up in the lobbying process that some of the other coaches seem to engage in. Decker and Rigsy were clearly no brianers.
 
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The WCHA does what it does. Meh...I'll just enjoy the recognitions and admire the student athletes that earned them leaving contemplation of appropriateness in timing or individual merit to others.
 
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CrazyDave said:
First Team - Amanda Kessel (MIN), Brianna Decker (WIS), Hannah Brandt (MIN), Megan Bozek (MIN), Monique Lamoureux (UND), Noora Räty (MIN)

Second Team - Jocelyne Lamoureux (UND), Michelle Karvinen (UND), Jenna McParland (UMD), Brigette Lacquette (UMD), Jessica Wong (UMD), Alex Rigsby (WIS)

Third Team - Lauren Smith (MSU), Josefine Jakobsen (UND), Kelly Terry (MIN), Mira Jalosuo (MIN), Rachel Ramsey (MIN), Kayla Black (UMD)
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So a hypothetical - if the above could be entered intact as an Olympic team - how would they do?
 
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mnpokecheck said:
So a hypothetical - if the above could be entered intact as an Olympic team - how would they do?
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You have a mix of US, Canada and foreign girls in this group.

Don't know how so many UMD girls can be included in this years picks. Most had down years. Shouldn't be what players did in previous years.
 
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CrazyDave said:
Actually, I do feel for you. ARM wrote the following in the Minnesota thread, and I concur with the sentiment.

And not even the "Ohio State might have something to prove" angle, but that only one player from the bottom four teams got any recognition. As well as the Gophers did this season, that didn't seem quite right.

On a side note, I was also taken aback that UMD had four players on the First, Second, and Third teams, combined, compared to only two for Wisconsin.
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I honestly hadn't even considered the "Ohio State might have something to prove" angle. I have been saying all season that I felt like Coach Handrahan was doing a great job with our program, and the fact that we are in the WCHA Final Face-off when our league says we don't have any good players just backs that up. ;) OTOH, it is refreshing that the league actually recognizes the coach with the best record and the best team (that he recruited) as the CoY. It's the perfect opposite of the way it's done in Big Ten Football where Jim Tressel for years was screwed out of the CoY award because someone else went 8-4 or 9-3 but "did more with less," like recruiting great players is somehow not part of coaching. I never understood punishing coaches when it comes to awards because they outrecruited their conference opponents. The biggest joke was 2002 when Coach Tressel was the National CoY but somehow wasn't good enough to be the CoY in the Big Ten. Ok, sorry, I will get off my "how-some-conferences-pick-the-CoY" rant now. Cannot wait to get home tonight and check out the game on wcha.com. Hope it's a good feed.
 
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In retrospect, I bet the Big 10 is perfectly happy that it didn't give Coach of the Year to Tressel.
 
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Eeyore said:
In retrospect, I bet the Big 10 is perfectly happy that it didn't give Coach of the Year to Tressel.
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I wouldn't understand why. I mean, what JT did in 2010 with the tat-5 has no bearing whatsoever on the number of years before that, especially in 2002 in his second season at OSU. Anyone who thinks "Tressel was cheating all along," is just choosing to ignore the facts.
 
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WCHFan said:
You have a mix of US, Canada and foreign girls in this group.

Don't know how so many UMD girls can be included in this years picks. Most had down years. Shouldn't be what players did in previous years.
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I agree with this.. Wong is a great player I agree, But it should be based on THIS season. I have to ask about K Schmitt, Tarr even Packer from Wisco?
 
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