West Regional: Minnesota vs Yale

[Gurtholfin]

Re: West Regional: Minnesota vs Yale

Just wondering. Is it NCAA regulations that all tourney games are on NHL sized sheets? I don't recall ever seeing one on a big sheet.

Do you mean just the FF?

We hosted a regional and while our rink isn't as big as SCSU or the Mooch, it's bigger than NHL.

 

[MagnessMan]

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Do you mean just the FF?

We hosted a regional and while our rink isn't as big as SCSU or the Mooch, it's bigger than NHL.

I was talking about all tourney games.

 

[Gurtholfin]

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I was talking about all tourney games.

Well, the Kohl Center is 200x97.

Wasn't there a regional at the Mooch at one point also?

 

[The Rube]

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Well, the Kohl Center is 200x97.

Wasn't there a regional at the Mooch at one point also?

Maybe back in the day. AFAIK, it hasn't been at a school's home arena since I started following, although I was quite the noob when I started following college hockey.

 

[Gurtholfin]

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Maybe back in the day. AFAIK, it hasn't been at a school's home arena since I started following, although I was quite the noob when I started following college hockey.

According to wiki, the Mooch hosted the regional in 2003, you know, the year, likely the month, you joined here... noob.

 

[Bonin21]

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Maybe back in the day. AFAIK, it hasn't been at a school's home arena since I started following, although I was quite the noob when I started following college hockey.

Is this sarcasm? Hard to catch through the internet, but for the guy asking the UMD comeback at Mariucci in '09 was one of the best games I've ever been to. I don't know off the top of my head if it's been on a campus since that year.

 

[The Rube]

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Is this sarcasm? Hard to catch through the internet, but for the guy asking the UMD comeback at Mariucci in '09 was one of the best games I've ever been to. I don't know off the top of my head if it's been on a campus since that year.

You are correct. I am wrong. I remember that game, too. I will go to the box and feel shame.

 

[Gurtholfin]

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You are correct. I am wrong. I remember that game, too. I will go to the box and feel shame.

Also, according to wiki...

"Mariucci Arena has been host to prominent regional, national, and international competitions, including the 2005 and 2009 West Regional of the NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship."


Those weren't that long ago.


Drunkard?

 

[The Rube]

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Also, according to wiki...

"Mariucci Arena has been host to prominent regional, national, and international competitions, including the 2005 and 2009 West Regional of the NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship."


Those weren't that long ago.


Drunkard?

Naw. Just not paying attention.

 

[Bonin21]

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Naw. Just not paying attention.

Hope you were paying attention to this! God this was crazy. I don't think I was the only person that bought tickets while things were going well for the Gophers that year...

 

[Gurtholfin]

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Naw. Just not paying attention.

I'm just glad that Dubbie's not here to see this display.

 

[The Rube]

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Bonin: I was with bbdl, ShirtlessGuy, MNS, and maybe one other at SG's place in Blaine that year. They wanted to head down for OT. I thought I could beat the clock to my place. They won. I lost. Great story in hindsight, but at the time, I was quite angry (no radio coverage that I could find).

 

[Bonin21]

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Ah, I thought you meant you were there and didn't remember it! haha

 

[The Rube]

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Ah, I thought you meant you were there and didn't remember it! haha

Oh no. We had the multi-TV setup at bbdl/SG's place to watch all the games. It was beautiful.

 

[HarleyMC]

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It's like the argument that someone said when we played Wisconsin. "These kids grew up playing outside..." As if this somehow doesn't change the game. As far as rink size, I think there's a reason why Lucia has them practice at Ritter before non-Olympic sized sheets.

If you grew up playing several days and nights a week on outdoor ice for several years, which many of these guys did, you learn how to adjust your game to various ice conditions. That's a no-brainer. The same point applies in the case of transitioning to an NHL rink size.

Obviously they practice at Ridder because there is always a need to rehearse adjustments with positioning on special teams and other systems, playing the walls, etc. when moving from an olympic size to NHL size rink. That's also a no-brainer.

Transitioning from olympic to NHL size is the least of the Gopher's concerns going forward. The Gopher's record indicates transitioning from olympic to NHL size rinks has not been a negative factor over the last two seasons. In fact, they're actually better on NHL ice this season than last season:

2011-12

1) Olympic size rinks:
Home: 17-6-0
Away: 3-2-0

2) NHL size rinks:
8-6-1/.571 (inc. playoffs and FF)

2012-13

1) Olympic size rinks:
Home: 16-3-3
Away: 4-2-2

2) NHL size rinks:
6-3/.660 (inc. F5; VT: sub-olympic @ 200 x 90, Kohl Center: sub-olympic @ 200 x 97)

Go Gophers

 

[wolverineTrumpet]

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Maybe back in the day. AFAIK, it hasn't been at a school's home arena since I started following, although I was quite the noob when I started following college hockey.

I know more recent regionals were already brought up, but had you blocked the memory of the 2006 regional in Grand Forks?

 

[goldy_331]

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I know more recent regionals were already brought up, but had you blocked the memory of the 2006 regional in Grand Forks?

I wouldn't blame him. I know I did, or tried.

 

[mnturkey]

Why?

All of these players grew up playing on an NHL size sheet, I think the rink size meme gets way overblown by the media and elsewhere. If anything it would be much harder to go from NHL size to olympic size, it should be easier for some of our not so fleet of foot bigger guys (Budish Ambroz Helgeson)to get around the rink.

Smaller sheet of Ice causes problems with timing and location for both the defense and forwards.
Thats why the NHL goes to 4 on 4 for overtime, that gives more room for he players.
Larger rink gives more time to set up plays and work the puck up the ice.
I realize that both teams are playing on the same surface and the game is at a Neutral site but the rink size does make a difference, you say all the players grew up on NHL size rinks but they have not played together as a team until this year, they practice mostly on the larger sheet and get used to that. The game is still a team sport. Imangine if the NFL had different size fields how that would screw up a team, hockey is the same passing, receiving and timing.
Just my thoughts.

 

[JF_Gophers]

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Gophers win this game 7-1.

 

[matt]

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Does anyone know if they allow outside food in to the building?
I will be attending the game with my family this afternoon and we are Passover-observant. There will be no food for sale (other than bottled water) that we can buy; the tickets say that there is no re-entry so we can't go back to our car to eat once we have entered.