Wisconsin Badgers 2013-2014 Season

[robertearle]

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The sheet is calculating Mercyhurst's RPI including tomorrow's game that they haven't played yet, that's why.

Ah, so all the values in the columns in 'RPI' are pre-calculated results for each individual game, and the 'predictor' page shows the full result of a full set of wins and losses of the all games yet to be played. That's what you meant by 'incomplete bracket'. Got it. "Never mind".

 

[TonyTheTiger20]

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Ah, so all the values in the columns in 'RPI' are pre-calculated results for each individual game, and the 'predictor' page shows the full result of a full set of wins and losses of the all games yet to be played. That's what you meant by 'incomplete bracket'. Got it. "Never mind".

You got it!

 

[robertearle]

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You got it!

(I'm a programmer, but not at all an Excel guy; firmware, if you know what that is. I am pretty good, however, at reverse engineering and using stuff in a 'monkey see, monkey do' kind of way. And I fully intend to take a good long look at what you've done here. Just not this week.)

 

[OnMAA]

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(I'm a programmer, but not at all an Excel guy; firmware, if you know what that is. I am pretty good, however, at reverse engineering and using stuff in a 'monkey see, monkey do' kind of way. And I fully intend to take a good long look at what you've done here. Just not this week.)

Look at excel in a different way where the user is the interrupter. The user creates "the event" by filling in the score, and that triggers the excel program (ISR routine) to update the cells with the formulas and out comes the result/report from the ISR. Each cell is serviced by its own instance of the ISR, even though the formulas may be replicated/reused. There are also macro's and they are like your report generators.

 

[CrazyDave]

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Gophers have separate bands for men's and women's hockey, even though the two arenas are a wrist shot away from each other. Pretty rare occurrence when either team plays at home without their band present.

First, no UW band in Bemidji. Also no UM or UMD band.

Just to clarify / correct the situation in Minneapolis -- there used to be separate pep bands for men's hockey, men's basketball, and women's athletics (bball, hockey, and vball in the fall). There still are three pep bands, but they do a lot more rotation of events because the athletics department is asking them to cover more events and the three bands are trying to maintain a balance of number of events covered.

 

[Nowheresville]

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Here's to hoping Saturday's game will be as interesting at the last time Harvard came to Madison for a NCAA playoff game.

 

[robertearle]

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Here's to hoping Saturday's game will be as interesting at the last time Harvard came to Madison for a NCAA playoff game.

I've asked this a number of places, so I may as well try here - does video of Jinelle Zaugg's goal exist, and if so where can I see it?

 

[Nowheresville]

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I've asked this a number of places, so I may as well try here - does video of Jinelle Zaugg's goal exist, and if so where can I see it?

http://www.uwbadgers.com/allaccess/?media=136896

It's about 7:45 into it.

 

[robertearle]

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http://www.uwbadgers.com/allaccess/?media=136896

It's about 7:45 into it.

Thank you!

(About what I expected; good pass and good one-timer, but look at the exhausted Harvard D-player late coming out from behind/the other side of the net. When a game goes that long, it is almost always somebody making a 'tired' mistake that ends it.)

 

[robertearle]

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(About what I expected; good pass and good one-timer, but look at the exhausted Harvard D-player late coming out from behind/the other side of the net. When a game goes that long, it is almost always somebody making a 'tired' mistake that ends it.)

I saw a couple still photos tonight; that tired Harvard player late getting over to cover? Julie Chu.

 

[NMH]

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I saw a couple still photos tonight; that tired Harvard player late getting over to cover? Julie Chu.

As someone who's going to be bitter about her lazy play that led to Canada's tying goal in the goal medal game for a long time, this surprises me not at all. (I swear this will dissipate at some point, but not yet).


On paper, a lot going for UW in this matchup. Maschmayer was benched in the ECAC quarterfinals, Harvard plays that infamous short bench that Katey Stone employed in the Olympics and it's even shorter since they're missing Mary Parker to a concussion. Parker might be back this weekend, but their three lines to Wisconsin's four and Wisconsin's fitness has to play to Wisconsin's favor.

Wisco has to find a way to score. Of course, Harvard was up 4-2 on Cornell in the ECAC semis and lost, so that does give me hope. They're very good on the PK and special teams have been good to UW.

 

[ARM]

I saw a couple still photos tonight; that tired Harvard player late getting over to cover? Julie Chu.

I was told a few years ago by a Wisconsin fan that part of the reason that game went to a fourth OT still scoreless was due to the defensive job that Chu did following Zaugg around all night. It was another of those games where the officials were reluctant to call penalties and let a lot go. Zaugg eventually got tired of Chu following her around everywhere, and used a well-timed crosscheck behind the net to rid herself of Chu and get open. That may help to explain Chu dealing with more than just fatigue on the play. Again, this is second hand, but the original teller was definitely a supporter of the Badgers, so I found it credible.

No matter what tristar's opinion of Chu may be today, during her NCAA career she was one of the best defensive forwards that the game has seen.

 

[robertearle]

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I was told a few years ago by a Wisconsin fan that part of the reason that game went to a fourth OT still scoreless was due to the defensive job that Chu did following Zaugg around all night. It was another of those games where the officials were reluctant to call penalties and let a lot go. Zaugg eventually got tired of Chu following her around everywhere, and used a well-timed crosscheck behind the net to rid herself of Chu and get open. That may help to explain Chu dealing with more than just fatigue on the play. Again, this is second hand, but the original teller was definitely a supporter of the Badgers, so I found it credible.

No matter what tristar's opinion of Chu may be today, during her NCAA career she was one of the best defensive forwards that the game has seen.

The particular clip in the video does make it look like Chu is maybe 'getting up' but starts too late to see more, so maybe...

I will point out that Zaugg at 6'1 is much taller than Chu, and that sometimes make 'contact' between players look worse than it really is.

 

[NMH]

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No matter what tristar's opinion of Chu may be today, during her NCAA career she was one of the best defensive forwards that the game has seen.

Hey, at least I owned up to my bitterness and tainted opinion! As I said, I imagine the edge will wear away with time, but the wound is still fresh and raw

There's no taking away from Chu's career. I have current angries, but she paved the way for a lot of people and I wish I was paying more attention when she was playing.

 

[Timothy A]

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Hey, at least I owned up to my bitterness and tainted opinion! As I said, I imagine the edge will wear away with time, but the wound is still fresh and raw

Another reason to be bitter with Chu/Harvard/Stone is that Chu could have possibly taken Pankowski's spot on the Olympic team seeing as Chu was only spotted icetime and not running a regular shift. Plus Stone deprived UW of Pankowski's services this year, and clearly UW's issue this year is lack of firepower. Yes, I am bitter. UW better make them pay.

 

[Timothy A]

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A couple interesting stats....UW's pp 24%; Harvard 14%.......Harvard is outshot by opponents 2 shots per game (28-30) and UW outshoots it's opponents by 13 shots per game (36-23). Goals for are pretty even 2.90 vs 3.03 with 2 statistcally studette goalies. I expect a defensive nail-biter.

I also hope the refs call a clean game and don't just let them play, but call a penalty if there is one. The rules should not change during the playoffs for either team. Then just let the chips fall where they may.

 

[ARM]

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Regarding the 2007 game w/ Harvard, I thought these comments from Johnson's media conference were pretty funny:

Question: Can't help but think about the 2007 game at the Kohl Center here. When you saw Harvard up there and you knew that that was going to be, did you at all think back and remember Jinelle Zaugg's game winner and what that was like?

Coach Johnson: Yeah, I remember we ran out of things in between the third and fourth overtime, and somebody had Skittles. The players were eating Skittles, and we were able to go out, and Jinelle scored a goal.

It was a long night. I'll never forget sitting in the coaching room, I think it was probably going into the second overtime, and it was going to be on tape delay that night. So it was going to come back on at 10:30. And we're sitting in the coaching room watching the start of our game while we're still playing it at 10:30. And then come back in the next overtime, and it's still going on.

The whole transcript is here:
http://www.uwbadgers.com/sports/w-hockey/spec-rel/031014aaf.html

 

[robertearle]

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Regarding the 2007 game w/ Harvard, I thought these comments from Johnson's media conference were pretty funny:

The whole transcript is here:
http://www.uwbadgers.com/sports/w-hockey/spec-rel/031014aaf.html

I've told the 'story' here before, but I was still living in suburban Los Angeles at that point. If there was any video or audio stream on the internet that day, I wasn't able to find it (and no twitter, or 'chat rooms' etc). So all I had was one of the 'live stat' windows. Five hours or whatever of 'Shot, Chu, Harvard, blocked by Vetter, Wisconsin', etc. And the longer it went, the more intently I stared at that stat window.

Until *finally*... 'Goal, Zaugg, Wisconsin. Wisconsin leads 1-0.' No 'goal horn', no flashing lights, no screaming crowd, just a single line of text. And "leads"; I remember that particularly.

 

[ARM]

So all I had was one of the 'live stat' windows. Five hours or whatever of 'Shot, Chu, Harvard, blocked by Vetter, Wisconsin', etc. And the longer it went, the more intently I stared at that stat window.

The problem with the live stats, particularly the CBS implementation, is that at some point the updates stop, so you sit there waiting for that next message that never comes, and restarting doesn't seem to help.

Until *finally*... 'Goal, Zaugg, Wisconsin. Wisconsin leads 1-0.' No 'goal horn', no flashing lights, no screaming crowd, just a single line of text. And "leading"; I remember that particularly.

If you are in the arena or picking up game audio, the first thing you hear is the PA guy saying, "The play is under review." And you wonder if that goal celebration after several OTs might not have totally emptied the energy reserves in the event that review overturns the goal.

 

[KTDC]

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"The play is under review." And you wonder if that goal celebration after several OTs might not have totally emptied the energy reserves in the event that review overturns the goal.

ARM, did you see that State tourney game a couple years ago with Hermantown and there was a goal exactly at the final buzzer and they had to review to see if it counted or not? Exactly what you said happened, the team celebrated itself out, the goal did not count, and they lost the game.

I was screaming at the TV while they were celebrating that they should not be doing that!