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Wisconsin Badgers 2013-2014 Season

Re: Wisconsin Badgers 2013-2014 Season

Well, they at least refer to bagpipes when the woodwinds try to play "I hear the bagpipes calling, I hear the lassies bawling" while various people twirl on one leg with one hand on their head...as I said, it's a world unto its own. Not synchronized like Irish step dancing, but then some Ivy League bands still have a 'Sixties counterculture that eschews synchronization that I admit I stopped finding funny as soon as the 'Sixties ended.

Like you, I'm an ordinary hockey fan trying to have fun. Not so sure about the H band in that regard. Though at least they're not like the infamous Yale fan in the 'Seventies who, nattily attired in coat and tie with a handkerchief in his breast pocket, hung on the chicken wire that in those days hung above the (shorter) glass behind the goal and screamed obscenities at the opposing goalie for 60 minutes (dutifully changing ends in the process).
 
dave1381 said:
Katey's marginal selections had a Harvard tilt, just like Mark Johnson's roster marginal selections had a Wisconsin tilt. Fry and Pucci were Harvard selections who in the end barely played in the gold medal game, and those are worthy of scrutiny.

Chu may not have gotten a regular shift but she set the screen that led to the first US goal in the gold medal game. It was like in 2010 when it looked like Botterill had hardly justified her selection to Team Canada (0 points entering Gold medal game) and she set up MPP for the first Canada goal. We've seen the veterans have a huge impact on these games. So to repeat, Chu was not the first player you would bump from the US roster -- there were those who barely played at all, while Chu played and made a significant contribution to the US lead.

At the end of the day, both teams primarily played 9 F and 6 D. I'm not so convinced doing a better job selecting skaters #16-18 would have made a huge difference.
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She was also on the ice for the tying and losing goals. No way should the slowest player on the team be out in those critical situations. Stone's Harvard bias cost the US a gold medal. If she doesn't resign, she should be fired.
 
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Watson Rink said:
Well, they at least refer to bagpipes when the woodwinds try to play "I hear the bagpipes calling, I hear the lassies bawling" while various people twirl on one leg with one hand on their head...as I said, it's a world unto its own. Not synchronized like Irish step dancing, but then some Ivy League bands still have a 'Sixties counterculture that eschews synchronization that I admit I stopped finding funny as soon as the 'Sixties ended.

Like you, I'm an ordinary hockey fan trying to have fun. Not so sure about the H band in that regard. Though at least they're not like the infamous Yale fan in the 'Seventies who, nattily attired in coat and tie with a handkerchief in his breast pocket, hung on the chicken wire that in those days hung above the (shorter) glass behind the goal and screamed obscenities at the opposing goalie for 60 minutes (dutifully changing ends in the process).
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Based on your response and your handle I intuit that you went to Harvard. It also seems evident that you recognize the huge qualitative difference between clarinets and pipes. I myself attended a college here in the Twin Cities where we honored and loved the pipes. A clarinet and an alto sax duet does not a bagpipe make.

So putting all of that aside, good luck to Harvard, good luck to Wisconsin. I am obviously a huge WCHA partisan but some part of me is ALWAYS happy when Wisconsin loses. The Gophers still have to beat BU to get there of course but I wouldn't mind seeing Minnesota v. Harvard in the semi-finals.

But I just don't think so.
 
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pakidnyc said:
She was also on the ice for the tying and losing goals. No way should the slowest player on the team be out in those critical situations. Stone's Harvard bias cost the US a gold medal. If she doesn't resign, she should be fired.
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Well...someone else should get a shot next time around. Beginning with the next international tournament.
 
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Watson Rink said:
Actually the music is decent and the highland fling dancing is a world unto its own, but they try to be demeaning to the other team's athletes when they themselves probably couldn't stand up on double runners. Chanting "sieve" at an all-ECAC goalie is pretty ridiculous.
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Sounds like someone needs to brush up on the Law of Perpetual Sievitude!
 
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WiscDC said:
If it sells out and there's reserved seating, I'm not even sure if standing will be an option.
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Yeah, I forgot about reserved seating. (I also forgot to go pick up my ticket today when I was out running errands!)
 
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Watson Rink said:
Chanting "sieve" at an all-ECAC goalie is pretty ridiculous.
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Get ready for it, it's gonna happen! Right from behind the Harvard bench. As WiscDC put it....Law of Perpetual Sievitude cannot and will not be denied.

Chu was also on the ice as a pk for the first goal allowed by the US, she allowed the backdoor person to get the puck for the easy score.
 
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ManBehindTheCurtain said:
I myself attended a college here in the Twin Cities where we honored and loved the pipes. .
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If that's the case, you would undoubtedly find the H band's highland dancing to be a travesty. But then the band's repertoire is replete with travesties.

Here in Massachusetts the Scots pipes have very somber connotations, as they're massed at the funerals of fallen police officers and firefighters. The uilleann pipes have more lighthearted associations such as Irish step dancing, St. Patrick's Day, etc.
 
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dave1381 said:
You mean first goal of the tournament against Finland, right?
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Yeah, I was p/oed because that ruined the s/o for Vetter. I'd love to know her +/- and how many minutes she played.

Anyway....I wonder where the Hawvawd band will be seated? (pretty good east coast translation, eh?)

WiscDC going with no signs? Say it isn't so! There's so much good and original material to use for a team you've never had the chance to taunt personally. We have to show these east coasters how it's done.
 
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I've found my reason for hating the Harvard Band - they've kicked me out of my seats!

I usually sit by the wall in section 17 (more legroom!), but that's where they'll be set up.

But huge kudos to the UW Ticket Staff who got me set up with some decent seats on the blue line.
 
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tristarscoop said:
As far as Maschmeyer as a silver bullet - I think that's up for debate. She's at least a question mark. She absolutely could be a wall - but she just as easily could not. Despite the Patty Top-10 nod, she didn't end the season as the top goalie in her own conference. She was third in GAA, 2nd in Save % (though by just .001) and a distant third in win percentage. She had a rough end of the season, getting benched in the early round of the conference tournament. She was back in the net for the final game of their season, but I think at this point (and a Harvard fan can give us perspective) they're not exactly sure which version will show up. Presumably she'll step it up for the big game, but I'm not ready to say she'll pull off a performance like Butters did.

Wisco's inability to score is obviously a concern, but I'd have to think Harvard is as afraid (likely moreso) of Rigsby.
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I guess from reading up on Hawvawd, she's been downright sievey lately, so I'm not feeling as fearful as the stats might tell me to be. She got shelled in her last start and didn't play in the crucial game 3 matchup against Yale, so I'm thinking her confidence might be a little shaken.
 
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Eeyore said:
Will the Badgers actually have a band in their own arena?
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For 'special occasion' games such as playoffs, 'Fill The Bowl', etc, there is a 20-or-30 or so piece 'pep band' at the games.

I realize that there was no band at the WCHA final four (there was at the women's Big Ten basketball that same weekend), but there was a band at the first round games against Mankato this year, and there was in Duluth at the 2012 NCAA Women's Frozen Four.
 
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