Re: Wisconsin Badgers 2018-2019
Comments from the glass....
Saturday....the crowd was electric, the band was big, loud and sharp, the players came out totally focused the they played with awesome pace right from the get go. There was no MJ distraction at all. Really can't sat too much about putting up 7 when Kato started the back-up to rest Levy for the playoffs (LOL). What I can say is Shirley turned the jets on a partial breakaway goal, splitting 3 cows and getting slashed multiple times as she moved in to shoot and score. Soup got beat twice on clean breakaways. The first one the shooter missed the net, all she had to do was lift it over the pad. The second one she got beat clean on a wrister. Very unusual to see UW give up breakaways like that. On the second one I think Shaver got too cute by the blueline,the D got caught flatfooted and the Kato player got the clean break, it was so clean she could have brewed a cup of coffee before a backchecker was going to get there. Second goal she got a piece of on the PK, but it got through.
Sunday....the crowd was flat, the band only had 10 people there, what a pathetic disservice to the team, the fans and MJ as he was also honored today at that game. The music dept. is pathetic. The team was mega sharp the whole game again. They never let off the gas with the pace of the game. It was very impressive. Interestingly MJ said they wanted to try and get more rebounds and the team responded with many more low shots and less sniper shots. You heard a lot more booming pad saves than normal. The result was 2 crash the net/scrum goals (Shirley/Mauermann) and a clean rebound goal by Curl. Also pleasing was a back door shoot off the pass goal by Shirley on a great feed from Cogan. I have been lamenting not enough shots off the pass, I'm glad they listened.
. The goal allowed was a leaker. It has to be hard seeing only 1 or 2 shots a period as a goalie to keep your head in the game.
I really like the grey added to Kato's uni's, they were sharp.
I have to give credit to the refs on the first UW goal today. It was a players crashing players into the net play. They did not signal goal before the whistle, but they reviewed it and called it a goal. I don't think I've seen a non called goal called a goal after review. Other than that they sucked, Kato got away with a bunch of obvious non-calls early in the game, I don't think UW got away with much. Kato also enjoys a good slash, lots of wood chopping going on as well by them.
