What's new
By:
USCHO Fan Forum

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

  • The USCHO Fan Forum has migrated to a new plaform, xenForo. Most of the function of the forum should work in familiar ways. Please note that you can switch between light and dark modes by clicking on the gear icon in the upper right of the main menu bar. We are hoping that this new platform will prove to be faster and more reliable. Please feel free to explore its features.

Wisconsin Badgers 2018-2019

Re: Wisconsin Badgers 2018-2019

WiscDC said:
That was an outstanding game. Needless to say, I'm pretty thrilled about the result!!! On, Wisconsin!!!
Click to expand...

Holed up in a cabin all weekend and got some other Wisconsinites to watch both games (as well as lots of basketball). Glad it was on BTN, and very happy with the result !
 
Re: Wisconsin Badgers 2018-2019

Went to the Natty celebration tonight, it was very well done. They also honored 2 tracksters and a swimmer who I do believe won a combined for 7 Natties over the last few weeks. It's too bad BA can't just wing it, he got stuck a couple times reading the script. The crowd estimate was about 1000 in attendance. I was a little bummed it wasn't at LaBahn, I was looking forward to seeing it one last time. Looks to me like they used the same setup as the "knock your socks off" press conference.

A couple takeaways I got out of it....it appears ARD may be doing some goalie tutoring while she's working on her masters, Soup acknowledged her along with her fellow goalies and MG calling them "goalie nation". The other thing is that MJ said the poor OSU series really galvanized the team into understanding what it took to take it to the next level. In a way thanks to OSU though it cost UW one small trophy but they gained a bigger one. One other interesting point is Annie slept with the trophy last night.
 
Re: Wisconsin Badgers 2018-2019

Timothy A said:
Went to the Natty celebration tonight, it was very well done. They also honored 2 tracksters and a swimmer who I do believe won a combined for 7 Natties over the last few weeks. It's too bad BA can't just wing it, he got stuck a couple times reading the script. The crowd estimate was about 1000 in attendance. I was a little bummed it wasn't at LaBahn, I was looking forward to seeing it one last time. Looks to me like they used the same setup as the "knock your socks off" press conference.

A couple takeaways I got out of it....it appears ARD may be doing some goalie tutoring while she's working on her masters, Soup acknowledged her along with her fellow goalies and MG calling them "goalie nation". The other thing is that MJ said the poor OSU series really galvanized the team into understanding what it took to take it to the next level. In a way thanks to OSU though it cost UW one small trophy but they gained a bigger one. One other interesting point is Annie slept with the trophy last night.
Click to expand...

KC vs LaBahn - KC has a much better video screen. That's my guess why.

1000 people - I was and am just floored by how many were there. They did something 'similar' in 2011 (also with a swimmer who had just won an NCAA individual championship), it was in the Nicholas-Johnson BB practice building, and there were maybe 150-200 people there. Everybody stood, the team was on a small 'stage' and when it was over, you could just wander over and chat, get autographs, etc. (Hilary Knight had had a fracture in her thumb, and I asked if was going to need surgery, and she said she would find out from the doctors later that week.) 1000 may be the minimum of what was there. Amazing to me.

(I saw Mikayla Johnson and 2010 coach Tracey DeKeyser standing together in line like everyone else waiting to get in. I thought "Wow, if they have to stand in line to get in.... :-)

OSU series - Shaver and Rolfes also mentioned that weekend and that Monday-after meeting in radio interviews, and how what MJ had said during the meeting had galvanized and focused them for the playoffs and what we've seen the last few weeks.
 
Re: Wisconsin Badgers 2018-2019

Wanted to stop by and congratulate my Badger friends on a National Title. I didn't expect to see posts about that weekend our team was in Madison, but I told Mrs 86, "Wisconsin has been on a mission ever since we knocked them out of first place on Senior Weekend." Three shutouts in the NCAA Tournament, that is an impressive run to say the least. Congratulations again on the great season. Hope my Buckeyes get to that level someday.
 
Re: Wisconsin Badgers 2018-2019

osualum86 said:
Wanted to stop by and congratulate my Badger friends on a National Title. I didn't expect to see posts about that weekend our team was in Madison, but I told Mrs 86, "Wisconsin has been on a mission ever since we knocked them out of first place on Senior Weekend." Three shutouts in the NCAA Tournament, that is an impressive run to say the least. Congratulations again on the great season. Hope my Buckeyes get to that level someday.
Click to expand...

Thanks for stopping in! I was hoping you would and get a chance to see the effect OSU had on the season. A strong OSU makes the wWCHA better. After that weekend your team may have galvanized the players but it freaked out some fans, including me. UW couldn't score, looked bad in the shootouts in both the shooters and the goaltending, it kinda looked like a mess. Even if UW had won the series in ugly fashion, it may not have had the galvanizing effect pushed them over the top. I've never been so retrospectively glad to think about how good 2 shootout loses were.

Unrelated, we were standing in line to get into the KC last night and a knowledgeable fan was talking to his friend about the future Badgers standing behind us and the stuff he was saying was like it was right off this thread, LOL. Was that you, Robert? Probably just a lurker.
 
Re: Wisconsin Badgers 2018-2019

Timothy A said:
Unrelated, we were standing in line to get into the KC last night and a knowledgeable fan was talking to his friend about the future Badgers standing behind us and the stuff he was saying was like it was right off this thread, LOL. Was that you, Robert? Probably just a lurker.
Click to expand...

In line, I happened to be next to a couple guys I had shared a table with at a bar in St Charles two years ago. We were saying that we must be the jinx because none of us had been in Hamden, as opposed to the people in front of us, who had literally come to the KC straight from the airport, coming back from Hamden. That's as 'deep' as it got for me.
 
Re: Wisconsin Badgers 2018-2019

I kind of noticed this watching live on Sunday, and then I forgot I wanted to go back to check what I thought I had seen.

With the puck tied up against the boards as the clock wound down, first Steffen and then Campbell threw their gloves and sticks in the air *before* the clock has actually hit zero; Steffen at about two seconds, and Campbell at one second.

:-)
 
Re: Wisconsin Badgers 2018-2019

robertearle said:
I kind of noticed this watching live on Sunday, and then I forgot I wanted to go back to check what I thought I had seen.

With the puck tied up against the boards as the clock wound down, first Steffen and then Campbell threw their gloves and sticks in the air *before* the clock has actually hit zero; Steffen at about two seconds, and Campbell at one second.

:-)
Click to expand...

I noticed that as well. Guess they figured the two goal lead was safe and that puck wasn't going in the net with or without the gloves on.
 
Re: Wisconsin Badgers 2018-2019

gwhinwi said:
I noticed that as well. Guess they figured the two goal lead was safe and that puck wasn't going in the net with or without the gloves on.
Click to expand...

I don't think their "thought process" was anywhere near that rational. :-)
 
Re: Wisconsin Badgers 2018-2019

https://atevenstrength.com/2019/03/...ells-winding-road-to-a-national-championship/

This is a really great piece. Fundaro and Haase have both done a tremendous job with their college athlete profiles this year. This piece is by Gabriella Fundaro; there is a Nicole Haase piece on Pankowski from the beginning of the year in Victory Press which I think might be fun to re read now as well, if you are someone who likes sports writing.
 
Re: Wisconsin Badgers 2018-2019

Lindsay said:
https://atevenstrength.com/2019/03/...ells-winding-road-to-a-national-championship/

This is a really great piece. Fundaro and Haase have both done a tremendous job with their college athlete profiles this year. This piece is by Gabriella Fundaro; there is a Nicole Haase piece on Pankowski from the beginning of the year in Victory Press which I think might be fun to re read now as well, if you are someone who likes sports writing.
Click to expand...

Great article.

There's also a good article out there about the Saskatoon Slayers, Shirley and Clark as well. https://t.co/fVxfZnAj52

I do feel bad for the rest of the players as they all have tales to tell, but no one to tell them, if they want them told that is. It's such a rock solid team, such a pleasure to watch and support, it's sucky that they all can't play for UW forever. They will play for UW forever in my mind.
 
Re: Wisconsin Badgers 2018-2019

MJ finishes out the dream season (except 1 blemish that was a help to the overall goal) with the USCHO coach of the year.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top