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Wisconsin Badgers 2020-2021

Game week!

UW has only 7 returning forwards with significant game experience on the roster. Yikes. 3 returning F have little to no game experience. The 3 freshman F are highly regarded. I cannot recall a season start with this much uncertainty on the forward lines.

On the D corps, there is a lot of experience at the top 5 spots with Kotlowski and Toft looking for the nod in the 6 hole.

Goalie is also uncertain. Blair transfers in, Blesi and Kronish return and Gervais is also new as a Fr. One would think it's between Blair and Blesi since Blesi was the primary backup to Soup last year and Blair has 69 games of experience, though in an inferior league. Interestingly Blair was with the Sue 1 year and did not play at all.
 
I want to make some sense of the potential forward lines, so let's look last year's lines:

The first line returns: Watts - Pettet - SS
The second line only has Curl left: XXX - XXX - Curl
The third line is missing Norby: Schneider - Drake - XXX
The fourth line returns: Greig - GS - Posick
Extra forward: DeVito
Newcomers: Webster, Wheeler, O'Brien

Webster, Wheeler, O'Brien have to slot into the top 3 lines. MJ hardly ever uses the 4th line and with them playing UM UMD and OSU the first 12 games, I doubt they will see much ice.

You could keep all the lines as is, and fill in:

O'Brien and Webster with Curl (I like it!)
Wheeler with Schneider and Drake. Will Schneider and Drake be able to unlock Wheeler's potential?

I am SO excited to see the line combos MJ comes up with. Maybe he will blow it up.
 
Noticed on the UW site that Kronish is listed as a RS So, so she did take a RS and now all the goalies are graduating in different years.
 
Noticed on the UW site that Kronish is listed as a RS So, so she did take a RS and now all the goalies are graduating in different years.

Curious if a player who is already red shirting can also take the extra year of eligibility offered by the NCAA this year and stay for 6 years?
 
I surely was disappointed in the video from yesterday's game. I purchased a B1G10+ subscription and was pleased with the Gopher-OSU game I viewed recently. OSU's video person couldn't follow the puck, completely missing Wisconsin's 1st goal. No play-by-play, sound from PA very bad, camera angle too low. Overall grade for video broadcast = D-
 
fritz said:
I surely was disappointed in the video from yesterday's game. I purchased a B1G10+ subscription and was pleased with the Gopher-OSU game I viewed recently. OSU's video person couldn't follow the puck, completely missing Wisconsin's 1st goal. No play-by-play, sound from PA very bad, camera angle too low. Overall grade for video broadcast = D-
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You forgot to add they apparently are under orders not to zoom in on the plays. The cameras BTN has in the Schott for men's hockey look like the real deal, what they have in the old barn for the women's games look like hand held recorders you'd get at Best Buy. I don't know if they're BTN's responsibility or Ohio State's for the equipment. Both are cheap as hell on what they want to spend the money on!
BTW Fritz, the camera angle is low because there's no other option. It's in the top row of the strands and that's as high as it can go. Standing there you can touch the ceiling girders which as you can see on TV are pretty low. A high clearing attempt always bounces off them but that's what you get with a hand me down arena from the men's team.
 
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fritz said:
I surely was disappointed in the video from yesterday's game. I purchased a B1G10+ subscription and was pleased with the Gopher-OSU game I viewed recently. OSU's video person couldn't follow the puck, completely missing Wisconsin's 1st goal. No play-by-play, sound from PA very bad, camera angle too low. Overall grade for video broadcast = D-
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Believe it or not, I was thinking the video from OSU yesterday looked a little better, a little 'brighter' than it has in the past. I could sometimes make out uniform numbers. Yes, it is notoriously awful.
 
Can a 5-0 win be described as "uncomfortable"?

Because that's how I'd describe today's. Between the third period penalties, and the slow and tentative puck clearing by the defense, particularly in the second period. Yikes.

The silver lining is Kennedy Blair bailed them out big-time a number of times.
 
How do you think I feel? I meet my wife in the Navy, and she from Ohio and was talking serious smack to me last night. Hope the ladies will get the win today.
 
I was able "watch" Friday's game intently. I say "watch" because with the crappy non-zoom camera I'm not sure I would call what I did watching. Anyway, the first period was a trainwreck for UW. Clearly OSU had played the week before and UW did not. The ladies were just chasing in the D zone the whole time. The 2nd and 3rd periods were better and I was happy to "see" them get some good looks in the 3rd period to try and tie a game that they were outplayed for the majority of it. Saturday it was on in the background for the last period and a half, just too many things to do around the manor. It was great to see the 15 sog stat line for the first period, but then 6 and 4 to finish the last 2 periods is not really what UW is looking for, though territorially it was rather on even strength when I got a chance to peek a look.

I was shocked to see the all Fr line. It's not watt I was expecting. I was also shocked to see Buchbinder not in the line-up. That meant UW had 2 D (and not high end recruits at that) playing their first collegiate games on the road against a top 4 team. YIKES. Apparently she is out until January at the earliest.

Considering all the circumstances, a split is palatable.
 
From Watts I have been told, we will actually get to "see" hockey this weekend on BTN+. I am actually now very much more excited for the games this weekend.

It just dawned on me that Watts was destined to come to UW because Watt is a big name in UW sports.

I'd venture to guess MJ won't tweak the line-up at all since they played very responsible defensive hockey the last game @ OSU.
 
It's pretty underhanded for Muzzy to infect the UW players like she did. I can't imagine this getting cleared up in time for the Dawgette series. The B16 has a 21 day you can't play rule.
 
Timothy A said:
It's pretty underhanded for Muzzy to infect the UW players like she did. I can't imagine this getting cleared up in time for the Dawgette series. The B16 has a 21 day you can't play rule.
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Todd Milewski reports two positives, both players, with a third awaiting (I assume) the confirming test.
 
Timothy A said:
It's pretty underhanded for Muzzy to infect the UW players like she did. I can't imagine this getting cleared up in time for the Dawgette series. The B16 has a 21 day you can't play rule.
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The WCHA site isn't accessible for me at the moment, but I received a press release saying that the UMD series starting 12/11, as well as the OSU series scheduled for 12/18, are both postponed.
 
Well, it's over for 2020. UW has too many players with Covid or who are under Covid house arrest to have 15 players available for the Dawgette series. What a hugge disappointment. I would recommended to the wwcha that they don't schedule any games until sometime in February. Give this thing 6-8 weeks to run it's course, though I'm not sure that is enough time to get on the downside of the curve.
 
Timothy A said:
Well, it's over for 2020. UW has too many players with Covid or who are under Covid house arrest to have 15 players available for the Dawgette series. What a hugge disappointment. I would recommended to the wwcha that they don't schedule any games until sometime in February. Give this thing 6-8 weeks to run it's course, though I'm not sure that is enough time to get on the downside of the curve.
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The Ohio State series for Dec 18-19 also a no-go.

(Ohio State vs Minnesota also off this weekend. I'm definitely not getting my money's worth out of that BTN Plus subscription! )
 
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