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Wisconsin Hockey 20-21 Give Us A Reason To Believe
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sunprairie
Badger Backer
Playing like it. Oof. Hope they can turn things around for the second half of the game.
Maybe we should have made ASU practice at The Shell while they were in town the past week instead of letting them get used to our “home” rink.
digitalbooya
Well-known member
Beydoun just pulled after the 5th goal... He looked slow on replays.
digitalbooya
Well-known member
At least 2 of the 5 have been routine stops for Beydoun every other game...
digitalbooya
Well-known member
Should also be noted that we are currently skating 9 total real forwards with Holloway, Pelton-Byce, Baker, Achan, and Mersch all out for their own reasons (oof)... We have two D playing forward. Could explain errors on the defensive side.
Todd posted the starting lineup as such:
Weissbach-B Caufield-C Caufield
Gorniak-Lindmark-Stange
Dhooghe-R. Donovan-DSP
S. Donovan(D)-XXXX-LaMaster(D)
Todd posted the starting lineup as such:
Weissbach-B Caufield-C Caufield
Gorniak-Lindmark-Stange
Dhooghe-R. Donovan-DSP
S. Donovan(D)-XXXX-LaMaster(D)
I haven’t posted it on here, but the coaching staff really had poor personnel management coming into this season. With the amount of uncertainty surrounding this season and know all the Big Ten protocols with COVID, how does the coaching staff manage to agree upon less players on the roster than a normal year. If there are 15-16 forwards on the roster (like there should be) we probably don’t see the situation we saw tonight.
I agree defensive zone coverage was poor but Beydoun and Rowe probably wish they could take at least 3 goals back.
I agree defensive zone coverage was poor but Beydoun and Rowe probably wish they could take at least 3 goals back.
MadCityRich
20 Years and Counting
Hi again, boys. I've been holding back thoughts.....until tonight.
Swept a shitty Ped State team. Swept Notre Dame, who swept MI, who was swept by Notre Dame.
I don't know what to take from tonight's game, but we should not get pounded with 8 goals.
Just not excited.
Swept a shitty Ped State team. Swept Notre Dame, who swept MI, who was swept by Notre Dame.
I don't know what to take from tonight's game, but we should not get pounded with 8 goals.
Just not excited.
ExileOnDaytonStreet
Drunkard
One goal on a 4-2 breakaway. One goal happens when two defenders attack the puck just off the net leaving a man undefended on Robbie’s back door.
Didn’t track how bad some of the other goals were, but knowing Granato, he’s outraged at the goalies for the mistakes of the guys in front of them.
Didn’t track how bad some of the other goals were, but knowing Granato, he’s outraged at the goalies for the mistakes of the guys in front of them.
ExileOnDaytonStreet
Drunkard
I refuse to blame Beydoun or Rowe. It’s not as bad as what Lebedeff had to put up with, but they aren’t being done a lot of favors. And with Granato’s history of throwing goalies under the bus for stuff they can’t control, I’m giving any goalie suffering under TG a long leash.
digitalbooya
Well-known member
Posick just said that ASU's 3rd and 4th lines have 8 goals so far this weekend... If we are matching our 3rd and 4th against their's then that would explain it a bit.
digitalbooya
Well-known member
1st goal - 100% on Beydoun
2nd goal - really poor dzone coverage
3rd goal - 1 second to slow on the center getting out to block the shot
4th goal - bad dzone coverage
5th goal - I don't know how anyone could blame this on poor d coverage.
6th goal - just out smarted on a 4-on-2
7th goal - 2-on-1 shorthanded with an all forward power play unit out there
My opinion is 1&5 should have been stopped for sure. I'm not here to oust Beydoun though, he's been a rock. Just a couple bad goals he probably wants back.
digitalbooya
Well-known member
Sean Dhooghe helping his old team out lol.
digitalbooya
Well-known member
Does anyone else feel like Cole Caufield is being too much of a puck hog? It feels like every time he has the puck he'd rather try to deke through a player than make an easy pass to a teammate. Drives me up a wall.
sunprairie
Badger Backer
When the team gets behind, he definitely tries too hard to do things himself. But, I’m more frustrated with Linus the past two days. Despite his better offensive output this year, we have to get Weissbach off the top line. He does the opposite of Cole - he just gives up when the chips are against them. Case in point, the team is down two late in the second - a totally accomplishable gap - Cole tries to pass it to Weissbach and he either drops his stick or it breaks, and he does the most lackadaisical slow skate back all the way across the ice while the puck was still live, leaving the team essentially down a skater while his replacement waited straddling the dasher. It was a moment that won’t be remembered, but it’s the kind that needs to be nipped in the bud by the coaches. Unfortunately, benching him isn’t a legitimate threat when half the forwards have COVID.
sunprairie
Badger Backer
The whole team looked completely gassed in the third tonight. And I can’t blame them. As Todd noted, while ASU’s third and fourth lines did almost all the scoring, the Badgers essentially didn’t have third and fourth lines. Who’d have thunk six months ago that having four forwards live together would result in them all missing almost a quarter of the season. Crazy.
The "top line" forwards were -8 on Sat and -6 today, they are a liability out there. When are they going to start being held accountable for their play in their own end. This team has zero grit, their energy stinks and its a team of individuals. The last few years have been some of the worst coaching I've seen in a long time. I love my Badger hockey but I can't even stand watching this garbage anymore.
solovsfett
Registered User
That’s a good encapsulation of all but granato’s first year in Madison.
caufield is huge defensive liability and doesn’t score at a pace to offset that shortcoming. He’ll get run right over in the NHL. If he were smart he’s beat down and learn to play 200 feet or he’ll be playing in junior leagues.
at the end of today’s game there was another moment that exposed this team’s lack of grit and character (which is the opposite of how TG and MO played). Kehrer was hit/clipped in the knee by an ASU punk with just seconds left in the game.
how many guys for Wisconsin skated over to drill that ASU player? Essentially 0. That speaks volumes as to the lack of cohesion and chemistry.
a hit like that with McDonagh, any of the Suters, Driver, Chelios, Burish, Mellanby, Hill or any of the 1990 team on the ice and that punk from ASU would have paid a heavy price.
Granato doesn’t coach how he played and that’s ultimately his biggest issue imo. This product is soft and lame to watch. There’s no hope for fans and no accountability from players and Oseicki needs to be blamed as well. His Dmen no longer play championship level hockey.
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WiscTJK
Well-known member
I would watch if you like seeing play consistent with the last 4 years......