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Wisconsin Hockey 2018-2019: We can have a witty thread title when we start winning

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dtrumbower said:
The Blackhawks need the help from these guys too. They fire Granato yet so he can come back to UW? :)
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Gotta figure that Don will be moved out when they go with a new coaching situation at the end of the season. At the end of the year perhaps the UW situation will be adjusted as well.
 
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gwhinwi said:
Gotta figure that Don will be moved out when they go with a new coaching situation at the end of the season. At the end of the year perhaps the UW situation will be adjusted as well.
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Wishful thinking and I would love to see Donny back, but I think that ship has sailed.
 
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WiscTJK said:
Wishful thinking and I would love to see Donny back, but I think that ship has sailed.
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Most likely that is correct. I think the UW situation will probably change after the season based on what we have seen from the stats on the PK/PP units though. Don probably won't be involved, but something probably will change.
 
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WiscTJK said:
Wishful thinking and I would love to see Donny back, but I think that ship has sailed.
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He only comes back to be the head coach, and that may not even be certain if he wants to climb the ladder in the NHL. You know over the summer the musky boys are going to sit around the campfire and talk game.
 
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KaMiGo said:
The team is absolutely playing well right now, but let's tap the breaks just a little bit.

Yes, we are at 16 points in the B1G. But we have also played 10 conference games.

OSU is also at 16 points, but has only played 8 conference games.
ND is at 15 points, with only 8 games played.

We are solidly ahead of Michigan, they have 12 points with 10 games played.

We are within reach of Minnesota (12 points) and PSU (11 points) who have also only played 8 games.

Even after our sweep of MSU, they are at 8 points with 8 games played.

I think it is crazy that all of the teams are this close to each other. With 6 points up for grab every conference series, there is a lot of room for movement.
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I'm channeling my inner rainbows and pink unicorns positivity, so no tapping the brakes for me.
 
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MadCityRich said:
When the Cold War was still on, who remembers when the USSR teams used to play the Badgers at the Coliseum usually on New Year's Eve? One year, I got removed from the first row behind the Russian bench ( I was told to get no closer than 5 rows). I was trying to give a pen to players (between the glass and bench boards) and get autographs in my program. I thought the coach was going to declare war!! ****, I was just trying to be diplomatic.
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I vaguely remember that. Did they actually try to sign the program? Back then that sort of interaction with a capitalist pig such as yourself would have gotten them 10 years in the gulag. I see what you were doing, not only were you a capitalist pig but you were also trying to clandestinely weaken their team. Double stick tap for you.
 
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Timothy A said:
I vaguely remember that. Did they actually try to sign the program? Back then that sort of interaction with a capitalist pig such as yourself would have gotten them 10 years in the gulag. I see what you were doing, not only were you a capitalist pig but you were also trying to clandestinely weaken their team. Double stick tap for you.
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Yes! One guy against the back glass had pulled his gloves off (I remember MrsMadCity commenting that they wear their wedding bands on the right ring fingers), and kept looking towards the coaches. He eventually kind of smiled at me and I gave him an "I understand" nod. He wanted to but was clearly afraid....as it turns out I'm happy he didin't touch the pen, because I had highly absorbant poison on it and would have sickened the entire team. USA! USA! USA!

Jeez, we're only a week without Badger hockey and we're already off the deep end.
 
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MadCityRich said:
Yes! One guy against the back glass had pulled his gloves off (I remember MrsMadCity commenting that they wear their wedding bands on the right ring fingers), and kept looking towards the coaches. He eventually kind of smiled at me and I gave him an "I understand" nod. He wanted to but was clearly afraid....as it turns out I'm happy he didin't touch the pen, because I had highly absorbant poison on it and would have sickened the entire team. USA! USA! USA!

Jeez, we're only a week without Badger hockey and we're already off the deep end.
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That is an awesome story considering the political climate at the time. Be sure that pen is in a safe place, you don't want any grandkids rifling through the end table drawer and saying "Gramdma, this pen doesn't work and I.......don't ..........feel.........BARF!"
 
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I must say I feel pretty good about the goal tending situation considering all the gnashing of teeth I and others did at the start of the season. Obviously they should still hire a goalie coach, but at least the Hammer seems to fit the part. That makes the long bridge to Grannon seem not so bad.

I would not have dreamed Miller would be leading the team in scoring at the break, though if you take Linus' ppg of 1.375 x 18 he'd be at 24 pts and be leading the team if not for the injury.
 
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I think an interesting stat to look at so far in the season is goal differential.

When looking at conference games / ALL games, in order of current conference standings
Ohio State: +8, +9
Wisconsin: +3, +6
Notre Dame: -1, +16
Michigan: -4, -3
Minnesota: +3, +1
Penn State: +1, +27
Michigan State: -10, -9

What really stands out to me is that Notre Dame and Penn State both put a lot of wood in the shed in the early NC portion of their schedules but have been pretty average in conference play so far.
 
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KaMiGo said:
I think an interesting stat to look at so far in the season is goal differential.

When looking at conference games / ALL games, in order of current conference standings
Ohio State: +8, +9
Wisconsin: +3, +6
Notre Dame: -1, +16
Michigan: -4, -3
Minnesota: +3, +1
Penn State: +1, +27
Michigan State: -10, -9

What really stands out to me is that Notre Dame and Penn State both put a lot of wood in the shed in the early NC portion of their schedules but have been pretty average in conference play so far.
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Notre Dame was +9 versus Nebraska Omaha and +7 versus Rensselaer (PWR 40th and 48th)
Penn State was +9 versus Niagra, +10 versus Robert Morris (PWR 42nd and 45th)

They played some easy opponents and scored a lot of goals against them. I think playing a tougher schedule helps more in the long run.

I can't find a schedule comparison chart, but I think Wisconsin has had one of the tougher schedules in college hockey so far this year.
 
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One other thing to mention, which is sure to set off enough conversation to keep us occupied for a few weeks...

UW is currently 2nd in the nation in average attendance per USCHO numbers.

9,222 per game

Yes, this is much lower than it could be and is only 60% of the capacity. Yes, we used to lead this number by a mile

Only NoDak is higher than us at the moment. But what else is there to do in ND in the winter?!?

Wisconsin is averaging more tickets sold per game than all but 4 teams could have in a sold out arena. We have more fans at a single game than 11 teams have had so far this year!

There are problems. Attendance is down and is trending down over the past 5-10 years. Ticket prices are too high. Concession prices are too high. Parking prices are too high. They play too much canned music. They don't do enough to get students to the game and engage with them. They don't have enough little kids skating during intermissions. The police don't coordinate traffic on Dayton St after games well enough. Some games are on TV. They don't sell beer to the commoners.

But look at the numbers compared to what other schools are putting up, especially some of the "UW should be like these guys" schools
BU is getting under 4k per game in a rink that seats over 6k
BC is getting under 4k per game in a rink that seats almost 8k
Denver is doing OK with just over 5k per game in a 6k rink

I'm sure some will say "that's all fine, but it isn't what we could be! We should be selling out the Kohl every night like when we were in the WCHA!" and I get it, that would be great. But even the other schools that were doing well back in the day are struggling. I don't know that anyone has found the magic answer to getting everyone in the seats.

The couple of schools doing really well:
Penn State - Still riding the energy of a new program in a smaller rink
Quinnipiac - Riding the wave of recent good teams, but in a rink that seats 3.1K
NoDak - nothing else to do...and a team that usually performs well
Michigan - lots of history, in a small rink
UMD - lots of energy around recent performance and a newer rink which is appropriately sized
Minnesota - getting good numbers, but even they are having troubles in the "State of Hockey"
 
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KaMiGo said:
One other thing to mention, which is sure to set off enough conversation to keep us occupied for a few weeks...

UW is currently 2nd in the nation in average attendance per USCHO numbers.

9,222 per game

Yes, this is much lower than it could be and is only 60% of the capacity. Yes, we used to lead this number by a mile

Only NoDak is higher than us at the moment. But what else is there to do in ND in the winter?!?

Wisconsin is averaging more tickets sold per game than all but 4 teams could have in a sold out arena. We have more fans at a single game than 11 teams have had so far this year!

There are problems. Attendance is down and is trending down over the past 5-10 years. Ticket prices are too high. Concession prices are too high. Parking prices are too high. They play too much canned music. They don't do enough to get students to the game and engage with them. They don't have enough little kids skating during intermissions. The police don't coordinate traffic on Dayton St after games well enough. Some games are on TV. They don't sell beer to the commoners.

But look at the numbers compared to what other schools are putting up, especially some of the "UW should be like these guys" schools
BU is getting under 4k per game in a rink that seats over 6k
BC is getting under 4k per game in a rink that seats almost 8k
Denver is doing OK with just over 5k per game in a 6k rink

I'm sure some will say "that's all fine, but it isn't what we could be! We should be selling out the Kohl every night like when we were in the WCHA!" and I get it, that would be great. But even the other schools that were doing well back in the day are struggling. I don't know that anyone has found the magic answer to getting everyone in the seats.

The couple of schools doing really well:
Penn State - Still riding the energy of a new program in a smaller rink
Quinnipiac - Riding the wave of recent good teams, but in a rink that seats 3.1K
NoDak - nothing else to do...and a team that usually performs well
Michigan - lots of history, in a small rink
UMD - lots of energy around recent performance and a newer rink which is appropriately sized
Minnesota - getting good numbers, but even they are having troubles in the "State of Hockey"
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You are certainly partly right about Nodak when you say there is nothing else to do there, but that isn't quite fair. First of all, they don't have much population to work with. Also, they've been passionate about their hockey in GF for a long, long time. People have plenty do do in cities all across the country, but Sioux/Hawks fans show up for away games not because they are all flying out of GF but because they live close by and love the game and Sioux hockey enough to go whenever possible. In some respects, GF is just a larger version of those towns along Hwy 11 in Mn like Roseau, Baudette, and Warroad.

That said, I've always thought Madison showed a real passion for hockey in the 30 years I've live in WI. The Engelstadt rinks have always been packed, and the old one was particularly intense, but the Dane and KC (before the recent trend) was as rollicking fun as any venue I've been at. I would have thought being in a conference with rivals like Minnie, Michigan, OSU would bring back those days. The availability of high quality streaming coverage might make that impossible, though.
 
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Just here to send some Christmas Cheer to my biggest rival U of Wisconsin, may Santa bring you coal! Love MN
 
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Call It said:
Just here to send some Christmas Cheer to my biggest rival U of Wisconsin, may Santa bring you coal! Love MN
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Where is gopher fan and what have you done with him?

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Those attendance figures at Kohl are SOLD tickets, not asses in seats. There's an element here that has tickets and doesn't show up.
 
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