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Wisconsin Hockey 23-24: Hastily Making Wisconsin Hockey Great Again

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The trend line has been bad for the last two months. Team ran out of gas or lost the plot in early January and is currently indistinguishable from last year's team.

Awful effort today and zero sense of urgency.

That said, maybe with some time off they can go back to the drawing board and rediscover whatever they had going in the fall.

Unlikely to flip the switch back on tho considering the trajectory and length of the slide.

But at least we'll be in the NCAAs, which is a good step for a first season under a new coach.


Meh
 
I didn't see the game but doesn't sound very good. Up... and down... and up.. and down!

Maybe they will be up for a game or two in the tourney. They can beat anyone. And also apparently lose to almost anyone. Should be interesting at least to see what shows up for the tourney.
 
Well that was awful. 7-7-1 last fifteen games. Like others I didn’t expect this team to stumble down the stretch. Based on how they played off bye weeks this year they likely lose in the first round.

Good year either way but Hastings and staff has more work to do to complete the turn around.
 
GoBucky18 said:
Clearly Rohlik knows what he is doing and can adapt. Dissappointing that Bucky could not. McClellan gave up 6 goals over 3 games. Certainly not on him.

They just have zero offensive zone production. Zero.

Now going to be at most a 3 seed going into the tourney...with 2 weeks off.
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Curious to get opinions, what do you attribute as being the cause of the drop of offense? Seems like looking at box scores, Lucius, Silye, and De St. Phalle have been ok, but who was driving the O earlier that is no longer productive? I've really only been able to watch when you played us, and it's been a bit shocking even to me to see how far the offense has fallen off.
 
StateofHockey78 said:
Curious to get opinions, what do you attribute as being the cause of the drop of offense? Seems like looking at box scores, Lucius, Silye, and De St. Phalle have been ok, but who was driving the O earlier that is no longer productive? I've really only been able to watch when you played us, and it's been a bit shocking even to me to see how far the offense has fallen off.
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I think that the injuries really exposed the lack of depth that the team had overall and the different rates and levels of buy-in that players had to the system that the staff was implementing.

It was also clear that this team wasn’t ready to handle this seasons early success. The expectations really seemed to cause many (most?) of the players to tighten up once the team began to struggle and overall execution suffered (really noticeable with passing and in transition) and inhibited creativity and improvisation. Thus the offensive struggles while the defense didn’t fall off (except the PK) as much.

Overall, this team isn’t as bad as some make it out to be. The program is still a work in progress and I think that we will see improved consistency next season where the struggles of this season will pay dividends in experience next season.
 
Almington said:
I think that the injuries really exposed the lack of depth that the team had overall and the different rates and levels of buy-in that players had to the system that the staff was implementing.

It was also clear that this team wasn’t ready to handle this seasons early success. The expectations really seemed to cause many (most?) of the players to tighten up once the team began to struggle and overall execution suffered (really noticeable with passing and in transition) and inhibited creativity and improvisation. Thus the offensive struggles while the defense didn’t fall off (except the PK) as much.

Overall, this team isn’t as bad as some make it out to be. The program is still a work in progress and I think that we will see improved consistency next season where the struggles of this season will pay dividends in experience next season.
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Appreciate the thoughtful insight. Not that all coaching transitions are the same, but looking at the experiences here in MN, the last two times we had coaching changes you really start to see what the individual coaches brings to the program once they get a season or two of picking their own players based on what they think the program needs to compete. Based on the track record and the ability to take a pretty bad team last year and put something together that was competitive beyond expectations is a great start. And you just never know they might win a game or more in the NCAA which would be a super result to get that experience you mentioned.
 
Almington said:
I think that the injuries really exposed the lack of depth that the team had overall and the different rates and levels of buy-in that players had to the system that the staff was implementing.

It was also clear that this team wasn’t ready to handle this seasons early success. The expectations really seemed to cause many (most?) of the players to tighten up once the team began to struggle and overall execution suffered (really noticeable with passing and in transition) and inhibited creativity and improvisation. Thus the offensive struggles while the defense didn’t fall off (except the PK) as much.

Overall, this team isn’t as bad as some make it out to be. The program is still a work in progress and I think that we will see improved consistency next season where the struggles of this season will pay dividends in experience next season.
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Good to hear from Almington, the voice of reason. I think wearing down and injuries have really hurt the progress. They've been at 6 D most of the second half of the season.

I think year 2 should see continued improvement, like you said. Every freshman was a Granato recruit, I believe, so as they transition to the players they are targeting for their systems, things should get better.
 
Well I don't think anyone is jumping off buildings or anything.

It's okay to be disappointed with the on-ice product from this past weekend. There were great crowds there and the team laid an egg both in effort and results.

Building a program and winning championships is generally a process with incremental steps. The 06 team took a few seasons to get there and part of that was transitioning away from the players that were maybe not buying in 100% to the new culture/direction.

The other part was learning how to overcome adversity and also losing some key games and learning from those experiences.

In all honesty, the expectations thing is on us as fans too as we got out over our skies after this season's early success.

Silver lining... great thing about hockey in a one-and-done format though is just get there and crazy shit can happen. Very much looking forward to seeing a tourney game with the Badgers in it - better not be on freaking Peacock. :(

This has been a really good season and I'm optimistic for the future - looking forward to Hastings getting his players in.

Trust the process.
 
Weekend recap: Big7 1[SUP]st[/SUP] Round OSU – Lost 1-3 Friday, Won 4-2 Saturday and Lost 1-3 Sunday
Record: 26-11-2 overall (14-5-3-2 50 pts), 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] in Big7; Prev Wk: (2[SUP]nd[/SUP]), (n/c)
USCHO Poll: 9[SUP]th[/SUP] (0 of 50 first place votes); Prev Wk: 5[SUP]th[/SUP] (0 of 50 first place votes) (-4)
PWR: 9[SUP]th[/SUP] of 64; Prev Wk: 6[SUP]th[/SUP] (-3)
RPI: 9[SUP]th[/SUP] of 64; Prev Wk: 6[SUP]th[/SUP] (-3)
Scoring: 3.23 GPG, 17[SUP]th[/SUP]; Prev Wk: 3.35 GPG, 13[SUP]th[/SUP] (-4)
Defense: 2.00 GAPG, 3[SUP]rd[/SUP]; Prev Wk: 1.88 GAPG, 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] (-1)
Save %: .929, 1[SUP]st[/SUP]; Prev Wk: .933, 1[SUP]st[/SUP] (n/c)
Power Play Rate: 19.87% (30 of 151), 32[SUP]nd[/SUP]; Prev Wk: 19.12% (26 of 136), 34[SUP]th[/SUP] (+2)
Penalty Kill Rate: 86.78% (105 of 121), 2[SUP]nd[/SUP]; Prev Wk: 88.89% (96 of 108), 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] (n/c)
Penalty Min per Game: 10.36 (34[SUP]th[/SUP]) (1st is worst); Prev Wk: 11.00 (31[SUP]st[/SUP]) (+3)
Penalty Min: 404, Prev Wk: 374
Shorthanded Goals Scored; 2, T-40[SUP]th[/SUP]; Prev Wk: 2, T-36[SUP]th[/SUP]; (-4)
Shorthanded Goals Allowed: 2, T-36[SUP]th[/SUP] (1[SUP]st[/SUP] is worst); Prev Wk: 2, T-35[SUP]th[/SUP] (+1)
Team Faceoff: 54.9%, 3[SUP]rd[/SUP]; Prev Wk: 54.9%, 3[SUP]rd[/SUP] (n/c)
SOG taken: 1368 (2[SUP]nd[/SUP]); Prev Wk 1186 (3[SUP]rd[/SUP]) (+1)
SOG allowed: 1096 (19[SUP]th[/SUP]) (1[SUP]st[/SUP] is worst); Prev Wk: 956 (29[SUP]th[/SUP]) (-10)

**comparisons above are 2 weeks old

Attendance final: 21 dates, 10,059/game, 211,233 total, 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] to Nodak.

Next Game NCAA playoffs TBD
 
Some Perspective in Comparison to 1 year ago:

Record: 26-11-2 overall, 2022 - 23: 13-23-0 (+13 wins)
Scoring: 3.2 GPG, 17[SUP]th[/SUP]; 2022 - 23: 2.6 GPG, T-37[SUP]th[/SUP] (+20)
Defense: 2.0 GAPG, 3[SUP]rd[/SUP]; 2022 - 23: 3.5 GAPG, T-53[SUP]rd[/SUP] (+50)
Save %: .929, 1[SUP]st[/SUP]; 2022 - 23: .890, 51[SUP]st[/SUP] (+50)
Power Play Rate: 19.9% 32[SUP]nd[/SUP]; 2022 - 23: 21.2% 19[SUP]th[/SUP] (-13)
Penalty Kill Rate: 86.8% 2[SUP]nd[/SUP]; 2022 - 23: 78.9% 41[SUP]st[/SUP] (+39)
Penalty Min per Game: 10.36 (34[SUP]th[/SUP]) (1st is worst); 2022 - 23: 12.1 (15[SUP]th[/SUP]) (+29)
Penalty Min: 404 (24[SUP]th[/SUP]) (1st is worst), 2022 - 23: 436 (16[SUP]th[/SUP]) (+8)
Shorthanded Goals Scored; 2, T-40[SUP]th[/SUP]; 2022 - 23: 4, T-14[SUP]th[/SUP]; (-26)
Shorthanded Goals Allowed: 2, T-36[SUP]th[/SUP] (1[SUP]st[/SUP] is worst); 2022 - 23: 3, T-27[SUP]th[/SUP] (+9)
Team Faceoff: 54.9%, 3[SUP]rd[/SUP]; 2022 - 23: 53.0%, T-12[SUP]th[/SUP] (+9)
SOG taken: 1368 (2[SUP]nd[/SUP]); 2022 - 23: 1164 (17[SUP]th[/SUP]) (+15)
SOG allowed: 1096 (19[SUP]th[/SUP]) (1[SUP]st[/SUP] is worst); 2022 - 23: 1146 (21[SUP]st[/SUP]) (-2)

Attendance final: 10,059/game, 211,233 total; 2022 – 23: 7,855/game, 157,108 total (+2,204/game) Approximate revenue increase 54,125 @ $20 = $1,082,500
 
WiscTJK said:
Some Perspective in Comparison to 1 year ago:

Record: 26-11-2 overall, 2022 - 23: 13-23-0 (+13 wins)
Scoring: 3.2 GPG, 17[SUP]th[/SUP]; 2022 - 23: 2.6 GPG, T-37[SUP]th[/SUP] (+20)
Defense: 2.0 GAPG, 3[SUP]rd[/SUP]; 2022 - 23: 3.5 GAPG, T-53[SUP]rd[/SUP] (+50)
Save %: .929, 1[SUP]st[/SUP]; 2022 - 23: .890, 51[SUP]st[/SUP] (+50)
Power Play Rate: 19.9% 32[SUP]nd[/SUP]; 2022 - 23: 21.2% 19[SUP]th[/SUP] (-13)
Penalty Kill Rate: 86.8% 2[SUP]nd[/SUP]; 2022 - 23: 78.9% 41[SUP]st[/SUP] (+39)
Penalty Min per Game: 10.36 (34[SUP]th[/SUP]) (1st is worst); 2022 - 23: 12.1 (15[SUP]th[/SUP]) (+29)
Penalty Min: 404 (24[SUP]th[/SUP]) (1st is worst), 2022 - 23: 436 (16[SUP]th[/SUP]) (+8)
Shorthanded Goals Scored; 2, T-40[SUP]th[/SUP]; 2022 - 23: 4, T-14[SUP]th[/SUP]; (-26)
Shorthanded Goals Allowed: 2, T-36[SUP]th[/SUP] (1[SUP]st[/SUP] is worst); 2022 - 23: 3, T-27[SUP]th[/SUP] (+9)
Team Faceoff: 54.9%, 3[SUP]rd[/SUP]; 2022 - 23: 53.0%, T-12[SUP]th[/SUP] (+9)
SOG taken: 1368 (2[SUP]nd[/SUP]); 2022 - 23: 1164 (17[SUP]th[/SUP]) (+15)
SOG allowed: 1096 (19[SUP]th[/SUP]) (1[SUP]st[/SUP] is worst); 2022 - 23: 1146 (21[SUP]st[/SUP]) (-2)

Attendance final: 10,059/game, 211,233 total; 2022 – 23: 7,855/game, 157,108 total (+2,204/game) Approximate revenue increase 54,125 @ $20 = $1,082,500
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The above really illustrates just how big the impact has already been from Hastings and his transfers defensively. I would also gladly take a 19-20% PP with 90% kill rate any day. By comparison, MN has been around 22-25% much of the season, but an atrocious below 80% kill rate. Not sure what the standard is today, but they used to say if your PP/PK sum was above 100 you were doing ok at the college level. Above 110 should be considered very strong. Sky is the limit if he can get the right players recruited. Not sure how WI fans feel, but IMO, at minimum you're not going to have bottom feeder seasons under Hastings watch often if ever.
 
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