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Wisconsin Hockey 24-25 Improving With All Due Haste.

Jeepers, where did all these Gretzky shots come from? Plus they hit two posts and Tassy missed open net. Nice 1st period.
 
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A win's a win in an entertaining game between two not so good teams. These two are clearly the bottom of the league this year.
 
Why does Dexheimer leave his guy to take the puck carrier that Horbach already is covering? This leave a guy wide open for a tap in. Just a stupid play by an experienced defenseman. His play has not impressed me this year.
 
This team just does not know how to play together. All year. Bunch of individuals that happen to wear the same sweater.

Hastings can not afford to turn his roster over each year due to portal in search of offense. Not going to work. Guys need to stay.
 
The lack of discipline with this team is stunning, and there seems to be no repercussions for it. Hastings is responsible for this. I was solidly in his corner, but nothing has improved this year. This must markedly improve next year. I just wish I saw them building something now to start with next year.
 
Has the creation of the portal made it impossible to hold players accountable for bad play? Players can now just bail if the don't like how theyve been treated.
 
Lack of discipline is on the coaches. That can be coached out of players or they should ride the pines if they can’t or won’t or learn. I’m pretty surprised at the play/lack of discipline of this team given Hastings reputation.

…re portal…The portal is an issue for all coaches yet Denver, BC, BU and just keep rolling generally. Why is Wisconsin the school that doesn’t overcome the challenges?
 
The portal can be used as leverage by players. If you sit me, I will go. When teams are riding high, that's less of a threat since you can fill that spot as players may be lining up to go to the places you mention. Unfortunately, as you have detailed, at this point we aren't a highly regarded destination, and keeping players from jumping into the portal is more critical, and thus could lead to placating mediocrity.
 
Twice this year I have left before they played varsity. Never thought I would get to that point.

Hastings is at his best when he can develop players for 4 years and I don't see how that can happen with the portal.

Mrs and I decided a month ago to cancel our season tickets, not because of the state of college hockey, but because of the fact that we know we can go to a game any time we want to because the place will just never be full.

Tonight, and the Saturday Penn State game, were just abysmal hockey.

I LOVE Wisconsin hockey, but.... man... this was an awful experience at the Kohl Center.
 
GoBucky18 said:
Embarassed on home ice on senior night. This program has a very long way to go.
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Radio crew ran some interesting numbers in the post game show.

Wisconsin has scored 2 or fewer goals in 20 games this year. Their record is 1-17-2 in those games.

Our goaltenders have the worst save percentage in the conference and one of the worst in all of D1 hockey.

Pretty much reiterates what was said here that depth scoring and goaltender quality needs improvement.
 
digitalbooya said:
Radio crew ran some interesting numbers in the post game show.

Wisconsin has scored 2 or fewer goals in 20 games this year. Their record is 1-17-2 in those games.

Our goaltenders have the worst save percentage in the conference and one of the worst in all of D1 hockey.

Pretty much reiterates what was said here that depth scoring and goaltender quality needs improvement.
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Kinda underscores if Finley leaves that’s a death blow to next season.
 
digitalbooya said:
Radio crew ran some interesting numbers in the post game show.

Wisconsin has scored 2 or fewer goals in 20 games this year. Their record is 1-17-2 in those games.

Our goaltenders have the worst save percentage in the conference and one of the worst in all of D1 hockey.

Pretty much reiterates what was said here that depth scoring and goaltender quality needs improvement.
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Was Cujo going to stop any of those goals last night? I don't think so. Maybe he should have poke checked the last one. Losing Laatsch 12 games /Schulz 9 games / Palodichuck 9 games and replacing them with Phelan/Knox/Horbach is an impossible task. Hensler missed 5 games and Kehrer 2. And on top of it Dexheimer had bad lapses that he never should have had that cost them.

Goal scoring. Losing Lucius was big, but he missed the whole first half of the season anyway and then when he came back he didn't do much, 7 pts in 14 games. He was a good fit here. Whitelaw had 14 points in 31 games, about the same as he had with us last year. Stange had 27 pts and Urdahl 19 and they missed 3 games total for UNO. They were replaced with transfers Mosley 35 pts, Kukkonen 17 pts, Laskosky 9 Pts. Fr Morrissey 22 pts, Botterill 7 pts, Mehlenbacher 4 pts. Pietila 2 pts, Buss 0 pts. You could say Mosley replaced Lucius and Kukkonen replaced Whitelaw. I can by that. The problem is no one replaced Stile 32pts , MdSP 27 pts, or Bantle 19 pts. I would have liked to see Stange and Udahl stay that could have filled some of that loss. Then you didn't need Laskosky and Buss. That's a bad trade there.

Who underperformed? Jr's Fitzgerald 15 pts Dyck 12 pts, Tassy 10 pts. Laskosky. Dyck just doesn't have it. Laskosky was a bust averaged over a pt a game at RIT. .36 this year. Tassy's pts/game are half of last year. Fitzgerlad's pts/game was half of his fr year. I was expecting more out of Botterill as well, but him being a Fr I'll let that go and hope for the better. Pietila was skating penalty.

They had 5 holes to fill at F and only 3 guys stepped up, 3 guys regressed, 1 guy went nowhere and one was a bust. If Fitz, Tassy and Laskosky just played up to their best previous numbers, it's a different story.

Scarfone was not McClennan, but he was good enough. Gramme fell off the face of the earth apparently or they would have played him. Castro may not be an every day D1 player.

Obviously the coaches could not have planned for the regressions/busts at F and the D injuries. In the end it was a mess. The O could not overcome the bad D and the D could not overcome the bad O. When you can't hang your hat on either phase of the game, you are screwed.
 
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