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WISCONSIN Hockey Vol. 22 - Let's not have another cheesy thread title... Wait, What?

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Almington said:
It will be a long time as long as UW is willing to settle for average results while paying for excellence.

May only be 5 or so who have proven themselves at this level, but that doesn't mean that you can't find the next up and coming coach. Find me a coach who has results that exceed his teams talent level and see what he can do with the resources of a big ten program behind him.

It's much harder to find a good leader and culture builder than it is to find a good Xs and Os hockey coach.
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agree on all points
 
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Brenthoven said:
Some of us are trying. And some others are running with it. We can only hope. So manly he has TWOCOX! (and with the gif.....it could happen)
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So, if MN get to the FF and he ****es his pants are you going to call him peacox ?:)
 
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Gurtholfin said:
This is a bad team. Poorly coached. Short on talent. Undisciplined. No heart. All on display tonight.

This team fails time and again to execute the most basic of plays that even a bantam team should be able to do.

- skating with the puck and losing the puck while unchallenged
- flubbed pass and shot attempts, again while unchallenged
- passes to open team mates that are in the feet or behind the skater
- passes directly to opponents
- losing the puck at our own blue line and failing to get the puck out
- failing to get the puck deep and allowing transition

In addition...

We lost board battle after board battle. This is an area where talent isn't so much of an issue. Comes down to will and focus. Both are lacking.

As has been the case in the past couple of years, we're making passes and/or passing into traffic when shots are available.

The power play is still awful. The five on three tonight where it looked like we had all the time in the world to stand around was very impressive.

How many times can a player fall down or lose an edge when no one is near him? One of them cost us a goal.

Had at least 4 or 5 shots tonight that were blocked right at the point and allowed the Gophers to attack immediately in transition. You CANNOT TAKE THOSE SHOTS!

The first two goals should normally be saved. Rumpel had a good game, but the Gophers missed at least 3 or 4 gimmes. This game should have been a blowout.

Rammage's whiffed hip-check was a stupid play. You cannot take that risk at that point. By missing, he assured that his momentum would carry him far from the play. Definitely not a thinking man's player.

Simonelli's knee penalty when we're trying to tie the game was the brain fart equivalent of sharting. Dumb, dumb, dumb.


Very poorly put together team and very poorly coached. There also appears to be zero leadership from any of the individual players.

Of course, all will be cured when Zengerle returns and when we get a new assistant coach and when we don't have a player suspended by the NCAA and when we don't have two early season bye weeks and when we can practice on an appropriately sized ice surface and when we can put some horses in the barn and when monkeys swing from the hemorrhoids hanging from my butthole.
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The hemorrhoids part you can cure, Gurt.
 
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Almington said:
The only way that this is fixed is when SOMEONE displays some leadership and manages to convert this group of alleged elite level hockey players into an actual funtioning hockey team. It takes an exceptional individual effort to constantly perform when you are effectively playing 5 on 1 and 1 and 1 and 1 and 1 and not 5 on 5. I bet that if these players started to actually play AS A SINGLE unit on the ice they would suddenly appear to become much more talented.

You know why BC, UMI, UND, DU and UMN seem to win year in and year out and always have plenty of talent? They are an actual team built with the purpose of elevating the play of each individual by having them work in synergy to achieve more than just the sum of their parts would suggest and not simply a collection of the best parts available that are thrown together in whichever way they fit.. A Ferrari is just a collection of expensive parts until they are properly assembled into this amazing mechanical device, provided that you have all the correct parts.

UW Hockey has not had a true leader of men behind the bench since Badger Bob left the program, and isn't going to return to consistent greatness until they once again put that type of man behind the bench again. If you want to be a great organization, the first thing you have to do is get the right people in the right places before you need to worry about anything else.
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It is almost painful to watch how inconsolable some of you Badger fans are, but then I remember that prior to last year, Minnesota had missed the tournament 3 straight years (almost 4 straight except that magical run at the end of the '07-'08 season in the Final Five that got them in, before they were dismantled by BC). The Gophers are finally starting to get back to where they belong, but to put them in the same category with UND, DU, Michigan, and BC at this point over the past 5 years or so is a little disingenuous.
 
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DU scored 12 goals this weekend in 2 games. UW has 14 goals in 8 games....
 
HoosierBBall_GopherHockey said:
It is almost painful to watch how inconsolable some of you Badger fans are, but then I remember that prior to last year, Minnesota had missed the tournament 3 straight years (almost 4 straight except that magical run at the end of the '07-'08 season in the Final Five that got them in, before they were dismantled by BC). The Gophers are finally starting to get back to where they belong, but to put them in the same category with UND, DU, Michigan, and BC at this point over the past 5 years or so is a little disingenuous.
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Over the last 10 years UW has ZERO regular season titles (and zero second place finishes) and zero final five titles (no champ game appearances), all the teams mentioned have multiple of both over the last 10 years. Not to mention the years of missing home ice, or the final five, or the NCAA tournament.
 
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Almington said:
Over the last 10 years UW has ZERO regular season titles (and zero second place finishes) and zero final five titles (no champ game appearances), all the teams mentioned have multiple of both over the last 10 years. Not to mention the years of missing home ice, or the final five, or the NCAA tournament.
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you have to give them credit, when they got 4 home games in the NCAA's, they took advantage of it.
 
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Happy said:
you have to give them credit, when they got 4 home games in the NCAA's, they took advantage of it.
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Yeah, that was something. How'd you guys do that year?
 
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You did too against Maine in St Paul. You don't win without the home ice.
 
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state of hockey said:
*cough* 2003 *cough*

But whatever, I always felt that this argument is stupid. Textbook darned if you do, darned if you don't situation.
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I don't care if the Gophers win the next 14 championships that are held in St. Paul/Minnesota. The fact that they are still able to win them is all that matters to me. Plus by that time, 19 > 7. :D;)
 
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Happy said:
you have to give them credit, when they got 4 home games in the NCAA's, they took advantage of it.
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If only we had that kind of luck and circumstance for the conference tournament, we'd have more hardware in that department...
 
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Happy said:
you have to give them credit, when they got 4 home games in the NCAA's, they took advantage of it.
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be clear about what you're saying. in 2006 Wisconsin wasn't the best team in the country? I think you'll have a **** tough time backing that argument up but be my guest.
 
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Almington said:
Over the last 10 years UW has ZERO regular season titles (and zero second place finishes) and zero final five titles (no champ game appearances), all the teams mentioned have multiple of both over the last 10 years. Not to mention the years of missing home ice, or the final five, or the NCAA tournament.
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But on the bright side, by losing 3 pts. this weekend, and not saying anything mean about his hair, Wisconsin didn't get placed on Don's dreaded "Unhealthy Rivalry" list. So you got that going for you. :p
 
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It is interesting to see the reaction here, but not all that suprising as I think the fan base has every right to be asking questions at this point. I find it a bit premature to call for Eaves head after a weekend in Minneapolis. The fact that we somehow stole a point Friday boggles my mind considering by the time that game ended, we were minus 4 of our top forwards in Barnes, Zengerle, Kerdelies, & Labate and spent a crazy amount of time on the PK. Even Saturday we were in the game late into the 3rd period. While I'm not a fan of moral victories, 2 highly competitive performances against not exactly a bad team on the road does not have me easing toward the ledge. Northern Michigan and UMD performances...much moreso.

I think expectation may have gotten just a little out of hand...which that happens with every sport in the offseason when you are looking at things on paper before games actually start getting played. I don't think it is all that rational to look at a pretty mediocre team that was essentially .500 last year and added no one as a frosh that I would consider an elite gamebreaker (Kredilies is probably that type of guy but he isn't playing) that elevates mediocre into even really good right out of the gate by virtue of not much more then they are all a year older....especially losing argueably the best player in college hockey in the process (who just happens to lead the AHL in scoring in a year that because of the strike is absolutely loaded). Minnesota was a really good team last year (won 28 games), didn't lose much, and added some pretty good frosh and should be beating Wisconsin at home at this point...and honestly probably more convincingly all be it with the caveot that rivalry games tend to be closer then where the teams are relative to each other.

For me the test will be, does this team develop in season as the key missing pieces get back into the lineup and the team has a chance to play some together. Way to early for me to the hit the eject button, even if I am concerned.
 
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Happy said:
you have to give them credit, when they got 4 home games in the NCAA's, they took advantage of it.
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I preface this keeping in mind that Badger fans are collectively angry about the current state of the program, defensive of the lone Eaves' title in '06 and that your post probably was only half-serious. With that said, it's comical that a Gopher fan would call out a Badger championship for being played in state. What other school has benefitted more from playing (or potentially play) tournament games in-state and usually within a few miles of campus? I'm not saying that it diminishes all or any of the won WCHA and NCAA titles, but gimme a break pointing out when someone else does it.

Not that I know for sure, but I'd be shocked if Milwaukee was ever seriously considered as a venue for the WCHA Frozen Five or the upcoming Big Ten Final Fours.
 
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Badger Booster said:
Not that I know for sure, but I'd be shocked if Milwaukee was ever seriously considered as a venue for the WCHA Frozen Five or the upcoming Big Ten Final Fours.
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I believe they're gonna be Final Sixes
 
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