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Wisconsin Hockey: Vol. XX - Growth Through Experience

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Timothy A said:
Do you always cry about scholarship numbers when you lose to a scholarship laden team? Let me guess, then when you beat a scholarship laden team, you get all wound up about how it's so great your David beat Goliath. You must know the old Chinese proverb "don't bring a knife to a gun fight". Hey, I like being the underdog too, but be the underdog with class.
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I wasn't crying, merely pointing out that you guys shouldn't get too heady about beating us and to insult us and call us bad is completely unnecessary and disrespectful to what we have accomplished.

And of course we get excited when we beat ranked teams. What unranked team doesn't? I'm sure when you are constantly ranked, playing in an awesome conference, and being a perennial tournament team it's easy to be jaded to things like beating #10 and #16 in a weekend, but for a team like us that is a huge deal, and also a big driving force between the surprisingly impressive recruiting we manage to pull off without scholarships.
 
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Chuck Schwartz said:
The game was not boring, in fact it was very fun to watch. I don't know where the questionable hits came into play. Dahl was the one who was hit against the boards, so I'm not sure if you're trying to blame him for getting hit? I'm confused?
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I myself wasn't saying it was boring, I was responding to your boy Gurtholfin's previous post about how he thought the game was boring.

Anyways, I didnt realize Dahl didnt make the original hit on the RIT player that started everything, I see where your confused.
 
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RIT Winters said:
I wasn't crying, merely pointing out that you guys shouldn't get too heady about beating us and to insult us and call us bad is completely unnecessary and disrespectful to what we have accomplished.

And of course we get excited when we beat ranked teams. What unranked team doesn't? I'm sure when you are constantly ranked, playing in an awesome conference, and being a perennial tournament team it's easy to be jaded to things like beating #10 and #16 in a weekend, but for a team like us that is a huge deal, and also a big driving force between the surprisingly impressive recruiting we manage to pull off without <strike>scholarships</strike> "special financial aid" to our friends north of the border.
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What is really amazing (and/or ironic) here is that the above post could have been written by a Manhattanville, Neumann, or Utica fan 7 years ago, responding to an RIT fan when RIT was (or at least thought they were) a Big Dog in D-III. The RIT fans were some of the most confident ;) fans in all of D-III. (Some of them could be brutal to the "lesser" teams and their fans.....but then that is part of the fun of this medium of social interaction, aye? :p )
 
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UCBadger said:
What is really amazing (and/or ironic) here is that the above post could have been written by a Manhattanville, Neumann, or Utica fan 7 years ago, responding to an RIT fan when RIT was (or at least thought they were) a Big Dog in D-III. The RIT fans were some of the most confident ;) fans in all of D-III. (Some of them could be brutal to the "lesser" teams and their fans.....but then that is part of the fun of this medium of social interaction, aye? :p )
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Well, I wasn't even accepted into RIT 7 years ago so I cannot speak to attitudes back then. It sort of speaks to the being jaded thing I mentioned before. Once you become accustomed to winning and being a top team year and year out, it's easy to laugh off the lesser teams and call them ****. When you are one of those lesser teams, it's a different situation.

Although, in D3 there's a lot less (none?) scholarships, so it's a theoretically more even playing field. The team with 12-14 essentially paid players should always be better than the team with none. Hopefully RIT gets to the D1 level across the board some day so that we can do the same, but in the meantime we're more or less stuck with whoever teams like Wisconsin don't pick up.
 
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UCBadger said:
What is really amazing (and/or ironic) here is that the above post could have been written by a Manhattanville, Neumann, or Utica fan 7 years ago, responding to an RIT fan when RIT was (or at least thought they were) a Big Dog in D-III. The RIT fans were some of the most confident ;) fans in all of D-III. (Some of them could be brutal to the "lesser" teams and their fans.....but then that is part of the fun of this medium of social interaction, aye? :p )
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IMO, thats just college hockey for you. Fans are obnoxious and thats just the way it is. Show me a fanbase that isnt loud, rude, rowdy and vulgar and I'll show you a team thats never won much of anything.
I thought last night was a very fun game to watch. It had plenty of scoring, hard hits, power plays, great saves by goalies, lots of puck movement. Not sure what more you could ask for.
Im sorry that the RIT players felt they needed to resort to cheap shots in order to compete with the Badgers but thats cool. I found it quite amusing, actually. Thanks for trying, RIT..
 
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For the Whisky fans, are there any on-line broadcast of your games or are they just shown on BTN?
 
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StimulisRK said:
I myself wasn't saying it was boring, I was responding to your boy Gurtholfin's previous post about how he thought the game was boring.

Anyways, I didnt realize Dahl didnt make the original hit on the RIT player that started everything, I see where your confused.
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The Badgers were going through the motions for 2/3rds of that game and allowing an inferior opponent to stay close. When my team clearly doesn't care about the game, it makes it hard(er) for me to get too invested. Therefore, I was bored.

To your second point, what difference does it make if Dahl was involved in the collision behind the net or not? It wasn't cheap or even a penalty. There was nothing there worthy of your player retaliating over. Are you saying that boarding Dahl would have been justified had he been the one behind the net? :confused:
 
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Chuck Schwartz said:
The game was not boring, in fact it was very fun to watch. I don't know where the questionable hits came into play. Dahl was the one who was hit against the boards, so I'm not sure if you're trying to blame him for getting hit? I'm confused?
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The RIT player (Knowles) who hit Dahl was closelined by McCabe and took exception to that. Make that call and none of the rest happens.
 
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When my team clearly doesn't care about the game, it makes it hard(er) for me to get too invested. Therefore, I was bored.
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That's quite unfortunate that your team doesn't care about a game that they're playing just because they feel they're superior to the team that's on the ice with them. Thank god I go to a school where the fans and players are always in the game and caring about what happens.
 
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Chris Lerch said:
The RIT player (Knowles) who hit Dahl was closelined by McCabe and took exception to that. Make that call and none of the rest happens.
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did you see this play or are you responding to what you heard on the radio?

the little guy took a run at McCabe and leaped off his skates to do it. McCabe had his hands/stick at chest level and didn't extend he just sorta let the little ant glance off of him. no penalty, no chance of a call, McCabe did nothing wrong. if anything the little guy should have been penalized for charging or whatever you call when a guy leaves his feet and leaps at an opponent

good grief
 
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+1, Solo, Gurt, Chuck. They are just made they got curb stomped.
 
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Chris Lerch said:
I was there - in the pressbox with the benefits of multiple replay angles.
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please respond to this part "the little guy took a run at McCabe and leaped off his skates to do it. McCabe had his hands/stick at chest level and didn't extend he just sorta let the little ant glance off of him. no penalty, no chance of a call, McCabe did nothing wrong. if anything the little guy should have been penalized for charging or whatever you call when a guy leaves his feet and leaps at an opponent"

that's what I saw on the multiple B10 replays...there was nothing to get upset about for that little guy, maybe embarrassment that he leaped up to hit McCabe and bounced off like he'd been jettisoned at light speed from the millenium falcon...but to board another played, not McCabe ANOTHER player altogether says this guy was just ****ed at losing, has small man syndrome, etc

if McDonagh were on the ice at that moment there's be 14 of those little guys running around when he'd be through with him!
 
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Chris Lerch said:
The RIT player (Knowles) who hit Dahl was closelined by McCabe and took exception to that. Make that call and none of the rest happens.
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Like I said to you on twitter, McCabe had the puck. Knowles was the one who was the aggressor and jumped at McCabe to make the hit. In an attempt to not get his head taken off, McCabe tried to avoid the check and Knowles took the worst of it despite jumping into him.

Pretty tough for a player carrying the puck to purposely clothesline someone. :rolleyes:
 
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Ehh it looked more like Knowles jumped to avoid a hit to his head.

Either way, the refs called a lot of the refs calls were bias and gave the badgers momentum. I'm specifically referring to that "trip" where you scored your second goal on the following PP and took off from there.

Still a fun game to watch, and besides a few lapses in defensive positioning, I don't feel that the all-might badgers out played as much.
 
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lmg6841 said:
Ehh it looked more like Knowles jumped to avoid a hit to his head.
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Knowles jumped to avoid a hit to his own head? He was the one trying to initiate contact as McCabe had the puck. McCabe was trying to avoid the hit but clipped Knowles because he jumped into him.
 
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Anyways, a question for all my Badger buds; are your games streamed online anywhere when they're not on BTN? Or you just have to go to the game to see it?
 
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All I'm going to say is that last night's game was enjoyable to watch. The reason Wisconsin won, imho, is because they were more talented. I was especially proud of how RIT made a bit of a comeback. I believe had they converted on the power play - they would have at least got a point out of the game if not the victory.

It's a shame that a melee like that had to marr it.
 
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