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Wisconsin Hockey Vol. XXXII: No Where To Go But Up!

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oldicecoach said:
Don’t you think 3 ½ years practicing with, playing against and being coached at D1 would have overcome any early departure drawbacks by now?

Some players develop their physical size and athletic skills early and we anticipate they will continue to develop at that same pace. Navin is one of those players, his point production has been very stable over 4 years at UW and I don’t think a year in the USHL would have changed him into an “impact player” by his senior year.

You feel bad for him? A Wisconsin kid who is captain of his team and a decent college hockey player graduating from a great university, we should all have it this bad.
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Maybe, but it's really hard to account for confidence, or lack there of. Perhaps excelling for a year at an intermediate level changes some things for him.

Quick story: I'll have you guys know, that just like Al Bundy, I played High School Football. Yes, it's true. You guys all probably look at me in a little different light now, huh!!

Anyway, at my position there were guys on my own team that were bigger, faster, and stronger than I was, but for reasons that still remain clouded to this day, I had a coach who thought I could play a little. He gave me the job and told me it was mine and not to worry about losing it because he had every confidence in me. After a bit I began to believe him and my own confidence grew in myself. Eventually I actually believed I was not only better than these other better athletes on my own team, but better than the guys on all the other teams as well. I probably wasn't, but I believed I was. And that's all it took. I was fairly successful and ended up with a small mitt full of awards that seemed way more important then than they actually ever were, and our team went pretty far.

Also, I dated cheerleaders. Which is really the main point.
 
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Innova said:
So besides the early start, is anyone able to watch the game today? I see it is on ASN, but searching my (DirecTV) guide didn't find anything. Not sure if ASN is not on DirecTV or I just don't get it...
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ASN isn't a channel, kind of like the how "Wisconsin Badgers Radio Network" isn't actually a channel.
This will tell you which channels it's on.

In Madison, it's on 47-2, WMSN's digital subchannel, which means I'll try and get a makeshift antenna to work.
 
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It's on 14 on Charter out here in Dodge County.

Hughes ' arm is in a sling.....Navin up to the first line, Rockwood to the 2nd.

5 on 3 coming up...
 
Wisko McBadgerton said:
Folks that point to PWR and think it's disastrous (it is) need to keep in mind though that there's really no mechanism in it for measuring any Badger growth from early on until now. 12 of their last 13 losses have all come against top 20 teams. There's no way to know if they are right now playing at the level of the 55th best team or the 25th best team by looking at PWR or record. (For example: If you are the 11th best team in a 30 team field but start 0-10 against the top 10, at that point you are going to be 29 or 30 in PWR.) They aren't a top 16 team, but beyond that it's mostly just all on judgement. I only saw part of OSU/MN last night, but if a person could only watch two games to date, last week UW/MN and this week OSU/MN, (unless things really turned around later) I can't fathom anybody thinking UW isn't considerably better than OSU judging on only that basis.
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With 4 games each against OSU and MSU left this season, we will get to see where UW sits in relation to them at this point in the season.

I don't know, maybe Bucky is actually the 55th best team in college hockey.
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We will know more soon. But give how poorly UW played early in the season and the fact that both KRACH and PWR both that UW ranked in the 50s is say that raking has been "earned" by the play on the ice this season.
 
Innova said:
So besides the early start, is anyone able to watch the game today? I see it is on ASN, but searching my (DirecTV) guide didn't find anything. Not sure if ASN is not on DirecTV or I just don't get it...
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ASN is owned by Sinclair, which owns dozens of stations across the country. Sometimes the games are shown on those channels, or maybe their subchannels.

Sinclair owns WLUK and WCWF in Green Bay, so it is putting three UW games on CW14 (including today's) in the coming weeks. The station could air some othe B1G games not involving Wisconsin, but isn't going to do so, But three UW games on 'free' TV is better than none...
 
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GB Puck Fan said:
ASN is owned by Sinclair, which owns dozens of stations across the country. Sometimes the games are shown on those channels, or maybe their subchannels.

Sinclair owns WLUK and WCWF in Green Bay, so it is putting three UW games on CW14 (including today's) in the coming weeks. The station could air some othe B1G games not involving Wisconsin, but isn't going to do so, But three UW games on 'free' TV is better than none...
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Certainly better than nothing. I ran a big coaxial cable across the room to serve as my "antenna," and it's working pretty well.
 
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Chuck Schwartz said:
Jake Linhart has been a liability this weekend.
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Yeah, terrible play on the second goal. Followed a bad play when we didn't get it out, but still, a terrible play.

These lines have really been scrambled throughout this game. Everybody seems to be playing with everybody. And the "Roar Zone" seems pretty quiet. Not much energy in that building in the second.

PP coming up to start the third. Need to get some pressure and get going.

Also I don't understand much of the officiating in this game.
 
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Maybe Wisconsin is hoping if it loses enough games they can take Dante Fabbro with the first pick in the draft.
 
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It doesn't matter now, but after re-watching Cavallini's goal several times, and even lifting stills, shifting them, putting in correct perspective grids, and generally doing my best to find some evidence one way or the other, I still can't tell you it wasn't good. The best I can say is I think it was good and the worst is it's too close to call even with several enhancements. The only ice level camera view with the correct perspective is blocked by the official and is useless. I grant that at first look it appears questionable from the available perspectives. But my understanding is that it needs to be deemed conclusively NOT a goal in that circumstance, not that it's questionable. Unless that's wrong.

So I do a whole bunch of work and conclude it's actually good. They watch a terrible angle video for 5 minutes and conclude it's DEFINITELY not good. Hardly seems possible. For what it's worth, IMO it never should have been overturned, but it's just another thing in this season I suppose.
 
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Is Minnesota that bad or is Ped ST that good? We didn't look horrible last weekend, but hung with MN.However Friday night vs. Ped St. I didn't think we looked good. TV and in person are different for sure. This is a horrible year; how long will it be before we climb out of this pit?
 
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MadCityRich said:
This is a horrible year; how long will it be before we climb out of this pit?
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I do not know about you, but I think we will climb out at the BIG tourney so we can be the absolute worst team to ever make the NCAAs. Records are still records. All we need is one more win* in a weekend (on the road) than we were able to get collectively the entire season home and away ;)

*Not counting shootout wins because duh
 
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MadCityRich said:
Is Minnesota that bad or is Ped ST that good? We didn't look horrible last weekend, but hung with MN.However Friday night vs. Ped St. I didn't think we looked good. TV and in person are different for sure. This is a horrible year; how long will it be before we climb out of this pit?
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Next year........maybe. We've got 4 games with OSU left, perhaps UW can split those?

With BA writing that fantastic little letter supporting Eaves, and the season going nowhere, my idea of the Eaves/Gwoz co-coaches doesn't look to bad, does it? ;)

Seriously, I wonder if there if any staff changes would be in the works for the offseason. Eaves would be a fool not to deeply evaluate how he does business after this season. He has to realize his players' performance is on him.
 
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MadCityRich said:
Is Minnesota that bad or is Ped ST that good? We didn't look horrible last weekend, but hung with MN.However Friday night vs. Ped St. I didn't think we looked good. TV and in person are different for sure.
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Penn State is actually pretty good. 17 upperclassmen, Musico is playing great, and they have really good top line... Just curious though if there are things you'd specifically point to that perhaps made you feel the Badgers didn't look very good Friday night? Obviously when Hughes went down the lines scrambled, but beyond that I mean?

WisconsinWildcard said:
I do not know about you, but I think we will climb out at the BIG tourney so we can be the absolute worst team to ever make the NCAAs. Records are still records. All we need is one more win* in a weekend (on the road) than we were able to get collectively the entire season home and away ;)
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I look at it this way: The odds are probably several million times better that happens vs. me winning the powerball.
 
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WisconsinWildcard said:
I do not know about you, but I think we will climb out at the BIG tourney so we can be the absolute worst team to ever make the NCAAs. Records are still records. All we need is one more win* in a weekend (on the road) than we were able to get collectively the entire season home and away ;)

*Not counting shootout wins because duh
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The team's goal is to become the first team to win the NCAA's with single digit wins. They want ESPN to make a 30 for 30 about them. 9-28-4, NCAA champs. Has a nice ring to it.

This team when looking at the whole picture has dominated on home ice.....2 wins and 3 ties.
 
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