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

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Agreed. I was surprised he did not get a game misconduct at the time actually. I was watching the game at a bar in Minneapolis (gross, I know) and it looked really bad at first glance. On replay, still bad but not as intentional as I first thought but I still think a game is completely reasonable. Hopefully there are no long lasting injuries.
 
Brenthoven said:
Fully agree. While my emotions were high during the game and I ranted a bit, I won't label the kid a dirty player. It was a one-time thing. If it happens again...I'll re-assess of course.
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Calm down Reilly isn't your kid and the goof's season is over, unless.........you can somehow get tDon to make the line changes suggested in the goofer season thread!! What are we waiting for?! Start the car!!!
 
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cross cheque said:
Calm down Reilly isn't your kid and the goof's season is over, unless.........you can somehow get tDon to make the line changes suggested in the goofer season thread!! What are we waiting for?! Start the car!!!
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Yeah, if a player is not my buddy or a relative, I don't mind cheap, dirty hits.

Go sandbag your trailer home, Beet Boy.
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>For the second straight month, London's Christian Dvorak is OHL player of the month. He's an Arizona Coyotes pick</p>— Ryan Kennedy (@THNRyanKennedy) <a href="https://twitter.com/THNRyanKennedy/status/563089318567505920">February 4, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Chuck Schwartz said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>For the second straight month, London's Christian Dvorak is OHL player of the month. He's an Arizona Coyotes pick</p>— Ryan Kennedy (@THNRyanKennedy) <a href="https://twitter.com/THNRyanKennedy/status/563089318567505920">February 4, 2015</a></blockquote>
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What year would he have been?
 
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It's almost like he had premonitions.

Although I do wonder how much better our season would be if he were tearing it up here instead of there.
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
It's almost like he had premonitions.

Although I do wonder how much better our season would be if he were tearing it up here instead of there.
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He'd be in his first year here, he's in his second OHL year. He had 14 pts in 33 games played his rookie year and has 90 in 47 games this year. It's hard to say whether if he'd played another year of juniors and then came to UW he'd be tearing it up quite so much initially in this season.

I think if the Badgers had Kerdiles centering the top line all year the results would be significantly better. With Dvorak, probably not so significantly better given the schedule and the youth all around. Fact is the games UW played against really beatable teams came pretty early in the year and even a guy like Dvorak now isn't really outclassing the competition the last dozen games. Or really in 15 of the 22 played.
 
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Wisko McBadgerton said:
He'd be in his first year here, he's in his second OHL year. He had 14 pts in 33 games played his rookie year and has 90 in 47 games this year. It's hard to say whether if he'd played another year of juniors and then came to UW he'd be tearing it up quite so much initially in this season.

I think if the Badgers had Kerdiles centering the top line all year the results would be significantly better. With Dvorak, probably not so significantly better given the schedule and the youth all around. Fact is the games UW played against really beatable teams came pretty early in the year and even a guy like Dvorak now isn't really outclassing the competition the last dozen games. Or really in 15 of the 22 played.
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So its not a huge loss, is that what your saying? To me it's just more of the same - Eaves not getting the job done. Add Dvorak and Boeser next year and you got something. Now - more puppies crapping on the carpet.
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
It's almost like he had premonitions.

Although I do wonder how much better our season would be if he were tearing it up here instead of there.
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I don't think you can compare between the two. The OHL style of play is more wide open, plus his line mates in London are at a different level than anyone at UW. He is playing with Marner who will be a for sure top ten pick in the upcoming draft. His other line mate is Max Domi, 12th overall pick, gold medal winner in U20 and will be playing in the NHL next year.
 
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Wisko McBadgerton said:
He'd be in his first year here, he's in his second OHL year. He had 14 pts in 33 games played his rookie year and has 90 in 47 games this year. It's hard to say whether if he'd played another year of juniors and then came to UW he'd be tearing it up quite so much initially in this season.

I think if the Badgers had Kerdiles centering the top line all year the results would be significantly better. With Dvorak, probably not so significantly better given the schedule and the youth all around. Fact is the games UW played against really beatable teams came pretty early in the year and even a guy like Dvorak now isn't really outclassing the competition the last dozen games. Or really in 15 of the 22 played.
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For reference, Dvorak tore his ACL last year and missed most of the year. Still went in the 2nd round of the NHL Draft.
 
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Chuck Schwartz said:
For reference, Dvorak tore his ACL last year and missed most of the year. Still went in the 2nd round of the NHL Draft.
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Thanks for the info, as always.

I think all I was trying to say was that in his first year here he might not have had the kind of impact folks just looking at his CHL numbers might think. I believe he was still taken a little ahead of his pre-draft projection (at #58 overall) so maybe the knee didn't damage him too much pick-wise, I don't know. At any rate, last year's numbers were through his first 33 games as he was injured in January.

Here's some NCAA eligible players from that draft:

#15.Dylan Larkin C Mich 10-20-30pts
#18. Alex Tuch RW BC 8-11-19pts
#20. Nick Schmaltz F UND 3-16-19pts

#41. Joshua Jacobs D MI ST
#47. Ryan Collins D MN
#51. Jack Dougherty D UW
#52. Maxim Letunov F to BU '15-'16
#55. Brandon Montour D Umass
#57. Johnathan MacLeod D BU

#58.Christain Dvorak
#64 Brandon Hickey D BU
#67 Warren Foegele F UNH 3-5-8pts.
#69 Jack Glover D MN

#70 Miles Gendron D to UCONN '15-'16
#80 Louis Belpedio D Miami
#83. Matt Iacopelli F To WMU '15-'16
88. Beau Starrett to F Cornell '15-'16
92. Joe Wegwerth F to Notre Dame '15-'16
98. Fredrik Olofsson F to UNO '15-'16

100. Shane Eiserman F UHH 3-7-10pts
103. J.J. Piccinich F BU 1-1-2pts

Larkin has been great, Tuch, and Schmaltz not bad at all. After that, who knows? The next three forwards taken playing NCAA's this year have 8, 10, and 2 points. Not saying at all Dvorak wouldn't be a great player here, he could be up there with the top 20 draftee guys and may end up even better. Just saying there's not a lot to point to that would indicate he would be a super star here in his first year. Could be wrong.
 
ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
It's almost like he had premonitions.

Although I do wonder how much better our season would be if he were tearing it up here instead of there.
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Unless he was a goal per game player, UW would still be struggling badly. Likely be looking at a handful of additional wins, but the D wouldn't be any better.

This team isn't one or even two players away from being competitive, let alone a contender.
 
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WiscTJK said:
So its not a huge loss, is that what your saying? To me it's just more of the same - Eaves not getting the job done. Add Dvorak and Boeser next year and you got something. Now - more puppies crapping on the carpet.
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No, that has absolutely nothing to do with what I'm saying.

But since you insist that practically every comment revolve around Eaves: If Dvorak wanted to play NCAA hockey but not at UW (Because, Eaves) he could have decommitted and gone to any number of top schools. He had a year to do so and he was heavily recruited. He chose UW over the rest and committed. If he was playing NCAA hockey, it would be at UW. I'm not sure how it's Eaves' fault Dvorak and his Dad almost out of the blue decided to go back on their word and forgo his eligibility to go to the CHL?
 
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Wisko McBadgerton said:
No, that has absolutely nothing to do with what I'm saying.

But since you insist that practically every comment revolve around Eaves: If Dvorak wanted to play NCAA hockey but not at UW (Because, Eaves) he could have decommitted and gone to any number of top schools. He had a year to do so and he was heavily recruited. He chose UW over the rest and committed. If he was playing NCAA hockey, it would be at UW. I'm not sure how it's Eaves' fault Dvorak and his Dad almost out of the blue decided to go back on their word and forgo his eligibility to go to the CHL?
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As we continue the Eaves cycle of lots of freshman every 4 years, you don't think that knowing it was a rebuilding year or two (the one or two that he would be in college) had anything to do with it? These types of decommitts, leaving the program, going Canadian route, etc. are becoming more and more numerous. But its not Eaves fault - got it.
 
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