Wisconsin Hockey XXXIV: A Season without Chuck

[gwhinwi]

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Wow. Bucky ties up the game against Ferris State with :19 seconds remaining. 5-5.

 

[Innova]

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Man if only there was a way to watch moving images of the game from my house. Sounds like a great game.

(I was at hockey with the kids tonight, so I am not going to pay $8 for the third period, and apparently now, overtime).

 

[gwhinwi]

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Stop me if you've heard this one. UW ties again.

 

[Red_Rob]

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eaves is really working hard to have over 50% of the saves since the start of the modern era. He sure loves kissing his sister to do it so often.

 

[IndianaBadger1995]

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Man if only there was a way to watch moving images of the game from my house. Sounds like a great game.

(I was at hockey with the kids tonight, so I am not going to pay $8 for the third period, and apparently now, overtime).

If only... I'm forever grateful that Posick is one of the best in the business on the radio.

 

[bucky15]

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If only... I'm forever grateful that Posick is one of the best in the business on the radio.

That guy yelling in the crowd almost made it not listenable tonight. It was funny when Posick addressed the guy yelling in front of them throughout the game. I think the last thing Posick said was something in the area of...I hope this guy sleeps this off tonight.

 

[Timothy A]

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On the bright side, I think if UW had Oplika, they'd have a win or 2 right now.

 

[ExileOnDaytonStreet]

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This team scoring 5 goals is a silver lining, no doubt.

 

[WiscDC]

On the bright side, I think if UW had Oplika, they'd have a win or 2 right now.

I see that more as a kick in the shins than a bright side. The bright side for me is that 0-2-3 could be much worse. ("Could be much worse" isn't all that bright, I suppose.) As much as people lament ties (and it's a common sportuguese cliche to say ties are the worst thing ever), their record is the equivalent of one with 1.5 wins, even w/o Opilka. The other silver lining...

This team scoring 5 goals is a silver lining, no doubt.

...is that ties, especially high-scoring ties, mean that we at least get to see some exciting/wacky games while enduring the program's current problems.

 

[Red_Rob]

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I see that more as a kick in the shins than a bright side. The bright side for me is that 0-2-3 could be much worse. ("Could be much worse" isn't all that bright, I suppose.) As much as people lament ties (and it's a common sportuguese cliche to say ties are the worst thing ever), their record is the equivalent of one with 1.5 wins, even w/o Opilka. The other silver lining....

so it's like kissing your sister? Eaves likes his teams to kiss his sister a lot

 

[Almington]

This team scoring 5 goals is a silver lining, no doubt.

The fact that this team has three third period comebacks is my silver lining, that and they didn't lose in OT.

At some point, they do need to lead in the 3rd to start winning games.

 

[ExileOnDaytonStreet]

As much as people lament ties (and it's a common sportuguese cliche to say ties are the worst thing ever)

I know that I'm in a supreme minority here, but I'll never understand why so many people hate ties and say they'd rather lose.

 

[WiscDC]

I know that I'm in a supreme minority here, but I'll never understand why so many people hate ties and say they'd rather lose.

I kinda sorta get it, but I have a hard time trying to justify the idea that a tie game during a regular season isn't a perfectly legitimate result.

People who say they'd rather watch their favorite team lose than tie (assuming they're not rooting for a tank) are out of their minds, and probably aren't telling the truth.

 

[Red_Rob]

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I know that I'm in a supreme minority here, but I'll never understand why so many people hate ties and say they'd rather lose.

I am ok with the occasional tie, but they happen so often under eaves. The boys seem to be content with playing not to lose, instead of for the win.

 

[WiscDC]

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I am ok with the occasional tie, but they happen so often under eaves. The boys seem to be content with playing not to lose, instead of for the win.

Considering we've seen 3 ties that were all comebacks this year, I'm going to say that those things are totally unrelated. That argument would hold more water if you were referencing the ties at home against Minnesota and BU last year, in which they had a 1-goal lead and just kind of collapsed on the final possessions that resulted in the tying goals in those games.

If they are content with playing not to lose (maybe that's how they were playing in the first 50 minutes on Saturday of opening weekend), it's not why they've tied 3 games. They've tied 3 games because they have some offensive firepower that bailed them out of holes they've gotten into because, you know, they're not a great team. They're a mediocre team that's playing teams that aren't terrible, and they played evenly with those teams. If they played worse teams, they'd likely win, and when they played BC and BU, they lost. If the results of games were determined by what teams wanted to do, everyone would have winning records, which is mathematically impossible.

 

[GBBadger14]

Considering we've seen 3 ties that were all comebacks this year, I'm going to say that those things are totally unrelated. That argument would hold more water if you were referencing the ties at home against Minnesota and BU last year, in which they had a 1-goal lead and just kind of collapsed on the final possessions that resulted in the tying goals in those games.

If they are content with playing not to lose (maybe that's how they were playing in the first 50 minutes on Saturday of opening weekend), it's not why they've tied 3 games. They've tied 3 games because they have some offensive firepower that bailed them out of holes they've gotten into because, you know, they're not a great team. They're a mediocre team that's playing teams that aren't terrible, and they played evenly with those teams. If they played worse teams, they'd likely win, and when they played BC and BU, they lost. If the results of games were determined by what teams wanted to do, everyone would have winning records, which is mathematically impossible.

I didn't find quite as much satisfaction in yesterday's tie because while they did tie it with little time left, they did still blow a 2 goal 3rd period lead.

 

[gwhinwi]

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Here's my thoughts on the ties, take them for what you will.

A team that won 4 games last year has only managed to achieve 3 tied games this year so far. 2 (at home) against the team picked to finish 7th in the WCHA and 1 against the team picked to finish 6th in the WCHA.

While it is true that the team is scoring more goals than last year, I don't think it bodes well that we still can't seem to get wins against middling, unranked, college hockey teams, all while continuing to get thumped against high level competition. Add to that the fact that I think people were counting on the ASU games being a near gimmie in the win column, but that team has already lost to AKAK (in OT) and beat Alaska.

I still think that we're looking at a 10 win team, at best, (probably with a good number of sister-kisses in there) and a contract extension. (sigh)

 

[Jimjamesak]

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Point to be made, UAA beat ASU in OT, not a tie.

 

[WiscDC]

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Here's my thoughts on the ties, take them for what you will.

A team that won 4 games last year has only managed to achieve 3 tied games this year so far. 2 (at home) against the team picked to finish 7th in the WCHA and 1 against the team picked to finish 6th in the WCHA.

While it is true that the team is scoring more goals than last year, I don't think it bodes well that we still can't seem to get wins against middling, unranked, college hockey teams, all while continuing to get thumped against high level competition. Add to that the fact that I think people were counting on the ASU games being a near gimmie in the win column, but that team has already tied with AKAK and beat Alaska.

I still think that we're looking at a 10 win team, at best, (probably with a good number of sister-kisses in there) and a contract extension. (sigh)

I have no inside information, but I'd be surprised if Eaves didn't "resign" after this year if the team finishes with a 10-[wins - ties]-[a good number of ties] record. Unless it's 10-2-[however many more games there are], which would be wacky.

And GBBadger14, the only "satisfaction" I've found in these ties are relative to the disastrous state of the program.

 

[WiscTJK]

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The fact that this team has three third period comebacks is my silver lining, that and they didn't lose in OT.

At some point, they do need to lead in the 3rd to start winning games.

They did 4-2, then gave up three goals and ended up tying in last 20 seconds.