Re: Wisconsin Hockey XXXVI: Stop looking for the silver lining and ignoring the probl
Barry was at Saturday nights game
Good. He needs to see the mess and he needs to grab one of the brooms from the many gopher fans at the game and sweep away this whole entire coaching staff.
I made it a 2-for Saturday, by picking up tickets to the Women's game as well as my remaining season tickets on Saturday for Men's.
My 15 year old son and I enjoyed the women's game immensely. There was good flow and good competition with the Fighting Hawks. We then spent more hard earned money to eat downtown and visit an establishment for a drink (for me).
We then attended the men's game and being down 1 in 12 seconds and 3 within 6 minutes was about all I could handle. We did stay until like a minute was left, but my son said how much the second game sucked and I left angry and upset. To say it was disappointing was an understatement. That game (other than a few times in the second period), reminded me of the Tech Friday game last year, where I walked out in the first period and went back to the Red Shed. At this point the entertainment value is gone and I see absolutely no reason to spend my hard earned money on men's hockey.... What a waste of really nice crowd. Then to hear Eaves say every team has games like this, blah blah blah on the way home and him getting mad at Posick when he asks Eaves if his team is better than what they showed tonight, just angered me more.
I worry that the set backs of the last 5 - 6 years is going to set the program back for a decade or more.
If Barry was there all the better as this weekend was an embarrassment.... Eaves should be relieved of duties today and let Strand take the reigns for the rest of the year.
This ****ed me off too. Attended that garbage and then to hear THAT on the way home was unbelievable.
I'll be honest though, I had a blast in the second period. That period is what this team should be doing to everyone. Killed them in shots (15-5) and won the scoreboard (2-1). I sure lost my voice letting the 4 gopher fans in front me here it every minute of that period. Another good thing was I got to see the team I used to play for play during the 2nd intermission (Dodgeville Ice Wolves). Their jerseys sure have changed (Black and red to teal-blue).
The 1st and 3rd: Awful. A goal 12 seconds in. Jurusik couldn't save a beach ball. Eaves pulls him. Then puts him back in? *** are you doing Eaves?
I'll say this, and it's repeated from EVERY game this season, our defensive coverage is absolutely terrible. I think a Minnesota high school team would have better d-zone coverage. We have THE WORST defensive group in the big ten and possibly the NCAA. There are no stud defenders on our team. Our forwards don't know what the hell to do in the d-zone either. Nobody knows how to switch guys and rotate around. NOBODY.
Also, if it's a 50/50 shot with a defender pinching to keep the zone we SHOULD pinch. It's the forward's job to skate back and cover for that. Then again, we don't have the team speed to compete with top skating teams. Pitiful skating from a majority of our players.
Oh well, back to college. I'll be attending UWSP games from now on so I don't have to worry about the badgers.
I didn't see the games, but the outcomes reminded me of a weekend during Woog's last year at MN. Lucia brought CC into Mariucci and they outclassed MN in every way possible, skill, effort, the scoreboard. It looked exactly like MN/CC games were expected to look, except the jerseys were switched. I knew then Woog was done. Hopefully for you guys this was "that" weekend.
Full disclosure: I'm a Sioux fan living in the Twin Cities.
On the hit, I'll say that twenty years ago it wouldn't even be a penalty. Just, "get your head up." The big criteria were met, in that he had the puck and the hitter didn't lead with his arm or elbow. Now, I get that it's a penalty. You just can't kill people now.
God I hope so.
I'm not sure that's a penalty 10 years ago... It'd be a 2 minute at most around then. Times have changed, though.
