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Wisconsin Hockey XXXVI: Stop looking for the silver lining and ignoring the problem!!

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Nobody in front of the net on the power play... Stupid. Just stupid.
 
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Apparently checking is against the rules in men's college hockey now.
 
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Not sure about that Besse call, but it being a tie game late has nothing to do with it. Not sure why announcers always have to say stuff like that.
 
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Yeah, pretty hard to get under the puck on your backhand when its behind you like that.
 
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whew one tie...we can forget everything eaves has done and praise him as a king.
 
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IndianaBadger1995 said:
Nobody in front of the net on the power play... Stupid. Just stupid.
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I don't get having all five players on the PP having their butts glued to the boards. No one on the ice wanted to make a play or go to the net on the PP.

1st period was painful, I think the first time they made a play at the net resulted in a goal. They kept taking the play to the boards in the first. 3rd period it was like a different team.

They lack depth at F and D, does anyone know where to find the time on ice stats for this game? Some players put up some huge minutes last night.
 
bucky15 said:
I don't get having all five players on the PP having their butts glued to the boards. No one on the ice wanted to make a play or go to the net on the PP.

1st period was painful, I think the first time they made a play at the net resulted in a goal. They kept taking the play to the boards in the first. 3rd period it was like a different team.

They lack depth at F and D, does anyone know where to find the time on ice stats for this game? Some players put up some huge minutes last night.
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The power play struggled, but their first few opportunities were actually pretty solid. Not particularly impressive, but not too bad, either. Even when they were moving the puck fairly well, OSU did an outstanding job. There was one sequence in which an OSU penalty killer stopped two consecutive (very) dangerous plays with a diving poke check.

Overall, it wasn't very good, and they had trouble setting up after clears. As the game went on, they had teouble setting up at all. (The "SHOOT!" fans were worse than normal last night. I know they can be found at hockey games everywhere, especially in student sections, but probably 80 percent of the time someone yelled it, a shot was blocked at a short distance, so that's probably why I'm focusing more on the times when they DID have good puck movment in the zone. This PP is nothing like the 2012-13 silliness.)

Unless someone was tracking time-on-ice stats for fun last night, they don't exist.
 
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Wisconsin has clinched a better overall record than last year with that tie, by the way. :P
 
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8-53 over the last two seasons. Yay
 
Red_Rob said:
8-53 over the last two seasons. Yay
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8-34-11 last year and this year combined thusfar.

it's incredibly discouraging to hear how these guys are playing in terms of playing on the boards on the pp, terrible D play and of course they're short on offense...again.

It's an odd feeling for me getting to a weekend and not having any motivation to listen or watch. Just grab the box score from this site. It's a far cry from the good old days
 
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solovsfett said:
8-34-11 last year and this year combined thusfar.

it's incredibly discouraging to hear how these guys are playing in terms of playing on the boards on the pp, terrible D play and of course they're short on offense...again.

It's an odd feeling for me getting to a weekend and not having any motivation to listen or watch. Just grab the box score from this site. It's a far cry from the good old days
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I counted the loss to the U-18's last year for 35 on the wrong side. Why? I don't know, because I didn't count beating Trinity this year.

Here's the recap on the weekend in short: Last night they played bad the first 30 minutes. Then they played very good the last 35 minutes. Friday they played inbetween those two levels the whole 60.

Basically it seems to me it took four and a half periods to get back to the pace they were playing with before the break.

Couple of other observations: When Besse works hard without the puck he's very, very good. When he doesn't, he's just another guy with a good wrist shot skating around out there. Kunin, Besse, Schulze, and Wittchow logged huge, huge minutes.
We saw why Tischke has been surpassed by Bunz. I like Peter, he has speed and talent, but he hasn't made the adjustment yet. Two OSU goals were directly related to him getting caught puck watching in no man's land, and a third was him getting out of position and getting beat straight off the wall to the net by a guy carrying the puck. That just can't happen. I think Bunz is servicable and he's actually better than I thought he would be despite a few lapses here and there. He lost his man on the other OSU goal, but he and Schulze got a little crossed up and went for the same guy.
I still think Ustaski can contribute before he's done here. He's getting better, but it's slow progress. Will Johnson had a nice night, but still missed out on a big chance to end it. Gotta get some of those opportunities to go in.
Makeshift 2nd line really missed an on his game Jedd Soleway as they got pushed around a lot by some of OSU's big boys. Did anybody hear any word about Hughes, Sexton and Soleway's status?
 
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