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Wisconsin Women's Hockey 2021-2022

Lindsay said:
I had the exact same reaction. I didn’t realize this was how it worked
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The "extra year" was an inducement for players and schools to take the chance on playing during a year when nobody could predict how much of a "year" it would turn out to be. Take the chance, if it all goes to hell you won't lose a year of eligibility, and if it turns out more-or-less OK, then you get rewarded. The Ivys chose to not participate, so they don't get the extra year.

If the NCAA hadn't set it up that way, LOTS more schools and players would likely have opted out. And not just in hockey.

(Didn't see a second of the game; up to my eyeballs in volleyball this weekend. I know the score and that's all. Unhappy face.)
 
Bonzo said:
Interesting that Maddie Posick is listed in the pre game lineup as 3rd line left defense pairing with Sophie Helgeson with Toft as the extra defenseman. I don’t think she has ever played D. We will see if she gets more time than Toft
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Reports are illness has run through the team in the last 2 weeks, so maybe Toft was just too rusty to plan for a regular shift her her. I was not able to pick up on when she played if she played D or F other than a couple shifts in the 2nd period where she appeared to be playing F. She did get the lone assist on O'B's goal. I did not pick up if Toft played at all.

Blair played great when she stayed in the net. I just can't recall seeing her so eager to skate out to the faceoff circle. She almost went a couple more times but didn't. I missed the behind the net screwup, I was texting my son about the goal UW had just scored.

Hopefully it was just rust, but too many time the UW D just kept backing up then the attacker was coming down the slot. At some point you have to engage the body there, otherwise they are just a moving screen.
 
And with the puck angling away from the slot area down through the faceoff circle why is Blair bothering to go out and try to knock that puck away? The angle is her friend. And defenseman were tailing the rodent so they couldn't cut to the middle. I am perplexed.
 
Steamboat said:
And EMBARRASSED? Feeling red?
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I always feel red, it's in my arteries. Watts with the embarrassment angle? UW won the natty last year, how did UM do in the ncaa tourney last year? The thinner has affected my memory on that, please remind me.

I did not see game 2, so I cannot comment on it. Maybe I can go onto BTN and watch it somehow, but with the Christmas season rolling, I could not try and watch it until sometime in January.

That being said, MJ says it's a process the whole year learning and developing so you can be at your best at the end of the season. WI closes out the 2021 portion of the schedule at BSU this weekend, who are coming off a sweep of St. Cloud.
 
Timothy A said:
I always feel red, it's in my arteries. Watts with the embarrassment angle? UW won the natty last year, how did UM do in the ncaa tourney last year? The thinner has affected my memory on that, please remind me.

I did not see game 2, so I cannot comment on it. Maybe I can go onto BTN and watch it somehow, but with the Christmas season rolling, I could not try and watch it until sometime in January.

That being said, MJ says it's a process the whole year learning and developing so you can be at your best at the end of the season. WI closes out the 2021 portion of the schedule at BSU this weekend, who are coming off a sweep of St. Cloud.
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I did watch both games, on B1G+, with starts and stops and green screen occasionally. For $50 I think it is worthwhile, but it is a royal pain to sit through. I don't know what the issue is with some of these games.
That said, Wisconsin was not the team I remember from last time up here at Ridder. The Gophers really took it to them. You can make excuses about coming off a bye, or sickness, or a short bench, but the Gophers played like the #1 team this past weekend. The rematch, as always, will be exciting.
 
So, Ohio State swept Minnesota, then Wisconsin essentially swept Ohio State, and now Minnesota essentially swept Wisconsin.

The second half should be fun...
 
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I was surprised to see a defender shoot so high up in shootout but credit to LaMantia her point bank slap shot scored. Made me laugh. As soon as Minn scored on the next goal, just had a feeling that it wasn’t going to be Wiscos day. Nice job by young Zumwinkle ending it.
 
WisconSIN will be fine. Minnesota played this past weekend like it was their national championship. Wisconsin can be better but I suspect Minnesota can't.
 
Here's something I never thought I'd have to type.....How is MJ going to get Wattage out of her goal scoring slump? She hasn't had a goal since 11/7. That's 24 shots w/o a goal over 4 games, which includes plenty of PP time 3 on 3 time and a shootout. She did have a shot hit Bench's shaft on a blocker side high shot on Friday, that's a bit of bad luck. I think SS is off a bit as well, she doesn't seem have the zip she normally has.
 
It was great to see UW fight back to tie as many times as they did last weekend. They never had the lead.

I'd like to step into an alternate universe and see the outcome had MN not scored 9 seconds after UW tied it Friday. UW was dominating that period and seeing how both teams handled it from that point would have been interesting. Does UW pop another and win and then does that sinks MN's energy for game 2? Does MN have the energy to play from behind and tie it?
 
Timothy A said:
It was great to see UW fight back to tie as many times as they did last weekend. They never had the lead.

I'd like to step into an alternate universe and see the outcome had MN not scored 9 seconds after UW tied it Friday. UW was dominating that period and seeing how both teams handled it from that point would have been interesting. Does UW pop another and win and then does that sinks MN's energy for game 2? Does MN have the energy to play from behind and tie it?
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If "If and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas."
 
BTN+ had a nice feed from Bemidji today. I wish that Kelly Schultz would have been the play-by-play commentator. I have always enjoyed hearing her announce the games from Bemidji. The commentator today was fine, other than he had no idea how to pronounce our players' names. I finally tweeted to let him know that our #21 is not "La MAN She ah" but "La Mahn TEE ah" but he either didn't get the tweet or ignored it. We'll see if it improves tomorrow. Wish we were there but had too much going on this week.
 
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