Wisconsin Women's Hockey 2022-2023

[ARM]

Any thoughts on how UW was kept off the board 5-on-5? Hot goalie, didn't get bounces, SCSU getting better under Idalski, or just one of those yearly mysteries of great pressure not changing the scoreboard as often as one might expect?

 

[Timothy A]

Any thoughts on how UW was kept off the board 5-on-5? Hot goalie, didn't get bounces, SCSU getting better under Idalski, or just one of those yearly mysteries of great pressure not changing the scoreboard as often as one might expect?

I did not see either game, had a wedding. I too would like to get the scoop on the comeback game.

 

[robertearle]

I did not see either game, had a wedding. I too would like to get the scoop on the comeback game.

I had hockey streaming on my tablet while football vs Michigan State was on the TV. So I wasn't watching closely, and was watching on a device that didn't give a particularly good 'view'. But shots were 39 to 13 when the extra attack goal went in. So, hot goalie, 'puck luck', one of those days, yadda yadda.

(I continue to be amazed how frequently pulling the goalie works. It just shouldn't work that often.)

 

[Gargoyle]

I had hockey streaming on my tablet while football vs Michigan State was on the TV. So I wasn't watching closely, and was watching on a device that didn't give a particularly good 'view'. But shots were 39 to 13 when the extra attack goal went in. So, hot goalie, 'puck luck', one of those days, yadda yadda.

(I continue to be amazed how frequently pulling the goalie works. It just shouldn't work that often.)

We were there and my very amateur comments are that we just played "off" for the entire first period of the second game. We simply looked out-of-sync. I heard one fan mumble that the team was "playing like crap." I'm not sure I'd go that far, but it wasn't pretty. The second and third periods were better, of course. In that first period, our passes weren't connecting cleanly and our SOGs all seemed to be going into the belly of the goalie. Throughout the entire game, the refs were letting SCSU get away with lots of holding and interference (including a couple of body checks that were stunning). I definitely saw patterns of UND goon-style hockey, but I'm generally more sensitive to rough hockey than other fans. The Badger comeback was amazing to watch, honestly. I know some folks don't like 3 on 3, but I always feel like the Badgers have the advantage in that situation. And I was right!

 

[Timothy A]

I know some folks don't like 3 on 3, but I always feel like the Badgers have the advantage in that situation. And I was right!

I very much dislike the 3 on 3, but yeah with that talent level against an overmatched opponent the odds of getting that extra point are high.

 

[Timothy A]

I didn't realize this was a Thursday/Friday series until last night LOL. Attendance has been a bit perplexing/low on the weekend games. I know a weeknight games keeps young families away. We'll see how it looks this weekend.

 

[robertearle]

I didn't realize this was a Thursday/Friday series until last night LOL. Attendance has been a bit perplexing/low on the weekend games. I know a weeknight games keeps young families away. We'll see how it looks this weekend.

For whatever it means these day, it's Homecoming weekend; hockey Thursday-Friday, volleyball at home Friday night, football Saturday, parade, concerts, etc. So I don't know if that will translate into more people in town ready to go to a game, or lots of other homecoming activities to choose from, acting as competition. Volleyball will keep me from from being at LaBahn Friday.

 

[Timothy A]

For whatever it means these day, it's Homecoming weekend; hockey Thursday-Friday, volleyball at home Friday night, football Saturday, parade, concerts, etc. So I don't know if that will translate into more people in town ready to go to a game, or lots of other homecoming activities to choose from, acting as competition. Volleyball will keep me from from being at LaBahn Friday.

I didn't know you were a bigger VB fan than a hockey fan.

It's the 10 year anniversary of LaBahn opening. That opening night loss was just awful to bear. One of the worse losses I can remember that I attended. That game, losing to MN in the fill the bowl game and that one game to Clarkson.

 

[robertearle]

I didn't know you were a bigger VB fan than a hockey fan.

It's the 10 year anniversary of LaBahn opening. That opening night loss was just awful to bear. One of the worse losses I can remember that I attended. That game, losing to MN in the fill the bowl game and that one game to Clarkson.

It's happened rather slowly but inexorably over the last half-dozen years. Last Friday and this Friday are the only two flat-out head-to-head conflicts this year. If hockey were Minn or Ohio State, I'd likely be at LaBahn.

My top three losses are all NCAA games: Clarkson in St Louis - I just had no doubt UW would win that day; Minnesota in the finals in Duluth in 2012, and Colgate in OT in the semis at Ridder in 2018 (?). The game ten years ago, I was pretty much sitting in 'your' seats; section 4, row 4, seat 1 (I have the souvenir ticket right here in the desk drawer). A really good seat for a really frustrating game.

 

[ARM]

My top three losses are all NCAA games: Clarkson in St Louis - I just had no doubt UW would win that day; Minnesota in the finals in Duluth in 2012, and Colgate in OT in the semis at Ridder in 2018 (?). The game ten years ago, I was pretty much sitting in 'your' seats; section 4, row 4, seat 1 (I have the souvenir ticket right here in the desk drawer). A really good seat for a really frustrating game.

Yes, Colgate was in 2018. Where does the 2008 loss in the DECC rank? As a neutral observer, that was one that I couldn't explain. Not so much that the Badgers lost, but 4-0? Those Bulldogs lost 3 of 4 to UM and were dominated territorially by UNH in the semis. I never understood why UW fared so poorly in the matchup with UMD that season.

 

[robertearle]

Yes, Colgate was in 2018. Where does the 2008 loss in the DECC rank? As a neutral observer, that was one that I couldn't explain. Not so much that the Badgers lost, but 4-0? Those Bulldogs lost 3 of 4 to UM and were dominated territorially by UNH in the semis. I never understood why UW fared so poorly in the matchup with UMD that season.

The 'category' was losses in person.

Plus, I hadn't moved back to Wi at that point, so I was experiencing the whole season much more remotely, and so was probably less personally 'attached'. I certainly remember being (happily, at least at the start) shoved into a corner of the sports bar, where they were nice enough to 'give' me two screens, one for hockey and the other for the Wisconsin NCAA basketball game that day. Helping cement the mood of the day was a #3 seed Badger basketball team being taken down by some school named Davidson, and a shooting guard named Steph Curry. 2008 was also the Iya Gavrilova year, too. That helped add to the foul mood; she didn't play, of course, but they had their #1 seed largely because of her.

 

[ARM]

Helping cement the mood of the day was a #3 seed Badger basketball team being taken down by some school named Davidson, and a shooting guard named Steph Curry. 2008 was also the Iya Gavrilova year, too. That helped add to the foul mood; she didn't play, of course, but they had their #1 seed largely because of her.

Curry... Curry? I think his dad used to play. I didn't understand the WCHA's UMD/Gavrilova position either. "You can keep the wins, and the seed, but you have to vacate the title." (Which UMD didn't really do.) The supposed reasoning was that it wouldn't be fair to UW or UM to have to play the 'Dogs in the first round. Instead, the Badgers had to play them in two finals on UMD's ice; I think that the Badgers would have rather taken their chances on a best-of-three series in Madison.

 

[Timothy A]

Colgate in OT in the semis at Ridder in 2018 (?).

That Colgate loss just wasn't that painful for me because that team was gutted by the Olympics and it was rather remarkable they did as well as they did that year. Plus it wasn't on my list because my list was "in person" loses.

 

[robertearle]

That Colgate loss just wasn't that painful for me because that team was gutted by the Olympics and it was rather remarkable they did as well as they did that year. Plus it wasn't on my list because my list was "in person" loses.

In case it wasn't clear, mine were 'in person' as well. Three FFs for me, three losses. STAY HOME, Robert!

 

[NMH]

I obviously have a bit different perception of things, but the 2017 Clarkson loss in St. Louis and the 2016 semifinal OT loss to Minnesota in NH the year Kessel came back midseason were two of the toughest post games to get through. It's always tough in post season with the losing team being put up on a dais and having to answer questions. It's awkward and uncomfortable for every one involved. But both those stick in my head for the Badgers as just painful, with the players looking shell-shocked.

 

[Steamboat]

I obviously have a bit different perception of things, but the 2017 Clarkson loss in St. Louis and the 2016 semifinal OT loss to Minnesota in NH the year Kessel came back midseason were two of the toughest post games to get through. It's always tough in post season with the losing team being put up on a dais and having to answer questions. It's awkward and uncomfortable for every one involved. But both those stick in my head for the Badgers as just painful, with the players looking shell-shocked.

Careful now, with the "K" word, especially on the Wisconsin thread. Mention of Amanda Kessel tends to give Timothy seizures. I have to laugh just remembering some of his hysteric posts when the word got out that she was skating with the Gophers again.

 

[Timothy A]

In case it wasn't clear, mine were 'in person' as well. Three FFs for me, three losses. STAY HOME, Robert!

Got it, yeah, you are grounded.

Let's go RED!

 

[Timothy A]

Careful now, with the "K" word, especially on the Wisconsin thread. Mention of Amanda Kessel tends to give Timothy seizures. I have to laugh just remembering some of his hysteric posts when the word got out that she was skating with the Gophers again.

It was ridiculous. She's retired and as an opponent, I am thinking "thank goodness we don't have to play her ever again" (naturally her personal healthy being very important to all), and then she's back like a like some dude wheedling a chainsaw at the end of a horror movie for a couple more decapitations. Looking through the lense of 2022, she has played a ton of high level hockey since then, and I do believe remained healthy, so the retirement was very premature. Naturally there's also the Kessel family being traitors to the U and state, that rub will never go away. Amanda is one of the most talented female players to be raised in WI, her and Decker and Rigsby are probably the top 3. Phil is up there too on the men's side. Why did you hate us Kessel family?

 

[ARM]

Looking through the lense of 2022, she has played a ton of high level hockey since then, and I do believe remained healthy, so the retirement was very premature.

It showed a lot of foresight on her part to already be thinking about how that retirement would up the value of the movie rights.

 

[Timothy A]

It showed a lot of foresight on her part to already be thinking about how that retirement would up the value of the movie rights.

That's a movie I'm not going to watch.