Todd M indicated that Maggie has an upper body injury. The freshman line held its own and Finley notched another goal for the year. Coach mentioned in his after-game comments that she stepped into Maggie's center role and did well.
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Wisconsin Women's Hockey 2024-2025
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Todd M indicated that Maggie has an upper body injury. The freshman line held its own and Finley notched another goal for the year. Coach mentioned in his after-game comments that she stepped into Maggie's center role and did well.
BadgerPete
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Scannell is listed as day-to-day (which fortunately means whatever it is isn't serious), but we have a pretty big advantage that with the St. Thomas/Maine/Mankato stretch coming up we don't have to press her back into the lineup before 2025.
Timothy A
Let's go RED!
It was nice to see Zillich getting some playing time. She even got top play with Edwards and OB in the 3rd period once UW stretched the lead out.
The trip out to Maine should be a fun one for the ladies. Gotta get some fresh lobsta. I look forward to seeing Maine at LaBahn for the return series, hopefully next year.
The Kato series looks for be tricky, they were a flubbed shot away from sweeping that other team.
It's sad we won't be back in the rink until 2025, what an ugly schedule.
Alicepercy
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Which country are you supporting
Glad the games will be on ESPN+. There will be a familiar name to Badger fans playing for Maine. Britta Curl's sister Brenna, is a freshman defenseman.
Timothy A
Let's go RED!
Awesome and awesome.
Todd's article about Casey O'Brien. Let's all click on it multiple times!
https://madison.com/sports/college/...cle_7c53803f-1f7b-53ec-a4e1-44585d890524.html
https://madison.com/sports/college/...cle_7c53803f-1f7b-53ec-a4e1-44585d890524.html
Timothy A
Let's go RED!
Maybe I noticed something that's always been there, but Friday night it jumped out at me how many touch/deflection passes they were doing on the breakout and on this particular night how badly they were working out. Soft, inaccurate, truly ugly. The 1st period and the 6th period the shot differentials were not good. In the 6th period the Tommies outshot UW. Have the Tommies EVER outshot UW in a period? And the game was in the balance at 3-2. Maybe they had a hangover from the previous series. Glad for the wins but there's work to do.
I thought Gorbotenko had a very good series. She had got a bit vanished it seemed like for a few games. The 3rd line was great Friday. They were rewarded with the start on Saturday. I'd like to see the 2 goals allowed again and see what went wrong on those.
I thought Gorbotenko had a very good series. She had got a bit vanished it seemed like for a few games. The 3rd line was great Friday. They were rewarded with the start on Saturday. I'd like to see the 2 goals allowed again and see what went wrong on those.
BadgerPete
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The second goal was right in front of me and can be basically tossed out. The puck took an absolutely insane carom off the back glass and gifted them an opportunity with everyone out of position. I've been sitting in that corner since LaBahn opened and I've never seen a puck come off the back boards like that before.
Very disappointing. The football team, volleyball team and men's basketball team all on the road last weekend. I would think they could round up a few band members for games that were both sold out
Timothy A
Let's go RED!
That's what I thought happened, but I wasn't 100% sure. The first one was a rebound and she ended up on her back somehow like she thought it was under her but it wasn't, and then the puck got shot by her, I'm not sure if it was under or over her. I was curious how she ended up so down and out.
Timothy A
Let's go RED!
benchwarmer5
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Section 1 is always reserved for the media, band, and various other personnel, so the band can always come. I thought it was bizarre that there was a large band section at the women's basketball game that ended about an hour prior to puck drop and those band members couldn't have just walked across to LaBahn for women's hockey. Would be very interested to see how they allocate these pep bands for the various sporting events.
benchwarmer5
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Looking at the replay on B1G+, it looked as though there was an immediate rebound threat right on the backdoor that happened to fumble it. Had that player handled the puck and got it on net, McNaughton would have been all over it in her split. But because of the missed opportunity and a bounce out to another layer of Tommiettes, it put her in a tough position to recover to that shot. Pretty sure it went by her right pad, low.
robertearle
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My understanding is that it is to a great extent voluntary; almost entirely voluntary. Marching band members take a class that is - I believe - one single credit; as such, it is not anywhere close to being commensurate to the time they put in to be part of the band. The 'pep bands' at the other sports/events are done on a volunteer basis, drawn from the marching band, with 'seniority' in effect for 'in demand' events, like men's basketball, etc.
So what you're asking is "Why didn't those college students who volunteered a couple hours of their weekend to play at the women's basketball then follow that up by also volunteering an additional couple hours of their weekend to play at the hockey game?"
BadgerPete
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This is somewhat right. (I was in the band my freshman year; couldn't make it work beyond that.) It's a one credit class (MUS 042) but during the football season we had practice Tuesday-Friday from 3:45-5:30. (This was 25 years ago so the information may need updating.) Football Saturdays were 6am for run-through at Camp Randall all the way through a couple of hours after the game concluded. The band also travels to a road game or two a year, a Lambeau Field game some years, as well as the odd high school gig here and there on non-travel road weekends.
For Varsity Band (second semester), there's an expectation that you will play a certain number of events and if sign up gets too crowded seniority decides the band. The flip side is that travel to road tournaments for sports like volleyball and women's hockey was based on how many of those specific games you'd gone to, so loading up on those gives you a better chance to travel.
The bigger factor is that one of the graduate assistants needs to be available to be the defacto "conductor" for the band since Leckrone (and now I assume Pompey) was already doing men's basketball and men's hockey and those people tend to be full time music majors already. When I was in the UW student section for volleyball in college there was a specific assistant conductor who usually did volleyball, but in the last couple of seasons at LaBahn the person in front has been different a lot. They need a basic level of signup beforehand as well to ensure you have the proper cross-section of instrumentation. (i.e you need to have a drummer, should have trumpets, trombones, euphos, tubas, etc).
So there's a lot of factors that go into the availability of the band.
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