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Wisconsin Women's Hockey 2025-2026

It would be nice to have a blowout after 2 periods and let Baker play the 3rd on Senior Day. Maybe even more importantly, just to get her playing time. They will be 1 injury away from her being the starter.
 
TJ77 said:
It would be nice to have a blowout after 2 periods and let Baker play the 3rd on Senior Day. Maybe even more importantly, just to get her playing time. They will be 1 injury away from her being the starter.
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Good call, only off by half a period. Awesome to see her in on Senior Day! Loved to see the team's reaction when she went in.
 
Gurth 2.0 said:
When do the T-USA players leave?

I assume we don't have them next weekend?
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PWHL has games scheduled through Wednesday night. No, Badger Olympians (as well as the other teams' players) will be away for the next three weekends. There's a question as to whether Sapovalivova will be available for tomorrow.
 
McNaughton was doing some out of character things yesterday. During warm-ups when they're doing the continuous loop shooting, usually the goalies try to stop just about every shooter. She was skipping every two three shooters and trying to focus on just one. When the game started she was being very vocal and which is very different than her usual self and Badger goalies in general. Once a couple goals went in, she was back to being quiet. I hope this isn't USA Hockey screwing her up like they are doing Edwards.

The first line had 30 shots on goal, but the second line only had 16. That is pretty disappointing. The first line is definitely a speed line, while the second line is more of a plodding bulky line. They were also all minus one for the game. Speed vs bulk...I wonder where the speed will come from next season.....

Faceoffs were good overall, but Hall got killed again. If history repeats itself, should be the best faceoff person today. I figured out that the only time Eden takes a face off is when she's on the PK. Sadly she's not very good at it, another 0 for.

I just stumbled upon the fact that the USCHO has a shot chart for every period. Interesting.
 
I called it. Hall was 37% on face offs yesterday, 68% today, she is so good at improving game one to game two. Eden is an elite penalty killer, but when she loses way more faceoffs than she wins on the penalty kill, that's a bad setup there. Usually winning the face off means an instant zone clear. Today she was 3 out of 10.
 
A wild 8 games coming up. Lines. I'm going super radical. LOL

Gorbotenko Hall Eden
Enright Scannell Halverson
Zilisch McCarthy Pieckenhagen
Vassuer

Maybe flip Eden and Halverson or Gorbotenko and Enright just to try and get 2 lines with more scoring punch.

The top 5 D are interchangeable. Not sure how much ice Bickett gets.

We are all presuming Stewart is the 1.
 
Timothy A said:
A wild 8 games coming up. Lines. I'm going super radical. LOL

Gorbotenko Hall Eden
Enright Scannell Halverson
Zilisch McCarthy Pieckenhagen
Vassuer

Maybe flip Eden and Halverson or Gorbotenko and Enright just to try and get 2 lines with more scoring punch.

The top 5 D are interchangeable. Not sure how much ice Bickett gets.

We are all presuming Stewart is the 1.
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I think you put McCarthey Scannell and Halverson back together - "getting the band back together!"
 
Timothy A said:
McNaughton was doing some out of character things yesterday. During warm-ups when they're doing the continuous loop shooting, usually the goalies try to stop just about every shooter. She was skipping every two three shooters and trying to focus on just one. When the game started she was being very vocal and which is very different than her usual self and Badger goalies in general. Once a couple goals went in, she was back to being quiet. I hope this isn't USA Hockey screwing her up like they are doing Edwards.
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I think you owe her the benefit of the doubt on a few things here!

1. McNaughton has been stellar against OSU, UMD, and St Thomas. She's bound to have a little bit of an "off" day every once in a while.
2. When you look at how fast the warm-up shots are in that loop-de-loop shooting, it's pretty much impossible to stop each one, so rather than hurt the confidence she, presumably, wanted to dial in on just one out of every couple. You tend to see this in the NHL, too- albeit they often shoot much slower than the Badgers do since their warm-ups are longer.
3. You have to give a bit of credit to Bemidji, too. Just because they are the last team in the conference doesn't mean they aren't skilled players. Sure, the first one was a bit of a squeaker, but a breakaway and a power-play goal where the BSU player was pushed on top of her by Venusio don't really seem "out of character". Anyone can score on any given day, given the golden opportunities the team tends to give up often.
4. I have actually noticed her communicating more often than past Badger goalies in every game- to the point where you can even hear her on the broadcast. That's not always a bad thing. It's helpful to have clear communication in a fast game like hockey.

Anyway, definitely not her best game, but I don't think she was as bad as you made her sound. She looked great on Sunday, and we don't need her best hockey now- we need it in March.
 
FYI:
An email this morning prompting a "request for WCHA Quarterfinals tickets", Feb 27,28, March 1.

($18,50 per ticket; pretty sure last year was $11.)
 
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