Badger Hockey

[trwi7]

Michigan and Michigan State were in the WCHA at one time. I don't remember the reason they left. Travel costs?

 

Notre Dame and Ohio State were too.

[tristarscoop]

Another decommit for Eaves - all seem to be for different reasons, but the PR is not reflecting well in the hockey community. Lots of teams over-recruit and lost guys, but UW isn't usually one of them...

[TuesdaysWithRillo]

Which player now?

 

Also, I find it funny that Alabama-Hunstville has a hockey team.

[Diskono]

Brock Montpetit. He committed to UW a couple years ago, supposedly was disappointed that Eaves didn't add him to this season's squad, and was concerned about playing time next year. As a player, he's not a huge loss for UW, but things like this might hurt their reputation in the future.

[TuesdaysWithRillo]

I think it's a good problem to have when recruits decommit because the current players on the team are too good for them to get ice time. The Badgers have a lot of quality players that are starting to get their act together. Although, you are right that it could be damaging in the future when Wisconsin develops the reputation of recruiting for quantity and not quality.

[TuesdaysWithRillo]

Not a bad weekend taking 2 points on the road. Now it's time to play our real rivals in Michigan and Michigan St.

[trwi7]

Surprised this hasn't been bumped yet. Badgers sweep Michigan and Michigan State for the first time since their national championship season. Now 7-7-2 on the season and 7-1-1 in their last nine games.

[logan82]

Like we all thought, brutal stretch to start the season. Too bad we couldn't have picked up a win or two in the first 7 games. Still remains to be seen how good we really are.

[hawing]

You know, when I look at this thread title in the off-topic thread list, with the page numbers after it (currently 1,2,3,4,5,6), it makes me think of Hockey Phil:

One, two, three, four, five, six...we want more!

 

Sorry, carry on with the real hockey talk.

[PeaveyFury]

Starting to come together Pepper, starting to come together.

 

Beating Michigan after they were coming off a big win vs #1 Minnesota on Friday is especially impressive.

[stoutdude04]

Beating Michigan after they were coming off a big win vs #1 Minnesota on Friday is especially impressive.

I actually figured that Michigan would have a bit of a hangover...great win regardless.

[BraunROY]

Great couple of games this weekend. I was especially impressed with the way they controlled the puck in both games. I don't know where that has been most of the season but it was great to see them making some great passes and centering the puck. I don't know the actual stats but it honestly felt like they controlled the puck 75% of the game on Friday and over 60% on Saturday. Anyway, if they can keep this play up the rest of the year they will be just fine.

[danzig6767]

Like we all thought, brutal stretch to start the season. Too bad we couldn't have picked up a win or two in the first 7 games. Still remains to be seen how good we really are.

Yea, we could be in so much better shape if it weren't for all those leads blown in the third period earlier on in the season. Hopefully the team doesn't end up one or two games short of an NCAA bid, they kick themselves for gagging away all those leads.

[stoops17]

Had a great time at the game on Saturday, first time I have ever sat that close. 3rd row overall, 2nd row behind student section goal judge. Made for great viewing of the Badgers' goals. And I also got to hear the guy that does the research on the opposing goalie, he had dirt on Michigan's Sauer that went back to before high school. I was dying of laughter and Sauer definately heard him a few times as he turned around and glared at the guy.

 

Big wins for the team, too bad they went mostly untelevised, as both the other games made the Big Ten Network, but nothing but next day replay for the Badgers on tv.

[tristarscoop]

After the start to the season, it's amazing that we made it above .500 before Christmas. Things are definitely looking up.

 

Heading out on Saturday for the women's game, dinner at the Dane and then the men's game.

[logan82]

First place. We are awesome. I doubt it last more than a week though. We have played more games(14) than Minnesota(10), Denver(12) and CC(12). They all could pass us up although CC is playing at Minnesota next weekend. We should start getting a little love in the polls soon. Hopefully we get Geoffrion and Gardiner back shortly after the holidays.

 

It was nice to see both games on TV this weekend. Now if they could just do that every weekend. That would be great.

[trwi7]

Yeah, we should start climbing, might not make it in this week. We got one vote in the USA Today poll last week. We got 72 votes in the USCHO/CBS poll. 22nd in that poll, St. Cloud State was ahead of us and they swept Minnesota State this weekend and Alaska was ranked 20th and they lost to Nebraska-Omaha in a shootout on Friday and beat them in a shootout Saturday.

[lodiness]

Wow, I did not know that. It seems like an awful burden for the Alaskan teams, do they just pay part of it?

This is pretty common in most sports. The Football team pays all non-conference teams to come to camp Randall (Unless there is a contract to go play at their place), B-ball pays for some teams to come to Kohl, etc.

[TuesdaysWithRillo]

Great stretch for the Badgers. I was at Friday's game and even though they got outshot and didn't play well, they still got the win, and it was encouraging to see that with 2 key players injured we won convincingly on Saturday. Connelly has also been a brick wall in the goal. Very nice work by him, despite our criticism before the season.

[logan82]

Well so much for 1st place. Lasted about as long as I thought it would. I can't wait for the 2nd half of the season to start.

[hawing]

There's only one (forum-friendly) word needed to sum up that Northern Michigan series...ow. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/frown.gif

[trwi7]

Dangit hawing, I'm searching up and down pages 2-10 looking for this thread and you bump it while I'm looking for it.

 

Brutal series. At least the Admirals won and have the second best record in the AHL.

[logan82]

This thread has a tag. You can find it under "hockey."

[hawing]

Yeah, I used the hockey tag to locate the thread.

[TuesdaysWithRillo]

Horrible weekend. Lost a 3 goal lead in the 3rd period and then lost in OT on Sat and lost by one goal on Friday. Let's hope this doesn't carry into conference play. It will be nice to get the Canadians back from the Junior games.