All Things Hockey:

[yourout]

What a terrible line change to end it.

[yourout]

Just have to find some more offensive talent.

[stoutdude04]

Yea, the line change was brutal. Badgers had a few good opportunities to score. I actually thought they outplayed them in the 3rd. Tendy had a huge save on Lucious with like 6 min in the game.

[yourout]

They went four and six over the last 10 games and in every win they scored at least three goals and in every loss they scored two or less.

One more dynamic scorer and they probably would be playing for a national championship.

Digging deeper only one time did they score three goals or more and lose the whole season.

3 was the magic number.

23-1-1 when scoring 3 or more.

[RedStickBrew]

@yourout @stoutdude04. I enjoyed the Badger Hockey conversation this season. Here’s to next year. See you then 

[yourout]

4 minutes ago, RedStickBrew said:

@yourout @stoutdude04. I enjoyed the Badger Hockey conversation this season. Here’s to next year. See you then 

Right back at you.

Futures bright for a change.

[stoutdude04]

Whitelaw entered the portal. Bummer - hes good.

[yourout]

3 hours ago, stoutdude04 said:

Whitelaw entered the portal. Bummer - hes good.

That's too bad. That's the one of the guys we really couldn't afford to lose

[stoutdude04]

13 players from Northern Michigan have entered the portal...what are we doing here? This is literally the wild west.

[stoutdude04]

Stramel to the portal.  Not really surprised.  Spent a lot of time on the 3rd and 4th line and got switched from center to wing.  Doubly not surprised after Whitelaw hit the portal.  They are good buddies and grew up playing together.

[LouisEly]

Hockey players are thinking that they can get NIL amounts like basketball and football players are getting.

I think they're going to be disappointed.

[yourout]

With the portal and NIL I'm not sure why anyone would want to become a college coach anymore.

[Samurai Bucky]

On 4/3/2024 at 4:13 PM, LouisEly said:

Hockey players are thinking that they can get NIL amounts like basketball and football players are getting.

I think they're going to be disappointed.

I actually did see a Wisconsin hockey player on a commercial over the weekend outside of the Madison area.  There is a first for everything.

[RedStickBrew]

On 4/3/2024 at 12:57 AM, stoutdude04 said:

13 players from Northern Michigan have entered the portal...what are we doing here? This is literally the wild west.

Well, at least two of those players will be Badgers next year

[Jimbo]

14 hours ago, yourout said:

With the portal and NIL I'm not sure why anyone would want to become a college coach anymore.

Apparently, Paul Chryst didn't.

[stoutdude04]

15 hours ago, RedStickBrew said:

Well, at least two of those players will be Badgers next year

Different school.  Bucky got 2 solid players from Michigan Tech.  NMU had a mutiny or something.  My good buddy played there in the early/mid 2000s, so I keep an eye on the program.

[LouisEly]

12 hours ago, stoutdude04 said:

Different school.  Bucky got 2 solid players from Michigan Tech.  NMU had a mutiny or something.  My good buddy played there in the early/mid 2000s, so I keep an eye on the program.

Most of the kids who go into the portal are looking for a bag.  Let's be real.

And NMU doesn't have squat for NIL funds.

[stoutdude04]

20 minutes ago, LouisEly said:

Most of the kids who go into the portal are looking for a bag.  Let's be real.

And NMU doesn't have squat for NIL funds.

For sure, however, 13 is so many.

[stoutdude04]

Hearing that Lucius is entering the portal. Lame.

[yourout]

17 minutes ago, stoutdude04 said:

Hearing that Lucius is entering the portal. Lame.

Ugh.... This team was somewhat offensively challenged to begin with and it's getting worse by the day

[RedStickBrew]

Cruz Lucius did in fact enter the transfer portal. Ouch
 

A third transfer has now committed to the Badgers- Goalie from RIT

[stoutdude04]

28 minutes ago, RedStickBrew said:

Cruz Lucius did in fact enter the transfer portal. Ouch
 

A third transfer has now committed to the Badgers- Goalie from RIT

Supposedly he has a 'do not contact' next to his name, so I am guessing he is going to Arizona State as the rumors mentioned.  

Stramel commits to Michigan State.

[RedStickBrew]

Congratulations Kyle McClellan

 

[nate82]

Really good game 7 so far with Boston and Toronto.  I don’t like either team but the game has been good.

[Outlander]

So frustrating to see the Admirals fall behind 0-2 in the playoffs after having a great regular season. They won 19 in a row during the season so can win three in a row now but will be very disappointing if they don't get out of the first round. Regular season success with early exits is getting old fast for Wisconsin sports teams.