All Things Hockey:

[Joseph Zarr]

A day of conflicted joy: Badgers advance but at the expense of One Charlie Stramel breaking his ankle. I had sincerely hoped he would get an opportunity to wear the Wild sweater late season after they (come on lads, any day now!) clinched their post-season berth. Likely wishful thinking, regardless, but what an awful way for Him to exit what was a fabulous season. 

[RedStickBrew]

11 minutes ago, yourout said:

How many F4s has Hastings been in?

This will be his 3rd I believe

[RedStickBrew]

1 minute ago, Joseph Zarr said:

A day of conflicted joy: Badgers advance but at the expense of One Charlie Stramel breaking his ankle. I had sincerely hoped he would get an opportunity to wear the Wild sweater late season after they (come on lads, any day now!) clinched their post-season berth. Likely wishful thinking, regardless, but what an awful way for Him to exit what was a fabulous season. 

Stramel was a former Badger who transferred to the enemy. You are not likely to find much sympathy from the Badger fans here- just sayin! 

[Joseph Zarr]

12 minutes ago, RedStickBrew said:

Stramel was a former Badger who transferred to the enemy. You are not likely to find much sympathy from the Badger fans here- just sayin! 

LOL. I get that part of the fandom. But, I'm not looking for an ounce of sympathy. I am simply sharing my feels - after all, this thread is titled 'All Things Hockey'🤔 . Elated for Bucky. Bummed that classic Minnesota Wild luck is already rubbing off the wrong way on their current top prospect. THO, Benak may be the better player when all is said and done this go around.

[RedStickBrew]

@Joseph ZarrI get it. Just meant it to be a little light ribbin  is all. I wish Charlie the best and am sure he’ll be strong and ready for next season

[yourout]

47 minutes ago, Joseph Zarr said:

A day of conflicted joy: Badgers advance but at the expense of One Charlie Stramel breaking his ankle. I had sincerely hoped he would get an opportunity to wear the Wild sweater late season after they (come on lads, any day now!) clinched their post-season berth. Likely wishful thinking, regardless, but what an awful way for Him to exit what was a fabulous season. 

Tough way to end your college career.

[Sixtolezcano]

2 hours ago, RedStickBrew said:

Stramel was a former Badger who transferred to the enemy. You are not likely to find much sympathy from the Badger fans here- just sayin! 

Go WILD.

[Yaz19]

Such a LONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG wait to climb back up that mountain again.  So freaking happy today.   For whatever reason Badger Hockey has its tendrils firmly planted in my heart.  Been that way since my first Late night tape delay WPT game back in February 1984.

After that miraculous comeback anything is possible in Vegas.  The boys need to keep an even keel and go beat the Fighting Sioux!

[yourout]

UND and Denver are going to be tough outs In the Frozen four. 

I'm not sure a big 10 team can beat either of those two right now.

[stoutdude04]

4 hours ago, yourout said:

UND and Denver are going to be tough outs In the Frozen four. 

I'm not sure a big 10 team can beat either of those two right now.

If I had to rank them based on my own observations, id put them as No Dak, Michigan, Denver, Bucky. 

However, it only takes 1 game and 2 weeks to prep is a good chunk of time.

[LouisEly]

On 3/28/2026 at 6:09 PM, Joseph Zarr said:

A day of conflicted joy: Badgers advance but at the expense of One Charlie Stramel breaking his ankle. 

I'd call it karma.

[yourout]

6 minutes ago, LouisEly said:

I'd call it karma.

That championship game had a lot of symmetry. 

Dexheimer had a hand in the first goal we gave up with the deflection off his stick flipping over the shoulder of Hauser and he gets the game winner bouncing off a defenseman in front of Augustine

[nate82]

The PWHL is probably the closest Milwaukee will get for a professional hockey team.  The media market though seems to be the biggest stopper for Milwaukee.

One thing Milwaukee has an advantage over Chicago is that the Fiserv Forum only has the Bucks and Marquette.  While Chicago has the Blackhawks and Bulls.  Chicago would have to build a new arena for a PWHL team and I don’t think that will happen.

Still a pipe dream for Milwaukee to receive a professional hockey team.

[RedStickBrew]

Game day. 4PM on ESPN 2. I saw it reported that Zach Schulz practiced with the team this week. Not sure if or how much he will play. But it would be nice to get some shifts from him today. 

[RedStickBrew]

 

[RedStickBrew]

Nice first period. Outshot UND 15-4. Would have been nice to put one more in the net but happy with 2-0 lead. 

[Samurai Bucky]

4 minutes ago, RedStickBrew said:

Nice first period. Outshot UND 15-4. Would have been nice to put one more in the net but happy with 2-0 lead. 

I checked out the life feed and I had to refresh the page.  I couldn't believe they only gave up four shots.  

https://www.ncaa.com/game/6538230/team-stats

[RedStickBrew]

3 minutes ago, Samurai Bucky said:

I checked out the life feed and I had to refresh the page.  I couldn't believe they only gave up four shots.  

https://www.ncaa.com/game/6538230/team-stats

Our forecheck was really good. Hope they keep the pressure on.

[Sixtolezcano]

When you say WISCONSIN you’ve said it all.

[homer]

22 hours ago, nate82 said:

The PWHL is probably the closest Milwaukee will get for a professional hockey team.  The media market though seems to be the biggest stopper for Milwaukee.

One thing Milwaukee has an advantage over Chicago is that the Fiserv Forum only has the Bucks and Marquette.  While Chicago has the Blackhawks and Bulls.  Chicago would have to build a new arena for a PWHL team and I don’t think that will happen.

Still a pipe dream for Milwaukee to receive a professional hockey team.

Chicago also has the All State arena.

[nate82]

4 minutes ago, homer said:

Chicago also has the All State arena.

That was built in 1980.  I think they would want something newer and not sharing a facility with an AHL team.  If the facility were newer I think they would overlook the sharing of the facility.  But with it being almost 50 years old that just doesn’t make any sense.

If Milwaukee had a bigger media market it would be a no brainer to put a team in Milwaukee with the Fiserv Forum being relatively new.

[RedStickBrew]

Lucky to still be 2-0 after two periods especially with the ref show making it 5 on 3 for almost a full two minutes. Huge for UW to kill that off. Now they need to close it out. 

[RedStickBrew]

Skating for a natty on Saturday sounds good to me

[stoutdude04]

Penalty kill was awesome. Hauser was great. Wow. Awesome awesome game. Nearly blew it messing up the 2-0. Then at the end Fitz could have skated itnout the zone and whiffed it. Then he shoots instead of just sliding it into the corner. Wow. Awesome game.

[homer]

Woo hoo!