HockeyFan31
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Gotta love Big Mike, dude just goes out and throws strikes. He got hit a little last night but obviously the bats picked him up. A shame they couldn't do the same for Gibson Monday but it happens. We all rip Gibby, deservedly so more often than not, but he only gave up one more run than Big Mike did last night.
Also, I literally LOLed when the squirrel ran through Kepler's legs.
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13 hours ago, jodcon said:
2 hitter. Or 6 hits and 4 walks in 3 innings. One of those.
So true, all or nothing with Gibson.
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17 hours ago, SWSiouxMN said:
Polanco has had an AWFUL series from the field
Seriously bad. Horrible throws and missed a couple of catches that a 3rd grader could have probably made on force outs and/or potential double play turns.
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14 hours ago, SWSiouxMN said:
Please let Good Gibby show up tomorrow
Couple first inning solo bombas for him. Let's see if Gibson can hold up his end of the deal and the bats can add some runs as we go.
EDIT: No sooner do I submit this message and Gibson goes lead off single, passed ball, walk......
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47 minutes ago, Wilbur said:
Theme from last night....Rocco bailed out again......
In hold situations past the 7th inning the order of operations should be: Duffy, Dyson, Romo, Rodgers. And insert May as a last resort.
It's also a great time for them to figure out their left handed specialist. Is it Thorpe? Is it Smeltzer? No way should Harper be pitching to a lefty in the 7th with a two run lead and the tying runs on.
Harper had a pretty good first half of the season, but he's been really rough for the past month or so. I don't necessarily disagree with you but Rocco can't pitch Romo and Rogers every day. Not to mention Rogers has been horrendous on the second day of pitching back to back. Other guys are going to have to piece some innings together when you have a starting staff as inconsistent as the Twins have. Not saying Rocco is above criticism but to say he's been bailed out all season.....meh.
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23 hours ago, Wilbur said:
scouting report on Puig being a block head
Your description of him is too kind IMO. What a tool that guy is.....
Bummer of a weekend. Oh well, on to the border battle.
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12 hours ago, UNDMOORHEAD said:
Hopefully the good version of one of the Twins pitchers will show up soon. It has been tough to watch lately.
The crazy part is the when the Twins hit they don't even need really good pitching. They just need to be average. Twins have scored 5 or more runs in each game this week and have only won a single game. That's on the pitching IMO. That said, the bats had their chances to pick up their pitchers last night in the 8th and again in the 9th, couldn't get a big two out hit.
Cleveland has used a lot of relievers in their doubleheader Wednesday and again last night. Hopefully the Twins can keep it close with Bieber starting tonight and take advantage of the tired bullpen late.
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17 hours ago, UNDMOORHEAD said:
The pitching needs to step up or the playoffs won't last long.
Gotta hope the rotation can hold it together for the remainder of the regular season. Do teams usually go with a three man rotation in the playoffs? I could handle Berrios, Odorizzi, and Gibson(on a short leash) in the postseason. I mean, it's no Verlander, Greinke, and Cole but, really, who is?
I'd like to think Perez would be good to move to the bullpen but he can't even make it through the order one time so I have trouble picturing him coming out of the pen to get out of a jam.
All in all, I agree it's just fun to be talking Twins at this time of the year. New biggest series of the year starts tonight, I hope Target Field is just electric!
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10 minutes ago, ArchyAlum11 said:
The U of M would never allow Crookston to add hockey, if the U of M had it its way they would be the ONLY school, in Minnesota with a D1 athletics program, and all the state universities would go back to being teachers colleges. Don't make the mistake conflating the wishes of John Mariucci with the wishes of the U of M, The U of M lobby Machine only wants one thing, total dominance over Minnesota Higher Ed. They are big reason why Minnesota, one of the highest taxed a wealthiest states per-capita in the union only has a single D1 institution, never-mind the face that MNSU, UMD and SCSU are all large enough and theoretically have enough of budget that could handle the move to D1 FCS but are still sitting static at D2.
Not sure I buy all this.
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5 hours ago, cberkas said:
John Hopkins is king in lacrosse, it had a lot to do with them needing John Hopkins (who was independent) to get the B1G an auto bid in lacrosse.
Notre Dame was added because they were getting embarrassed by not getting more then one or two teams in the NCAA tournament. Notre Dame in their first season in the conference destroyed everyone in the B1G.
Notre Dame's original decision to go Hockey East after the realignment was a head scratcher for me though. Yes, Notre Dame instantly made the B1G more competitive but truthfully it made sense for both parties way more so than Notre Dame's jump to HE. I don't think the B1G hockey conference said "Hey, we suck. We need to add a new member to be more competitive nationally.", it just worked out that Notre Dame was on an upswing(while Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan outside of their Frozen Four run have all been very underwhelming) and rolled the conference in their first year.
Plus I think the B1G still holds out hope that by catering to them in other sports Notre Dame will join for football/all sports even though that ship has sailed a million times over
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On 6/22/2019 at 9:48 AM, SiouxForever said:
Idk how Wisconsin lands a few studs. Program still is average despite Granto being there
Well when you have like fifty player recruiting classes you're bound to land some good players and you can weed out who you do/don't want. This won't be the first year that an incoming class has had high expectations for Granato though and it has yet to work out. Not saying it won't ever work out with Granato in Sconnie but I am in "I'll believe it until I see it" mode until those highly touted classes turn out the expected results.
But like I've said in other threads, I don't understand how Wisconsin lands all these huge recruiting classes. At some point you'd think the kids/parents would look at their class on paper and ask "where do I fit in?" and start bailing.
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39 minutes ago, BarnWinterSportsEngelstad said:
BTN - Hockey is televised by the B1G, creates revenue for it's members.
I understand that. But the B1G gets nothing from regular season ticket sales though so I'm not sure where your "double whammy" comes in.
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8 minutes ago, stoneySIOUX said:
Double whammy for what? I'm not sure how the B1G viewership ratings matters in this conversation about attendance. I watched nearly every Minny game on TV last year and I don't think there was ever a game I saw 7,000 there.
Yeah, I'm not sure what that post was getting at. Regular season ticket revenue all goes to the institutions, the only thing the B1G gets anything out of is the playoff series.
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14 hours ago, siouxforce19 said:
Not in the contract I would suppose. Personally I would have just moved the Gopher football game to Thanksgiving instead. People already watch football on Thanksgiving.
Doubt they would do that because it would be an absolute waste trying to go up against the NFL games for any neutral viewers. Minnesota has big time football attendance issues as well so I don't think they'd want to go up against family time. You'd cut into potential Wisconsin travelers as well that way.
I know a few B1G teams play Friday of Thanksgiving weekend but that still wouldn't help this situation unless, again, you go to a Sunday game. But you'd be going up against the NFL again if you do a Sunday game that weekend although that is a bye week for the Vikings which would be a minor plus in favor of a Sunday game in the Twin Cities at least I suppose.
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13 hours ago, UNDBIZ said:
I'd guess their scheduling is almost entirely dictated by the B1G network or FSN.
Correct and most football game times aren't announced until a week or two before the game. They often try to bump better matchups to the later time slot for more viewership.
So Minnesota, having no idea what time that football game will be played, didn't have much of a choice aside from a Friday/Sunday series and most people seem to despise college hockey being played on a Sunday and/or a day off in the middle of a series. Televised college football games are averaging almost three and a half hours these days(which is ridiculous, but that is a different discussion). If that football game ends up being a 2:30-3ish kickoff.....well, I'm not great at math but that would be a MESS with traffic, (lack of) parking, bars/restaurants, etc coinciding with hockey fans arriving.
I don't really like it either but there wasn't much of a choice with the particular weekend, JMHO. That said, if it's ok with my family I might just make an appearance at Mariucci after our traditional early afternoon Thanksgiving meal.
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19 minutes ago, MafiaMan said:
Maybe it's just me, but it seems like Minnesota scores on 9 out of every 10 power plays, while North Dakota converts on 1 out of every 100.
In the second half of last year it sure seemed like it. But I think they lost 4 of the 5 forwards they skated out on PP1 so it will be interesting to see if anyone can pick up the slack there. They had no D to quarterback and that's a big ask of a freshman D.
EDIT: That said after looking it up, overall the NCHC had better PK teams than the B1G with four teams in the bottom 15 in the country. Minnesota very well could have been loading up on PP goals against bad teams.
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54 minutes ago, franchise said:
It's kind of crazy that they actually play on different size rinks. I could see a playmaker that isn't a fan of contact, giving the edge to a place like St Cloud on the big sheet
Agreed, I wish there was a way college hockey could mandate that but with many older rinks and underfunded programs it would be next to impossible to get everyone on the same playing field(rink size).
But it is interesting on a week to week basis during the season keeping an eye on where your team will play on the road next and what size rink they have.
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27 minutes ago, franchise said:
Coaches, team success, system, friends on the team, location of the school, size of the rink...
Interesting take on the rink size. Heard a fair amount of chatter over the last few years that the big rink size at Mariucci is a recruiting detriment for guys with NHL aspirations. I thought I heard they were going to shrink the ice sheet but that obviously has not happened at this point. No one seems to be complaining about rink size in St Cloud, though.
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5 minutes ago, Goon said:
Their* Hairy Buffalo's are awesome.
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Agreed on St Cloud's arena. Had some fun times pregaming though. MC's Dugout has a free shuttle to the game, that's really the only place I've even pregamed there. I've heard tons of stories about the Red Carpet though
Lots of fun places to pregame in Mankato but the arena is a lot like St Cloud IMO.
I always love Duluth trips. So many places to go there!
Would love to make a Denver or CO Springs trip one of these years.
Omaha is still one of my favorite/memorable roadtrips. The outcomes of the games sure helped on that one but our group had so much fun! That was the old arena though, not sure what their new barn is like.
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On 4/27/2019 at 11:33 AM, tnt said:
Lindmark and Turcotte aren’t too shabby either. If Wisconsin has enough grit guys, they could be pretty scary. Like BU, their window with a few of these guys may be pretty short.
Jury is still out on Granato IMO. He's got the talent coming in for sure, I'm still kind of in a "believe it when I see it" mode of thinking to see if he can piece it all together from a coaching standpoint.
p.s. They always have good classes on paper because they have 50 player classes it seems. I can't believe the commits they get at a certain point when most of them won't make it to campus.
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1 hour ago, siouxfaninseattle said:
Not if UND is there. No difference than it being in Denver travel wise except a car rental might be needed. And there are plenty of UND fans in the area.
It seats a little over 5k for hockey so I'd think UND could pack 'em in if they got placed there.
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12 hours ago, Wilbur said:
How bout a more money move?
Call Motzko about that if he needs advice since, according to Husky fans, the only reason he took the Minnesota job was for the money.
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3 hours ago, siouxforcefans said:
Heard a nice story on him last night. Apparently he committed to UMass before the bigger names came calling, then stood by his commitment to the school that wanted him early. When Canada wanted him to play in the Olympics, he said no, as he owed it to his team to play the season with them. Seems to have a loyalty score way off the charts -
I believe Bucci and Melrose mentioned multiple times that he committed prior to the coaching change and still stuck with it. In a time where it seems recruits flip flop all too often, it's nice to see someone stick to their word.
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True. Like I said, a lot of the ripping Gibby takes is deserved. And I totally agree, the consistency is just not there.
Pineda on the other hand......you pretty much know what you're getting every time out. Dick alluded to that last night during the broadcast if I'm remembering correctly. He gushes over Big Mike basically every start, though, so it's tough to remember sometimes.