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  1. 17 hours ago, Irish said:

    I just don't get how a seasoned goalie with his stats last year can come to a better program with perhaps the best goalie coach in college hockey and play like he has.

    Playing devil’s advocate…

    Wouldn’t Driscoll’s performance to date coupled with the fact that the Freshmen aren’t able to challenge him for playing time run counter to the narrative that Karl is “perhaps the best goalie coach in college hockey?”

  2. 4 hours ago, siouxnatty#8 said:

    I guess time will tell.  I guess the way I look at this is that as the season wears on to tournament time a good shutdown line becomes just as important as a good scoring punch.  Look at when the Frattin team lost to Mich. their defense beat our high powered offense.  Just depends what side of the puck you look at I guess.

    But Michigan did it the old-fashioned way with a hot goalie and not a shutdown line.  Speaking of which, I’m more worried about having a trustworthy goaltender than a shutdown line come tournament time. 

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  3. On 2/25/2021 at 4:39 PM, The Sicatoka said:

    A few years back DU(?) had a goalie that liked to pile crease snow by the outsides of the pipes so if a shot on the ice missed short it would be deadened by all the snow instead of kicking back out hard.

    I think it was Skarp that had enough and came through during a whistle as a "plow driver" and his stick blade was the plow blade. Behind the goal line the piles went. 

    Minor melee followed. ;) 

    1999 Final Five comes to mind. Target Center. My memory is a bit foggy but I seem to remember Stephen Wagner and Lee Goren being the actors in this one.  

  4. Just now, bcblues said:

    Don't all NCHC rinks have the standard top down goal cameras? That should have been close enough to capture the goal. But from what I saw from the TV coverage of the review monitor, it all looked like rink TV coverage, not the top down. Maybe the tip in was outside the top down view?

    I think that is true, but if they were reviewing it for a high stick that top-down angle wouldn’t really be able to show anything conclusive. 

  5. 23 hours ago, squirtcoach said:

    I have a question for those who know hockey that I really can’t figure out.

    When friend of mine asked why Mankato is doing so well, I remembered a quip from Tom H during the October series that the Mavs had a line consisting of three 25 year olds “who would be filing for social security when they graduated”.  I said the Mavs are a lot older than the Bulldogs.  
     

    On a whim I looked up the Maverick roster and saw only ‘94-‘97 birthdays.  Then I started thinking; how did you have 22 year old freshmen?  Where did they play after juniors?  I randomly clicked on the link to Shane McMahan’s bio. He was done with Juniors in 2016 and last year was his first year with the Mavs. His bio is silent on where he played in the intervening years.  So my question is: Where does a guy play for two years between Juniors and College?  Canadian Seniors?

    Thanks for your insight.

    Shhhh...don’t tell gopher fans this. The Mavs will be their team in March/April as they root to “keep it in the state.”

  6. 13 minutes ago, 06 Sioux said:

    Anyone think Motzko is regretting taking the U of M job?

    In the first intermission feature he said he was thankful for “being back in the state of Minnesota....been gone a long time...”

    St. Cloud is a long way from the STATE of Minnesota apparently. 

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  7. I question the bullpen moves, but getting these guys in early in the series may have been the plan to help them not crap their pants later. It’s just tough with only a 5 game series. It’s the only way I can rationalize some of Rocco’s odd choices. 

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