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T.J. Oshie
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Um, with all due respect, Trupp's goal was from an assist by Ryan Martens, as was Vande's goal.
(But thank you for playing. Bob, tell 808287 what prize he's won...)
Dang! Fact checkers day off. Mea culpa.
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I totally disagree. Marto is a great skater who can move the puck up the ice. I think they are pretty equal players at this point. A lot of posters on this board have never and will never give Marto a decent chance at winning them over.
FWIW - The team scored three goals in two games against the Gophers. A defenseman named Marto is the fellow who dished the puck to Trupp for the game winner Friday night, and a defenseman named Marto is the fellow who centered the puck that VandeVelde spanked home to tie the game in the third on Saturday.
Both HUGE goals and in one of the highest pressure games of the year (at The John against the hated rodents). And THIS coming from a freshman.
I like where this young man is going...and I'll have him in my D-Corps any day..
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That is a nice article and it would be nice to see Phil win the Hobey but the Media isn't going to give the award a goalie this season.
In the fact I hate to admit it but the Committee has already given Porter or Ryan Jones name on the award.
The bigger factor than "not going to a goalie" may be "not going to the same school two years straight"...but I would love to see J-P keep up these numbers and make them deny the obvious choice...ok...well...I'd like to see him MAKE THEM AWARD IT TO HIM.
The Hobey is Porter's to lose, at this point...but if he slips and J-P stays rock solid and perhaps notches another shut out or two (BSU, UMD anyone?) he's got a pretty good chance. Especially if the team clears his rebounds.
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That is why I like UND's chances this year maybe more than last season. Anything can happen.
Agreed. Last season we had "The Line". This year we have "The Team".
#8 in '08!!!
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Sounds like Cary Eades hockey
It does, and this would be an excellent weekend to play the body, hard. Show the Pioneers their faces in the glass behind Manino, just before they sink to their knees.
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Excellent! Nice job.
I'd sure love to see him make the short list!
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I know this is a little off topic, but with Miami's goalie letting in 10 last weekend, and Bachman letting in a few, our man Jean-Philippe is now sitting atop the NCAA Goalie stats. Combine that with the Fighting Sioux Strength of Schedule ranking of #1 (hardest schedule) and I think we have a serious Hobey candidate between the pipes.
I'm just sayin'....
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Zajac is actually the one who's out on Friday, not Finley.
My bad...Zajac it is. Thanks for the correction!
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This will be anything but an easy matchup for the Sioux. Denver may be missing Trotter, but the Sioux will be missing Finley for the first game, and their Coach for both (though I don't think the latter will do anything but entice them to play with more heart). Mr. Eades is comfortable at the helm, and the team is comfortable with J-P between the pipes.
The points at stake for the weekend are HUGE for both teams and the intensity will be high. This could be the best series of the year at the REA...those of you with tickets are in for a real treat.
Look for Kaip and Duncan to set the standard for working hard each shift...the rest of the team will follow.
I look for the team to raise their sticks and salute Coach Hakstol and the rest of the fans on Saturday night!
GO SIOUX!!!!
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DU Empty net 4-1
Yet another impressive 1 point weekend for the Golden goofs.
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Where have you heard anyone calling for Lucia's head?
There was an article on USCHO last week that spoke of the last time the Gophers finished an under-achieving season was "Woogs last year"...but it stopped short of calling for Lucia's head.
The season isn't over yet, but if the goofers keep this trend going, AND turn in another year like this next season, I would think that Lucia may be best served to look at other career options. Not predicting...just sayin'...
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College hockey is the greatest game on earth.The WCHA needs to do something about its refereeing program.
Amen.
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Now that the Coach's part in this "incident" has been dealt with, I am hoping some of you will join me in writing to the WCHA and asking that they "deal with" the other side of this "incident".
That being the sort of officiating that might make a WCHA Coach lose composure to the degree of forgetting the presence of cameras and make such a gesture to the AR. I am not excusing Coach Hakstol at all here, just saying that there is another side to this that really should be addressed by the WCHA.
If the WCHA can look at tape and hand out penalties after the game, they should also be taking a better look at the work of their own officials.
It seemed to me that a degree of control was missing from Saturday's game...and it wasn't all Coach Hakstol's.
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Mr. Duncan.
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A productive weekend of hockey playing in a traditional rivalry series in a hostile barn. Sure, a sweep would be nice. Sure scoring more goals would be nice. That's hockey. Sometimes you win 2-1, sometimes you win 6-5, heck, sometimes you win 10-0. Sometimes you are on. Sometimes you are a step off. What is important is learn what it takes to win, whether it is 1-0 or 7-3. They both add up to two points in the standings. A team develops over time. Expectations for big results, week in and week out, is simply unreasonable. This is the WCHA. A nine game streak, or whatever it is, is damned impressive from a group of boys who have been listening to their coaches, working hard, learning from losses, and even ties, and melding into a championship caliber team. I am not going to worry about lack of scoring, or "playing down" to your opponent, so long as wins continue to accrue and so long as the team continues to meld. The mission is on. The goal is Denver. The drive has begun.
There is no shame at all to taking three of four from a perennial power, playing in its own barn with its back on the wall. The team that lost Oshie and still beat Michigan State 6-0 on October 13 has played 25 games since that time, has learned much about themselves along the way, is safely back home in Grand Forks this morning, and will be well ready for Denver and the rest of The Drive. I am glad that we are no longer looking at the team that beat MSU in the opener. We are looking at a much much better team than that, final scores be damned. Final scores mean little to nothing. It is the W's and L's that are of consequence.
Great series. Great fun. All five matches in the First Round will be wide open and well up for grabs. The make-up of the Final Five has rarely been more in question this late in the season.
All excellent points, sir, and well argued. It is the "W" that counts. Like I said, I'll watch the Sioux take three points out of the John and be happy every time...there is no shame in that at all. I think it's just my personal "comfort level" that wants to see more lopsided scoring...especially against the brown and yellow.
So, let us turn our attention to DU, who will be hungry for points after this past weekend. The Drive continues!
And yes, the Final Five should be very interesting and competitive hockey this year.
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I share your concerns Heidi. In spite of what the scoreboard has been showing lately, and what some pundits would like us to believe, there is goal-scoring talent on this team that has been largely absent since November.
We laid 6 on St. Cloud and 5 on Mankato, but really no offensive showcase since the 8-spot against Duluth around Thanksgiving.
I think going into Mariucci and taking 3 points from the Gophers is a great showing, but I will feel a whole lot better about this team when I see some more goals. And a lot less shots allowed.
Lamoureux has been playing really, really well. (And I am not exactly one of his biggest fans.) But I don't think we can count on him carrying this team by only allowing 1 goal per game the rest of the way out. Wins come a lot easier when you're putting up 4 or 5 goals a game instead for a weekend.
(edit: Nice avatar Homey.
)I am with you both, concerned that the Sioux lowered their play to Gopher level rather than make the Gophers play Sioux hockey. The lack of offensive production is a concern...I had expected a seven to nine goal weekend from the Sioux...not three. To score three goals and come out of the John with three points is truly amazing...and fortunate. Lamoureaux's ability to hold teams to 1 goal per game SHOULD have the Sioux winning handily...not tying or winning in OT. Sure, I'm glad to leave the John with three WCHA points, and always will be...however it sure seems to me that it should have been four points, and much more handily than it was.
Having Duncan may have changed things some, but tell me, where is the Sioux team that lost Oshie to Michigan State and won 6-0?
THAT is the Sioux team that needs to make a showing from here on out.
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What happens to Hak for flippin the bird?
I was wonderin' that myself...interesting to see that on FSN.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again...there are no easy games in the WCHA. Gophers played "up" to the Sioux...who played just well enough to not get beat. It was nice to see them step up and move right past Duncan's penalty, but hard to watch them not finish their checks and move the puck up ice. So close to four points...I could smell it at times. And yet...3 from the John isn't a wasted trip down to MSP...we'll take 'em and get ready for DU.
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Lets beat em so bad - that if the net comes off the posts - the goophers will be fighting over removing the posts - so they can crawl down the hole
So bad that they have no idea which goalie to start next weekend!
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I just hope we quit making the sweet pass from the guy with a good shooting angle to the guy with the bad shooting angle....and just shoot the puck.
Absolutely! Pucks on net! Ugly goals count too...so get 'em in front and knock 'em in!
Pretty passes are nice, but I'll take two ugly goals for five pretty passes any day.
GO SIOUX!!!!!!
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Sioux keys to the game:
1. Strong forecheck. Show 'em their face in the glass!
2. Pucks on net. Good things happen when you TAKE THE SHOT!!
3. Win the faceoffs, control the game.
4. Jean Phillipe
GO SIOUX!!!
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Two things are certain.
1. There are no easy wins in the WCHA.
2. Gophers suck!
GO SIOUX!!!!!
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its time for phil to crack the discussions of top wcha goalie and top goalie which i think he is in the nation. especially if he keeps giving up 1 goal per game. great defense and great jo by phil. chorney and genoway were pretty damn good to me last night. marto had 1 very very bad hick up i think it was him that phil saved him on i believe. good win as thats the bottom line. get those points
No question that J-P is the top netminder in the nation. His stats back that up, especially when you consider the division he plays in every weekend. By giving up just a single goal in games against WCHA opponents, he really gives his team great chances to pick up wins. It takes a whole team to get the "W", but Phil really holds up his end well. I've seen a lot of goalies play, and seen many with slower gloves...and very few with quicker ones. He stacks the pads well too and shuts the five hole down tight. I'd love to see him get another couple of shutouts this year.
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Elsewhere in the WCHA, the #9 team trounced the #3 team 5-1 and the #10 team defeated the#5 team. I guess the Brown and Yellow faithful can mark this one down, "taking the Sioux to 4 periods" on their calendar as a Moral Victory. For those of you keeping score, MVs are worth two points less than actual victories like Mankato and AA got.
That puts the Brown and yellow on track to take home the Moral McNaughton and perhaps even the Moral Broadmore!
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That was the most competitive Frozen Four I've seen in many years. That DU-ND title game was a great game of hockey. What the NCAA really should try to avoid is putting two top teams in the same regional (like last year's Gopher-Sioux matchup). If the FF deserves to be all WCHA then it should shake out that way...and the same goes for HE, CCHA, and ECAC. May the four best teams make the Frozen Four and then sit back and enjoy some amazing hockey.