Friday....the Clowns....St. Paul. YES!

[Dustin]

9 minutes ago, Kevin G said:

SCSU (22-12-3, PWR 7):

• PK: 76.1% (56th nationally)

UND (18-14-6, PWR 18)

• PP: 27.2% (2nd nationally)

Looks like we need to exploit this big time.

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

5 hours ago, burd said:

Didn't somebody wonder aloud at the beginning of the season whether the current team would go undefeated?

I wouldn't take that guy too seriously

[farce poobah]

22 minutes ago, Kevin G said:

Some stats to prep for Friday night's game:

SCSU (22-12-3, PWR 7):

• 3.3 G/G, 2.41 GAA, +0.9 G/G margin
• PP: 25.5% (5th nationally); PK: 76.1% (56th nationally)
• Leading scorers (G-A-Pts): Jami Krannila (19-18-37), Zach Okabe (16-16-32), Grant Cruikshank (21-11-32), Veeti Miettinen (10-21-31)
• +/- leaders: Krannila (+19), Josh Luedtke (+17), Brendan Bushy (+16)
• +/- laggards: Brady Ziemer (-6), Jack Rogers (-2)
• Most commonly-used FO guys: Cruikshank (56.7%), Mason Salquist (56.0%), Krannila (49.3%)
• Team Sv% and GAA: .909% (19th nationally), 2.41 GAA (12th nationally)

UND (18-14-6, PWR 18)

• 3.3 G/G, 2.82 GAA, +0.5 G/G margin
• PP: 27.2% (2nd nationally); PK: 83.9% (13th nationally)
• Leading scorers (G-A-Pts): Jackson Blake (16-25-41), Riese Gaber (20-17-37), Chris Jandric (4-29-33)
• +/- leaders: Jandric (+17), Judd Caulfield (+7), Dylan James and Ben Strinden (+6)
• +/- laggards: Cooper Moore (-12), Gavin Hain (-11), Luke Bast (-10)
• Most commonly-used FO guys: Jake Schmaltz (55.7%), King Louie V (52.0%), Owen McLaughlin (50.1%)
• Team Sv% and GAA: .886% (57th nationally, now tied with LIU!), 2.82 GAA (32nd nationally)

Good Stuff.   Adding just one other:

St Cloud on Regulation Ice:  6-7-1.

St Cloud on Big Ice:  16-5-2.

 

[The Sicatoka]

To me, biggest stat of game:

200 x 100
200 x 85

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

23 minutes ago, farce poobah said:

Good Stuff.   Adding just one other:

St Cloud on Regulation Ice:  6-7-1.

St Cloud on Big Ice:  16-5-2.

 

This is the positivity I need!

[Kevin G]

1 hour ago, Dustin said:

Looks like we need to exploit this big time.

I neglected to include our PP% over the last 10 games (it's...not good). I suspect that the boys are working on some new PP looks this week. The PP worked until teams adjusted (especially to Gaber); now it's time to adjust to our opponents' adjustments. Thankfully UND has some excellent PP personnel. 

[dustnyou]

Green on Friday. Black on Saturday. NUFD 

[Dustin]

27 minutes ago, Kevin G said:

I neglected to include our PP% over the last 10 games (it's...not good)

May as well update save % and GAA for the last 10 games as well.  Certainly not 57th nationally.

[Kevin G]

24 minutes ago, Dustin said:

May as well update save % and GAA for the last 10 games as well.  Certainly not 57th nationally.

Yes, that's a good point. Recency cuts both ways. 

[GDPritch]

25 minutes ago, farce poobah said:

Good Stuff.   Adding just one other:

St Cloud on Regulation Ice:  6-7-1.

St Cloud on Big Ice:  16-5-2.

 

Yah, they love their home big ice advantage.  Accounting for their 20 home games on big ice and 1 away game at Minn also on big ice, where we’re the other 2 games on big ice played at?  I did see in the last half of the season (last 18 games) Clown is just 7 - 8 - 3 despite a majority of those games having been played at home so they’re not exactly on a roll right now. 

[siouxforce19]

11 minutes ago, GDPritch said:

Yah, they love their home big ice advantage.  Accounting for their 20 home games on big ice and 1 away game at Minn also on big ice, where we’re the other 2 games on big ice played at?  I did see in the last half of the season (last 18 games) Clown is just 7 - 8 - 3 despite a majority of those games having been played at home so they’re not exactly on a roll right now. 

Star Tribune posted in their preview that they went 2-6-3 to close the regular season so of those 7 wins, it appears most were probably in January. 

[The Sicatoka]

12 minutes ago, GDPritch said:

Yah, they love their home big ice advantage.  Accounting for their 20 home games on big ice and 1 away game at Minn also on big ice, where we’re the other 2 games on big ice played at?  I did see in the last half of the season (last 18 games) Clown is just 7 - 8 - 3 despite a majority of those games having been played at home so they’re not exactly on a roll right now. 

I believe Wisconsin still plays on a glacier. 

[Kevin G]

4 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

I believe Wisconsin still plays on a glacier. 

Correct.

From UW website, Kohl Center rink size is 200' x 97.'

A little unorthodox, but not a regulation NHL sheet.

[GDPritch]

18 minutes ago, Kevin G said:

Correct.

From UW website, Kohl Center rink size is 200' x 97.'

A little unorthodox, but not a regulation NHL sheet.

Well, I be damned. Attended 4 games at Wisco over past several seasons but did not realize their ice was non-NHL regulation size. 

[farce poobah]

1 hour ago, GDPritch said:

Well, I be damned. Attended 4 games at Wisco over past several seasons but did not realize their ice was non-NHL regulation size. 

Corners at the Kohl Center are proportioned similarly to regulation-sized rinks.   But Mariucci's distinctive square corners are part of why it looks so large.

[siouxfan512]

18 hours ago, burd said:

Didn't somebody wonder aloud at the beginning of the season whether the current team would go undefeated?

I must have missed that one

[brianvf]

Game day.

Go Sioux!

Let's keep this crazy roller-coaster of a season going for at least one more day!   

[SiouxFan100]

We might not lose another game all year!

 

Do good today men. 

[Vegas_Sioux]

On 3/14/2023 at 8:41 PM, The Sicatoka said:

Not with non NHL ice. 

That won’t be a problem anymore. 

[Dave Berger]

2023 NCHC Frozen Faceoff Preview: North Dakota vs. St. Cloud State

 

Discuss. 

 

Dave

[Clark17]

21 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:

To me, biggest stat of game:

200 x 100
200 x 85

3M up for overhaul after tonight.  Narrowing it up to between 88 - 92.

[siouxnatty#8]

22 hours ago, farce poobah said:

Good Stuff.   Adding just one other:

St Cloud on Regulation Ice:  6-7-1.

St Cloud on Big Ice:  16-5-2.

 

I don’t remember much from statistics class but I would say this is statistically significant. St Clouds wins are heavily weighted towards playing on the big ice surface.

[The Sicatoka]

9 minutes ago, siouxnatty#8 said:

I don’t remember much from statistics class but I would say this is statistically significant. St Clouds wins are heavily weighted towards playing on the big ice surface.

There's a compounding factor in "ice surface" namely playing at home (no matter the ice size). 

I think it's safer to say they look like a 0.500 team away from home. Even if you add two big ice road wins at UW they're 8-7-1 away from The Herb. 

[Kevin G]

1 hour ago, Clark17 said:

3M up for overhaul after tonight.  Narrowing it up to between 88 - 92.

@Clark17, is there a reason they're not just going with a regulation 85' rink width? (It seems weird that universities can just pick an arbitrary width, like Wisco's 97'.)

[Dustin]

3 minutes ago, Kevin G said:

@Clark17, is there a reason they're not just going with a regulation 85' rink width? (It seems weird that universities can just pick an arbitrary width, like Wisco's 97'.)

I would assume that, in both cases, they are fitting their design into existing constraints.  The Kohl Center is not just a hockey facility.  For Mariucci, it is purely a hockey facility, but they're modifying from an existing footprint.  Have to take into consideration seating, sightlines, etc.  I'm guessing the NCAA has a standard that a hockey ice sheet must conform to with certain dimensions being flexible within a range (like width) and others fixed (like goal crease, etc).