brianvf Posted Sunday at 08:15 PM Share Posted Sunday at 08:15 PM 4 hours ago, Irish said: In my opinion we had talent equal to Denver last year - in addition to peaking too early and losing intensity once again I think that the Goalie stability of Denver for the last few years has been the difference. While we need a portal goalie almost every year Denver has recruited talent and developed them. No question in my mind that a hot goalie was the difference for Denver - especially in the tourney where they faced several teams with a lot of firepower. The final game was the cap in their season and the goalie was lights out. The crazy thing was how crappy Davis was for a good chunk of the early season. He was definitely the weak link on that team for most of the season. But, he certainly pulled it out when it mattered most for his team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.357 Posted Sunday at 10:13 PM Share Posted Sunday at 10:13 PM 1 hour ago, brianvf said: The crazy thing was how crappy Davis was for a good chunk of the early season. He was definitely the weak link on that team for most of the season. But, he certainly pulled it out when it mattered most for his team. He basically went from being average, at best, the entire season to making Patrick Roy look like an amateur during the playoffs. I can't remember a college goalie who was that lights-out over the course of 4 games. So in-the-zone he was. The moral of the story being, you can have a team chalked full of NHL-caliber players like BC had, but if you have a goalie who sold his soul for 30 pieces of silver, it doesn't really matter. If you put last December's version of Davis in net in April, DU doesn't win it all. Something clicked for him mentally at the right time where he had a razor-sharp focus & everything seemed to slow down for him, just in time for the playoffs. That coupled with his team playing solid hockey & hitting their stride when it mattered most earned them #10. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Baker Posted Sunday at 10:29 PM Share Posted Sunday at 10:29 PM Davis only played 5 games the first half of the season and was 3-1-1. He did not play at all in November or December. Perhaps his back up, Halyk, wasn’t the greatest during that stretch Davis was out though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siouxforce19 Posted Monday at 01:56 PM Share Posted Monday at 01:56 PM 15 hours ago, Benny Baker said: Davis only played 5 games the first half of the season and was 3-1-1. He did not play at all in November or December. Perhaps his back up, Halyk, wasn’t the greatest during that stretch Davis was out though? Davis wasn’t good to start the season but Denver was scoring a lot so it didn’t really affect their win/loss record. Denver’s team save percentage was sub .900 for quite a while. Backup wasn’t good either. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoneySIOUX Posted Monday at 02:01 PM Share Posted Monday at 02:01 PM 22 hours ago, fightingsioux4life said: Some people on here have convinced themselves that winning the last game of the season in April simply doesn't matter. 21 hours ago, burd said: Interesting. Who said it doesn’t matter? No one has ever said this on here. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackheart Posted Monday at 04:23 PM Share Posted Monday at 04:23 PM Don't mean to break up the DU lovefest here...tickets vs the Purple Cows of Mankato went on sale today and our group will be attending Saturday, October 19. Hope to see a lot of green there! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Baker Posted Tuesday at 02:27 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 02:27 AM 12 hours ago, siouxforce19 said: Davis wasn’t good to start the season but Denver was scoring a lot so it didn’t really affect their win/loss record. Denver’s team save percentage was sub .900 for quite a while. Backup wasn’t good either. Hey man, whatever floats your boat. I was more confused by the earlier comments that Davis was “crappy” “for a good chunk of the early season” and, particularly, .357’s comment about “last December’s version of Davis” when Davis only played 5 of Denver’s first 17 games (losing just 1) and never played in December, at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHE Posted Tuesday at 02:49 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 02:49 AM 10 hours ago, Blackheart said: Don't mean to break up the DU lovefest here...tickets vs the Purple Cows of Mankato went on sale today and our group will be attending Saturday, October 19. Hope to see a lot of green there! Blackheart...thanks for the heads up. Got tickets for Saturday night. Go Sioux! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cberkas Posted Tuesday at 03:00 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 03:00 AM 32 minutes ago, Benny Baker said: Hey man, whatever floats your boat. I was more confused by the earlier comments that Davis was “crappy” “for a good chunk of the early season” and, particularly, .357’s comment about “last December’s version of Davis” when Davis only played 5 of Denver’s first 17 games (losing just 1) and never played in December, at all. Because Davis got hurt that season Denver had to bring in their backup for this year in last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Baker Posted Tuesday at 03:29 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 03:29 AM 25 minutes ago, cberkas said: Because Davis got hurt that season Denver had to bring in their backup for this year in last year. Right. I think that was the point someone was trying to make earlier; folks are confusing Davis with Halyk. On 9/15/2024 at 5:29 PM, Benny Baker said: Davis only played 5 games the first half of the season and was 3-1-1. He did not play at all in November or December. Perhaps his back up, Halyk, wasn’t the greatest during that stretch Davis was out though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cberkas Posted Tuesday at 03:40 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 03:40 AM 10 minutes ago, Benny Baker said: Right. I think that was the point someone was trying to make earlier; folks are confusing Davis with Halyk. Halyk wasn't that bad, just became the starter too early. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.357 Posted Tuesday at 04:47 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 04:47 AM 2 hours ago, Benny Baker said: Hey man, whatever floats your boat. I was more confused by the earlier comments that Davis was “crappy” “for a good chunk of the early season” and, particularly, .357’s comment about “last December’s version of Davis” when Davis only played 5 of Denver’s first 17 games (losing just 1) and never played in December, at all. Uff da, I stand corrected on saying December, but the gist of my post was that Davis was on a completely different level during the playoffs, compared to the reg. season where even though he was very good, he was still beatable & hadn't sold his soul at that point. Per the denverpioneers website, Davis was ... "Recognized as both the NCAA Frozen Four and Northeast Regional Most Outstanding Player after finishing the four-game national tournament with a 0.63 goals-against average, .979 save percentage." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Baker Posted Tuesday at 04:59 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 04:59 AM 1 hour ago, cberkas said: Halyk wasn't that bad, just became the starter too early. Sure. I won’t disagree, and if Halyk “wasn’t that bad”, then we necessarily agree that Davis wasn’t that “crappy” either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Baker Posted Tuesday at 05:03 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 05:03 AM 12 minutes ago, .357 said: Uff da, I stand corrected on saying December, but the gist of my post was that Davis was on a completely different level during the playoffs, compared to the reg. season where even though he was very good, he was still beatable & hadn't sold his soul at that point. Per the denverpioneers website, Davis was ... "Recognized as both the NCAA Frozen Four and Northeast Regional Most Outstanding Player after finishing the four-game national tournament with a 0.63 goals-against average, .979 save percentage." Yup, I agree he was a very good goalie last year but on a completely different level during the playoffs. That’s how you win championships. 5 losses in 31 starts isn’t that bad for a starting goalie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Posted Tuesday at 03:22 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 03:22 PM 10 hours ago, Benny Baker said: Yup, I agree he was a very good goalie last year but on a completely different level during the playoffs. That’s how you win championships. 5 losses in 31 starts isn’t that bad for a starting goalie. My point is that Denver is developing good goalies who have peaked at the right time - we are continually in the portal for a one year fix. With Karl (who is a great goalie coach) on staff I have no idea why this is continually happening. A young prospect should be able to be sold on having a solid team in front of him, a great goalie coach, our facilities, and our great tradition. I hate it that other teams - especially Denver - are having tourney success and here we are. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siouxforce19 Posted Tuesday at 03:44 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 03:44 PM 14 minutes ago, Irish said: My point is that Denver is developing good goalies who have peaked at the right time - we are continually in the portal for an one year fix. With Karl (who is a great goalie coach) on staff I have no idea why this is continually happening. A young prospect should be able to be sold on having a solid team in front of him, a great goalie coach, our facilities, and our great tradition. I hate it that other teams - especially Denver - are having tourney success and here we are. It’s happening because for some strange, stupid reason UND only has one goalie recruit committed at one time. Hobie Hedquist was the only goalie recruit for years and we kept deferring him, hence the transfer goalies. And now we have Caleb Heil, who unless has an absolutely monster year I don’t see them bringing him in next year. He’s still pretty young. So the cycle repeats. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cberkas Posted Tuesday at 04:26 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 04:26 PM I don’t see the trend breaking anytime soon because they like to go to the portal. Heil is still a year out and I don’t see why Johnson would come back next season. They need to get 2 or 3 goalies in the pipeline, but they will get one and find a portal goalie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scpa0305 Posted Tuesday at 05:54 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 05:54 PM Goalies are so hard to recruit because the game changes so much from HS, to juniors, to college. You get the best 16 year old and they end up getting shelled in juniors. It’s tough to figure out. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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