Coming off a sweep of home-and-home sweep of St. Cloud the Gophers travel to Madison to take on the victory deficient BADgers (0-2 in the WCHA, 0-4 overall).
The Saturday game is on the BTN for those of you who don't get FSN-North.
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Posts: 1440 10/20/08 3:05 PM |
Haven't had a chance to check out the UW team yet this year - anyone that's either seen the team play or lives college hockey care to provide some
insight?
Liked a lot of what I saw from the Gophers last weekend. Was afraid we'd start slow against this brutal schedule as the freshman found their way and the team gelled. Appears that we're already in a good place though. We have a murder's row schedule coming out of the gates, basically until Christmas, so coming out strong from day one was a must for this team's confidence IMHO. Now that my fear of a slow start from the freshman has passed, it's time to start worrying about a second half swoon as players get adjusted to the grind of the WCHA season.
Wear Gold. Arrive early. Be loud.
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Posts: 273 10/20/08 6:39 PM |
The only college hockey game I've seen so far was the game I attended up at SCSU last Friday. I was really impressed with Jordan Schroeder and thought
Kevin Wehrs took a big jump from last year. Kangas was solid again and the boys were flying! Pat White looked great! It was great to see Stoa playing again.
Dave Fischer looked the best I've seen him play, but I thought he'd play like this about a year ago...
As for the Badgers: Last weekend they lost senior captain Ben Street for at least 3 months to a knee injury. He'll need surgery. Street isn't a flashy guy but always seemed to give the Gophers problems. Very smart player. Was good at faceoffs and played on both the PP and penalty kill. They are a very young team: On D they have: no seniors, 2 juniors (Jamie McBain is really good and got a PP goal last weekend), 3 sophomores and 3 frosh d-man (including Jake Gardiner from Minnetonka who has 5 assists in 4 games). Eaves benched McBain at the end of the first period on Saturday to "give him a wake-up call". They only have 5 seniors: 2 are walk-on backup goaltenders, Street is out, Tom Gorowsky (2004 Minnesota Mr. Hockey who only played 16 games last year and none so far this year) and goalie Shane Connelly. I'd expect Connelly to play both nights, although he has only played on Fridays so far this season. He's giving up 5.5 goals a game and stopping 87% of the shots against. They are 0-4, but have played at #2 Denver and at # 4 New Hampshire. They blocked 22 shots last Friday and 19 on Saturday. They are avergaing 23 PIMS a game. They are 4 for 34 (12.5%) on the PP and have killed 31 of 37 (83.8%) of their penalties. I like our chances this weekend. Kohl Center is going to be rocking on Friday night, but I think at 0-4 and missing their captain the younger guys are going to be gripping their sticks too much and really trying to make things happen. This will lead to errors and the Gophers will take advantage. The earlier we get goals the better, because I think Connolly will get rattled after giving up 2-3 goals. |
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Posts: 224 10/20/08 7:59 PM |
I'm hoping for a split but why not get greedy! I was very impressed with the young stars (Ness and Schroeder) but the other newcomer that really stood out
was Matson. I read a comparidon of him to Riddle on GPL and so far (very early) I concur. I'm going to love watching the FR develop and now I want to see
something from Lofty.
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Posts: 123 10/25/08 2:37 PM |
It was good to see us come back from 2-0 down to get the tie last night in that environment. A tie and a win would be great. Gotta cut down on the penalties.
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Posts: 277 10/26/08 11:20 AM |
The Big L wrote: I agree, and even better to get the win yesterday take 3 points at the low end department store center.
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| Hockey: Next Up At The BADgers | 10/20/08 9:14 AM | Greyeagle |
| Re: Hockey: Next Up At The BADgers | 10/20/08 3:05 PM | parkinglotgopher |
| Re: Hockey: Next Up At The BADgers | 10/20/08 6:39 PM | rovert M |
| Re: Hockey: Next Up At The BADgers | 10/20/08 7:59 PM | Slim Tubby |
| Re: Hockey: Next Up At The BADgers | 10/25/08 2:37 PM | The Big L |
| Good Weekend | 10/26/08 11:20 AM | Greyeagle |
