Huskies

MrBoDangles · Post by **MrBoDangles** » Sat Mar 30, 2013 9:21 pm

Will they keep it going after a nice win against Notre Dame? Future looks great in the coming years!

Tigers33 · Post by **Tigers33** » Sun Mar 31, 2013 9:23 am

Hanowski, Leblanc, and t Johnson all gone. Plus chances of dowd and Jensen leaving, right? If that happens that would be losing a lot.

Who is losing more if it happens this way...
Huskies: Leblanc, hanowski, Johnson and 1 or the other (Jensen/dowd)
Gophers: helgeson, haula, bjugstad, and 1 or the other (Schmidt/alt)

Pretty equal...

Post by **karl(east)** » Sun Mar 31, 2013 9:57 am

Looks like the Huskies are all alone in carrying the WCHA banner. It all goes to show what a crapshoot this tournament is: two #1 seeds went down in the first round, a Yale team with little in the way of front-end talent marches past star-studded Minnesota and North Dakota en route to the Frozen Four, the Badger team that looked like perhaps the hottest team in the nation a weekend ago gets pasted in the first round, and the defending national champs also got thumped in a first round upset. A lot of pretty empty arenas out there, too. It's entertaining, sure, and often very good hockey, but when it comes to the sheer spectacle, it's not hard for me to remember why I prefer the high school game.

Nice to see players like Hanowski and Benik scoring big goals in the NCAA tournament. Good luck to them the rest of the way.

MrBoDangles · Post by **MrBoDangles** » Sun Mar 31, 2013 10:55 am

Tigers33 wrote:Hanowski, Leblanc, and t Johnson all gone. Plus chances of dowd and Jensen leaving, right? If that happens that would be losing a lot.

Who is losing more if it happens this way...
Huskies: Leblanc, hanowski, Johnson and 1 or the other (Jensen/dowd)
Gophers: helgeson, haula, bjugstad, and 1 or the other (Schmidt/alt)

Pretty equal...

Like what the younger guys are doing at SCSU.

Gophers will be exciting to watch the next few years with those prolific scorers coming in, but they need to find some grit to go along with all that skill.

Always rooting for all the Minnesota teams in the playoffs.

Go Huskies!

MrBoDangles · Post by **MrBoDangles** » Sun Mar 31, 2013 11:00 am

karl(east) wrote:Looks like the Huskies are all alone in carrying the WCHA banner. It all goes to show what a crapshoot this tournament is: two #1 seeds went down in the first round, a Yale team with little in the way of front-end talent marches past star-studded Minnesota and North Dakota en route to the Frozen Four, the Badger team that looked like perhaps the hottest team in the nation a weekend ago gets pasted in the first round, and the defending national champs also got thumped in a first round upset. A lot of pretty empty arenas out there, too. It's entertaining, sure, and often very good hockey, but when it comes to the sheer spectacle, it's not hard for me to remember why I prefer the high school game.

Nice to see players like Hanowski and Benik scoring big goals in the NCAA tournament. Good luck to them the rest of the way.

Should use all the bigger rinks in Minnesota for the road to the Frozen Four in St Paul...... We'll fill them all!

The Exiled One · Post by **The Exiled One** » Sun Mar 31, 2013 3:50 pm

Tigers33 wrote:Hanowski, Leblanc, and t Johnson all gone. Plus chances of dowd and Jensen leaving, right? If that happens that would be losing a lot.

Who is losing more if it happens this way...
Huskies: Leblanc, hanowski, Johnson and 1 or the other (Jensen/dowd)
Gophers: helgeson, haula, bjugstad, and 1 or the other (Schmidt/alt)

Pretty equal...

Interesting that you'd compare those two teams considering they're not even in the same conference. How do the Huskies compare to North Dakota? How do the Gophers compare to Wisconsin?

57special · Post by **57special** » Sun Mar 31, 2013 5:57 pm

All those empty seats... ridiculous. Toledo?

Post by **karl(east)** » Sun Mar 31, 2013 6:10 pm

MrBoDangles wrote:Should use all the bigger rinks in Minnesota for the road to the Frozen Four in St Paul...... We'll fill them all!

Of course we would.

The Huskies are headed to the Frozen Four! Another big game for Benik. I'm also glad to see any Minnesota team do well. (Though I suppose that's easier when one went to a college a thousand miles away that only has a club team...)

OldTimePuck00 · Post by **OldTimePuck00** » Sun Mar 31, 2013 7:08 pm

Tigers33 wrote:Hanowski, Leblanc, and t Johnson all gone. Plus chances of dowd and Jensen leaving, right? If that happens that would be losing a lot.

Who is losing more if it happens this way...
Huskies: Leblanc, hanowski, Johnson and 1 or the other (Jensen/dowd)
Gophers: helgeson, haula, bjugstad, and 1 or the other (Schmidt/alt)

Pretty equal...

I thought I had heard that Haula, Schmidt, and Budish would all return next season..? Bjugstad seems that he'd be long gone, but after this lack-luster performance who knows.

Huskies are looking great and Faragher has stepped his game back up when he's been needed.

MrBoDangles · Post by **MrBoDangles** » Sun Mar 31, 2013 7:54 pm

Benik is making SCSU tough to beat by adding some new scoring depth to the lines.

Bring it home Huskies!!

$\:D/$

northwoods oldtimer · Post by **northwoods oldtimer** » Tue Apr 02, 2013 8:41 pm

MrBoDangles wrote:Benik is making SCSU tough to beat by adding some new scoring depth to the lines.

Bring it home Huskies!!

$\:D/$

That is the same Joey Benik some west metro hockey experts threw under the bus a number of years ago. Not a bad result for a kid out out of St. Francis. Might be a lesson in that hockey story

MrBoDangles · Post by **MrBoDangles** » Tue Apr 02, 2013 11:07 pm

northwoods oldtimer wrote:
MrBoDangles wrote:Benik is making SCSU tough to beat by adding some new scoring depth to the lines.

Bring it home Huskies!!

$\:D/$
That is the same Joey Benik some west metro hockey experts threw under the bus a number of years ago. Not a bad result for a kid out out of St. Francis. Might be a lesson in that hockey story

Benik topics were bumped to the top in the old forum topics. Interesting to read how much these "experts" knew.

Google- Benik hs hockey forum: you'll be able to read all the other Benik topics that were locked.

Tigers33 · Post by **Tigers33** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 7:54 am

He had 3 in the regular season...then he gets 4 in the playoffs. They were mostly goal scorers goals. Meaning he would be in the right spot at the right time.

However, congrats to him and to St. Cloud state.

MrBoDangles · Post by **MrBoDangles** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:21 am

Tigers33 wrote:He had 3 in the regular season...then he gets 4 in the playoffs. They were mostly goal scorers goals. Meaning he would be in the right spot at the right time.

However, congrats to him and to St. Cloud state.

He broke his leg early and has only recently started to get some substantial minutes.

Agree, he's always been a point getter.

BodyShots · Post by **BodyShots** » Thu Apr 04, 2013 8:52 am

Go Huskies. Bring the title back to Minnesota.

MrBoDangles · Post by **MrBoDangles** » Tue Apr 16, 2013 12:29 pm

Great run to the Frozen Four! Already looking forward to next year..