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Watched Friday nights game on cable and attended Saturday's game in person. What an embarrassment to see all of the open seats in a series between two top 10 rated teams. They were lucky if they had 5,000 fans in the stands on either night. They might as well move these games over to Ridder arena!
The game was actually pretty good. They dominated the first period on Saturday and gave up only 1 shot through most of the period. In the 3rd period, it appeared they were happy with a 1 goal lead and went into a defensive shell with very little fore-check. What I don't understand is if they are going to play this defensive style, then why would you play the umbrella power play with only one defensemen on the ice?
BTW, there power play is struggling this year. I think I know why. They need an offensive defensemen to run the thing. Stevie Johnson is not that guy!
The game was actually pretty good. They dominated the first period on Saturday and gave up only 1 shot through most of the period. In the 3rd period, it appeared they were happy with a 1 goal lead and went into a defensive shell with very little fore-check. What I don't understand is if they are going to play this defensive style, then why would you play the umbrella power play with only one defensemen on the ice?
BTW, there power play is struggling this year. I think I know why. They need an offensive defensemen to run the thing. Stevie Johnson is not that guy!
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I have always been fired up to watch Gopher hockey since I was pretty young. I must admit though, breaking up the WCHA and starting Big 10 hockey hasn't, so far anyway, done a thing to increase excitement. It is hard to get jacked up to watch Penn State or Michigan State or Clarkson, etc when you were used to watching all of the in state rivalries every weekend. Heck, it's even taken the luster off of the North Dakota and Wisconsin series now. I thought after a couple years I would get accustomed to the new schedule. Nope, I was wrong. I don't like it.
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He still ain't going.... How does a guy earn All American honors one year, get his portrait put up on the walls of 3M Arena, and then disappear the next year? He looks terrible, slow, and unmotivated. At best, he should be on the 3rd line.BodyShots wrote:Hopefully Sheehy gets going now. He hasn't looked so good coming into this weekend.
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I have to agree with Lucia when he said "if you would have told me that we would have trouble scoring- I wouldn't have believed you".BodyShots wrote:I hope so, but I still see a lot of dumb decisions and lackadaisical play.grindiangrad-80 wrote:Nice sweep at Madison this weekend. Robson playing well in goal. Maybe they are going to hit their stride at the perfect time?
I still can't believe it myself.
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Update- They blew away the worst Gopher performance I have watched. What happened to Lindgren? I thought he was supposed to be tough. Bristedt?- Biggest disappointment in D1 hockey this year for sure.grindiangrad-80 wrote:This was the worst I have ever seen a Gopher team play. They can't even stay out of their own way the last couple of weekends. Painful to watch.
I understand losing a game but that was a f.....g joke.
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X2 Tonight. Wow.grindiangrad-80 wrote:Update- They blew away the worst Gopher performance I have watched. What happened to Lindgren? I thought he was supposed to be tough. Bristedt?- Biggest disappointment in D1 hockey this year for sure.grindiangrad-80 wrote:This was the worst I have ever seen a Gopher team play. They can't even stay out of their own way the last couple of weekends. Painful to watch.
I understand losing a game but that was a f.....g joke.
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