College hockey

Great game.

Not sure anyone still watching but UMD goalie was just spent or injured and pulled himself in 4th OT. Still going.

What a game! The 3rd and 4th OTs were about 5 minutes of good hockey and then 15 minutes of chip and change. UMD was consistently taking 20 second shifts. Not surprising it was ended early in the period and by the freshest line in the game.

Ripjiggen wrote:

Not sure anyone still watching but UMD goalie was just spent or injured and pulled himself in 4th OT. Still going.

That was weird. And Stejskal looked fine when he jumped off the bench to celly after the game winner.

What a game! That game was won and lost by millimeters at leat 10 times. Two really goog teams. I’m a Sioux fan – bummed….

Jeez, 5 overtimes? I fell asleep in the third OT.

At least half the frozen four will be MN teams and if Cloud can pull an upset it will be 3 out of 4.

What a game indeed. Too bad the Sioux couldn’t take advantage of the come-back momentum and the offsides gift. No bad blood against Duluth. It was a very well-played, well-disciplined game played by very similar programs.

From the Athletic……….

No. 1 North Dakota and Minnesota Duluth played in the longest NCAA Tournament hockey game ever, a 3-2 win in the fifth overtime for Minnesota Duluth in the Fargo Regional final which ended early Sunday morning.

Freshman Luke Mylymok scored the golden goal to send Minnesota Duluth into the Frozen Four semifinals against Massachusetts. Saturday’s game broke the NCAA Tournament record set by the Wisconsin and Harvard women in 2007. North Dakota and Minnesota Duluth combined for 119 shots.

Minnesota Duluth is seeking its third consecutive national championship. The Frozen Four is April 8 and 10 in Pittsburgh.

Great second period for the Huskies hopefully they can hold on for the win

It’s a barnburner for sure. Hope the Brodzinski kid isn’t hurt to bad, it didn’t look good.

michael keehr wrote:

Great second period for the Huskies hopefully they can hold on for the win

Ya no kidding they were relentless in that period.

Congrats to SCSU!!

Yes great win. 3 of the 5 mn teams in the finally 4. I still thought ND got shafted I thought they should have got the free game being the 1 seed.

sliderfishn wrote:

Go Gophs
Go Huskies

Got a nephew on each team.

Are you the uncle of the Brodzinski brothers or the Perbix brothers?

Rodents are getting slapped around pretty good.

gim wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>sliderfishn wrote:</div>
Go Gophs
Go Huskies

Got a nephew on each team.

Are you the uncle of the Brodzinski brothers or the Perbix brothers?

Brodzinski

Dutchboy wrote:

It’s a barnburner for sure. Hope the Brodzinski kid isn’t hurt to bad, it didn’t look good.

Easton broke his femur, underwent surgery after the game.

Dutchboy wrote:

Rodents are getting slapped around pretty good.

yea they stunk up the arena thats for sure, but give Mankota credit…… they skated like they wanted it more.

Finally the first positive impact following the execution of the WCHA. 3 of the final 4 from MN. Rarely “allowed” to happen back in the WCHA era.

Too bad the Gophers appeared wore down and were beaten by a team who wanted it worse. Gophers silver spooned children continue to struggle when it counts. 20 superstars does not equate to the best team on ice. Also enjoyed seeing Hastings out coach Motzko.

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You mean the adults outplayed kids. Man did Mankato just clog the the center ice and not allow anything coming from the middle. Very good team should be a fun finals.

sliderfishn wrote:

Easton broke his femur, underwent surgery after the game.

Man, that’s tough for him! Looked awful, but I have to think its probably better he broke a bone than blew out his knee no? Rough way to end his season, but he is a major reason they got to this point.
Wasnt that a strange scenario that played out for SCSU’s third goal? He scores and gets a penalty? Anyone catch what the penalty was? I know they waved off the goal right away and I thought the ref said goal tender interference, but then reviewed it and determined good goal. If they gave him a penalty for goaltender interference, what is he interfering with since the puck went in before he even touched him?
If they called something else then they changed the penalty which is BS.

sliderfishn wrote:

Easton broke his femur, underwent surgery after the game.

That is a shame. Too bad. Major injury no doubt.

Ripjiggen wrote:

You mean the adults outplayed kids. Man did Mankato just clog the the center ice and not allow anything coming from the middle.

They sure did. It looked like a Lemaire coached NJ or MN team from back in the day. Get an early lead and then completely lock down. Mankato is clearly a much better team when they score first. Then they can play their game.

Ripjiggen wrote:

You mean the adults outplayed kids. Man did Mankato just clog the the center ice and not allow anything coming from the middle. Very good team should be a fun finals.

Two full years difference in average age, that’s a huge difference when it’s 20 year olds against 22 year olds. Seems some people either don’t realize that, or don’t want to.

tswoboda wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Ripjiggen wrote:</div>
You mean the adults outplayed kids. Man did Mankato just clog the the center ice and not allow anything coming from the middle. Very good team should be a fun finals.

Two full years difference in average age, that’s a huge difference when it’s 20 year olds against 22 year olds. Seems some people either don’t realize that, or don’t want to.

So, being young is the reason they couldn’t score? If so how did they get through the regular season and this far into the play-offs without scoring? I’ll admit they might be younger but that didn’t seem to work against them up until yesterday. Give Mankato credit, they shut down a pretty good program and deserved the win.

CaptainMusky wrote:

Wasnt that a strange scenario that played out for SCSU’s third goal? He scores and gets a penalty? Anyone catch what the penalty was? I know they waved off the goal right away and I thought the ref said goal tender interference, but then reviewed it and determined good goal. If they gave him a penalty for goaltender interference, what is he interfering with since the puck went in before he even touched him?
If they called something else then they changed the penalty which is BS.

The only thing that makes sense to me is they called a [SOFT] penalty on the ice and couldn’t take that off the board based on video review.

CaptainMusky wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>sliderfishn wrote:</div>
Easton broke his femur, underwent surgery after the game.

Man, that’s tough for him! Looked awful, but I have to think its probably better he broke a bone than blew out his knee no? Rough way to end his season, but he is a major reason they got to this point.
Wasnt that a strange scenario that played out for SCSU’s third goal? He scores and gets a penalty? Anyone catch what the penalty was? I know they waved off the goal right away and I thought the ref said goal tender interference, but then reviewed it and determined good goal. If they gave him a penalty for goaltender interference, what is he interfering with since the puck went in before he even touched him?
If they called something else then they changed the penalty which is BS.

I was listening on the radio and the Husky announcers were debating that call too. It was still called goaltender interference. Jim Erickson was questioning it, but the other announcer, Dave Reichel, said the refs can still call it regardless because its more of a safety issue by running into goalie, regardless of a goal being scores or not. Strange call no doubt.

tswoboda wrote:

Two full years difference in average age, that’s a huge difference when it’s 20 year olds against 22 year olds. Seems some people either don’t realize that, or don’t want to.

This didn’t seem to matter years ago back when the Gophers were “good”.

Also, just for the record, the best players leaving college early to go pro is not just limited to the gophs… it happens across the board

Terrible luck for Easton Brodzinski, he’s had a great year and has to be wrecked not to see it thru to the end! That’s a heckuva hockey family, you must be a proud uncle!

tswoboda wrote:

Two full years difference in average age, that’s a huge difference when it’s 20 year olds against 22 year olds. Seems some people either don’t realize that, or don’t want to.

Or no one cares since they are all adults. Always some Whine to go with the Cake at the U! Props to Mankato on building a great program. I’m sure they’d much rather get blue chip recruits from their backyard, over the lesser rated guys or recruiting Juniors guys from Saskatoon and Moose Jaw…

So push the David vs. Goliath narrative of “silver spoon” and “superstar” recruits losing to the obscure 3 years of juniors recruits who aren’t household names. But just casually leave out the 2-3 year age gap like it’s nothing.

I have no horse in this race, I’m not a gopher fan and haven’t really even followed college hockey for 10 years. I grew up a die hard SCSU Huskies fan, and that was well before they were relevant. Just pointing out the other side to a tired narrative that people love to push every time the Gophers lose.

tswoboda wrote:

Just pointing out the other side to a tired narrative that people love to push every time the Gophers lose.

The Gophers got beat badly, plain and simple. They couldn’t generate any sustained offense against a very well defensive-structured team. They had a good season though overall. Nothing to be ashamed of.

tswoboda wrote:

So push the David vs. Goliath narrative of “silver spoon” and “superstar” recruits losing to the obscure 3 years of juniors recruits who aren’t household names. But just casually leave out the 2-3 year age gap like it’s nothing.

Because it is nothing. Gophers average age 21 years 2 months, Mankato average age 22 years 8 months. 7 of the 10 youngest teams made the tourney, 3 of the oldest teams made the tourney. It’s a skill game, and the Gophers generally have their pick of the most skilled kids.

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/almanac/funfacts-ageavg.php

There are certainly other teams you could pick to use the age critique besides Mankato. When the Gophers lost to Union and Yale several years ago, those teams even had players pushing mid 20’s. That’s a big difference.
I dont think age had anything to do with the outcome of this game. The Gophers couldnt generate anything and that is less about them I think and more about how well the Mavericks played.
I do think the Gophers (and other teams) who have Olympic sized ice sheets have a disadvantage come tourney time compared to those who play on NHL or North American rinks. Gophers had no time or space last night. Kudos to the Mavericks, they deserved it.