MN Sports

  • mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    February 26, 2015 at 10:26 pm #1517044

    Mark this day in your calendar. Gopher puck comes back from 3-0. Gopher basketball wins in OT over #25 Michigan. Wild beat the #1 team in the NHL.

    Safe to say the curse has been lifted. Your welcome.

    joemama
    North St Paul
    Posts: 392
    February 26, 2015 at 11:09 pm #1517055

    if you had the power to lift the curse what you been waiting for ?

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    February 27, 2015 at 8:18 am #1517118

    I didn’t have the power, that was poorly worded. I meant the residual affect of the curse is gone.

    belletaine
    Nevis, MN
    Posts: 5116
    February 27, 2015 at 8:30 am #1517124

    Lucia tied Doug Woog for career wins at 390.

    Dutchboy
    Central Mn.
    Posts: 16658
    February 27, 2015 at 8:37 am #1517135

    So, the hockey team played on a Thursday night? Brilliant. No wonder I haven’t followed them much this year.

    tegg
    Hudson, Wi/Aitkin Co
    Posts: 1450
    February 27, 2015 at 12:08 pm #1517229
    Dutchboy wrote:

    So, the hockey team played on a Thursday night? Brilliant. No wonder I haven’t followed them much this year.

    It seems to consistently follow the Gopher Hockey televised broadcasts in this new Big-10 era requires homework.

    roosterrouster
    Inactive
    The "IGH"...
    Posts: 2092
    February 27, 2015 at 12:13 pm #1517238
    belletaine wrote:

    Lucia tied Doug Woog for career wins at 390.

    I’ll take the Wooger’ any day over Lucia. He got A LOT done and had great success with Mn only kids. Wish that was still true today…

    Dutchboy
    Central Mn.
    Posts: 16658
    February 27, 2015 at 1:05 pm #1517262

    BTW, Gopher hoops was VS Michigan State.

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    February 27, 2015 at 1:54 pm #1517284

    give me a pass, its basketball.

    belletaine
    Nevis, MN
    Posts: 5116
    February 27, 2015 at 2:00 pm #1517292
    roosterrouster wrote:

    <div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>belletaine wrote:</div>
    Lucia tied Doug Woog for career wins at 390.

    I’ll take the Wooger’ any day over Lucia. He got A LOT done and had great success with Mn only kids. Wish that was still true today…

    Totally agree!

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    February 27, 2015 at 2:04 pm #1517295

    Back then he could do that. And yes it was cool, but he’d have a pretty horrible record today. Too many other colleges in Minnesota have attractive programs now and there are a lot more international players. not to mention the success of the NHL has lead to good players coming from states they never did before.

    Ok, I stated the obvious, good for me.

    fishthumper
    Sartell, MN.
    Posts: 11931
    February 27, 2015 at 2:17 pm #1517307
    mplspug wrote:

    Back then he could do that. And yes it was cool, but he’d have a pretty horrible record today. Too many other colleges in Minnesota have attractive programs now and there are a lot more international players. not to mention the success of the NHL has lead to good players coming from states they never did before.

    Ok, I stated the obvious, good for me.

    Minnesota is still the Top State for High school Hockey. Currently Minnesota has 8 team in the Top 10 Nationally and all of the Top 3. A college coach could still put together a great team will All Minnesota Kids, if he could land even 5 of the top 10 players from Minnesota each year.

    TheFamousGrouse
    St. Paul, MN
    Posts: 11646
    February 27, 2015 at 2:27 pm #1517310
    tegg wrote:

    <div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Dutchboy wrote:</div>
    So, the hockey team played on a Thursday night? Brilliant. No wonder I haven’t followed them much this year.

    It seems to consistently follow the Gopher Hockey televised broadcasts in this new Big-10 era requires homework.

    You can say that again.

    I hope somebody at the U gets called on the carpet for the revenue assumptions that were made to justify this move to the Big Money—errrr–I mean “Big 10” conference. I would be willing to bet the average viewership for a Gopher Hockey game is half what it was last year if you look at any 10 games.

    That sound you just heard was the price of TV commercial airtime crashing. Well, that’s OK. Nothing a little tuition increase won’t fix.

    Grouse

    mbenson
    Minocqua, WI
    Posts: 1709
    February 27, 2015 at 3:05 pm #1517328

    Grouse:

    The unfortunate part is it probably helped all the universities from the revenue perspective. But it sure hurt the hockey programs of all the hockey schools I bet… I know how we feel as Minnesotans and Wisconsinites, but wonder how the Michiganders are liking the change from CCHA life. Heck I used to be able to watch them more than I can now!!! For those of us that are far away from college hockey arenas and had it good on the TV, not so much anymore!!! The B1G certainly screwed that up BIG time!!!

    Mark

    Dutchboy
    Central Mn.
    Posts: 16658
    February 27, 2015 at 3:13 pm #1517334
    mplspug wrote:

    give me a pass, its basketball.

    Pass granted but “only because it’s basketball”. Better brush up on your baseball (even if it is Marlin baseball) because there will be no free passes there. wave

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    February 27, 2015 at 3:25 pm #1517339

    The funny thing is I was talking about the victories to a coworker and I was going to say we beat Michigan, but I did watch the very end and I remembered Tom Izzo and caught myself because I know he coaches the Spartens. I followed college basketball back in the 90s and 2000s.

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