Northern Michigan University Wildcats 2016-17 Season Thread: Gotta Get Up And Try

[DonorRoomDrinker]

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2016 NCAA D1 Hockey Pairwise Rankings For U.P. Schools

November 12th, 2016

#29 - MTU (6-6-2)
#34 - LSSU (6-4-0)
#51 - NMU (3-8-1)

[MissThundercat]

NMU gets "Broomed" by Bowling Green at home in Marquette (5-1 & 5-3) this weekend.... NMU (3-8-1) @ Bemidji State (9-2-1) next weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is not getting up and trying.

I do wonder if Walt's seat is getting hot...

[RaceBoarder]

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** Urge to kill rising **

[gfmorris]

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Whatever happened to Near the Middle University?

GFM

[DonorRoomDrinker]

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NMU (3-8-1) @ Bemidji State (9-2-1) this upcoming weekend.... This is starting to get ugly!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Andrew J Carter]

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NMU (3-8-1) @ Bemidji State (9-2-1) this upcoming weekend.... This is starting to get ugly!!!!!!!!!!!!

DonorRoomDrinker: The Cats will pick it up. On the other side of the coin, Geof is actually counting (hoping) on the Beavers to regress to the mean.

Love is All Around: Troggs : - ) Go Beavers!

[DonorRoomDrinker]

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2016-17 NMU Leading Scorers After 12 games (3-8-1)

1. Jr. Forward Robbie Payne (5 goals & 5 assists for 10 points)
2. Sr. Forward Gerard Hanson (3 goals & 5 assists for 8 points)
3. Jr. Forward Zach Diamantoni (1 goal & 6 assists for 7 points)
4. Fr. Forward Darien Craighead (4 goals & 2 assists for 6 points)
5. Fr. Defenseman Phillip Beaulieu (0 goals & 5 assists for 5 points)

[gfmorris]

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DonorRoomDrinker: The Cats will pick it up. On the other side of the coin, Geof is actually counting (hoping) on the Beavers to regress to the mean.

Love is All Around: Troggs : - ) Go Beavers!

I wouldn't count on it this week. [That means that it will happen.]

GFM

[DonorRoomDrinker]

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NMU at (3-8-1) and losers of their last 5 out of 6 games are headed into the "Beaver Pond" of Northern Minnesota this weekend to play #5 ranked Bemidji State (9-2-1) so it doesn't look good for Wildcat hockey fans or the team!!!!!!!!!!!

[devildog]

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I was concerned that the creation of power conferences would hurt small school programs. A sweep, 1500 fans, and another sweep on the horizon. This is not good.

[John J. MacInnes]

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There's ability in that lineup, from what I've seen of the 'Cats this far is a problem with consistency.

Combined special teams has been a huge problem too. When you're 51st out of 60 in power play efficiency (9.4%) and 55th out of 60 in penalty kill (75%) that doesn't make things easy in a time period where the penalty box parade happens quickly.

There are players who have room to improve, and given some time I think they'll be a difficult team to play against for anyone. The trick is not being too far in the hole to make digging out impossible by the time it happens.

[DonorRoomDrinker]

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I agree that NMU has some quality players on the team this year and that's the perplexing thing about their record being (3-8-1).... Players like Shine, Hanson, Payne, Klimek, etc are top notch upperclassmen players and the young Freshmen Yaremko, Craighead, Peters, Beaulieu, Voltin, etc are very good young players as well.... NMU Soph Goalies Tolvanen & Israelsson and Soph Defenseman Vermeulen are also pretty good so it seems NMU has some decent players but it's not translating into wins this season.... NMU seems to have some talent on this team but for some reason they aren't winning games so it's been difficult watching them struggle so far this season....

[giwan]

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Walt on the hot seat? He did better before and it seemed he was on that seat then. Now with the change in the type of contract he holds? Seems a lot of whispering going on.

[MOJO]

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Walt on the hot seat? He did better before and it seemed he was on that seat then. Now with the change in the type of contract he holds? Seems a lot of whispering going on.

That ain't no hot seat but a Ring of Fire in Marquette! Put up or shut up time has arrived. Nothing less than Conference Semi Finals or even Finals will keep the locals from pouring gasoline...

[DonorRoomDrinker]

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Looks like a little malcontent going on in NMU "Puckhead" land this season?????