Minnesota Golden Gophers Season Thread 2017-18 Part II

[St. Clown]

Re: Minnesota Golden Gophers Season Thread 2017-18 Part II

If UMn got in, they could easily be right where UMD is, in the Frozen Four, in Mpls, with the other 3 B1G teams.

Did Mpls just take over control of St. Paul? Since when did the X get transplanted across the river?

Was it a hostile takeover with knives involved?

[MavHockey14]

Did Mpls just take over control of St. Paul? Since when did the X get transplanted across the river?

Was it a hostile takeover with knives involved?

Did Minnie beat Paul in a fight?

[UMD21]

If UMn got in, they could easily be right where UMD is, in the Frozen Four, in Mpls, with the other 3 B1G teams.

*could* is key word but I wouldn’t stress yourself out over it. Given MN’s abysmal record vs in-state teams over the last seasons you can’t just assume they’d be able to beat SCSU or Mankato. And we all remember what Holy Cross did years back and Air Force IMO was a tougher team so they would have been just as vulnerable as SCSU. I’ll say without Michigan beating UND in 2011 UMD may have never won. If DU would have beat OSU and UMD lost to AF I wouldn’t even be upset since AF may have spared me the price of a plane and game ticket for likely disappointment. This year didn’t look that promising for Gophers either

[FredsDeadFriend]

Re: Minnesota Golden Gophers Season Thread 2017-18 Part II

Did Mpls just take over control of St. Paul? Since when did the X get transplanted across the river?

Was it a hostile takeover with knives involved?

Mpls, The Twin Cities, same thing. St Paul doesn't really matter, does it?

[MavHockey14]

Mpls, The Twin Cities, same thing. St Paul doesn't really matter, does it?

Outside of the fact it’s the far superior Hockey city?

[mnstate0fhockey]

Outside of the fact it’s the far superior Hockey city?

And it isn't even close.

[FredsDeadFriend]

Re: Minnesota Golden Gophers Season Thread 2017-18 Part II

*could* is key word but I wouldn’t stress yourself out over it. Given MN’s abysmal record vs in-state teams over the last seasons you can’t just assume they’d be able to beat SCSU or Mankato. And we all remember what Holy Cross did years back and Air Force IMO was a tougher team so they would have been just as vulnerable as SCSU. I’ll say without Michigan beating UND in 2011 UMD may have never won. If DU would have beat OSU and UMD lost to AF I wouldn’t even be upset since AF may have spared me the price of a plane and game ticket for likely disappointment. This year didn’t look that promising for Gophers either

Can't tell that you are a UMD fan, can you? lol Looking at past seasons to determine how a team would do THIS year doesn't work, never has, not in any sport, not even when teams bring back the exact same players. It's the most ridiculous and misused stat in all of sports.

And it depends on who you ask and when you looked. Going into the PSU series to end the regular season, Minnesota was looking very promising.

And what does what happened 5 or 10 years ago have to do with THIS year. I mean Holy Cross? lol that is like ancient history. Far more recent is 2012-14 which included 2 Frozen Four trips, the only season that ended to soon, the team that beat us at least went on to win the title. And it's not like UMD pummeled UMn, the game was in Duluth and was lost by just a goal and seeing as in the final tally UMn was only .001 difference in the PWR to UMD, a UMD fan is hardly one to talk down to a Gopher fan when talking about THIS season.

As for Air Force, Minnesota didn't lose to a single team outside of the B1G that wasn't ranked Top 15 I think? I am not 100% as I lost track as UMn blew their whole season losing 4 straight to PSU.

But Minnesota beat Harvard twice and they beat Union as well, and the only non Top 15 team they lost to at all was Wisc and they had to play them 4 times to lose 1 game. So UMn went 6-1 vs teams ranked #21-#30, so I don't think AF would have surprised the Gophers, esp not after what they did to #1 SCSU.

1 WIN vs #1 & 1 ROAD loss.
1 WIN vs #2 & 3 losses - made FF - 2 of those losses were ROAD losses(1 by just 1 goal)
1 WIN vs #4 & 2 losses - made FF - both losses were ROAD losses(1 by just 1 goal) & 1 tie as well
1 tie vs #8 & 3 losses - made FF - 1 of those losses was a ROAD loss
2 wins over #10
1 WIN vs #11 & 5 losses - 4 of those losses were ROAD losses
1 loss to #12 - a 1 goal ROAD loss.
1 ROAD WIN vs #14 & 1 ROAD loss
1 WIN over #22
3 WINS to #25 & 1 loss
2 WINS over #28

[FredsDeadFriend]

Re: Minnesota Golden Gophers Season Thread 2017-18 Part II

Outside of the fact it’s the far superior Hockey city?

Just because that's where the Wild play? lol The land was probably just cheaper over there, lol.

[D2D]

Re: Minnesota Golden Gophers Season Thread 2017-18 Part II

Outside of the fact it’s the far superior Hockey city?

St. Paul, the "City of Hockey"!

[FredsDeadFriend]

Re: Minnesota Golden Gophers Season Thread 2017-18 Part II

Outside of the fact it’s the far superior Hockey city?

That's equivalent to saying New London is the far superior town to Spicer just because it comes first when talking about the school's name.

[FredsDeadFriend]

Re: Minnesota Golden Gophers Season Thread 2017-18 Part II

St. Paul, the "City of Hockey"!

Just because an NHL team says something is so, doesn't make it so. If you want to talk about the "City of Hockey", at least when it comes to south of the Canadian border, then Eveleth would be the "City of Hockey". At least in my book.

[D2D]

Re: Minnesota Golden Gophers Season Thread 2017-18 Part II

Just because an NHL team says something is so, doesn't make it so. If you want to talk about the "City of Hockey", at least when it comes to south of the Canadian border, then Eveleth would be the "City of Hockey". At least in my book.

They were in the 1950's, for sure.

[First Time, Long Time]

Mpls, The Twin Cities, same thing. St Paul doesn't really matter, does it?

You really are a moron Dubbers.

[D2D]

Re: Minnesota Golden Gophers Season Thread 2017-18 Part II

Motzko's press conference at 1:00pm on BTN. Any big announcements forthcoming?

[D2D]

Re: Minnesota Golden Gophers Season Thread 2017-18 Part II

Motzko's press conference at 1:00pm on BTN. Any big announcements forthcoming?

I thought it went very well, but no big surprises. He kind of dodged a question on his plans for his assistant coaches, saying it will take some time.