>As promised…
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>I CAN’T STAND IT!!!!!!!!!!!
>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFGEHDjfgr.
This crap has to stop. What’s the problem?
Is it coaching? Is it leadership? Is it talent? Did Lucien Jr., and Beau carry this team that much last year?
Let’s look at some stats.
Last year our overall record was 28-13-4. This year, we are 8-11-4, so to repeat that, we’d have to win out the season. We won’t. Duh. That’s not pessimism, that’s just a fact.
Right now, we’re at 69 goals, 116 assists, for 185 points. Our opponents have 69 goals, 114 assists, for 183 points. But for shots on goal, our goalies have 675 to the opponents’ 803. We are absolutely killing our opponents in SOG, but we can’t get the puck in the net. Opponents have a save percentage of .914 to our .898.
Last year, we ended up with 185 goals, 311 assists, for 496 points, to our opponents’ 123/199/322. Instead of being tied in the goals category, we were 62 goals ahead of our opponents. BUT, Isaac/Josh faced only 1311 shots for a save percentage of .906, while our opponents faced 1474 with a save % .874. Because we put the puck in the freaking net. All right?
Penalties. We’re at 209 penalties with 451 PIM, the average penalty being 2.15 minutes. Last year we were at 382/808, with the average penalty being 2.11 minutes. Since we’re at the halfway mark, that makes us headed for 418 penalties and 902 PIM. I know that we’ve got this new officiating mandate, and it is often actually followed, so I’m going to let that go for now. Our opponents have had 212 penalties for 467 minutes and a 2.2 min avg. (projected numbers 424 penalties, 934 PIM), vs. last year’s totals of 383/828 (2.16 min avg.). So we should have 6 more power plays than our opponents. Hm. But I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to see stats on how long our power plays LAST.
Special Teams. I don’t even want to go there, but I have to. We’re 23/150 on the power play this year (.153), and 126/152 (.829) on the PK. LY we were 59/228 on the PP (.259) and 198/233 on the PK (.850). We are TEN PERCENT WORSE on the power play, and about 2% worse on the PK. TEN PERCENT is UNACCEPTABLE. Although, as I alluded to before, a lot of our PPs were short-lived.
*********Here’s what I don’t get AT ALL. In the conference, Ev and Marco are #1 and #2 on PP points. WHAT THE F$%&? How can we be #1 and #2 in points but 5th in the league in PP????????????***********
League Stats. Just going to run the table here on the team stats. This Year/Last Year. Then I am going to puke.
Scoring Offense 6/2
Scoring Defense 6/3
Penalty Minutes 3/5
Power Play 5/1
Penalty Kill 5/3
Combined Special Teams 5/1
Special Teams Net 6/1
Scoring 6/2
Goals Allowed T7/3
Goaltending. I love Isaac (despite the horse face) and Josh is really coming through for us this year (and is much more attractive than last year), but I’m going to do some comparison anyway. Conf. Rank
Save % GAA Win% %Time GAA S% W%
Isaac (TY) .893 3.05 .393 61.8 12 14 11
Josh (TY) .912 2.62 .500 37.6 10 8 10
Isaac (LY) .909 2.64 .694 83.1 5 2 2
Josh (LY) .915 2.39 .556 16.5 – – – (Min. 33.3% time not met)
Yeah they were better last year, but not by that much. When their GAA is 3.05/2.62 and we’re only scoring 3 GPG vs. last year’s 4.1 GPG (with opponents at 3 GPG vs. 2.73 GPG last year) what can they do? I also think that there isn’t a real leader on the defense (Sorry, Petey, you just won’t cut it for me) and so Isaac and Josh are being hung out to dry. When you lose an All-American, you’ve got a big hole to fill. And Jay might be a giant, but he isn’t Beau. I think the goaltending has been solid, absolutely solid. Josh is really impressing me. Isaac maybe has had a few games where he’s had some difficulty, but I still have faith in him.
Recap:
There’s no leadership. There’s no goals being scored. There’s no specialty teams. That means no trophies. No flowers. No flashbulbs. No wine. They’re haunted by something I have just defined.
Let’s salvage the season by making it to the Final Five! Yeaahehaehahafasjk!
>About that last post…
>I meant the SCORE would be 1 googol to 0, not the freaking SHOTS ON GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There’s a fat lady warming up her vocal chords… let’s get the Broadmoor, boys!
>Hockey’s Back
>All I have to say is, it better be 1 googol UMD, 0 Alaska Anchorage tonight.
FINALLY I get the feed.
2 ‘Dogs jerseys for Christmas. Pictures to follow.
>If You’re Unhappy And You Know It…
>…you’re a ‘Dogs fan. Yeah, it sucks. We pulled a “last year in the Final Four semis.” I’m not too happy about it.
So I was at work and couldn’t enjoy all the fun of hearing us blow it, but I did call my dad to find out that it was tied and we went into OT. I called later and he did not answer the phone. I crashed into my house, coat and shoes still on, checked the scores. OT LOSS. This is NOT the NHL. OTLs don’t COUNT for CRAP.
The ‘Dogs are off for a long time, and I hope they do a LOT of thinking about what they’ve done. Sitting in a corner. With no dessert. And early bedtimes.
As for me, I’ll be sitting here with a bar of soap in my mouth.
Merry Stickmas and a Hockey New Year!
>If You’re Happy And You Know It, Clap Your Hands
>*clap, clap*
Yeah I’m happy. I mean, I hate ties, probably more than most people, but I would like to see us rack up some points this weekend, and we racked up 1. Now we should whip out a win tonight, and then we’ll have 3 shiny points to show for this weekend.
But let’s back the truck up here.
Derek Shepard was the referee? What? We had only 4 penalties? We had less penalties than the other team? HUH?????
Have we gone through the Twilight Zone here?
We even got a power play goal. (Denver got a PPG and a SHG, but forget about that.)
We even had a lead. A lead!
Now I don’t know about you, but I’d be happy with a 5-4 loss tonight, if only we’d gotten a win in the Frozen Four… but I’m focusing on the positives here.
The Hams (Hammond and Hambly) come up with a goal and an assist each.
For a team with an average of 21.1 PIM, we only had 8.
A win tonight puts us in a tie for 5th with Denver.
I want to listen! I hate working retail! I don’t want to be at work til 11:30! I want to listen to the gaaaaame! I wish I was in Duluth!!!!
*end whining*
Let’s Go ‘Dogs!
>An Early Christmas Present
>So we squeaked out a win against NoDak in the final minute last Saturday.
I couldn’t be happier! That hottie Evan Schwabe getting 2 goals, including the game winner!
I guess I could have been happier if we hadn’t been pretty much thumped on Friday night. That was sort of embarrassing. And I wasn’t listening on Saturday! Laaaaaaaaaaame.
Anyway, tonight we’re facing Denver. This is a must-win. Every game is a must-win.
But we have to beat Denver to make up for last year’s embarrassing come-from-ahead loss in the NCAAs. WE should have been kicking Maine’s ass, not Denver. Isaac R. should have been a wall during that 5 on 3, not Adam B.
Tonight, let’s bring out the broom.
>Blowin’ Up The Stat Counter
>Holy crap! I was lying when I said there were naked pictures of me on this site! I didn’t think anyone would actually believe that! But I guess how else do I explain over 100 new hits in just a few days, when I was lucky to get one hit some days? I guess it also explains why no one stayed more than 30 seconds.
On a sad note, I guess Rhino Lining doesn’t sponsor all the hits anymore, so the joke doesn’t make any sense. And they don’t have those great Keyport Liquor commercials! Depressing.
You know, I started this site with grandiose hopes and dreams, but I Am Lazy, so now it’s sort of unstructured. And UMDDogz never posts. And the Alleged Webmaster never designed me a nice site. And I have only seen one game so far this season.
But that’s all well and good! Because I’m still having a good time keeping this site afloat.
The current goal is to go to Duluth on Friday.
DOES ANYONE HAVE AN EXTRA TICKET FOR THE UND-UMD FRIDAY NIGHT GAME? YOU DON’T HAVE TO GIVE IT TO ME FOR FREE, EITHER. I AM NOT A DEADBEAT AND WILL PAY. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!
Ahem. Thank you. That is all.
>Drivin’ With The Dogs
>So, here I am in Buckyland, mourning the ‘Dogs’ defeat. But losing 3-2 against Wisconsin ain’t too shabby. I think we’re READY for next weekend and a win or two against the Sioux, who just lost to the Underwolves.
I sat behind a person I thought was going to be a total jerk, but he ended up being a pretty nice guy. I also embarrassed some BADger girl with my superior knowledge of hockey. So I had a nice time even if we lost. I was proud of our boys. We played hard and took shots. We played like the old ‘Dogs. We even had a lead!
There were a few chances that Wisconsin failed to capitalize on where it could have been 4-2 or 5-2. Once a player had a great opportunity and the blade of his stick fell off. It probably would have been in the net otherwise.
Lots of power plays for both teams, but we couldn’t get it together! We should have done more with our special teams, the penalty kill wasn’t too great. I think we are ready for North Dakota next weekend. OH YEAH!!!!
I feel like a total internet geek because I was missing my family chat rooms and posting on Siouxsports. HELLO!!!! I was at LIVE HOCKEY FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. Oh how I’ve missed it. Gotta try for a game next weekend.
I’m being accused of looking at X-Rated pictures so I’d better go. LET’S GO DOGS!!!!
>Runnin’ with the Badgers
>While I’m listening to the end of the Sioux game for my buddies at SiouxSports, I’ll discuss the ‘Dogs game from this evening.
Yes, we lost. Boooooo. That sucks.
BUT we played an AMAZING game. That buzzer beater power play goal by Stapleton in the first showed we weren’t going to give up. When it was 3-1 Schwabe shot it to Anderson right off the faceoff and we came back within 1. It was a tough loss, but I think we stepped it up.
Tomorrow I’ll be there. Tomorrow we’d better kill them. MacMurchy is going to be beaten to a bloody pulp by me. I will flick Robbie Earl lightly on the shoulder and he will crumple in pain. I will throw fans through the stands if they dare to insult my ‘Dogs. I am hungry for Badger blood.
Of course, there were the usual non-calls and other bullshit, but it’s to be expected, it’s Wisconsin at home. Robbie Earl “accidentally” knocked the net off when the ‘Dogs had a big chance. MacMurchy punched Rosehill three times but the zebra didn’t see it. Kerry and Greg were on KissCam.
Guess who’s excited for hockey tomorrow??????????????????
THIS GIRL!
Runnin' With the Dogs 