2024-25 Gopher Hockey Season

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Someone please file a missing persons report for Lamb and Rinzel.
0-1-1 in Lamb's last 11 games
0-1-1 in Rinzel's last 8 games

Also for Huglen. 0-2-2 in his last 11.
 

bonin21 said:
Someone please file a missing persons report for Lamb and Rinzel.
0-1-1 in Lamb's last 11 games
0-1-1 in Rinzel's last 8 games

Also for Huglen. 0-2-2 in his last 11.
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Huglen I'll cut some slack with his family welcoming a child.

Lamb's disappearing act has been really troublesome to me as its seemingly been compounded with him forcing and being a turnover machine/soft on clearances at the same time.

Rinzel I keep waiting for that full step into Lacombe status and its just not happening. He's just looked less dangerous with the puck as the year has gone on.

Both of them are going to need to get it figured out if this team is going to get back to their prior status.
 

upnorthkid said:
Rinzel I keep waiting for that full step into Lacombe status and its just not happening. He's just looked less dangerous with the puck as the year has gone on.
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I think Big Bird has had his mind on the NHL after Chicago came out and said to he and Moore that they are welcome to join at the end of the season.

I'd say the same for Moore but he has been half checked out his entire time here.
 


bonin21 said:
I think Big Bird has had his mind on the NHL after Chicago came out and said to he and Moore that they are welcome to join at the end of the season.

I'd say the same for Moore but he has been half checked out his entire time here.
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i can't agree on Moore. He has been a consistent effort guy all his years here. For whatever reason the finish has never clicked for him. TBH I don't know why Chicago would be excited to bring him in as he needs work to be an every night NHLer right now

Kind of interested in what chicago does with the forward group. Have Moore, Aidan Thompson (DU), Ryan Greene (BU), and Sacha Boisvert (UND) in the pipeline as well as Lardis in the OHL with Greene (21) and Thompson (23) both being older guys.
 
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upnorthkid said:
i can't agree on Moore. He has been a consistent effort guy all his years here. For whatever reason the finish has never clicked for him. TBH I don't know why Chicago would be excited to bring him in as he needs work to be an every night NHLer right now

Kind of interested in what chicago does with the forward group. Have Moore, Aidan Thompson (DU), Ryan Greene (BU), and Sacha Boisvert (UND) in the pipeline as well as Lardis in the OHL with Greene (21) and Thompson (23) both being older guys.
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Yeah I agree, Moore has his limitations offensively for sure (though he's not that far below PPG in his career), but I definitely wouldn't accuse him of being checked out. He plays hard, he just lacks finishing ability and his hockey IQ is average at best.

I don't think he's at all ready to go pro but whatever happens happens I guess.
 

I don't get not having Whipple as the 7th D and rolling 13 forwards instead.

Also longer term a drafted guy from a well to do family like that may seek greener pastures this summer if he doesn't get back in, and then you're in trouble because the D pipeline is already a mess and losing Koster/Rinzel/Chesley/Whipple and replacing with Rud/Phillips/Rombach/Grimes...
 

bonin21 said:
I don't get not having Whipple as the 7th D and rolling 13 forwards instead.

Also longer term a drafted guy from a well to do family like that may seek greener pastures this summer if he doesn't get back in, and then you're in trouble because the D pipeline is already a mess and losing Koster/Rinzel/Chesley/Whipple and replacing with Rud/Phillips/Rombach/Grimes...
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Given he came in, I imagine whipple and his family knew exactly what they were getting. That said I too would rather dress whipple but maybe they want another center in the lineup
 



What a boring game but a couple fun goals from Chesley and Lamb
 


Vanek26 said:
I'm sure you hate it when the Gophers win and it takes you a bit longer to find something to bitch about.
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Both teams chose to play a neutral zone heavy, defense first game. Boring to watch but a style you need to be able to win. Some very nice goals and very good team defense. Very solid gopher win
 




You all have to be exhausted too to attack any "negative" comment. Anyone that has watched 1000s of hockey games in their life could see it was a slow moving boring game, especially the night after the USA game.
 

bonin21 said:
You all have to be exhausted too to attack any "negative" comment. Anyone that has watched 1000s of hockey games in their life could see it was a slow moving boring game, especially the night after the USA game.
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I don't even disagree with your original comment, but surely you understand why things are received a little differently coming from you.
 

bonin21 said:
Someone please file a missing persons report for Lamb and Rinzel.
0-1-1 in Lamb's last 11 games
0-1-1 in Rinzel's last 8 games

Also for Huglen. 0-2-2 in his last 11.
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A well timed post. Rinzel didn't make the box score last night but I thought all 3 of these guys played a good game.
 

Gophers1992 said:
A well timed post. Rinzel didn't make the box score last night but I thought all 3 of these guys played a good game.
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Yup good for the other two but Rinzel still hasn't been the same. Him leaving would be foolish as he'll need at least a full AHL year.
 

Gophers1992 said:
A well timed post. Rinzel didn't make the box score last night but I thought all 3 of these guys played a good game.
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agreed on lamber and Huglen. Rinzel was very up and down again. He makes some plays that really make your jaw drop and then looks completely lost at others. He will benefit from playing wherever he gets a full year playing top minutes and PP time. I would doubt he sticks around here to do that but who knows what Chicago is doing right now with how they've handled Levshunov.
 

upnorthkid said:
agreed on lamber and Huglen. Rinzel was very up and down again. He makes some plays that really make your jaw drop and then looks completely lost at others. He will benefit from playing wherever he gets a full year playing top minutes and PP time. I would doubt he sticks around here to do that but who knows what Chicago is doing right now with how they've handled Levshunov.
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Plus, Bedard stinks.

That team is a complete mess.
 



bonin21 said:
You all have to be exhausted too to attack any "negative" comment. Anyone that has watched 1000s of hockey games in their life could see it was a slow moving boring game, especially the night after the USA game.
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What color is the sky in your world?
 


mnsportsgeek said:
You mean 1 seed in the ncaa tournament? I think we need 5 points to clinch the big ten.
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correct, on the NCAA.

About 95% on pairwise probability matrix. actually a pretty decent shot at getting up to the 2 seed, which would mean playing the AHA or CCHA (or the ECAC if someone beats QU) in the first round which would be big
 

The odds of getting up to the 2 overall are much higher now. I think if they win out they could get it. But many things yet to happen.

Outside of that, how would you rank these potential opponents in how much they worry you? Here's my order.

UND in Fargo
Mankato
Qpac because of the bad memories
And then these don't scare me as much
UMass, PSU, UMass Lowell, ASU

UND is the only truly worrying one though and it's only because it would mean they're on a crazy win streak and playing in front of a home crowd.
 
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bonin21 said:
The odds of getting up to the 2 overall are much higher now. I think if they win out they could get it. But many things yet to happen.

Outside of that, how would you rank these potential opponents in how much they worry you? Here's my order.

UND in Fargo
Mankato
Qpac because of the bad memories
And then these don't scare me as much
UMass, PSU, UMass Lowell, ASU

UND is the only truly worrying one though and it's only because it would mean they're on a crazy win streak and playing in front of a home crowd.
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We’ll get a better feel for it after this weekend but my gut tells me PSU is the scariest on that list with how they are playing in the second half.
 


bonin21 said:
The odds of getting up to the 2 overall are much higher now. I think if they win out they could get it. But many things yet to happen.

Outside of that, how would you rank these potential opponents in how much they worry you? Here's my order.

UND in Fargo
Mankato
Qpac because of the bad memories
And then these don't scare me as much
UMass, PSU, UMass Lowell, ASU

UND is the only truly worrying one though and it's only because it would mean they're on a crazy win streak and playing in front of a home crowd.
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overall your list
PSU: top end talent, very good goalie, and on a heater to get into the postseason (this likely means they beat us at least once this weekend)
QPac: solid team front to back and won't make many mistakes. We've struggled against that style historically
UMass: has some head scratcher early losses but has been good of late and have beaten everyone in HE at least once so they can play when they put it together
ASU: the team can score though I like our matchup with them with their defensive frailties
UND: yeah it'd be in Fargo but I think even if they sneak in after winning the NCHC, their fan base is not super happy with the year and won't have a ton of faith so don't know if it'd be quite the hostility (also if we get the 2, they wouldn't send us to Fargo for bracket integrity as we'd draw the CCHA autobid team since UND would rise in the rankings higher in all likelihood)
UML: they've been pretty poor down the stretch and feel like they don't have the scoring to be a top worry
Mankato is probably the bottom of this list. If you looked at everything other than the name, there's not much there. they've dropped games against bad teams and looked so so against upper teams. There's a reason they're ranked where they are.

Think if the gophers win out they'll pull the 2. MSUs RPI will not be helped at all with 2 games vs ND, especially if they drop any points and in theory if we win out they're playing ND 4 times. Luckily despite losing all games to MSU, 2 of them are in SOs so if we catch them in RPI we'd still pass them because of the record against common opponents even if we don't play again
 

upnorthkid said:
UND: yeah it'd be in Fargo but I think even if they sneak in after winning the NCHC, their fan base is not super happy with the year and won't have a ton of faith so don't know if it'd be quite the hostility (also if we get the 2, they wouldn't send us to Fargo for bracket integrity as we'd draw the CCHA autobid team since UND would rise in the rankings higher in all likelihood)
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You're nuts if you don't think they would be just an insane as always in a home regional game after turning their season around.
 

bonin21 said:
You're nuts if you don't think they would be just an insane as always in a home regional game after turning their season around.
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I've been up at the Ralph numerous times and for playoff games (back in the WCHA days) against them. Don't get me wrong, it would be loud, but It's lost a substantial amount of the rowdiness. Maybe they'd bring in some dead Gophers again like they used to, but it seems those days are past.

Personally I'd love it if they did get rowdy as I think it would only play to our advantage as they're an extremely undisciplined team that takes the 3rd most penalty minutes/game
 

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