***OFFICIAL MINNESOTA VS QUINNIPIAC NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHP IN-GAME THREAD!!!***

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DanvilleGopher said:
The Q player goaded him into the penalty which turned out to be a very smart play. Cooley lost his cool and Q won the game.

Cooley needs to understand he was leading by 1 and there were 4 minutes left...let him have the stick, his reaction is what the guy wanted.
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It's a good point. Was stupid to go after him like that.
 

Ewert86PC said:
Can you come to my job and make excuses as to why I'm not performing up to my boss's expectations?

We didn't face Michigan tonight. It showed. We stopped trying to score goals and lengthening our lead like we did going into the third period with a lead all season.
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The gopher were lucky to have even scored 2 goals. The first was a whiffed pass by a defenseman that lead to a partial breakaway. The second was a good workman lions goal after a face off win. The gophers were basically dominated for 50 minutes tonight.

I’m pissed they lost too, but they lost to another really good team. It’s hockey you play to 3 and crazy shit happens.
 

From the Parkinglot said:
Why not where’s he gonna go. He’s not tall enough to play in the NHL so if riding a bus in the AHL is important to him he could go. I fully expect him to come back.
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Meaning I don’t see him coming back as that much of a positive for the gophers. I don’t think he is that great of a player
 

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GopherGod said:
Meaning I don’t see him coming back as that much of a positive for the gophers. I don’t think he is that great of a player
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He is a very good NcAA goalie. The guy gave up like 1.99 goals a game and have a save percentage of something like .930. There were lots of games where he kept the gophers in the game as the gophers slept walked periods. I would take him back in a heartbeat.
 




One thing I was wondering also; what happened to Knies?? He unfortunately was absolutely non existent in the whole NCAA tournament.

Love the guy, but he forgot to show up!
 

Homerpalooza said:
Every gopher worked their ass off to win that Championship.

A ballsy as fuck move to pull a goalie on a power play is why Q won. Not domination.

Sure they took a lot of shots. We knew that would happen. We played defense great until they had a two man advantage late in a period.

That shitty penalty doesn’t happen and we win the Natty.
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Still feel like we also blew some chances. That and failed to execute on the couple of rush opportunities.
 

From the Parkinglot said:
He is a

He is a very good NcAA goalie. The guy gave up like 1.99 goals a game and have a save percentage of something like .930. There were lots of games where he kept the gophers in the game as the gophers slept walked periods. I would take him back in a heartbeat.
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He's solid. Not bad, and better than average. The stats he had are mostly thanks to the blue line.
 



From the Parkinglot said:
The gopher were lucky to have even scored 2 goals. The first was a whiffed pass by a defenseman that lead to a partial breakaway. The second was a good workman lions goal after a face off win. The gophers were basically dominated for 50 minutes tonight.

I’m pissed they lost too, but they lost to another really good team. It’s hockey you play to 3 and crazy shit happens.
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I'm so tired of hearing "they're just kids" as a defense. I was tired of hearing it when I was in school because part of being an adult is accepting greater responsibility and people expect greater results. The pat on the head and platitudes that you tried your best is demeaning and dismissive. It guts the self-esteem of athletes and reinforces that they deserved to lose.

This team did not deserve to lose. If they had played like they had all season, the outcome would be different. The continual admonition that we should consider the other teams feelings is a cleaver to competitive drive within an athlete.

I would rather have a National Championship and accusations that we didn't care about the other team, than be able to say we were conscientious of the other team and lost because that means we let them win.

We went into a shell because of not wanting to look bad in a victory and it caused us to lose. Championships matter.
 

stocker08 said:
Quinnipiac was getting very little going in transition. For that entire first period and a half. So it just doesn't make sense to me why the coaches would be content to simply let them hold the puck in our zone for the majority of the period.
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At first, I thought we were playing smart and setting them up for odd man rushes, but I guess not.
 

From the Parkinglot said:
In fairness the Quincy guy trapped Copley’s stick under his arm prior to the penalty on Cooley.

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exactly. Essentially gave QU a tie that they arguably didn’t earn (I realize the PP time had run out by the time the goal was scored, but there is no way they pull their goalie there and have that strong of a scoring rush had the inexplicable BS call not been made. Seeing this video makes my blood boil, as it’s far worse than I had even thought, and it looked bad to my eyes the entire time.
 
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cncmin said:
exactly. those bastards were cheating like that all game long, and got away with it too. of the worst calls / non-calls in college hockey history, given that obvious view. Essentially gave QU the tie.
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All refs and umpires hate Minnesota teams. It’s a scientifically proven fact.
 



Look at the 3rd period. Look at what happened in the 3rd. The Gophers were coached to prevent defense in the 3rd, a coaching disaster.

The Gophers did NOT give up a goal in a power play in the 3rd. The game was lost on the shocking falling back and not trying to score. Look at the shots made -- NOT ATTEMPTED -- in the 3rd. Shocking.

Look at the shot count in the 3rd and then the final stats for the whole game. That is not the regular Gophers team. That was a disaster decision. We all could see the disaster strategy in the 3rd. Look at the 3rd period. Look at what happened in the 3rd.

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The best talent in Minnesota history botched in the 3rd.

This coach needs to go.

We have lived through an historic plague under this athletic director Mark Coyle.

-Hockey has not won a championship since 2003. How does that happen?

-Women's hockey has not won a championship since 2016. How does that happen?

-Both basketball programs are razed to the ground.

-Hired a person who had never coached at any level EVER to coach the women's basketball team. It went from 11 conference wins in 3 out of 4 seasons with 2 NCAA tournaments to not one tournament in 5 years with not one 10 conference win season in that time and razed so bad to needing walk on's to fill roster spots plus losing with a veteran team to a team that had never beat a Big Ten team.

-Back to back worst seasons for men's basketball.

-The once-mighty wrestling team is knocked down while other NIL teams like Penn State own U of M. Which leads to...

-Horrible, horrible response the the new world of NIL. I've read many articles about other schools gearing up for this, and by comparison Minnesota was so far behind what others are doing.

-Football is really the only program that's doing well and by that I mean respectable, not winning anything big, which is fine.

-Men's track is #1 right now but Coyle axed that in half, killing indoor track, to align scholarships with the student body that is curiously lopsided in female attendance.

Meanwhile, St Thomas is on the rise.

Say goodbye to good Big Ten sports. It was nice knowing you when you were here.
 


Better team won. When you can only muster up 2 shots in the third and 15 for the game you deserve to lose. Boys went in a shell and Q came at em hard.
 
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TRF Guy said:
Better team won. When you can only muster up 2 shits on the third and 15 for the game you deserve to lose. Boys went in a shell and Q came at em hard.
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No, the team who wanted it more won.

By going into a shell, we admitted we didn't want it. We played to not lose or prevent (a win) defensive play.
 


Gopher_In_NYC said:
You don’t take that penalty when 3:40 from winning
Elite players can control their emotions
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Best thing there is to literally let go of the stick. Chances are the penalty goes the other way, if one is called at all.

Had we applied any pressure at all that period, we are probably talking about a W, but you could see it building midway through the 2nd.

We've had this tendency all season to let up after a goal. If anything Q cranked up the intensity. I think we were caught off guard by it to be honest. Normally they could weather it with superior talent, but not with that type of veteran team. As hard as they were pressing, something SHOULD have been open, but we never could get a clean break out. We seemed content to try and flip and chip, and it bit us in the ass big time.
 


From the Parkinglot said:
I was being sarcastic as I assumed you were.
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Nope.

it was a bonehead play and as others on here have said, he was baiting him, trying to get to react - which UnCooley did and it created the opportunity for them to tie it.

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DarthGopher said:
Best thing there is to literally let go of the stick. Chances are the penalty goes the other way, if one is called at all.

Had we applied any pressure at all that period, we are probably talking about a W, but you could see it building midway through the 2nd.

We've had this tendency all season to let up after a goal. If anything Q cranked up the intensity. I think we were caught off guard by it to be honest. Normally they could weather it with superior talent, but not with that type of veteran team. As hard as they were pressing, something SHOULD have been open, but we never could get a clean break out. We seemed content to try and flip and chip, and it bit us in the ass big time.
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Ewert86PC said:
No, the team who wanted it more won.

By going into a shell, we admitted we didn't want it. We played to not lose or prevent (a win) defensive play.
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Pretty much what I said
 



TRF Guy said:
At least the Twinkies won a couple other than that it’s Loserville USA
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And to think my family scoffed when I left the “Mini Apple” for the Big Apple.

My departure date was the day Jesse won the governor’s race and me and my buddy were in a U Haul listening to returns on KSTP and I released I had narrowly escaped the coming carnage.
 



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