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Man, can we just tie somebody once in a while, I'll take that even. Is Lake Superior that good? I mean we sweep OSU , figure out a way to beat #6 Michigan albeit at home but lose WMU , Ferris St. and get swept by Lake Superior. I'll guess I'm about to be told that we ran into a hot goalie again since we couldn't even score more than 1 goal in the first game. Just when it looks like we've turned the corner we go back several steps. This up and down is just too much.

Young team=inconsistency

I don't see why you care since you said in another post that this team isn't worth watching and you can't understand why people go to the games.

Yeah Falconboy, just keep your mouth shut about hockey. You are way out of your league.

And yes, perenially, LSSU is a very good hockey team.

I question the young team comment.
We have 4 freshman that play a lot.
Ok Sinkewich and Schmidt sometimes look like rookies, but we are 3/4 way through the season. Svendsen does not play like a rookie.
At times Jimmy Spratt plays like a rookie, some times he ( and Horrell)
are left hung out, and at time Jimmy looks great.
Jon Ralph will be much better next year.

The young team excuse is about as good as my excuse about not being able to get good recruits because of the building. We have good recruits.
But please do not ask why we can beat Michigan et al , and lose to Ferris and WMU.

Looks like a group effort some nights.

Just because you have some seniors, doesn't mean we have senior leadership. In fact, I'd say that the guy with a C on his sweater may not be the best leader on the ice.

My .02 since that's all I can afford right now.

Puckhead wrote:I question the young team comment.
We have 4 freshman that play a lot.
Ok Sinkewich and Schmidt sometimes look like rookies, but we are 3/4 way through the season. Svendsen does not play like a rookie.
At times Jimmy Spratt plays like a rookie, some times he ( and Horrell)
are left hung out, and at time Jimmy looks great.
Jon Ralph will be much better next year.

The young team excuse is about as good as my excuse about not being able to get good recruits because of the building. We have good recruits.
But please do not ask why we can beat Michigan et al , and lose to Ferris and WMU.

Looks like a group effort some nights.

Puckhead, with all due respect, you are simply dead wrong on the building affecting our recruiting. I don't know how much clearer myself or anyone else can say it. Get over it.

it was a tough weekend. LSSU is a very good team, you dont get to second place in the CCHA without being atleast a little talented. we had a tough weekend and we didnt bring our A game to either game, friday or saturday. plus playing both games at LSSU stinks. i hate people saying that this team is young, yes we have freshman, but everyone has freshman. that excuse is old, as said before, we are now well over halfway done with the season. and now its time to buckle down and win some games, i expect us to blow out RIT and sweep Notre Dame. then the tough final series with Miami, hopefully we can get a split. Stop making excuses for this team, its getting old. If we play with the same intensity every night, as we did against Michigan, we can beat anbody.

Yeah, as much as I love to use the "young team" excuse every now and again, that is clearly not the reason we got swept by LSSU. Seems to me that our guys are very inconsistent as far as mental preparation (young and old). This is something I've heard Spratt say about himself at least once.
Also, our defensive effort is off for a lot of these games that we should be able to win but end up losing.
Could we have beaten LSSU? Absolutely, we've proven we can come up big when we need to. We just need to get the pieces lined up like we did against OSU (and keep them that way), and we could win the big ones consistently.
Here's looking forward to a few good games against RIT and ND!

I propose a theme song for this year's squad.

Meatloaf: "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad."

It seems to fit the style of play consistency within the game, at least.

It was a bad weekend, but Scott will pull it around. Utmost confidence.

Rightupinthere wrote:
It was a bad weekend, but Scott will pull it around. Utmost confidence.

Completely agreed. I have never had more faith in a coach before, in any sport. Pooch is a phenomenal coach and an even better guy. Once we get a player who will actually step up and take a leadership role on this team, we will roll. I've thought that Moto at times looks like just that guy, but I don't think he has fully realized how much of a leader he can be on this team, and I'm sure his unfortunate incident hasn't helped him in this regard in the second half. I really do expect that to change next year.

When you say leader I think of the way Matsu gets his teammates into the game and Foster's ability to take a game over.

Looking back, we were damn spoiled with our captains last year. We just need "that guy" to step up.

BGDrew wrote:When you say leader I think of the way Matsu gets his teammates into the game and Foster's ability to take a game over.

Looking back, we were damn spoiled with our captains last year. We just need "that guy" to step up.

You know, after thinking about this some more, it seems to me that the lack of a true leader or leaders on this team is where the "young team" "excuse" come from. I don't believe it is an excuse, and I don't believe that anyone who says it is referring to the number of freshmen, sophomores, juniors or seniors on this team, either. A "young" team is a team that, either collectively or individually, has not realized their potential both in the lockeroom and on the ice. It doesn't matter if we have a team full of seniors - if there is no leadership they are a "young team." I suggest that people stop referring to this as an excuse, because it is clear that it is not.

Remember this, folks: we had three guys last year wearing "C"'s on their sweaters, and they all graduated. That is a huge, huge chunk of leadership for any team to replace, regardless of the positions that they played. It may take time, but there are a number of kids on this team that either by the end of this year, or the beginning of next, will have earned a "C" on their sweater, and furthermore will personify it. It just takes time.

Exactly BO, except you wrote it the Grad school way and sounded more intelligent...

Don't get me wrong, Morrison is a good hockey player but there isn't really anything about him that strikes me as being a leader on the ice. In all fairness to him, he had some huge shoes to fill.

BGDrew wrote:Exactly BO, except you wrote it the Grad school way and sounded more intelligent...

Don't get me wrong, Morrison is a good hockey player but there isn't really anything about him that strikes me as being a leader on the ice. In all fairness to him, he had some huge shoes to fill.

Sometimes its the things off the ice that make someone a leader, not always what you see on the ice.