Michigan hockey vs. Bowling Green open thread

We score early, and they score right back.  Unbelievable!

I hate this not being on TV. Other than this game, there's one major conference basketball game tonight, no NHL on anything other than the super-premium channels, and no M hockey. This is one of the worst sports TV nights I can remember in hockey/basketball season.

Also, I couldn't convince anyone to actually go to the game with me, seeing as how it's a two hour drive from my apartment on a perfectly good Friday night.

Wohlberg!  2-1!!

2-1 good guys. Sounds like we're in for a high scoring affair. Hopefully more to the tune of 6-1 M.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

They tie it up.

how are the refs? Is it gongshow as usual? 

Sounds like we're sleepwalking through the 1st period. Underestimating BGSU. Hopefully Red spits some fire during the intermission to wake the guys up.

Man, we hit the post again!

Rats, FSU scored, up 1-0.

How are we doing in the 2nd?

Guptill!!! 3-2!!

Western ties it at 1.

Gooooal Broncos tied 1to 1 2nd period still

Finish strong!

Tied again.  Guh.

Tied at 3 with about 7:30 or so to go

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Merrill got his pocket picked, 4-3 them, 1:24 left.

We always play like shit at BG

Jesus. 4-3 BGSU

empty net - face off deep in BG's end

fuck, this is what we get for attempting to blow off this game against these scrubs. typical merrill. he has been shit since the lil bro series. boy i cannot wait to see our drop in the pairwise due to the RPI taking a nice hit...WTF...fuck it I am going to go get plastered

FUCKSHITDAMMITFUCKFUCKFUCKSHITSONOFAFUCKINGBITCH!!!!!

and i have to say, i hate the hockey team.  I know it is the only sport BGSU has every one a NCAA National Championship in, but damn the team last in last place every year in the CCHA while i was in school, but yet they would beat Michigan every damn time in BG.  Shit pissed me off,  I would have to hear it from my roommates (Ohio fans) for the next week.  Fuck this sucks.

giving up 4 goals to the last place team is unacceptable.

How the hell does this happen? 4 goals against Hunwick? Bowling Green? What the fucking fuck.

and maybe knock some sense into the knuckheads along the blue line than lose in the tournament.  WMU/FSU in OT right now, if FSU gets even a point, this game matters not so much.  The RPI hit will suck.  Like, a lot.  But hopefully they can make it up with a nice run through the CCHA tournament.

Wow. I can't say anything else except I'm fucking pissed off.

It's one thing to lose the conference championship, if ferris would win and Michigan would have won. It's one thing to lose it over something you can't control. But to lose it to the worst fucking team in the conference, in the fashion that they did. It's unacceptable.

I think Michigan took bowling green lightly. I'm just very mad right now. western and ferris state are in OT, western is on a 5 minute PP. I hope western gets swept.

I better see a BIG Michigan win tomorrow. Michigan needs home ice. They need 1 point. Get it tomorrow, and worry about the conference tournament.

Just win. Kick bowling green's ass tomorrow and put fear into the other teams around the conference who might play Michigan.

In retrospect I'm glad this stinker wasn't on TV.  I'd be even more pissed if I had actually seen Merrill get stripped of the puck for that goal.

Lose one now, let Red rip them a new one tonight, cram film down their throats all day tomorrow, win by 6 tomorrow night, and ride the wave into March.

And, go.

Kick in the pants = good

Losing the one seed = blinding rage

Ferris in a shootout with WMU, so FSU has the point they needed. For CCHA championship purposes (only), this game did not matter.

I was just listening on the radio stream rather than actually watching. Easier to be detached from a frustrating night of hockey. Unfortunately, as Brian has pointed out, that's the way this team is this year. Let's just hope they find that fire again down the stretch...

western wins the shootout and is now tied with Michigan in 2nd place at 47 points.

Michigan must win tomorrow to clinch home ice. western has to play at ferris.

I don't think western will beat them.

I want to see a 5 goal win tomorrow by Michigan. I rather Michigan get their loss out now the more I think about it, but to me, the goal is to win the conference. Then if Michigan can win the conference tournament, great but if they win the conference they'll be more than fine for the NCAA Tournament. And obviously the ultimate goal, the National Championship.

Please win tomorrow Michigan.

Right now notre dame leads state 1-0. The game is on CBSS. state is trying to hold onto their first round bye. Hope notre dame beats them.

notre dame is one game from being .500. No way in hell they make the NCAA Tournament unless they pull a 2009-10 Michigan and win the conference tournament.

northern right now is kicking lake state's ass. Doesn't really matter.

When I feel bad about tonight, I think about how bad the 5 hockey fans ohio actually has must feel. They have won ONE game in the 2012 calendar year. They went from running away with the conference and pretty much locking up a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament to sliding down the toilet in the standings and probably won't make the NCAA Tournament.

whatever

SHOULD OF LEFT HIM SUSPENDED!! JUST LEAVE EARLY AND GO PRO!! ITS CLEAR HE DOESNT WANT TOBE THERE!!

Notre Dame now up 2-0 over MSU with 10 to go.

I have a gut feeling that Michigan is going to come out tomorrow and take bowling green to the shed.

This was not Michigan Hockey tonight. Absolutely wasn't. I expect Michigan to come and belt those SOBs tomorrow and secure home ice. If both Michigan and western win tomorrow, they will be tied at 50 points but Michigan would win the tiebreaker and get the 2 seed because they would have more conference wins than western.

Pathetic.

Absolutely abysmal performance by the defense. They had a ton of doorstep chances they failed to capitlize on that I can't believe we gave up to a team as bad as them. We also flubbed some great oppurtunities of our own, and what do you know, one Hunwick screw-up followed by a completely unacceptable turnover later and we've blown the game.

That pick on Merrill is the type of thing that gets pros sent to the minors for a while. We're not talking about a BG player doing his best Datsyuk impression, we're talking about a complete lack of attention and effort by him and he should be absolutely ashamed.

I hope and am relatively confident Red ripped them a new one in the locker room. If so, I predict we will make them look like a high school team tomorrow, and I hope they will use tonight as a lesson not to give less than 100% going into playoff season.

Seriously.  We played like garbage (from what it sounds) and lost to an inferior team.  This is an educational tool for our young men.  It doesn't matter how much the coaches tell them they have to play their hardest to win.  An embarrassing loss like this puts it back in perspective for the players.  

I hate losing out on a league title, but if this helps us out in some intangible way in 4 weeks, then it's all good.

Anyone else think Merrill might be on his way out? It seems like he's been playing super unfocused the last weekend or two. I'm wondering if he's mentally checked out. Just a theory but it's very uncharacteristic for him to get torched on goals against teams like Northern and flippin BGSU. wtf?

Unprepared and unfocused, two states-of-mind that will be death in the NCAA tourney.