Michigan HockeyCast 6.18: Go-Fer Fish
1 hour and 20 minutes
With David Nasternak and Alex Drain
This Podcast Has a Sponsor: Michigan Law Grad Jonathan Paul is the guy with the C you want skating next to the ref and pleading your case. He's also a good guy to sit next to at the hockey games.
Segment 1: Friday Flop
- Opener
- Sloppy Even Period
- Penalty Period
- Pointless Period
Segment 2: Saturday Roller Coaster
- The First Two Periods
- The Rest of the Game
- Old Friends and Around the League
- Oh No, You Again?
[Player after THE JUMP]
MUSIC
- NHL on ESPN Theme
- "Gopher Mambo - Remastered 2009" -- Billy May, Gozzo, Yma Sumac, The Rico Mamba Orchestra
- Ice Hockey (NES) theme
THE USUAL LINKS
Final Scores:
Friday - (Michigan 2, Minnesota 6)
Saturday - (Michigan 6 (OT), Minnesota 5)
What in the glorious hell was the intermission music???? "Gopher Mambo"???
Also, Noah West is not a good goalie.
I mostly wanted to follow up on the comments from the MGoPod. I'm not sure whether Football has mellowed Brian into a new state of being, but for him to come out and downplay the frustrating nature of this team and just make the "goals are goals...don't over think when they occur" statement was shocking to me.
I realize there aren't comprehensive advanced stats like XG for college hockey and I do agree that randomness, injuries, and penalties are a big part of our season .... but there is clearly something with this team's performance that I think it is fair to be frustrated and disappointed with.
One suggestion I had, and I'm far from an expert, would be to look at goal differential by period this season. I suspect that 3rd period numbers are vastly different than the others. I was playing with some other ideas about sequence of goals allowed based on score - gets complicated and messy though.
Finally, I truly wish someone would put together a youtube video showing all of the major penalty calls and non-calls and see if it can go viral (as much as anything college hockey can) showing the erratic nature of the calls, how many were called on-ice versus review, and how many of them skew against us. Hughes' was dumb on Saturday and I wasn't shocked that it was 5. But he got 5 and a GM while MN checked one of us from behind into the bench and got just 2. I just don't understand the difference.
Michigan Denver first round NCAA matchup would be glorious
Much more if Michigan wins
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