Michigan-Alaska: Open Thread
Let's get the W tonight, last time we will play Alaska in the regular season. Starting lineup for the night Copp-Treais-Hyman, Trouba-Merrill, Janecyk.
January 12th, 2013 at 9:44 PM ^
January 12th, 2013 at 9:45 PM ^
not since the days of warren sharples do I remember us being this bad. . .
January 12th, 2013 at 9:47 PM ^
January 12th, 2013 at 9:53 PM ^
January 12th, 2013 at 10:08 PM ^
January 12th, 2013 at 10:17 PM ^
1942-3: 1-10-2 (4th losing season in a row, following 5-14-1, 2-14-1, & 2-14-2)
1972-3: 6-27-1 (worst post WWII record)
January 12th, 2013 at 10:20 PM ^
You know the drill, relive the nightmare. Quick recap here http://centericehockey.us/content/alaska-recap
January 13th, 2013 at 12:09 AM ^
Now this feels more like a typical fan experience with most of the teams I follow!
January 12th, 2013 at 11:50 PM ^
Seriously. I think we would split the series with Alabama-Huntsville. It keeps getting worse every week
January 13th, 2013 at 12:31 AM ^
knows a guy on the team. I talked to him today and we ended up talking about hockey's disappointing year. He said his friend just said that nobody knows what's wrong. I mean, you watch the game and everything is going wrong, obviously, but there's just nobody with any answers, in the locker room. They know they're all playing poorly, they just don't know how to explain it or fix it. I actually thought the team played fairly hard tonight. It felt like they were expending a lot of effort, at least, just nothing happened right, they still weren't winning enough battles or races or doing much of anything right. It's just sad all around.
As for the goalies... I just feel especially bad for them. Rutlege was suppposed to be the guy and just wasn't getting it done. Given his time and numbers on the NTDP, he's probably the most talented of the group, but obviously something is way wrong, confidence or whatever, so they're trying to start a guy who was recruited as a last minute stop-gap back-up or a walk-on third string goalie and it's going predictably badly. Hunwick doesn't come along every day, that's why he's such a good story. These guys are getting a lot of heat and probably feel horrible and their performances aren't great for the most part, but they're being thrust into a role that they were never really supposed to be in. A portion of the blame rests with them, but it's hard to be upset, becuase they're just overmatched.
The only comfort is that knowing Red, next season will probably be his best coaching job ever. It's hard to wait and this season is hard to watch, but sometimes things just don't go well.
January 13th, 2013 at 5:29 AM ^
What's going on that makes next year look so good?
January 13th, 2013 at 7:19 PM ^
January 13th, 2013 at 9:26 AM ^
I need a thunder buddy to get through this season. Every time I see the team break out the puck into the offensive zone, I get afraid they are going to turn the puck over and lead to a odd man rush the opposite direction.
January 13th, 2013 at 3:53 PM ^
January 14th, 2013 at 9:30 AM ^
From the Daily:
"Yost was Alaska’s last frontier. John Zarling, a former professor at Alaska and Fairbanks resident, flew down to Chicago then drove to Ann Arbor. It was the third time he has made the trip. But this one felt a little different.
To him, the arena has lost its vicious bite. He described the atmosphere as less hostile than on either of his two other trips to Ann Arbor. But that didn’t make the history-making sweep of the Wolverines any less sweet to the Michigan Tech graduate."
http://michigandaily.com/sports/matt-slovin-1-hockey-column-13
Granted, this year's team is just not that good. But how can we get Yost to be as intimidating of a venue to play in as it was 10-15 years ago? Any suggestions (purely atmospheric; not related to putting a better team on the ice)?
January 26th, 2013 at 3:45 PM ^