Michigan - Ohio State: Open Thread
Michigan heads to Columbus for another must win game. Steve Racine in net for Michigan, Tomkins for Ohio State. The game is on FSD.
Forwards
Guptill-Compher-DeBlois
Kile-Copp-Hyman
Di Giuseppe-Nieves-Moffatt
Selman-Lynch-Allen
Defense
Downing-Serville
Clare-Chiasson
De Jong-Lohan
Goalies
Racine
Nagelvoort
on FoxSportsDetroit, puck drops @ 1pm EST.
+1 to all in this thread who bravely marched into enemy ice and emerged VICTORious today.
GO BLUE!
Must win! UM fell to 15 in the Pairwise, and needs to keep their head above water here. Damn, those two loses to PSU really a big weight in our sinking NCAA Boat.
Let's Go Blue! Win the game, dammit!
Question for all the puckheads out there. Do you think this is Red's last season and if so who is likely to replace him? I don't follow hockey very closely (really only engage if they make the Frozen Four) but from the comments I've read on the board it sure seems like people think it's time for him to move on. But I also read an equal number of "he's earned the right to leave when he's ready to leave" which sounds a LOT like the PSU fans during the last few years of Joe Paterno.
I get that no coach likes going out with the program heading downhill but on the other hand, if it wasnt going downhill nobody would want Red to leave. So which is it - does he leave or is he the coach next year?
Red has always said that when he feels like he's not the right guy for the program anymore, he will walk away. If they miss the postseason he will retire.
Red doesn't really have a coaching tree, so everyone's guess right now is Mel Pearson.
no information to support me here, I'm gonna slightly go out on a limb here and predict that Red, at very latest, will retire by the end of next season. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it happens at the end of this season, his "body language" on the bench seems to indicate to me that it's become more of a chore than he's up for anymore.
But as to whether he's earned the right to decide when it's time to go vs. being fired/let go of? Yes, absolutely his call, IMO.
Fuck Penn State, fuck Joe Paterno, and fuck you for mentioning him in the same breath as Red.
I have no idea if Red will still feel like coaching next season, but I bet he's way more involved than that fraud was at the end of his career.
of last fall. babcock replaces red. griffin's coach goes to wings.
the play during Friday night's shootout loss (and several other recent games), I am not at all confident that this team is capable of securing a spot in this years tournament. Too many holes in the way they play the game. PP problems (0-for-6?!!), PK problems, poorly-placed passes, leaky defense. And Red looks on TV like he's as frustrated as we are with what he sees.
I don't remember the exact stats, but didn't we out-shoot OSU by at least a dozen shots Friday? Problem is, most of them are from so far outside that they don't have any chance unless someone is there to scoop in a blocked shot that trickles away from the goalie, and there weren't many of those opportunities Friday.
Is there a better team to beat to try and get the season turned around? I say no! my friends there is no better team to beat than the Bucks, ok with the exception of the Spartans. Or maybe Minnesota, but you catch my meaning here right? Right? crickets crickets Go Blue dammit. beat Ohio.
GOALLL
Hell yeah! 1-0 U-M!
POWER PLAY GOAL!!!!!
Copp on the assist, not sure if there was another one on the assist or not
Kile, from Copp and Downing. 1-0 game.
On the PK Penalty on Hyman for hooking
Dammit, on the PK.
Back to full strength
Yay, PK!
On the power play. Slashing on Jardine
Whoa C YA!
Moffatt!! 2-0!!
GOALLLLLL Moffatt
from Downing and Copp
a replay, or did we just get another PP goal???!
Y E S !!!
Moffatt from Copp and Downing
even have chance to get my beer and popcorn ready, standing next to the damn microwave. I sit down its already one nil.
two nil
Either you were waiting for your warm beer to get cold, or that's some crappy popcorn to take so long.
Thats how you start a hockey game on the road Go Blue!!!
We're playing much better so far this afternoon than Friday night where they couldn't connect on any of their passes.
POWER PLAY!!!
Whoa C YA!
Penn State hanging in there against Bucky. 51-49 with 9:11 to go.
Truth must fight with Falsehood, and Win.
So that was only 2 min?
Ref got knocked over by a puck during the power play and is off to the locker room.
Mixed feelings: on the one hand I hope he'll be OK; on the other hand I hope he had some sense knocked into him.
Cher is Dressed to Kill
But whither Trombone Shorty?
Back on the PK. Penalty on PDG for tripping
Damn, di Giuseppe to the box.
Weak penalty.
Announcers can't remember we were on PK before. They think it is the first time today.
But have they gotten any names wrong yet?