Keep it rolling Gophs!
Good opportunity this weekend for gophers to claim a rare road sweep. Hit Yost when their bench is depleted.
Wally and Frank are having a field day tonight. Some of their comments have me laughing.
Nice to see no extracurricular BS after the whistle outside of playing UND and maybe UMD and SCSU.
Though I always laugh at the so-called college hockey tough guy. There are very, very few college hockey tough guys. 90% plus of these so-called hockey tough guys are wannabe tough guys.
Keep your stick on the ice...
Game over, Gophs win 5-2.
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Nice win Gophs! Good team effort tonight.
Pitlick with two goals. Luke Mittelstadt with a goal and 2 assists. Cooley with a goal and an assist both after the 5 minute major hopefully that is a sign of things to come.
Owen B had 29 saves giving up only two goals both on the power play.
Don’t get all the excuse making for Michigan having players out but barely a mention that our starting goalie is out.
Well that was a memorable game.
For awhile had that feeling of one of those nights where you dominate 5x5 but you still find a way to lose. I think Bob aged ~6 months in those first two periods.
Then that protocol penalty jump started a dominate 3rd. Nice game by Barto, now lets go get the sweep!
Gophers better team all game. MI missing 5 skaters too much to overcome. Bad luck for them but good opportunity for MN again tomorrow.
Coach in the post game interview said the refs apologized for the 1st period penalty that Michigan scored on.
What?
He said one ref was calling a penalty on Michigan but the other ref called a penalty on us. Why didn't both get called then?
I like when refs admit they made a mistake but apologizing after you gift wrapped them a goal is like thanks. ?
Pairwise update after game 1
Gophers jumped up from #13 to #6
Michigan Dropped from #3 to #8
I was surprised there was that big of a gap before tonight given that the eye test of the two schedules seemed fairly similar in strength and record. But the math is the math and small samples make things highly volatile right now.
Pitlick with two goals. Luke Mittelstadt with a goal and 2 assists. Cooley with a goal and an assist both after the 5 minute major hopefully that is a sign of things to come.
Owen B had 29 saves giving up only two goals both on the power play.
Barto had a couple bad rebounds but was otherwise pretty solid when they needed him
I'm not surprised Michigan got a penalty for not showing up for the start of the 3rd period they have a history of not showing up just ask Western Michigan. ?
Pitlick with two goals. Luke Mittelstadt with a goal and 2 assists. Cooley with a goal and an assist both after the 5 minute major hopefully that is a sign of things to come.
Owen B had 29 saves giving up only two goals both on the power play.
Barto had a couple bad rebounds but was otherwise pretty solid when they needed him
Yeah it was good game for him. And he was probably 50/50 to start this game since I'm guessing tBob ultimately decided to give Close a rest after seeing Michigan's lineup so depleted.
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I'm not surprised Michigan got a penalty for not showing up for the start of the 3rd period they have a history of not showing up just ask Western Michigan. ?
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Took advantage of the situation. What you need to do.
Pitlick with two goals. Luke Mittelstadt with a goal and 2 assists. Cooley with a goal and an assist both after the 5 minute major hopefully that is a sign of things to come.
Owen B had 29 saves giving up only two goals both on the power play.
modified Gordie Howe hat trick for Cooley lol
Had to leave after the Snuggerud goal. Felt like the stripes were keeping Michigan in it in the first half. A sweep should be expected with how many guys are out.
Great game Barto!!!!
Pitlick with two goals. Luke Mittelstadt with a goal and 2 assists. Cooley with a goal and an assist both after the 5 minute major hopefully that is a sign of things to come.
Owen B had 29 saves giving up only two goals both on the power play.
modified Gordie Howe hat trick for Cooley lol
Interesting fact I learned this year. Gordie Howe only had one Gordie Howe Hat Trick in his career.
Why didn't Justen Close play?
4 of the 5 goals were absolute bombs. Shows they don't always have to be pass, pass, pass, pass...
Good sweep for the Gophs!
Barto played well this weekend!
This team is progressing nicely!
Sending well wishes to Steven Holtz, the Michigan player who’s on a ventilator.
Good sweep for the Gophs!
Barto played well this weekend!
This team is progressing nicely!Sending well wishes to Steven Holtz, the Michigan player who’s on a ventilator.
I thought I heard on TV they were dealing with COVID but from what I read it appears to be adenovirus. Geez. It’s really hitting them hard. They dressed a back up goalie as a forward Thursday.
Gophers up to #3 in pairwise. I know it’s way way too early to care, but it’s good to see.
Glad to take the 6 points even over a short handed Michigan team. Solid team effort this series from everyone up and down the lineup. Barto played better than I expected, and the defense was really active with the offense all series long. The Farm Kid took 32 face-offs last night and won 19 of them and played well all series long. Nice to see Pitlick get some goals as well. Still need to work on a couple of things including taking less penalties, and cleaning up passing through the neutral zone. Cooley needs to channel his frustrations towards scoring and not taking stupid penalties.
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Yuge sweep on the road, love to see it. Barto looked very good and comfortable in net.
Thankfully no more GD COWBELL to listen to.
Good sweep for the Gophs!
Barto played well this weekend!
This team is progressing nicely!Sending well wishes to Steven Holtz, the Michigan player who’s on a ventilator.
I thought I heard on TV they were dealing with COVID but from what I read it appears to be adenovirus. Geez. It’s really hitting them hard. They dressed a back up goalie as a forward Thursday.
They dressed him again on Friday as well. Thursday he served the protocol penalty for Michigan.
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Breakout series for Barto and big confidence booster. This isn't the same MI team we'll see at Mariucci, but we'll take the points.
Kudos to MI for making a good series out of it, despite being shorthanded. MN was depleted, too, but had more depth.
Gophers have enough skill to get the puck up the ice without any of the long cross ice passing. Just keep the puck ahead of you and dish it to the guy with speed...keep it simple...limit the blueline turnovers and protect the high slot a little better. MI had a number of legit scoring chances from this area last night.
Am I the only person who has found this "new " site to be very slow loading? Last night during the game the site wasn't working at all.
Have yet to hear an answer for these goofy Thursday, Friday games and the very early start times?
The site was down all day yesterday due to some sort of glitch that was out of Jupiter's control. The live-chat, since not being on this site, worked perfect.
When you tell somebody somethin', it depends on what part of the United States you're standin' in... as to just how dumb you are.
Why didn't Justen Close play?
illness. Same reason Huglen and five ugly helmets didn’t play.
That this question had to be asked is sad. Is the BTN PBP guy a Michigan alumni? Both nights was an excuse parade for why they lost both games. It was a constant barrage for MI yet nothing about the Gophers having their starting goalie and 2 centers out last night.
Am I the only person who has found this "new " site to be very slow loading? Last night during the game the site wasn't working at all.
Have yet to hear an answer for these goofy Thursday, Friday games and the very early start times?
What kind of “answer” are you expecting?
I assume there is a reason for games on non-non-traditonal days. I sure don't recall the team playing Thursday/Friday before.
@north45 The last 2 weeks games were Thurs-Fri because of football on the home teams campus on Saturday.
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Overall, a great performance this weekend. Loved seeing a pair of wins for Barto to make sure he's on the right track.
Yes, Michigan was depleted this weekend, but they still had a ton of talent remaining on the roster, and the Gophers did exactly what was needed, go in to Yost and take advantage. I expect the rematch at Mariucci to be an amazing weekend of hockey.
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
Luke M. is going to be a stud. Can’t imagine he doesn’t get drafted this year.
Also IMO John M. and Strobel have both earned their ice more than Pino, especially if Bob is willing to give John M. a look at center. Both guys bring the energy every night have have outproduced Pino in less ice time.
thats what the gophers needed to do. give a depleted team no points.
And last night they added the recipe page for deviled eggs! Juvenile and stupid, but I have to admit it was pretty funny.These were pretty funny.
What have I got? I got no snacks and I got no respect.
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Regardless of who was sick we went into Yost and got the sweep all while missing some key players. I thought 19 and 27 each had a GREAT series. Get well Aaron!!
It would have been nice to have seen a few more replays on the coaches challenges the past couple of games. Maybe they just didn't have very good views of them.
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Am I the only person who has found this "new " site to be very slow loading? Last night during the game the site wasn't working at all.
Have yet to hear an answer for these goofy Thursday, Friday games and the very early start times?
For a free site I have no complaints.
I'd definitely have liked some more replays of those. I get why they don't show them live in the arena, but no reason BTN couldn't.It would have been nice to have seen a few more replays on the coaches challenges the past couple of games. Maybe they just didn't have very good views of them.
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
I don't think BTN knew what was being reviewed. I think 2 of them were off the puck plays and one of those was when another penalty was called on the same play. Terrible decisions by both coaches and the whole challenge system is just dumb.
Speaking of dumb there is zero reason Cooley should have been suspended. His penalty was stupid but if that is suspension worthy then there should be suspensions every game. They didn't even give him a misconduct in the game (nor should they have) but you suspend him after the fact? Mind boggling...
As for Michigan they look like they always look...they always want to skate and make pretty plays and the first sign of physicality they just can't take it. All the talent in the world but easily frustrated and thrown on tilt.