(above) UAA's 6th goal against DUDU was cruising along clinging to a 2-1 lead in the second period when the wheels fell off the wagon. A couple of minutes later, DU had given up three goals in less than two minutes of playing time and the game was essentially over.
Goaltender Adam Murray was pulled from the game in the third period after giving up 6 goals on 15 shots and Patrick Wiercioch was injured on a knee to knee hit.
Goaltender Adam Murray was pulled from the game in the third period after giving up 6 goals on 15 shots and Patrick Wiercioch was injured on a knee to knee hit.
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Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!
Let's see if the Pioneers can raise the level of play tonight and get out of Anchorage with a sweep.
I am disappointed with the lack of comments.
UAA 7 - DU 3 :)
There ya go Anon 12:43... root for the team that throws cheap hits that to try and intentionally hurt another player... bravo! :(
The Pieholes suck and so does this blog..
Anon@458:
DG's blog doesn't suck at all. He has tremendous readership (generally twice as much as I get) and has done more single-handedly to energize a once apathetic student base than anyone else. He is directly responsible for the return of their beloved (yet cartoonishly silly IMO) mascot.
I'm always one for someone who "fights the power" and in the case of DU's "logo" he has certainly done that. He has called out the DU Adminstration in no uncertain terms. He has backed up his efforts with plenty of his own money and even if he doesn't write much himself he sure spends a helluva lotta time getting stuff posted here.
And he can be a sneaky little troll too. But generally, I hear he's a damn fine guy. Some of his readers are definitely "teh suck" but he isn't.
6 goals, 9 shots............yee gads. Have to agree with the sucking part.
WCHA standings
UND 4-1-1 9
Denver 4-1-1 9
Colorado Coll. 4-1-1 9
In my humble, unbiased opinion, the team that will separate themselves from this log jam is NoDak. They are the best of the 4-1-1 teams and should separate themselves with the Nov 20th-21st weekend coming up. At least, separate themselves with one of the teams. I would agree that this blog does not suck. He blogs well with what he has to work with.
Didn't see or hear the game; but awoke this morning to the sticker shock of the scoresheet. What happened? It now appears that this well-needed bye week is in a rather conspicuous place on the schedule. DU better rest up, eat thier veggies and have some long, hard, well-thought-out practices before the 20th. I believe the Dakota weekend will be the defining series for Denver. Can Denver rebound from this? You're Goddamn right they can!
You know it's not good when you log onto DG's hockey blog the morning after a DU hockey game.... and DU Women's Soccer is the 1st thing that pops up. Is Patty OK?
It was a late night - expect more comments today.
This DU team is talented, but is having problems on Saturday nights, where other teams adjust to them and they don't seen to adjust as well. All of DU;s losses and ties have been on Saturday nights. Additionally, I think DU is different team with Cheverie in the nets than they are with Murray, and that's a huge factor. He's just not a WCHA level goalie yet, and DU's offense is a goal per game below where they should be at this point.
Credit UAA with playing well this weekend - they hadn't beaten DU at home since 2000, and they were more than overdue to snag a victory,
Right now, DU is good team, but by no means are they a top 5 team with Murray as the primary goalie.
7 goals on 18 shots----ouch. DU uses its mulligan last night. Ugly game, and it sounds as though the officiating was horrible. I only heard the radio broadcast. Still, the Pios get 2 points on the road and are still tied for 1st place in the WCHA. As usual, UAA was a tough opponent and deserves a lot of credit. Huge test coming up in 2 weeks againt UND.
With nearly 1/3 of the regular season played, the Pios appear to be a team still finding their way. There is loads of talent, a lot of great skating forwards, and some talented puck moving d-men. But this team has been very vulnerable without Chevy between the pipes, and DU's inconsistency has been a sore spot. Too many costly miscues and breakdowns.
This team appears to be built similar to the teams of the last couple seasons--primarily a finesse team with a lot of speed and quickness. I do think DU needs to figure out a way to be tougher in the corners and a little meaner in front of the net. I want to see these guys start dishing out as good as they are taking.
Remember this Dg?..................
I've seen other teams in the wcha focus on recruiting mostly skill players...............(throat clearing inserted hear for affect)..............gophers....
Skill only does not cut it. Sorry to drop a bombshell here DU fans, but your defensive core is suspect. As I said on a different post, outscoring your opponents will not lead to consiscent winning. Just the facts.
You guys need some grit, grinding in the corners, whatever you want to call it..... even twister agrees.....just the facts
Ha ha, Donald. DG's readership is only twice yours? Ummm, I'm guessing it's more like ten ten times as much. Does anyone besides UAA fans ever check out your blog? If so, why?
I suppose UAA was way overdue to beat the Pioneers in Anchorage. I'm very discouraged, though, to see the way in which it happened. DU has too much skill to be on the short end of a 7-3 thumping by the Seawolves. It sounds like Murray imploded, and that there was no pride in the defensive part of the game.
As to the hit on Weircioch--I'm inclined to be pissed at the hack that pulled this cheap crap on one of the WCHA's brightest talents. But if anyone saw what happened, I'd like to hear about it. Hard hit, inadvertent collision, or the the hack play that I suspect?
Anon@646:
First, thanks for providing an example for my last sentence in my previous comment.
Yes. Generally, he gets about double the number of hits/readers as compared to my blog. I'm sorry that you feel that's not a large enough gap but it is accurate;
I have been averagingaround 400/600 hits/readers per day since the start of this season.
Here are the current stats for this blog. About 800/1200 hit/reads per day.
Yeah ... that'd be generally double.
So next time you see my name perhaps you can control your head from spinning so rapidly that you make stupid fucking "guesses" like "ten times as much".
I was here to pay DG a compliment (as I often do) and defend him from what was probably some anonymous UAA fan saying his blog sucked.
Yeah, Donald, nice back-handed compliments. Even when you try to pay him a compliment, you have to throw in your passive-aggressive little digs at DU, its mascot, and its fanbase. Very troll-like behavior, don't you think? As to your blog, the only time I ever looked at it, it was unreadable--due either to technical difficulties, or the fact that you intentionally chose a bright green background which made the text unreadable. Keep up the good work!
You might think about signing the UND goalie Tate Maris (the Denver traitor)
Anon buffoon:
DG and I have a long historical understanding of one another. My comment about him being a "sneaky little troll" should have made him laugh.
You are clueless. So you ought to just shut up. Nothing positive I said about this blog was a back handed compliment. It was sincere. DG knows it and so does anybody else that didn't just start reading his blog last week. You fucking NOOB.
Anon at 6:46
No hacking at all on the clean hip check to Wiercioch. You suspected wrong.
AS I posted at USCHO, Saturday night struggles for the Pios continue, and if DU can't figure out how to put out a consistent 60-minute effort on Saturdays as well as Fridays, this season is going to be hugely disappointing. That said, UAA hadn't beaten DU at home in nine years, and they were overdue, but I would have like to see a better performance by Denver, who flat out imploded in the second 30 minutes of last nights game.
Where do we begin?
Offense: This was supposed to be DU's strength this year, and what we see is a very average 3 goal per game offense that is having power play problems. The depth of scoring (this should be a 4 to 4.5 GPG offense) simply isn't there. Salazar and Maiani have fallen off drastically from last year, and three scoring lines simply hasn't materialized. DU is going to need to score more goals - simple as that. "Finishing around the net" is going to need to improve, or this team will just not make it.
Defense and goaltending: The defense is not as consistent as it should be, and the musical shifting lineup needs to stop. Gwoz should decide who his top six guys are and let them get cohesive. Personally, I think Brookwell and Ryder need to be in the lineup for experience and for physical maturity. Donovan, Philips and Wrenn are talented frosh, but they are going to make more mistakes, and those need to be minimized, and the team can ill afford to hang Murray out to dry as they did last night. That said, Murray can't be letting in 6 goals on 11 shots, either. That's simply awful. You can win games with a three goal offense when you have a sub-2.0 goalie like Chevy playing well, but you can't win many games with an inconsistent freshman like Murray, who has yet to show the needed consistent mental makeup of a WCHA goalie. Derek Lalonde needs to work with this kid much more intensively over the next couple weeks to get him ready for six period weekends.
Pulling back into the big picture, DU is still a first place team, but there is a lot of company. This is not a special DU team right now - just one of many.
The bye week comes at a great time. DU needs some refocus on playing more consistent hockey, cleaning up defensive mistakes and getting the power play to be more effective.
Right now, the team is underachieving, and I expect the coaches, seniors and captains to right the ship.
Oh, Donald. I have some advice for you: get out of your mom's basement, enjoy the Alaska wilderness, and maybe even try some social interaction with people in the outside world. It'll do wonders for ya, and we'd probably see less of your pathetic trolling on DU blogs.
Derek Lalonde can work all he wants on Murray--his issues aren't physcial, they're mental. He needs his confidence built and may just have to play through it. Meanwhile, the second half of the season is far more important, if you have to choose. GO DU!!
Donald Dunlop my favorite douch bag.
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