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Friday, February 15, 2013

Game Day 2/15/2013

I hope everyone had a fantastic Valentine's Day, but you know what time of the week it is. We finally got a split! It had been like forever since we last did that (Nov. 30th & Dec. 1st vs. St. Cloud State). Tonight is Parent's Night, there are 1,000 bag tags (whatever those are) for the early comers, and the Family Four Pack is again available this weekend.

Family is still the Promo Code

Also, this is the last full home weekend for the departing seniors:

Chris Crowell (Captain)
Tyler Currier (Instigator...in a good way)
Alex Gellert (Stud)
Daniel Naslund (Swede...everybody loves the Swedish...well their women at least)
Scott Warner (STUD D-Man and Assistant Captain)

When these guys leave, they will leave some holes in our depth chart and locker room. Let's give them a proper send off, well you guys can, I have to go help out a friend tonight.

Click here for the link for the guys that are Scholar-Athletes, congratulations guys.

Round-Up's

UNO's Release

Things to look out for

• UNO split with MTU then just got swept by North Dakota

• Junior Matt Bailey has totals of 1-2-3 in 5 GP against UNO

• Junior Jordan Kwas has five Power Play goals, nobody else has more than one this season
• He also needs only one more goal for ten on the season
• Sophomore Kory Roy has yet to register his first collegiate goal, 0-9-9 in 48 GP
• Needs to see action in both games this weekend to appear in 50 career GP

Friday, February 8, 2013

Game Day 2/8/2013 (Updated)

Yeah I know, I'm still figuring out my schedule but let's dive right in shall we. Overall it was a great weekend, we got two points via a tie and a tie, I would have much preferred a win and a loss but oh well. Kurt will not be available to make the Michigan trip, and we on the radio side will be listening to Michigan Tech's Dirk Hembroff. I believe David Tuttle is away on assignment, I forgot where. And I don't think Tuttle has ever been on the road with Kurt for any on-air broadcasts. I hope Kurt heals up, but if that means we miss him for another few weeks so be it, I'd rather him be healthy as opposed to coming back to soon for just a broadcast. Here is a piece by goseawolves.com.

We play Michigan Tech this weekend and I'm hoping for the best, potentially if Wisconsin sweeps Bemidji and we sweep MT we could have 12 points (same as Bemidji) but we would be behind them because of the head-to-head match up (1-0-1 in favor of Bemidji). I like when we can open up our style and just go down and up the ice, our boys have now shown we can hang with opponents when it's five-on-five. We have to stay out of the box, and have some fun. Don't take stupid penalties, yeah you can stick up for your teammates but don't do it in a way to get a penalty. We need points, wins, not more penalty minutes. Game times are 3:07 pm AKST and then 1:07 pm AKST.

Round-Up's

MOAR GLOW STICKS ARRRRGGHHHHHH
No more playing UA_ in the playoffs?
This week in the WCHA
Alaskana's Chat

This is what I hope we do to Michigan Tech this weekend

This was a great fight by the way, my friend was at Buffalo Wild Wings and said the place went crazy as Overreem was heavily favored and hyped up

Things to look out for
• The last eight home games MT has gone 1-5-2
• The last five games between us MT has won the last three games, and UAA has won five in a row before that, for awhile we went 6-0-2 against MT. This is opposed to the notes section in UAA's Release where it says MT has won the last 4 of 5 and us the 5 before that
• Sophomore Derek Docken has totals of 1-2-3 in 4 games against MT
• Sophomore Andrew Pettitt has amassed 0-2-2 in 2 games vs. MT
• Junior Jordan Kwas has four Power Play goals, nobody else has more than one this season
• Sophomore Kory Roy has yet to register his first collegiate goal, 0-9-9 in 46 GP
• Senior Alex Gellert needs one more assist for his career 25th
• Sophomore Scott Allen needs two more points to amass 25 career points

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Game Day 2/2/2013

For those who know internet memes, I think you would appreciate that just a little bit. For those who don't, it should be pretty straight forward. Anyways we showed some grit last night, that was a great play by Scott Allen to circle the net and just throw it at the net. And again Blake Tatchell was big for us, he went 1-1-2 and was +2 for the night. I think our focus should be bringing in some guys that can compliment Blake for the future. For a good part of the game it was up and down hockey, which is great for the fans and our team looks pretty solid skating around trying to make something good happen. There were some positives but we need them consistently. CC did take over the OT around the second minute mark, but we were able to keep them off the board. Interesting to see if Kamal gets the nod again, he played very solid in my eyes. But did he play good enough for tonight's game? I don't know.

Round-Up

Things to look out for

• Junior Matt Bailey needs one more assist for his 10th of the season, and one more goal for his season's 5th

• Junior Jordan Kwas has four Power Play goals, nobody else has more than one this season

• Sophomore Kory Roy has yet to register his first collegiate goal, 0-9-9 in 45 GP

• Matt Bailey is one goal away from his career 25th goal

• Senior Alex Gellert needs two more assists for his career 25th

• Sophomore Scott Allen needs two more points to amass 25 career points

• Junior Chris Kamal needs to see action tonight to play in his 50th career game

• The line of Blake Tatchell, Scott Allen, and Jordan Kwas were responsible for all the points last night 2-2-4

• Jordan Kwas has totals of 1-6-7 in 9 games against the Tigers

Friday, February 1, 2013

Game Day 2/1/2013

Well we face off this week against a struggling Colorado College team. If we wanna escape this season with more than one win in league play, this might be our best opportunity. I'm hoping for at least one point out of this weekend, we are now six points behind Michigan Tech and Bemidji State and we have played one more league series than the both of them. If the Hockey Gods are kind to us, we would somehow put up a fight for 11th place. But much like Bigfoot, I want to believe but just do not think that the creature could escape us thus far.

This weekend we are provided with:

I think in years past, a majority of the times attendance was actually down when they have done this or very similar promotions. Whether that be because it's near the end of the season and people realize just how bad we can be or whatever I will start keeping note of the attendance with this promotion. Also, there might be some processing fees from Ticketmaster, so be forewarned. UAA Students should be able to get free parking via a tip from Sherry, thank you for the heads up! Also; first 1,000 fans there get a Cinch Bag, or as I like to call them, gangsta backpacks. You can thank Wells Fargo for them. But if you can take advantage of this, go ahead. (I'm sure the sodas alone take up 20-30 dollars of the "$ 99") Link here.

Round-Ups

CC's Release

Alaskana's Chatzy (Option II)

Things to look out for

• Sophomore Scott Allen needs one more goal for his 10th of the year

• Junior Matt Bailey needs one more assist for his 10th of the season

• Junior Jordan Kwas has four Power Play goals, nobody else has more than one this season

• Sophomore Kory Roy has yet to register his first collegiate goal, 0-9-9 in 44 GP

• Matt Bailey is one goal away from his career 25th goal

• Senior Alex Gellert needs two more assists for his career 25th

• Scott Allen needs three more points to amass 25 career points

• CC gives up more goals than us 3.62 compared to our 3.33, though they do score 3.38 a game

• Their Penalty Kill is barely better than ours 76.3% to our 73.4%

• Junior Rob Gunderson is 4-3-0 against CC

• Jordan Kwas has totals of 1-5-6 in 8 games against the Tigers

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Game Day 1/26/2013

So I had forgot to mention that I would not be able to attend the chats (congrats to Alaskana for finding a new chat site since tinychat was down last night), but I was at the 2013 Annual ANSEP Banquet. Seeing and listening to Buzz Aldrin twice in one day was amazing, as I am a member of ANSEP and without them I wouldn't even be where I am in college. I would upload some of my own photos of him at ANSEP talking but my SD card is being a jerk. I forgot my camera at the banquet and I regret that but here's one from the ADN, courtesy of the ADN and blah blah blah.

And another:

Guy is pretty funny, told his life story and all around was a class act. But enough with the self promotion and promotion of ANSEP, back to hockey.

Getting home at 10 meant I had to change and put all my stuff away so I missed the news, so I have no idea how our team did last night. We lost, don't know if we can come back tonight to win, but I hope we can. Again, here at UAA I can view all the ADN articles and photo gallery's, but at home I cannot. Is this happening to anybody else?

Round-Ups

This Week in the WCHA (Current Week Link)

Alaskana's TinyChat

Things to point out, and watch for

• Sophomore Kory Roy has yet to register his first collegiate goal, 0-9-9 in 42 GP

• Matt Bailey is one goal away from his career 25th goal

• Senior Alex Gellert needs two more assists for his career 25th

• Matt Bailey need one more point for his 50th career (Kwas got his 50th point last night)

• That Blake Tatchell is probably going to lead this team in scoring

• Don't forget the game starts at 5:07 AKST

• To end the season we play Denver in Denver on Friday night and then Sunday afternoon, anybody else see that before?

Friday, January 25, 2013

Game Day 1/25/2013

We must absolutely split with Wisconsin. I don't care how we do it, tie and tie or win and loss. We need something, anything to put some pep into our boys skates. I don't want our team to finish in last place and we are running out of time. This is the first home game for Bucky in over a month, it will be loud but our boys seem to feed off from it. Game starts at 4:07 AKST and at 5:07 Saturday night.

Round-Ups

This Week in the WCHA
New kick ass stats page

• Junior Jordan Kwas has 2-3-5 totals in 4 GP against Bucky

• Junior Matt Bailey against Bucky has amassed 1-2-3 in 4 GP

• Sophomore Kory Roy has yet to register his first collegiate goal, 0-9-9 in 42 GP

• Aside from Chris Kamal (Goalie), Brett Cameron (Injured), and Ben Matthews (1 GP) everybody else has now at least one point this season

• Matt Bailey is one goal away from his career 25th goal

• Senior Alex Gellert needs two more assists for his career 25th

• Matt Bailey need one more point for his 50th career

• Jordan Kwas needs two more points for his 50th career point

Friday, January 18, 2013

Hmmm yes, well

Yes there was no Wednesday post because I'm am getting used to my new schedule for this college semester, that Monday off was absolutely amazing. By next week, things will run hopefully more smoothly. Last weekend started off well, then it started going to crap, and then it hit the fan by the end of the Saturday game. We played well Friday and in my eyes deserved the win, but this was not the case. Saturday night we started out sluggish and perhaps tired, then it all went to shit.

We need to salvage something from this season, whether it be an 11th place finish or perhaps playing Minnesota whatever way possible in the playoffs. How frickin' sweet would it be if for the last real WCHA playoffs, we beat Minny in the John? It would be sooo sweet, that the original Cookie Monster would be put to absolute shame. Normally I would not condone maybe laying down low in order to finish in a more desirable place for the post season, but this would not be the first time a WCHA team did this and would not be the last. Michigan Tech is currently in 11th place with nine points (16 GP), we are 12th with five points (16 GP).

"I wanna believe that there is still hope,

Now I'm hanging in the balance alone,

I don't wanna be the last to know"

This weekend we are playing a streaky Minnesota State hockey team, evidenced by a seven game win streak, a four game win streak, and only once did they lose only one game in a row. They recently got swept by Wisconsin in back-to-back OT games, but they still are getting great play by there freshmen goaltender Stephon Williams (a 1.84 GAA with a .925 save percentage and a 11-6-1 record).

We need to play smarter, don't try and make the plays that don't need to be made. Keep it simple, dump the puck, cycle, and hang onto the freakin' puck. When we were doing this against the #1 team in the nation, we were winning. Man I'm starting to sound like Dave Shyiak....don't know if that's a good thing or not. But please rest assured, I do smile more than Dave. Okay, now that I'm done tooting my own horn, let's talk puck control. A previous comment from the last post nailed it on the head, " UAA needs to have more puck poise. They often ping pong it around the ice when there is an open guy they could pass it to, and they aren't seeing it". Here is the whole comment. As I have stated before, teams don't give us respect when we possess the puck. Look at the tournament games we play to start the season, those teams generally don't know us and back up off the puck controller. This gives the guy time and space to make a good play, whether it be a pass, dump, or a shot. Now look at our current games, opposing players hound our puck controllers and do not give us respect. We can still play well, by well, dumping the puck, cycling, and hitting. All this in my eyes is to combat our opponents aggressiveness. It does well and if we stick to the game plan and don't take too many penalties we are competitive. We stay out of the box and we are dangerous, evidenced by Friday nights previous game.

• Also of note the Skate the Seawolves has been moved to the Wells Fargo Sports Complex, it is at 1-3 AKST this Sunday.
• And the Green & Gold Friday Promotion is still there
• Students you do get in for free by the way

Round-Ups

ADN's Piece (Don't know if it will work though due to the new subscription crap but I can view it here at UAA)

UAH Coming to the WCHA

Calling out the Ref's

A Goalie doing his time (Guess who it is)

No Sound for Autism

Things to point out, and watch for

• Senior Jordan Kwas is now a Junior, via goseawolves.com
• Junior Chris Kamal is 2-2-0 against MSU
• Junior's Kwas and Brett Cameron both have totals of 2-3-5 in eight games against MSU, Brett is still on the Inactive List I believe
• Senior has achieved numbers of 1-5-6 vs. MSU
• Sophomore Kory Roy has yet to register his first collegiate goal, 0-9-9 in 40 GP
• Sophomore Andrew Pettitt is one game from his 25th
• Matt Bailey is one goal away from his career 25th goal

• Junior Brett Cameron is one strike from his 10th career goal

• Senior Daniel Naslund is one assist away from getting his 25th

• Senior Alex Gellert needs two more assists for his 25th

• Matt Bailey needs one more point for his 50th career point

• Jordan Kwas needs two more points for his 50th career point

• Alex Gellert the only Seawolf who is positive in league games +1, and in all games +4 (Freshmen Ben Matthews is even in his one tourney game appearance though)

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Game Day 1/12/2013

That one really hurt, we more than needed that win. Nonetheless we can still split with a win tonight. We played very well against the #1 team in the nation, and we were one penalty kill away from a win. Long story short, regardless of whether or not Tyler Currier deserved a five minute major, that was a hit that he didn't need to make. He had backup in Chris Crowell, if he had just pressured Zach Budish, who knows we could've went to overtime at the very least. I'd hate to be so hard on Tyler Currier because I like his style of play, the grit and nastiness of his game. But:

Dude you are a senior, you are from Anchorage, and we could've made the push to OT or won.

Upon watching this again and again, in all honesty that was a bone-headed play by Tyler Currier. Chris Crowell had Zach Budish all tied up, and occupied. Tyler just got way too excited, and in this one conference win season so far, makes it even worse. Just try to get the puck or skate over to the defenseman and clog up a passing lane Tyler. Here's the video:

And a little breakdown.

Somewhere in the middle of the 2nd period to around the start of the third period, Kurt Haider on air called out Chris Crowell and Tyler Currier. I don't remember his exact words but it went something along the lines of "Currier and Crowell should know better, there are currently taking the bait from Minnesota and should stop biting". Boy was that foreshadowing or what, but I digress.

Feel free to vent your frustrations here, but this is the last time I will bring this up this season.

We need a win badly, and how do we do this you ask? By playing exactly the way we did in the first period last night. We had the #1 team in the nation on its heels, we scored first and got the crowd out of it until Minny scored. Again, Minnesota only scored one even strength goal. We are hard to score against five on five, Don Lucia brought this up in the Golden Gopher's Preview Interviews. If we can stay out of the box, come out fires a blazing and play smart hockey the whole game, ladies and gentlemen we have a split series.

I thought Gundy played very solid last night, the game winner you knew was going in though. Doesn't matter if we had Dominik Hasek or Jacques Plante in net, that baby was going in. I say stick with the rotation, Kamal is 3-4-0 against UM and maybe he can help work some puck luck to the boys. As for the Gophers, it will be interesting to see if there stud Adam Wilcox will start tonight, he has already played two games this week (Notre Dame on Tuesday then us). According to College Hockey News, Adam will get the nod again from Head Coach Don Lucia.

Things to watch for
• The whole score by committee was in full action last night as nine different Seawolves registered a point, nobody had more than one last night
• Blake Tatchell had an assist last night and is the current leader in points 3-9-12 in 19 GP

And the drop of the puck is 4:07 AKST tonight and on 650 KENI for us locals listening in on the great Kurt Haider.

Friday, January 11, 2013

Game Day 1/11/2012

Tonight at 5:07 AKST we face off against the Minnesota Golden Gophers. Quick tidbit, if you thought ticket prices were bad at the Sully, Minny has base tickets prices of $35 for this weekend (next home series for Minny who faces off against North Dakota, tickets are $55). I can't even imagine what parking might cost, but I think we still might own the title of most expensive soda, the last time I got a medium it was $6. Then again maybe it's good coffee is cheaper than soda, but anyways I digress.

We need a win, as long as we play tight and cycle the puck we have a good shot. We don't always need to try for the home run play, part of this comes from defensive break downs. One shot can lead to playing from behind, if we shore this up we are dangerous. Last time we played Minny they only had one even-strength goal for the whole weekend. We should have won that Saturday night, but Minny tied it up late. It's finally time to avenge this, and salvage something from this season.

As far as the chat is concerned, I think it's best to leave Alaskana's chat the primary one to finish out this season. I will be there and you can find it here.

Round-Ups

DD's last post

Anemic Scoring, ADN's piece

How to Watch

Gopher's Piece

Gopher's Preview Interviews

We start an hour late due to being on the Big Ten Network...

Josh Lunden's loan to the AHL, ADN

Charges dropped allegedly for bomb joke

Quick Timeline of Jerry York's storied career

Plain design of L.A. Kings Ring

Elvis Presley Aloha Jerseys

NHL Lockout is over

Things to point out, and watch for

• Junior Chris Kamal is 3-4-0 against UM, fellow Junior Rob Gunderson is 0-2-1
• Senior Jordan Kwas in eight games versus UM has totals of 1-4-5
• Junior Matt Bailey has three goals in eight games against UM
• Sophomore Derek Docken has totals of 0-3-3 in six games versus you guessed it UM

• Sophomore Kory Roy has yet to register his first collegiate goal, 0-8-8 in 38 GP

• Jordan Kwas is one game away from playing his 75th

• Derek Docken is about to play in his 50th game

• Sophomore Andrew Pettitt is one game from his 25th

• Matt Bailey is two goals away from his career 25th goal

• Junior Brett Cameron is one strike from his 10th career goal

• Senior Daniel Naslund is one assist away from getting his 25th

• Senior Alex Gellert needs two more assists for his 25th

• Both Matt Bailey and Jordan Kwas need two more points for their 50th career points

• Golden Gopher Freshman Ryan Reilly is the only player to be in the - overall, -2 in 7 GP

• Golden Gopher Junior Erik Haula is one point away from his 100th, though he should be out this weekend due to injury

• In the last 11 games, we haven't allowed more than one PPG per game in this stretch for a 84 kill rate%

Friday, January 4, 2013

Game Day 1/4/2013

Tonight we entertain the Wisconsin Badgers at 7:07 AKST via the Sullivan Arena. The Friday night promotion is still on.

From goseawolves.com:

Green & Gold Fridays: Wear Green & Gold to Seawolf hockey games on Friday nights this season and get up to two free general admission tickets for kids 12 & under when accompanied by a paying adult. Available only at the Sullivan Arena NW student desk up to 1 hour prior to the game.

Courtesy of Andy Wilheim

Game Day Write-ups & Misc.

Doyle Woody's ADN Piece (Not that bad actually)