U-M Hockey @ to Hell with Notre Dame - Friday Open Thread

Another ND breakaway, which isn’t ridiculous at this point because Michigan is abandoning caution to get scoring chances. 

Im no hockey scout…but sometimes I wonder why Power was the #1 pick

Power was making a risky play on the blue line because we’re down two goals and if it works he has a numbers advantage. I don’t mind it; it just didn’t work.

Quinn made large numbers of mistakes, sometimes costing Michigan games, but he has developed just as the NHL thought he would. It’s the situation. 

The number of shots Notre Dame blocks is absurd. Its infuriating because half of them look like dumb luck

We’re really struggling to create any decent looks. Feels like we wouldnt score in 6 periods right now

Hooking. Huge penalty. Michigans gonna get about 2 minutes of 6x4 here

Kinda funny that they get that call now. 

Feels like a summary of tonight. Brisson gets it on the Brisson dot and ND still stops it

Got the Brisson shot we wanted, but no luck. Brisson hasn’t scored many of those lately.

PP has been meh tonight. Didn’t help that the refs waited most of the game, but Michigan could be tied with a couple of PP goals and have had the chances. 

Mankato beats Tech 2-1 in OT. does that mean we win that common opponent now?

Wow. Gonna be 6x3 for the last 1:08

They had better not call that embellishment. Oh my gosh these refs

They called a dive on Beniers? What a joke. 

Clown refs. Matty is turning back and he gets hooked from behind and you give that embellishment? Absolute clown show

This is total bullshit

Radio broadcasters saying that we're getting jobbed.  Must be bad if the professionals are actually saying it.

Calling for embellishment on the subsequent play and "automatic goal"

Al Randall is not exactly a professional.

Lemme guess. No embellishment here . . .

I hate notre dame hockey. Clownshow refs calling embellishment on Beniers. What a circus

Super disappointing to not finish off our 1st B1G regular season title. Even worse to have it happen against ND, knowing we blew 2 leads at Yost, when winning just 1 of them would have wrapped up the title.

Not over yet but Minnesota is rolling and Wisconsin is just nowhere near as talented (hope for some crazy bounces tomorrow for UW). 

Can still win the postseason B1G and a National Championship, but obviously anything can happen in single elimination hockey. 

I hate how officials reward bad behavior by not calling penalties if you do illegal stuff all the time.  Every sport.

Seeing a lot of people complaining about Michigan’s play that apparently haven’t seen Michigan play ND very often. This is how these games look.

Meh. Disappointing. But it’s the first regulation loss since the new year. Michigan was not likely to go without a loss in the calendar year, and this is a road game against a team that’s hard to play against and is playing for a tourney berth themselves.

Meh. 

Wow!  You call that an auto-goal???  After that 'embellishment' call?  Pathetic...

Can it be incompetence if it’s consistently one-sided? Whatever it is, makes it a lot harder to enjoy something that should be fun

Fuck the mehs.  Beat the teams.  
 

cant be called the best if you keep losing to one team. 

Well, best case scenario was we get some help form Wisconsin to get on the other side of the bracket as fucking Jeff Jackson.  But as of now we're the 2 and they're the 3 so presuming we deal with this god awful Sparty team and they deal with Wisconsin we'd get them in the semi.  Which ugh.  Just miserable to play against.

Pretty much what we were afraid was gonna happen with us being @ND and Minnesota getting Wisconsin. Now our fate is in Wisconsins hands and if we’re being frank, our odds are bad

I hate notre dame / Jeff Jackson hockey. Feels like we have more annoying losses to ND in the last ten years than anyone else

@enlightenedbum  thinking the same.  A three game series against FYS and then looking at a rematch.

Wisconsin teasing me by keeping it a 1 goal game this far in. Im sure it’ll collapse eventually and Minnesota will win 4-0 or something

I'm just tired of this program falling short time after time after time for what seems like forever. It's been a while. A long while. 

Well. Our big ten title hopes are on life support. You gotta get at least 1 more point than Minnesota tomorrow meaning we probably need to win and have Wisconsin pull one out of their butts

Losing tonight isnt to blame. Its dropping a game to Wisconsin at home and blowing two separate 2-0 leads to ND at home that are to blame

I know people think Notre Dame is a top ten team, but really they were on the bubble not too long ago (pretty much 13-16), they lost to Niagara and Wisconsin but teams ahead of them (Cornell, a couple of Hockey East teams) started losing and they have been winning a little more.  I know the history of Jackson vs Michigan, I was around for most of those games in the early 90s. 

My hockey knowledge is wings and wolverines, I watch probably 50 games a year, I’m not a die hard hockey guy…. Are you fucking kidding me stripes? Fuckinf Jobbed, this is horrible.