Not all of us our geniuses, but at least we're all right in the opinion.
"Not all of us our(sic) geniuses..." obviously not. Not all of us ARE geniuses and that includes me, but unlike a lot of you, I do not come to my conclusions lazily. Is Lucia the greatest coach ever? No, he is not. But the issues going on in Div 1 Men's college hockey are not limited to Minnesota, and just bringing someone new in is not going to fix the problems. For all of Lucia's faults, he is an established and successful coach, his replacement could EASILY do worse, so replacing him should not be done until a sure thing/home run hire is available. And Lucia may have another 2-3 year run left in him like the run of 12-14? If he does and that run starts this year or would otherwise start next year, I'd hate to fire him now and have to depend on a total unknown entity to coach the team.
Non-Blue Blood programs are out there taking advantage of the NHL's poaching the best players from all of the Blue Blood programs every year. They take turns basically. It was Bemidji & Vermont one year, then Miami & RIT the next, then UMD, then Ferris St & Union, then Yale and Quinipiac, then Union again, then Providence and Omaha, then Quinipiac again, then UMD & Harvard.
And no, you are not all right in the opinion. And I figured it would take a loss before you've be willing to respond.
It was an ugly loss, that can't be denied. I'm hoping it has a sort of reverse psychology effect. Sweeping PSU wouldn't have actually gained us much, as OSU beat Wisconsin, so finishing 2nd in the conference isn't even possible now anyways. Now I was forced to look back at PSU's troubles lately, and it could be just their playing either on the road or vs Notre Dame meant that they were going to lose more than they won?
They are in position to gain home ice if they sweep us and they gain that PWC as well, and we needed just 1 pt to gain home ice, so apparently their desperation was stronger than ours, and it being in their Arena didn't hurt, either. Honestly, if we had won tonight, we most likely would have played with very little fire in the 2nd game. Losing tonight may put more fire into the players bellies, give them a sense of urgency that apparently they did not feel coming into tonight's game?
This loss proves nothing except that we are beatable, but we all knew that already. Losing horribly like this tomorrow night might start to say something significant though?