Comments on The Blog That Yost Built: Michigan 6, Minnesota 3

I watched the Michigan and Minnesota game and Mich...

2008-12-02T23:32:00.000-06:00

I watched the Michigan and Minnesota game and Michigan destroyed the Gophers. Kangas looked god awful. Hogan did a great job in net.

The Kohl Center is great. Beautiful venue, nice vi...

2008-11-29T23:59:00.000-06:00

The Kohl Center is great. Beautiful venue, nice video board, I love places that have the LED "banner" (for lack of a better terM) that goes all the way around the lower bowl, the chants were fun, the power play song is catchy as hell....I had a blast despite having literally nothing to cheer about.

I think it's pretty clear they just can't give Sauer any support. I'd feel horrible to see him benched because the offense sucks though. He was the only reason we had a prayer of winning tonight. He was stellar between the pipes.

I've never seen anything like this. It's 37-10 now in goals of support in 8 1/3 to 7 2/3 games played. Sauer's 2-6 and his play hasn't warranted a record that poor. He's been really strong for most of his starts. Yes he's allowed some shaky goals, but Hogan has as well. We've just scored enough for Hogan that it hasn't mattered. Sauer shares NO blame for the loss tonight. No chance on either goal and he made some RIDICULOUS saves.

I'll just link:

http://board.uscho.com/...

2008-11-29T23:05:00.000-06:00

I'll just link:

http://board.uscho.com/showpost.php?p=4006038&postcount=476

So discouraging.

Does this answer, or get us closer to an answer ab...

2008-11-29T22:56:00.000-06:00

Does this answer, or get us closer to an answer about whether it's Hogan/Sauer or Friday/Saturday that's been causing our dichotomy? Next weekend (another unfair test since one is in A2 and the other is in East Lansing) should we start Hogan on Friday again? I feel terrible for Billy, but at the same time if for some reason there's better chemistry with Hogan, we can't keep losing even if it's not his fault.

Also how was the game at the Kohl Center? I thought abut going down from Milwaukee, but in retrospect I'm glad I didn't.

Haven't seen any WOLV-TV games this year. He has a...

2008-11-29T22:19:00.000-06:00

Haven't seen any WOLV-TV games this year. He has a blog thougH:
http://charles-cicwolv.blogspot.com/

The officiating was every bit as bad as it sounded. Probably worse. Honest to God, I don't know if I've ever seen a more lopsided game in terms of penalties that was more evenly played 5 on 5...

I feel so bad for Billy Sauer. He was outstanding tonight. Neither goal was remotely his fault--both on the PP--and he made a few HUGE stops when it was 0-0 to keep us in it.

I was only able to catch the audio feed, but was t...

2008-11-29T21:10:00.000-06:00

I was only able to catch the audio feed, but was the officiating as horrible / annoying as it has sounded tonight?

Why can't we score for Sauer?

Do we know if the sideline reporter guy from WOLV-...

2008-11-29T20:10:00.000-06:00

Do we know if the sideline reporter guy from WOLV-TV is back this year? You know, the "Back to you guys" guy with the insightful comments?

A performance like we saw last night has been some...

2008-11-29T10:39:00.000-06:00

A performance like we saw last night has been some time coming. It's what we expected to see from this team right out of the gate. I really, really hope that they can use that win as a springboard moving forward. Judgment will be reserved until after next weekend.

Hogan with the start against Minnesota could say a couple things: Either Red was intent on switching up the routine (which most of us have wanted to see for a few weeks now), or he has more confidence in Hogan. I tend to think, coupled with the line changes again, that the motive lies in shaking things up. Regardless, it'll be interesting to see who gets the start tonight, and what the rotation is next weekend. I have to think the platoon is done by GLI.