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Subject: Re: East West Super League
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Date: Tue, 16-Oct-84 11:49:36 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 16 11:49:36 1984
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Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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Summary: Wisconsin Hockey

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	The Wisconsin hockey team this year seems to be a one of 
great potential.  Although they were swept by Boston Universty in
the opening weekend of the season (6-5,4-2), they showed a lot of
character in coming back from 5-2 and 6-3 deficits Friday night to pull
to within one goal.  Deserving of attention was Wisconsin's power play.
They were something like 4-of-6 in man-up situations in the first game,
and a somewhat more sedate 1-of-5 or so in the second.  The bright
spots for the Badgers (next to the power play) were the play of their
freshman forwards and backup freshman goalie Dean(?) Anderson on 
Saturday.  Their major shortcomings seemed to be a lack of defensive 
intensity, particulary around the goal area, and very few 5-on-5 goals 
scored (2 all weekend).
	BU on the other hand seemed to have a fairly solid team put
together with only 9 days of team practice before this series.  They
played excellent defense in front of their net, clearing out Badger 
forwards and allowing them very few chances at a rebound goal.  On 
offense the Terriers were solid when both teams were at full strength.  
8 or 9 of their 10 goals were 5-on-5.  Their power-play offense appeared
to need more work together as several times they failed to even set up 
their offense in the Badgers' end, although this could be credited to 
fine power-play defense by Wisconsin.

	It looks like it'll be quite an exciting season this year due both
to the expansion of the WCHA to 8 teams (Michigan Tech and Northern Michigan 
'defected' from the CCHA), and also to the joint schedule with the new Hockey
East association.  Teams will play (if memory serves) 32 league games this
season which will count in the standings.  That's a lotta hockey (for college
teams) !!

	Facts aside though, it makes very little sense for other teams
to even aspire to winning the NCAA title this year since Wisconsin has
won the crown every post-Olympic year since 1973 (:-)).

	Steve Manning, Madison Academic Computing Center

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