{"id":132403,"date":"2022-02-09T22:56:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T04:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=132403"},"modified":"2022-02-10T13:57:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T19:57:56","slug":"ncaa-division-i-womens-hockey-wednesday-women-stumbles-stories-and-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/02\/09\/ncaa-division-i-womens-hockey-wednesday-women-stumbles-stories-and-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Division I Women\u2019s Hockey: Wednesday Women \u2013 Stumbles, Stories and Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arlan:<\/strong> It\u2019s an eventful time in the world of women\u2019s hockey. In NCAA Division-I, we\u2019re seeing a higher frequency of games, both with the Beanpot and teams trying to make up games that were postponed due to Covid protocols. At the same time, pool play for the women\u2019s hockey tournament of the Beijing Olympics was underway.<\/p>\n

In terms of participating countries, this is the largest Olympic tournament with 10 teams. More Olympics rosters means greater impact on college programs with players absent for all or part of the season. To a certain extent, those absences have been mitigated by the fifth-year seniors contributing their experience and abilities.<\/p>\n

However, watching Sarah Fillier become a star on the world stage highlights the impossible task Cara Morey had in trying to replace her this year and explains Princeton\u2019s drop from ECAC Champions in its most recent season in 2020 to the bottom of the league\u2019s playoff field.<\/p>\n

While Wisconsin and Northeastern, the two teams who met in the NCAA Championship in March, have remained in contention to return to the final throughout the season, both have endured at least a mini slump of late. All of the Huskies losses have occurred while Alina Mueller has been out of the lineup, earlier due to injury, and recently, Northeastern fell to Vermont and Boston College after Mueller left for Beijing. Meanwhile, the Badgers, who cruised into December with a 15-0-1 record, have slowed to a 6-4-3 pace since then.<\/p>\n

For Wisconsin, it doesn\u2019t seem to be the absence of a single player that has reduced the winning percentage of late. The Badgers have played without incoming recruit Caroline Harvey, who delayed the start of her collegiate career while she pursues an Olympic medal with Team USA, as well as three players who were centralized but didn\u2019t make the final roster: Natalie Buchbinder, Britta Curl, and Lacey Eden.<\/p>\n

What is your theory after following Wisconsin all season? Was the loss of Kendra Nealey on the already-depleted blue line a tipping point, is it a combination of factors, or do you think it is just part of the ebbs and flows that teams go through in a long season?<\/p>\n

Nicole:<\/strong> You make a good point about the defense, but the thing is, the Badgers have enough offense that in any given game, they should be able to outscore any struggles at the blue line.<\/p>\n

The biggest thing for them over this stretch has been their intermittent ability to actually put the puck in the net, despite throwing everything they have at it. This has actually been a problem that has plagued them for a stretch nearly every year – it\u2019s just happening at a very inopportune time and with more competition at the top this time around.<\/p>\n

I can think of two older examples off the top of my head – back in 2014 they lost to Minnesota State in the first round of the WCHA playoffs 3-0 after outshooting the Mavericks 51-22. In the final regular season weekend of the 18-19 season, they hosted Ohio State needing one win to earn the conference title. They outshot OSU 53-24 in a 1-1 tie and 95-44 on the weekend.<\/p>\n

This year, they outshot St. Cloud 55-19 two weeks ago and settled for a 1-1 tie and then peppered Jojo Chobak of UMD last weekend, outshooting the Bulldogs 45-19 and losing 3-0.<\/p>\n

To some extent, I do think it starts to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. They have to know this tendency exists and by the time they reach 20 shots with no goals, they\u2019re already gripping their sticks too tight and trying to get fancy with the puck and generally overthinking it and trying too hard.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s clear this is partly just a bug in how the Badgers play. Though their coach Mark Johnson would like to dismiss it as puck luck, I think it happens too regularly to be dismissed as a fluke. That being said, Johnson\u2019s teams are clearly successful and what the Badgers do works, so I think they just sort of take these tough games and move on. Generally, they respond well after these frustrating contests – a 4-0 win against the Huskies and a 5-1 win over UMD.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d also say that some of this is just one of the difficulties of being the top team. Some of it is an issue for the Badgers, but a large part is also the fact that they\u2019re pretty much always going to get the best game out of each one of their opponents. Everyone wants to be the one who beats the reigning champions.<\/p>\n

After one of their games this season, Wisconsin\u2019s Nicole LaMantia talked to me and Todd Milewski about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we know that every team is going to come out against us playing their best. And so we’re not really sure what to expect from everybody. We watch the video on every team we play. But it seems like everybody has an extra gear when it comes to us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

I mean, every great team deals with this and nobody is going to feel bad for Wisconsin. The Badgers have to figure it out. It\u2019s been a bumpy stretch, but they\u2019re still a very good team. They\u2019re still in line to host an NCAA quarterfinal. They have some more question marks then we\u2019re used to, but I don\u2019t think anyone should count them out, either.<\/p>\n

At the moment, Ohio State and Minnesota sit ahead of them in WCHA standings.<\/p>\n

Arlan:<\/strong> Historically, the top teams in the WCHA have been more vulnerable in Olympic years with some of the best players being lost to national teams. We\u2019ve seen that throughout the conference again this year. Even newcomer St. Thomas placed two players on the Swiss Olympic roster. Yet somehow, the conference has managed to overcome that and place four teams into the top four spots in the PairWise Rankings.<\/p>\n

In addition to Wisconsin, the other ranked WCHA teams have taken Olympic hits of their own, including last spring’s WCHA Defensive Player of the Year, and players who were top 10 and top three finalists for the Patty Kazmaier Award. Despite that, there doesn\u2019t seem to be a shortage of star power. As I write this, eight of the 10 players who have exceeded 40 points on the season play in the conference.<\/p>\n

How do you see this year\u2019s WCHA? Is it a case of the league having a lot of offensive firepower, or does it just appear that way because defenses in the circuit are down from what we\u2019d normally expect? By the same token, is having the top four in the PairWise a product of balance and featuring several very good teams but lacking a truly great team that is destined for an NCAA Championship?<\/p>\n

Nicole:<\/strong> That\u2019s an interesting question. Fans might love it when they\u2019re team is dominant, but it sure is more fun (and probably better for the sport overall) to have this group of very good teams trading wins.<\/p>\n

Offense always gets more attention than defense, so I\u2019m trying to double check myself when my instinct is to say that the reason is high-powered offense. I do think that we can say that Minnesota, Ohio State, Minnesota Duluth and Wisconsin are thinner on defense than we have seen from them recently. Not having players like Buchninder, Ashton Bell and Jincy Dunne has an impact.<\/p>\n

As far as it possibly being good, but not great teams, I think we\u2019re in a situation where that can be true and one of them can and likely will be NCAA champion. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any obvious front runner right now and Northeastern\u2019s fumbles definitely show things to be wide open. It may come down to some of the intangibles. Each of these WCHA teams has recent Frozen Four experience. The experience of making it through the gauntlet of teams usually proves really useful come postseason. When we\u2019re talking tenths and hundredths of points separating folks in the RPI, it\u2019s those sorts of things that can give teams an edge.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re focusing on those top teams, but I\u2019d be remiss if I didn\u2019t point out that this is the most competitive from top to bottom that the conference has been. Each of those top teams has struggled against teams in the bottom half of the conference standings. We used to see one or two scares from those teams, but it\u2019s been more than that this season as it\u2019s not just one great goalie performance stealing points.<\/p>\n

The way the Pairwise is shaking out right now, we could see a slew of eastern teams – mostly ECAC squads, get on planes to the Midwest come March. That conference has been interesting of late, with unranked squads like Cornell and St. Lawrence taking points off the teams that look like they\u2019ll be heading to the NCAA tournament. The Saints are an interesting case – they currently sit fourth in the conference and have had a much better conference record than their overall one. They feel like a team that could play spoiler come tournament time.<\/p>\n

Arlan:<\/strong> In looking through the potential playoff picture in the ECAC, it gets hard to tell the spoilers from the spoiled. Once the postseason gets underway, the matchups are intriguing. A case could make for any team to lose in the first round or win the tourney. I realize that can be said about any league playoff, but in this year\u2019s ECAC, I think it\u2019s the truth.<\/p>\n

When I consider Clarkson\u2019s positives, it makes sense that the Golden Knights trail only Harvard in the standings. Caitrin Lonergan leads the league in points. Gabrielle David is fifth in points and third in goals. That type of firepower has helped Clarkson to a seven-game victory streak and a seven-game unbeaten streak, sandwiched around a single loss to Yale.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, I can\u2019t forget that the Golden Knights are also the team that went winless on their trip to Bemidji early on, and they\u2019re just 3-4 over their last seven contests. It\u2019s possible that they\u2019ll make noise in the ECAC tournament, but it\u2019s also conceivable that it\u2019ll be from crashing out in the first round.<\/p>\n

I also wouldn\u2019t have expected St. Lawrence to be in position to host a quarterfinal. The Saints were the up-and-coming team when last year\u2019s mini ECAC wrapped up play, but the Olympics left holes in their roster that contributed to a couple of winless streaks of five games. I don\u2019t imagine that the teams with designs on winning the ECAC Championship relish the prospect of facing junior Lucy Morgan between the pipes, and if they can get some timely scoring, she could carry the Saints a long way.<\/p>\n

Mostly, it\u2019s just strange to look at the league standings and see that the list of teams poised to open the postseason on the road is Quinnipiac, Colgate, Cornell, and Princeton. It makes me keep checking if I have the standings sorted incorrectly.<\/p>\n

What do you think is the explanation for this? Should we look to the Olympics, lingering effects of having such a strange 2020-21, or is this the direction that the ECAC is trending?<\/p>\n

Nicole:<\/strong> Yeah, those standings definitely don\u2019t reflect how it feels like things have shaken out this season. It also, I think, shows the importance of non-conference scheduling and performing well in those games, since Clarkson, but particularly Quinnipiac and Colgate are ranked similarly nationally as they are in the conference.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s likely we should just assume lingering weirdness from last season – the ECAC was the conference most affected by teams not playing. Beyond that, I sure hope this is how things are trending. I\u2019m unapologetically team chaos. It definitely makes my job harder and can make me feel like I have no idea what I\u2019m talking about, but it\u2019s also so good for the sport. And it\u2019s fun! It\u2019s amazing to look at a weekly schedule and not feel like you already know what the outcome of the games will be.<\/p>\n

The standout here that hasn\u2019t gotten as much national love is Yale. They\u2019re a team that\u2019s been on the come up over the past few seasons and the hiring of Mark Bolding has proven to be as great a move as it seemed at the time. They\u2019re also a team I was worried would get derailed by the year off, so I\u2019m extra delighted to see their success this season. What\u2019s great is that it feels like this will stick. This isn\u2019t about just having one good class that reaches their senior year. It certainly feels like this is a program build and not a one off and I\u2019m hopeful this season is indicative of what we can expect to see out of Yale year in and year out. Only time will tell, obviously, but I think the Bulldogs are legit, even if they did lose a somewhat baffling game to Brown.<\/p>\n

Their status at the top of the conference might not last through these final weeks if the Bulldogs don\u2019t clean it up – they close the season against Clarkson, St. Lawrence, Quinnipiac and Princeton.<\/p>\n

Over in Hockey East, Vermont also set a program record for wins in a season over the weekend with two more weeks of the regular season to go. Yale is likely a sure-thing for the NCAA tournament, but Vermont is a bubble team. What have you seen out of these programs that have helped them elevate themselves this year? Do you think the Catamounts can do enough over the next few weeks to cement their first-ever NCAA bid? With things looking as shaky as they have all season, do you think the Hockey East conference tournament and autobid are more up for grabs than we might have thought a few weeks ago?<\/p>\n

Arlan:<\/strong> Northeastern looks more vulnerable than it did last season or a month earlier in this one. The Huskies have lost to teams that sit second, fourth, sixth, and seventh in the Hockey East standings, so that hints at a fairly wide-open playoff.<\/p>\n

It is tough to evaluate Northeastern without Mueller. Just how much does she mean to the Huskies? Her points-per-game average is the highest in the country, so there is an obvious impact from dropping somebody who yields almost two scores per game from the offense. There also must be a blow to the team\u2019s psyche when it takes to the ice without its most impactful skater. To compensate for the loss of Mueller\u2019s punch on the attack, the Huskies needed Aerin Frankel to make key stops in big moments, but against BC, she yielded the winning goal from distance just 90 seconds after her teammates had pulled even. I\u2019m going to bail on trying to analyze Northeastern minus Mueller any further, and just conclude that as long as she returns from the Olympics intact, that\u2019s all that matters. The Huskies had things their way in winning the third-place game of the Beanpot, 3-0, so maybe they\u2019re back on track.<\/p>\n

From the Vermont perspective, the victory over NU was impressive. The Catamounts got a huge performance from Jessie McPherson with 35 saves on 36 shots. This could be their year to make some noise with a senior-heavy roster, including the team\u2019s top four scorers.<\/p>\n

The one who constantly catches my eye is Theresa Schafzahl from Austria. She consistently does the little things, working hard to clear the defensive zone, handling a difficult pass and keeping the puck moving up the ice, or hustling back to defend. You mention all of the players from international rosters on NCAA rosters. Team Austria isn\u2019t in the Olympic field, or it\u2019s likely that Schafzahl would be added to your count. She plays a mature game that contributes to wins at any level.<\/p>\n

As for whether or not Vermont can get into the NCAA field, there is still an appreciable gap in RPI between Vermont at No. 12 and Quinnipiac, who sits 10th, with Connecticut at No. 11. The Catamounts close with a pair of games versus both BU and BC. The former is a .500 club, and the latter sits just a couple of notches below UVM in RPI, so whether winning those games would be enough to reach the top 10 will depend on what\u2019s happening with the ECAC teams higher in the RPI.<\/p>\n

Hockey East is advancing all 10 teams to its playoff this year, so Vermont\u2019s quarterfinal opponent is hard to predict. Advancing to the semifinal could be a date with UConn. Is there enough there to earn an at-large berth with a loss in the HEA final? That answer involves more math than I want to do right now, but I\u2019d tend to doubt it.<\/p>\n

Nicole:<\/strong> Collegians past and present are making themselves known in Beijing so far. Through the opening rounds, players with an NCAA connection have accounted for 70% of the points scored – 84 of 120 goals, 124 of the 177 assists.<\/p>\n

What do you think about the NCAA becoming the major development tool for international hockey? I know it means we get to watch great, top tier hockey there, but I also worry that federations are using it as a crutch and excuse not to give more funding to their women\u2019s programs to foster development at home.<\/p>\n

Arlan:<\/strong> If by international hockey, you\u2019re including the United States, then I agree with you. From what I\u2019ve seen, the average governing body for any women\u2019s sport in any country tends to be rather messed up.<\/p>\n

For most of them, apathy tends to be the overriding theme, and the country\u2019s national organization for the sport looks all too willing to wind up in opposition to its athletes. The USA\u2019s top hockey players had to basically strike in order to get decent financial support. The country\u2019s women\u2019s soccer team, which has been even more successful, wasn\u2019t treated any better. Even for the most high-profile women\u2019s sports on the international stage, such as gymnastics in the USA, the people who are hired to nurture that talent allow their athletes to be abused physically, emotionally, and psychologically, and they often are the cause of that mistreatment. That isn\u2019t isolated to one sport or country, nor to a few individuals. The same types of abuse occurred in Austrian women\u2019s alpine skiing decades before.<\/p>\n

So, you\u2019re right. It would be nice if the national federations were dedicated to advancing women\u2019s hockey in their countries. At this point, I\u2019m cynical enough that I\u2019ll settle for them providing some level of support and not doing anything to set the women\u2019s program back 20 years, as was the case in Sweden.<\/p>\n

That is part of the reason that I\u2019ve always found the college game to be more compelling than international hockey. Every player\u2019s story is told over the course of four years in six-month long chapters, and the plot lines are more varied than Canada and the United States playing one game that really matters every four years.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, what new tales are being written on the college rinks?<\/p>\n

Nicole:<\/strong> That\u2019s well put. And to expand on it, I\u2019d say having connected with and learned the stories about collegians enhances my enjoyment of international play. Getting to see those young women live out their dreams and elevate their game is pretty amazing. It\u2019s one of the reasons I\u2019m always so baffled by people who like women\u2019s hockey but don\u2019t follow the college game. And why I\u2019m constantly making those connections for people on Twitter.<\/p>\n

I often wish I could just spend all my time sharing the stories that are getting written each and every week on collegiate ice. Talking to, learning from and being amazed by the young women who play collegiate hockey is by far the best part of my job.<\/p>\n

There are a million stories and I hope to cover even just a few of them.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s Emma Soderberg finally getting her chance to shine in Duluth and now Jojo Chobak showing she\u2019s not just a backup.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s the stellar sophomores who are already making huge impacts and will likely only continue to get better like Makenna Webster, Casey O\u2019Brien, Kalty Kaltounkova, Jenna Buglioni, Kiara Zanon, Michelle Pasiechnyk, Olivia Mobley and so many more.<\/p>\n

Taylor Heise stepping into the spotlight, Caitrin Lonergan getting the season she deserves after so long, Dara Greig emerging after her transfer to Colgate, Becca Gilmore and Kristin Della Rovere leading Harvard quietly up the rankings, the goal-scoring prowess of rookie Vanessa Upson \u2026 I could go on and on.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no shortage of compelling players and stories and things are only going to get more exciting and interesting as we head into the post season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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