Seven-hundred and thirty-two days ago an embarrassment of monumental proportions occurred. It was Friday night October 27th, 2006. The Seawolves traveled to Houghton for their first WCHA series of the season. Sporting a 2-0-2 record (beat Merrimack, beat uaF, tied UNO and uaF) things were looking fairly optimistic. I speculated before the series that a 4-0-2 record would look pretty nice. Then the Seawolves went out and got pounded 9-0. NINE to freaking ZERO! It wasn't some penalty-ridden game (UAA committed 7 penalties). It wasn't a matter of being shorthanded because of injury/illness (UAA dressed 18 + 2 goalies). It was just a classic ass-whooping by a well-prepared and motivated team. MTU scored at 14:27, 16:12, 16:26 and 19:28 of the 1st period on just 14 shots against Nathan Lawson. Jonny O let 5 pucks past him over the last two periods on 16 shots. On Saturday night, UAA recovered a small bit of pride by losing 5-3 (which included an empty netter).
I visited The Alamo as a youngster while growing up in Texas. Texans are righteously proud of their history. It was a country before it joined the United States. And in the battles that followed their brutal defeat there, Texans did in fact "Remember The Alamo"; the passion imbued by recalling it meant bad news for Mexico. The Seawolves can emulate that spirit this week as they travel to Michigan later this week. Unlike the battle at The Alamo there are multiple survivors from MTU's 2 year old slaughter of our 'Wolves.
There are 9 Seawolves on this seasons team that experienced that event. Kevin Clark, Josh Lunden, Paul Crowder, Trevor Hunt, Nils Backstrom, Shane Lovdahl, Mat Robinson, Jared Tuton and Jon Olthuis. That's 9 guys that better be educating everyone else as to this chapter in Seawolf history. This weekend is the first trip to Houghton since that horrid outing. Such things shouldn't be forgotten. The past exists so that we don't repeat it.
8 comments:
Why bring this up?
Spoon
Bring it up so it is a painfull reminder how south shit can go so quickly...
Bring it up for pay back. :)
Spoon:
As I said in the post ... so hopefully "The Seawolves can emulate" the Remember The Alamo spirit.
I'll have a regular preview of MTU tomorrow (Wed).
I just dont want to hear any excuses about the Travel..Actually no excuses period would be great..We want to see if we are real or just playin???
My wife & I attend our fist ever road game that nite -- we will never forget it either -- my wife's nephew jabbed me in the ribs NINE (9) times.... BUT the next nite was much better with 2 events I recall
1. after a time out Lovdahl was clearly instructed to open fire with his slap shot as he came out firing from the point -- & sent 2 Tech guys limping to the bench & I seemed to remember a goal and/or assist & we wud have at least tied them IF the ref's hadn't robbed us
# 2 we met Kevin Clark's Mother the 2nd nite -- she had driven 10 hours to see her son -- & he got a CFB penalty 2 mins into the game & was sitting behind us the rest of the game...
U R rite to remind the players who were thr
/s/Don (not Dunlop)
I also was at that game and hope the guys that were there remmber it cause lets not look foolish on the road.
That was a crazy game. I love it when Tech wins and when they score lots of goals (both of which are rare), but I was really starting to feel bad for the Seawolves in that game. :(
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