It wasn't to be. The Tommies fought down to the last seconds but first place Moncton skated away with a 3-1 victory in tonight's AUS semi-final.
UdeM sniper, Marieve Provost, opened the scoring at 5:41 of the first by weaving around a STU defenceman and tucking the puck between the legs of Julia Sharun. It was the only goal of the period in which UdeM out shot STU 14-8.
The Tommies would tie the game at 11:01 of the second when Katie Brewster took the Courtney Fox pass from centre, gained the blue line and passed the puck to Kayla Blackmore. Blackmore would take a few steps and fire a laser beam top shelf past a bewildered Kathy Desjardins in the Moncton net. Unfortunately the Tommies would surrender a goal 50 seconds later to Kristine Labrie that proved to be the winner. Moncton would score again at 11:10 of the third to salt this one away.
Moncton out shot St. Thomas 37-22 on the night.
With the loss St. Thomas hockey is done for another season.
Daily Gleaner: Tommies come up short in AUS women's hockey
Great game ladies. Get em next year. Congrat's to Kayla Blackmore - game MVP. Well deserved.
ReplyDeleteTime to change the format also. Why play an entire season to eliminate one team? and then one loss an you go home in the playoffs. If men used this format UNB would be looking for baby sitting jobs after their first game with X? I gues that would look good on Gardiner and crew because the Tommie men would have snapped up all the good jobs!
ReplyDeleteRather than change up the format, which they schould. Why not change up the coaching? There has to be something fundamentally wrong with a team that has such solid funding money and climbs the standings by UNB folding, MTA not able to win hardly a game, and UPEI in and out of the league over the years. Dal was two or three players and they ousted the women almost every year til those players left, and then we jump over them. And yes I'm sure the coach is a nice guy, although former many players would not agree that he is a good coach.probably it's his turn to get coach of the year anyway. Eagles won that award too didn't he?
ReplyDeletemy two cents worth
Time to shut er down bro. The site has been a disaster this year. It seems to be a haggle over coaches who have been in the system for 8 years and nothing happening to STU not having enough recruiting, to status quo is fine. people appear to be happy. Let it settle.
ReplyDeleteWhy would you want to change the coach. UNB never really had a strong womens program up until they got the axe. STU has slowly moved up the standings. We just need a sniper like Provost is to UdeM and we will be even better than we are now. If we improve, no need to axe the coach.
ReplyDeletesorry Pal UNB seldom lost to STU! They were not strong, but STU rode the bottom of the barrel until the influx of money into their program. Do you think all of these European players only tour STU when they come over to look at Universities??? No they go to them all. STU is the only one who gives them full scholarships at about 10K a pop. UNB could not even look at these girls. What has this coach done with this money? They have always been a head of PEI and lost to Dal. This year Dal lost players and STU moved a head of them....All about money, and all about lack of money at UNB, MTA, and Dal.
ReplyDeleteand whats the problem with money for a winning team. People complain about money for the losing STU mens team, then they complain about money for a winning STU womens team. Last time i checked, winning was good!
ReplyDeleteahhhh....you know they didn't win right? What's that make it 8 or 9 years of big money and no winning? move a long coach?
ReplyDeleteMoney should not be an issue but St. Thomas funds women’s hockey and gives their female athletes the same chance as the men. I liked the analogy of thinking of these programs as your kids. Yes they cost you money but you love them and it is worth it. I think of UNB and how it starved women’s hockey for two years and then cut it because they weren’t successful. No wonder. St. Thomas should be commended for having both programs. Fredericton should be proud to have a great institution like STU.
ReplyDeleteWay to go trouble makers, making issue out of money. Great idea. I actually appeal to my UNB friends to chime in here and defend against this stupidity. We have all seen UNB fans rally against the charge that UNB is loaded and that’s why their men’s team is so successful. Well it is time to end the hypocrisy because if it is so called happening at STU, it is at UNB as well. To me, it is a non-issue that some want to promote for their own personal agenda, whatever that may be – to embarrass, to be heard, who cares. Fredericton university hockey fans should unite against these anonymous attacks on our teams, men’s or women’s, UNB or STU.
ReplyDeleteIs this post not about Women's Hockey? You can't compare STU to UNB when it comes to women's hockey regarding money. UNB folded their program STU is fully funded. I think what they are discussing is that for all the money that goes into it, they still lose. I know Eagles is under fire for not winning, so how can you ignore a womens program that is funded more than any other female program when it has lost every year under its coach. To summarize, you are argueing that UNB wins because the mens team has too much money and out buys every other team. Therefore Eagles is doing the best he can so keep him. Then on the other side of the coin, you argue that STU women have more money than any other female team, but it is okay for them to lose??? If they have the most money, shouldn't they win, like the UNB men who have the most money?? I think your thinking is a little warped. My thoughts are it's time for change.
ReplyDeleteYour thoughts make no sense because you are making it all up. The women get funded at STU good for them, is it more than anyone else, probably not. It is that easy. UNB has all the money, they have no money. I don't know and I don't care. You are just stirring the pot creating a controversy......anonymously.
ReplyDeleteFor what purpose?
Just to be a poop disturber. You're so cool!!!
Are you honestly trying to say that that the STU women's team is the most funded women's team in the league? Wow. I really wonder where you are getting your facts. Have you any idea the amount of money that goes into ST.FX and UDEM. Let's be serious here people, those two teams are Nationally ranked. STU women's may have a decent amount of funding, but clearly not the most in the league. And, then to blame the coach for all of this? STU women's team has made to the playoffs EVERY YEAR. The men's team on the other hand, is down 2 years, and can barely win any games. It's absolutely disgusting how people can criticize the women's team and pay no attention to the LOSING men's team. Murphy has done a fantastic job with the women's team, and in no way should he be compared to Eagles, in no way should the women's team be compared to the Men's team.
ReplyDeleteHey, doesn't everybody but one team make the playoffs every year in female hockey. WOW STU finished ahaead of the last place team every year and made the playoffs...as did UNB...as did Moncton, as did Dal...and so did everyone except MTA. Are you sure you know hockey. Anyway, time to close out this site for another year.
ReplyDeletewin or lose, mens or womens, people just love to complain about STU hockey. Really cant please the masses apparently.
ReplyDelete~Tommies Video Guy~
I agree with Video guy...shut it down and let the boys and girls relax
ReplyDeleteso what is the process for evaluating coaches?
ReplyDeleteGreat season girls. Now that you know Moncton can be beat. Do it next year
ReplyDeleteAlready knew that Moncton can be beat. STU beat them! :)
ReplyDeleteyes, the big game was the last regular season loss to PEI. That would have given us third and placed us in the other pool!
ReplyDeleteTechnically, it was much better for STU to have placed 4th and have been in the pool they were in. Because had ST.FX made it to the finals, STU would have only had to beat UPEI and UDEM to make it to nationals.
ReplyDeleteI think all of this money talk that has gone on all season is ridiculous. Fans should be proud that UNB and STU and their supporters are finding the money to attract good student-athletes.
ReplyDeleteThat male or female student from away probably wouldn't be attending STU or UNB and adding to the diversity of the school if there weren't well funded athletic programs to attract them. The fact that STU recruits female hockey players from Europe is a good thing -- how many other opportunities would "townies" at STU have to interact with a Swiss Olympian? Good things often cost money. Think of it as an investment -- all of that sports scholarship money gets spent back into the Fredericton economy while the students are here after all.
We have a culture of people dreaming that their athletic kid will grow up and get a full-ride NCAA scholarship. Well full-rides are rarer than you think, and so why not aspire to athletic scholarships at CIS schools?
Money spent, or "wasted" as some folks would have it, on athletics won't all be redirected elsewhere on campus if you make policy changes. A lot of folks donate money to athletic programs on both campuses, and they're probably not going to redirect their donations into general scholarship funds. Funding for athletics at UNB is partially seen as recruitment advertising or brand advertising -- nothing like getting your team to play for a national championship on national television. Sure, they're not NCAA bowl games, but they are a reasonably big deal.
Face it, STU has challenges for recruiting. While it is an attractive, intimate, cozy campus, St. Thomas doesn't have the breadth of academic programs of similarly sized StFX, or the larger Acadia's and SMU's. StFX has incredible brand recognition, the best in the Maritimes. Dalhousie has more academic programs than any other AUS school. When you're recruiting student-athletes school matters maybe as much as a winning tradition.
and that is supposed to be a good rationale for why we end up last on the men's side and fourth on the women's side? Perhaps time to look at the coaches then?
ReplyDeleteand that is supposed to be a good rationale for why we end up last on the men's side and fourth on the women's side? Perhaps time to look at the coaches then?
ReplyDeleteI wasn't making a rationale as you suggest. I'm just observing that I don't believe it is about the money spent, or not spent, on the two STU hockey programs that accounts for any perceived failures.
ReplyDeleteand my point is money spent with no results
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