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Admin, please add a "dufus" section to go with the "ignored" section on this board

You may be right there; Shephard didn't seem to make it entirely clear. Would like a tape on his sr. to jr. critique following the games. Having watched the job junior does on the ice over the last several years, having him responsible for judging intent may be way to much to expect

As much as Jay "Superstar" likes to point that out, his goal while at school was to get a lettermen's jacket. He was the 6th man on a 6 man freshmen BB team (the handle Superstar came from that and makes me laugh yet when I think about it). He finally got his jacket by playing baseball for an awful Sioux baseball team. Nearly anyone who had played Legion baseball could have played for that team.

Actually, on every PP, Stoa set up entirely in the crease, not just one foot. By the rules, that's not necesarily interference, and probably wasn't in this case. Gophs took advantage of the current rule, which will more than likely be changed again.

FSSN replayed the overhead view (as well as other angles), and, you couldn't see the puck in the overhead view (at least I didn't). If that's the only replay view it didn't look like it would be called a goal. As far as the in the crease on Friday, Stoa wasn't pushed in, nor did he interfere with Parise, so, the way the rule reads now, the goal was OK. Actually, had Parise squared up to Kessel rather than worrying about Stoa, the short side of the net would not have been that wide open, Kessel's shot would probably have been made toward Stoa rather than the short side, and the bounce of the puck could have gone either way. Parise later took a deserved penalty be whacking whatever Gopher was again set up in the crease. It was discussed with Shephard Sr. during a between period interview, and he said the coaches (Lucia) is taking advantage of a rule change to an extent beyond the rule's intent. The change was meant to eliminate the inadvertant skate or more in the crease that had nothing to do with the puck going into the net, but would have resulted in a waived off goal last year. The Gophers were taking it a step farther by setting up Stoa in the crease, rather than in front of it, on the PP. With the practically "no touch" rule on defensemen in front of the net, the new rules make it near impossible for dmen and goalies, as long as the coaches choose to test the limits of the rule. They also discussed the "wrap your arms around holding" in the corners and behind the net, that the gophers used to eliminate the Sioux cycling and totally negate an affective forecheck all weekend. Shephard said a short wrap your arms around shouldn't be called, as long as the arms come off the player immediately. If the arms remain wrapped and the player is held, a call should be made. He (Shephard) seemed to infer that calls should have been made. We are back to the Denver type D of two years ago, when, after the season, the holding and obstructing rules were emphasized and we saw all the ticky tack calls during the first few months of last season. I expect we'll soon be there again, if not this season, then next year. Thank you, Minnesota (and whomever else begins playing this kind of D, which I suspect will be most everyone until the calls are made).

Get over yourself. You've brought nothing but garbage to this board whenever you've shown up. Go away and play with the other kiddies.

Your twin?

Exactly why since message boards goph fans have become so hated around the country. There is no other fan base that does this in large numbers like goph fans. Way to go Slappy and company.

Classless is the number of opponent fans who show up on an opponent message board to gloat after a sweep. Goph fans win this by miles, exactly why the fanbase has become so "loved" everywhere.

That "tackle" should not have been called? YOu've got to be kidding.

Parise pulled for Lammy. Not the best night for Parise to have a tough game.

Goph D has found that wrapping arms around the Sioux forecheckers and holding them in the corners has been effective, and legal. Sioux need to do the same and neither shot that resulted in goals would have occurred. Didn't look like Potulny's shot was on net (although how he was left alone in the slot was not good). Looked like the wide shot bounced off Chorney coming back to the net from the corner.

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He hasn't hurt anyone, that's about all he's done right (Paukovich). Take a look at the Wisco first goal on Sat night (someone posted videos of each goal in the USCHO update). The lack of effort on the backcheck led to Dowell being all alone for the back door tap in. The rush started in the Wisco end, the MN backchecking forward just hooked and slashed Dowell all the way to the net, ane didn't move his feet or make any attempt whatsover of catching Dowell and tieing him up. The backchecker wore #17.

If there isn't a better goalie out there than Schneider, the US will have a tough time winning.

6-1 final Angelo got the got

My MT video died.

1-0 after one; shots 10-5 Sioux

Good night; Parise way out of the net got beat to the puck, but Smaby was in net and made the save.

MTU audio is not working. And the TH audio doesn't match the play well.

Clocks under 10 seconds. Anyone else have noisy audio with the video feed?

The Mich. Tech video feed is up and running.

Wondering why he wasn't in the box score. Neither was Goren for Vancouver. Both have been down to the 5-7 minute range for ice time in recent games.

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