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Powerplay for UND. Maybe get one before the third....

Gophers starting to control the play. Need to get out of the period.

Great save. Had it been Raty the announcer would have pissed himself.

Hooking penalty leads to gophs powerplay.

The better team is winning.

Under 3....still tied.

SIOUX!!!!!! 1-1 THERE WE GO LADIES!!!!!

Some grade A chances for UND, that Raty just deals with. UND the better team right now.

Killed a penalty. Still getting chances.

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Good start for the women. Although they're down 1-0, they are playing loose. Raty just making some saves.

UND holding their own. Carrying the play a bit.

Awful turnover 1-0 Minnesota.

Would have loved it to be Mike Commodore, but I suppose Pattyn would do.

This is where I believe the officials made the game chippy. By calling it a major contact to the head penalty, Tech was out for blood the rest of the game. I don't blame them, I would be too. If one of their d men lights up Kristo and ends his season and the officials call it a hit to the head without me seeing a replay I'm not going to take it easy on Tech in the corners.

Prayers to Mr. Johnstone. Very thankful nothing head related. Gosh, had it been a dirty hit we're talking career ending injury.....yikes....

So now it makes sense.....

Believe that is for Nate, his first name. I'm surprised he isn't drafted. Heavy shot, smart on the ice, works very well on the power play with the top guys. But thats probably a good thing for Minnesota as he could be a four year guy for them.

Given, hockey is an extremely tough sport to officiate......I wouldn't want to do it.......Glad there are guys that want to do it. Hockey is much the same as a lot of other sports when it comes to officiating.....grey area......And with the different leagues comes different approaches with what is and isn't allowed. No, I couldn't do a better job than these guys, but where the problems arise is with the consistency. I'll use Nate Schmidt as an example. Great physical defenseman that isn't cheap/dirty/whatever. Does he get a five and tossed for that hit? Seems like certain individuals are singled out. Seems like the type of penalty you're getting depends on the name on the back of your jersey.

Guy got hurt. Not good. Never want to see a guy carried off. At the same time the video of the hit should be shown to young defensemen everywhere. Perfect open ice hit on a guy. Didn't jump into him, wasn't charging because he didn't stride into him, kept his elbow tucked and met him shoulder to shoulder so it created minimal chance for any type of contact to the head. Its not easy to officiate a game with the pace of hockey. They need to review hits like this so they can come up with a lame two minute charging call or something like that instead of sending a guy down the runway when all he did was make a clean play where unfortunately a player was hurt.

Brad posted a link on his blog where you can watch it online. If that helps?

Don't know if there is such thing as a Sioux friendly bar down in gooferville. Any Joe Sensor's normally would have it on one of the big screens. Bloomington's I know always does.

Wow, can't believe that I'm still alive...... Knight.

Best of luck to the ladies today. Regardless they'll have to play Minnesota at Ridder arena if they want to win a national championship. Maybe Raty plays like a human today. Just maybe.

Will be a point of discussion all day, but I'm thinking Hak goes with Zane. Best thing for a goalie after shaky play is to get back into the net. At the same time, when you're playing for playoff position and the NCAA tourney, you can't have subpar goaltending show its ugly head at this time of the year. And as a former goalie, crap like that stays with you.... I'll trust Hak's decision tonight.