Wilbur

Dean Blais looks like he could eat babies....wow...

Icing on UND. A very good time to call your timeout Hak.

My four defensemen this last five minutes of the game: Simpson-Forbort Mac-Gleason

GREAT PLAY CAPTAIN.

Not a good penalty at this juncture.

Crap....penalty.

Under ten to go 2-1. UND.

Okay....deep breath....Schmaltz is young....yep....young....

On our heals a bit here. Don't need the fancy play to get the puck out.....just get it out.

Schmaltz is young.....Schmaltz is young.......

I'm worried that UND just lost the mo.

Balfour playing pretty well. Although he flops around a bit.

Penalty or not they've got to score here.

No, Jim got his clock cleaned. Good open ice hit.

Yikes......not a good call at all. Garbage officiating.

Love outdoor games, but outdoor games in baseball stadiums....meh.....I guess Wrigley and Fenway turned out okay. They should play a frozen four in an indoor football stadium. That'd work.

When the NHL was coming back after lockout number.....well the one before this one, I remember watching the season opener between the Rangers and someone else and the officials had the go ahead from the NHL to call everything to get rid of the obstruction crap. The first period was a specialty teams war, heck the whole game was. But the players eventually figured it out.

Fun to watch Parise play for the Wild. But boy have the Wild been a disappointment so far.....at least to me. I guess they've played toe to toe with the NHL's best, but I thought they'd have a better record.

Good point brought up. Officials need to do a better job making the call if a player doesn't go down. As soon as a player takes his hand off of his stick and puts it on an opponent its got to be holding or interference. When it isn't called it just turns into the NHL of 1997. I'll agree with GFG. I think Grimaldi took a dive on that play he is referring to. It was clearly a penalty on the Wisconsin player, but would the officials have called it if Rocco keeps moving his feet? The Wisco player already took away the scoring chance, by grabbing him. Maybe I need to be easier on the alleged divers.

Why did I leave Grand Forks today then?

I wouldn't mind a committee put together put in charge of handing out penalties for alleged diving/other unsportsmanlike activities. If illegal hits are reviewed there is no reason that diving incidents can't be reviewed. I agree, definitely not as serious as a CFB major, but the hockey purists out there all agree its ruining the integrity of the game.

The problem with leaving it to the coaches is that it won't accomplish anything. Having a player on your team dive is embarrassing (at least when I coached I couldn't stand it). And you're honestly hoping that the coaches will step up and bench a kid when basically you're just reiterating the fact that you've recruited yourself a diver. Jerry York wouldn't bench Tony Voce when they made an appearance at the Ralph a while back in the Parise days when he flopped all over the place. Jack Parker didn't bench that kid that got Mac tossed when UND played BU earlier this year. Eaves has been coaching divers for years and nothing has changed there. Those are in my opinion the best coaches in college hockey, who you would hope would have the integrity of the game in their best interests. A dive=a ten minute misconduct plus unsportsmanlike conduct two minute minor.

They can't let Faulkner be the difference in this series. 4 points next weekend is extremely doable.

Canada used to/maybe still does have a penalty for "Turtling". I wouldn't mind seeing this instituted into college hockey. A couple weekends ago at the Mooch Nate Schmidt for Minnesota was hit and then instinctively put his head down and dove straight into the boards. In my mind they've got to start with a ten minute misconduct.

Obviously an issue we see come up again this weekend was the overabundance of players taking a fall to draw a call in college hockey. My question is, whats the solution? If you were the NCAA how would you solve this issue that is turning NCAA hockey into World Cup Soccer? What gets me is when a player lays down for ten minutes, and scores a powerplay goal after the fact or doesn't miss a shift. Should the NCAA enact policies requiring a player to sit for a period if he receives medical attention on the ice? I'd love to hear other ideas on how to get rid of this crap.