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I'm not talking about the hit on Saturday, I'm talking about the hit on Friday. MacWilliam got hit on Saturday from behind that was called for charging, and was also hit on Friday that went uncalled. So are we to determine out of this that it is o.k. to charge someone from behind against the boards?

Might want to check your tape on the hit on MacWilliam at 1:30 left. Come back here and tell me that wasn't a penalty, and we will see where the safety problem comes from. That might have been the most dangerous hit of the weekend, and if it wasn't a sturdy guy like MacWilliam getting hit, it could have resulted in an injury. Your attention probably wasn't drawn to it because it is like we said, the announcers just call it a hard hit. If that same hit would have been made against a gopher player, the announcers would have been calling bloody murder.

The one on Blood is the one that Gorg said "that one wasn't as bad as the one by Kristo", and the one on MacWilliam is the one with about a minute or so left that LaPlanta called a hard hit that had MacWilliam limping trying to get off the ice.

I know of four, Parks, MacWilliam on Saturday, Blood and MacWilliam on Friday. One on Panzarella on Friday was close, but I would give the benefit of the doubt to the refs on that one.

The whole point of this thread isn't to talk about homerism, because we all know that exists everywhere. But when you act like safety is your number one goal and fail to see or address hits from behind when it involves the team you are announcing for, you aren't helping move the safety of the game forward. I know fans of both teams will see things two different ways on occasion, but when it comes to announcing on all sides, the more you can call a spade a spade, the more likely hits won't be excused. I think Andrew MacWilliam expressed it best when he was saying that hockey is a fast paced game and bad hits are going to happen because you don't know what the other guy is going to do and you don't always have time to react. From my point of view if you can remove the hits like Kristo's and the two that charged MacWilliam from behind, you will at least be making progress.

Is the NCAA taking their cues from the WCHA leadership. Something that happened last season! Really?

I have to say that at least LaPlanta isn't quite as over the top as Mazzocco, Woog or Gorg. He at least can appreciate and express some virtues of Sioux hockey. I just wish they would be a little more responsible in pointing out things like checking from behind on both sides. When you have Gorg saying that punching the gopher player in response to the check from behind was crossing the line, then not saying anything about Hansen's slash in response to Blood's perceived (I didn't see the replay) shooting the puck towards the gopher player during the course of play, just smacks of rose colored glasses. You wonder why some gopher fans who only get that point of view thrown at them can have a distorted view of some of these skirmishes.

I think Anthony LaPlanta talking about safety in hockey is kind of amusing. They talk about calling everything from behind, yet they refuse to condemn the hits when it comes from a Minnesota player. It becomes borderline when a Minnesota player does it, or they just call it a hard hit. The fact that they say they are starting to call it now, and show Kristo's hit from behind and the CC hit from behind on Rau, and fail to show the Minnesota hits from behind and those that went uncalled, only shows the reason that this issue isn't tackled correctly -- because it is only cheap or bad if the other team does it. There were plenty of hits from behind and knee to knee hits today in the action, but not once did I hear the word cheap or dirty. I guess they reserve that for teams that play against Minnesota, and since these players are all part of the Minnesota culture right now they won't stoop to that level. Until we get to the level where coaches say they deserved that penalty like Hakstol did with Kristo we are only going to see the same partisanship that we get with politics.

Zane Gothberg first star with 37 saves in 38 shots in a 5-1 win. Paul LaDue was 3rd star in the loss scoring the only goal for Lincoln with 6 shots.

I don't know about slim chance, because it all depends on what Florida thinks of Knight. If you are Florida do you risk him staying his Senior season and becoming a free agent. Would have thought slim that Hextall would have left last year, but Phoenix wanted him in their organization. My worry is that when it rains it pours, and this past year has been about as bad as it can get with injuries and defections. Hope the string of bad luck ends with guys coming back and a great outlook for next season, but who knows.

Could have a mass exodus with Kristo, Knight, Nelson, and MacWilliam, or could have guys with the attitude that everything with injuries went bad this year so it would be nice to see how things would go with a full squad. Most likely one or two leave, but one can hope.

But a lot of these speculators stayed at the Holiday Inn Express. Doesn't that count for something?

True, but there are some things that might make me refrain from using the term "first class" in my description of him. Saying that, I know Siouxnami said that kind of tongue in cheek.

I'll reserve judgement on that until I know what he did to get booted off the development team.

True, I think that what it does is illustrate the same kind of irrational thinking that the NCAA has in deeming UND hostile and abusive. I think pointing out absurdity with absurdity is the only way some people can see the hypocrisy.

He's on the same team as Keaton Thompson, so he has another couple years of high school unless he accelerates.

Just remembered, it was Ben Clymer.

Have you heard of Jerrod Reinholz, Peter Mueller, Sean(?) Roed, and Jim O'Brien. Then there was a defenseman whose name escapes me that left as well. Help me out here gopher fans, I think he wore # 22. Maybe there were a couple defensemen because I think Dan Welch went that route as well. Regardless, the sky is not falling, it happens.

Dom Izzo kept saying stuff like "What's it like to finally get a win against the Bison", and it's the first win over the Bison since 2004. They only played once since 2004, so it was very deceptive and kind of odd he would even bring that up when he knows last year was the first time they've met since then.

Just curious what you propose for Mr. Hansen and Mr. Alt?

Yeah, remember how the gopher faithful chirped about Hakstol being classless when he lost control and flipped the bird. I guess it is o.k. to actually use colorful words when people can hear you. Hakstol got suspended for a couple games. What did the U of M do to Lucia and Potulny? I only hope that Blood has another chance to settle things on the ice with Mr. Hansen when he is cutting across the middle. I think we learned another lesson this weekend, you will only get a two-minute minor, or no penalty at all for charging at somebody from behind. MacWilliam was the recipient of both those hits, and had it been another player not quite as sturdy as MacWilliam, who knows what the outcome would have been. Charging and hitting someone from behind should be a major as well. I find it curious that out of the four hits from behind that I saw, the only one that was called was late in the game on Saturday when the outcome had already been decided.

Both coming off of plays that were penalties, one called, one wasn't. For Blood to be suspended, they would need to create a policy that they didn't have in place. One would have thought that after the Finley incident, Hakstol's indescretion, Dasher George and Lucia's shouting match with Michigan Tech that there would be some precedent to have a policy in place, but as everybody knows they just kind of make it up as they go along as with Lamoureux's suspension for dropping his gloves.

They are no longer the Sioux, so that shouldn't be an issue.

He didn't go after Rau, He went after Ambroz, and yes the coaches should have used judgement after the altercation. I saw how angry Blood was, did Hakstol not see the same?

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