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How about idiotic? How about this is an example of why the WCHA might need a new leader. Maybe one who will review the officiating, and look for ways to improve it. Handyman will think this is another example of Sioux fans who complain, but if we got better quality, more consistent referring they'd save bandwidth on other fan sites including GPL. The quality of the game would improve in the WCHA, and maybe, just maybe, Bina incidents wouldn't happen.

That's exactly what I was thinking. If it's obvious the player turned in order to draw the penalty, then diving would be a good penalty to call. However, the difficulty there is the natural inclination to turn your back to danger to protect your "vitals" (eyes, chest, mouth, etc). Some of that turning HAS to be a natural reaction to danger, and not just an attempt to draw a larger penalty. Me? I would like to see all CFB called as they are right now. But I'd like the refs to have the latitude to decide whether this was just less serious or more serious hit or even intent to injure type penalty. Given that, then I think the league should have the ability to tack on a 1 or 2+ game suspension to the aggregious penalties after the game. If a coach thinks his player was attacked and the ref didn't give the higher, more proper sanction, then the coach sends a tape to the league who can decide to tack on more to that player if they agree.

Schools Face Academic Sanctions

Yes, it's great to read/listen to Hak because we're getting a little bit more of the "unvarnished truth". (where is that guy, anyway?)

That's one of the best things posted on this site in a few months, maybe more.

That's one heck of a deal!

HAHA! Wouldn't be surprised if they sponsored those eventually too. Pretty much everything else is sponsored.

Then the NCAA could adopt it as the official car of their championships.

This is great for humor, and for Greene's reputation. But I'm still in awe over what a close call this was for him.

Watching 2 chicks slap each other around...now THAT'S entertainment!

He's missing Jan Ganglehoff to help him with that stuff.

Greene should get a Jeep grill tatooed on his chest.

Wow. Thank God he's ok. That's as close a call as you can have.

I appreciate your view of the situation and your unimpeachable optimism at all times, NDH, but they showed a nice replay of the Toews penalty on tv from a camera right in the corner where it happened and Toews absolutely meant to trip the guy. I hate to say it, but it was just a dumb play on his part. The only time this year I can say that, which isn't bad for a freshman, but thems the facts.

Mean streak? Can't say I've seen that from him at all.

Probably not in the cards for me this weekend but I'll look for you if I am.

If the Sioux are televised on FSSN in GF they have always been on at Sensers to my knowledge. I've never showed up there only to find out it's not on, though I don't go all the time. I don't want to speak for this weekend, but I'd say the chances are excellent.

Yes, we'll need to take care of business then. But they have helped us out to this point.

Sorry, Ike. I've seen way too many bad performances at Senser's vs good. I headed down for the last 2 periods and for a while it looked like I wouldn't jinx anything, but then the 3rd period happened. I don't recall when things started to change in the 3rd period, but it seemed like Denver was all over the Sioux and the Sioux looked a little tired and played without an edge for most of the time. Now maybe this happened after Toews horrible tripping penalty, or maybe it had started earlier and that just helped Denver out. Regardless, though the Sioux and the refs put the Sioux at a penalty disadvantage, I didn't think the Sioux played very well at all down the stretch. Odd man rush after odd man rush......Maybe altitude and fatigue played a role in that 3rd period as well. Toews tripping penalty has already been adequately discussed. A terrible decision by the youngster that marred an outstanding weekend for him. I'm not sure if that really turned the tide or not, however. It might just have contributed. The call against Lee was horrible. No wonder the guy won't hit anybody. He finally takes the body on a legit body check and puts his guy down at center ice and get's called for holding? Unreal how bad that one was. Awesome deflection by Stastny on DU's 3rd goal. How he managed to deflect it from center on top of the crease into the upper right corner was a thing of beauty. Parise's 4th goal against was stunning. I have no clue what he was doing and I suspect he didn't either. If it's true that he pulled himself after his last goal I'm not surprised. He seemed to be completely off kilter and allowed plenty of net for that shot to go in. He's been so good it's hard to be critical. Hopefully he's back on for his next game. However, the Sioux allowed WAY too many chances against Parise, and if he had been great, I don't know if the outcome would have been very different. I didn't see the first 2 goals, so don't know about those. REALLY bothers me that we always allow DU satisfaction in the end. They get to 2nd our seasons 2 years in a row, and this year we get Friday's game, and get a bit chippy, and they come back and take the Sat game in a big way and get to walk off with their smug smiles on their faces. Man, that sucks.

Again, I think we have a situation where there are 2 or 3 top candidates who have outdistanced themselves from their peers. Arguments can be made for those top couple on who should be the final choice. I'd love to see Oshie or even Toews win but there's no way to dispute that Kessel's points in conference are 50% greater than Oshie's based on 7NT's post. Points scored are a more objective measure than whether someone backchecks or plays "both ends" or not. And how many of us have watched Kessel of late to know how much worse he does than Oshie or Toews in that respect? How do you balance 10 more assists vs. a deficiency in his own end? Is he so bad that Oshie can make up for 10 assists? Or is Oshie so good in other aspects of the game that he could make up a 15 assists deficit? Does Kessel do anything that Oshie does not? I'm not making the case that Kessel SHOULD win over Oshie, but if he does, I find it hard to be critical of the choice as well. He's had a very good season, and is a worthy candidate. Like others have said, I don't know that we would trade our guys for Kessel, but that doesn't mean he's not a deserving player too.

How close to death was Robbie Bina?

Big kiss on the lips to Mankato for helping us out 2 weeks in a row. I hate them, so it's a love/hate thing for me.

I love the way you phrased that!

One of the many reasons it's best that some of us are posters, and not players.