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One way of saying dumb azz.

Boys played good hockey until about half way through the third, when it got ragged. Being short probably contributed to that. They came out forechecking and clearing their own zone very well.

Looks like you've learned from DiPietro. That said, we sure waste a lot of time here biotching about refs, me included. Gets old, though, and changes nothing.

Really like the way Wolanin kept his cool after being mugged.

Agree

Boys forechecking well. Have to think neither coach is comfortable with the amount of time and space the skaters are getting.

Have to see it again, cb, but it didn't look like a dive to me.

Nope. Just a dumb move by Wolanin.

You must have mentioned it some time in the past, sprig.

That hurts. Doug

Well, a guy named Overbo struck me out once. Is that close enough?

Can we at least agree that Crosbyites are strange?

I don't know: maybe mens hockey isn't such a good idea. Times are changing and everything.

Maybe it's just loyalty, but doesn't Wilbur deserve some consideration in net? He didn't make it to the next level, but he's as offensive as he!!. Plus, we need a Minoter, and neither of the Morellis are on this team yet.

I had thought about Cahoon earlier. Class act as a person and fine captain. From that era, Alan Hangsleben has to be in the mix for defensemen. Big hitter in a more physical era with a huge offensive upside. Played with the Whalers, I believe.

I'm here to tell you those people are under cover everywhere. gfhockey is Don Adam (or his grandson--don't remember which).

And I'll bet he is playing defense as well.

That Union team was REALLY good. The title game was more of a beatdown than a game. That it happened to UMinn made it pretty sweet for us NoDaks.

I had some of those thoughts as well. From the team's perspective, the story here is that the whole mess could all have been avoided if he'd played smart. Not even real smart: average smart.

Looks to me like it was an easy call on the minor and a dumb call on the major. In either case, Smith was playing extremely dumb hockey to put his team a man down (for even two minutes) against that power play. Can't control the refs, but you can control yourself.

yeah. I tend to look at his situation and think we were lucky to get him for one, rather than regret we did not get him for two.

Greg Johnson cannot be left off this team.

That's right. There are bad calls in every sport at every level of play. Learning to deal with them without letting it affect your play is part of the process for everybody. Some do it well, some do not. When I had kids in youth sports, you could just watch how parents reacted in the stands and figure out which players would be able to deal with bad calls without letting them affect the team. We have good kids, and good coaches. They will learn from this and put it behind them rather than hold on to it.

It will be interesting to see what the coaches have planned this period. Denver controlled play quite a bit that period.

Maybe so, but it did not cost us a goal. Unless you consider what might have happened during the balance of the major.