The Whistler

TH said that that check was a trip, but it looked like the Gopher got his hip underneath TJ's hip and lifted him up that way. Good hit IMO. Most of my problems with Campion were not in the third period.

Did I or anyone say that we should have not had a single penalty called on us?

Why would that only show up in the games that Campion officiates?

According to college hockey stats Minnesota has had 165 power plays and only had 141 penalty kills. That's a differential of 24. I got to wondering how much of this is due to last nights referee, Jon Campion. Campions reffed 6 different games with the gophers with a pretty consistent result. Against Maine he called 8 on Maine and 7 on the Gophers. (1) Against Michigan State he called it even; 5 a side. (0) Against Michigan he called it in Minnesota's favor by 8 to 4. (4) Against Mankato he called the two nights in the Gophers favor by 7-3 and 10-5. (9) Last night against the Sioux he again called it in Minnesota by 12-7. (5) In only one game (Michigan State) did he call a game even, in no case did he call a penalty disadvantage for the Gophers. In the games that Campion didn't officiate the teams the Gophers played had 4.5% more penalties than the Gophs. In the games that Campion did officiate the Gopher's opponenets had 61% more calls made against them then went against the Gophers. Now I admit this may have a flaw in that two of the teams (Mankato and UND) take a lot of penalties. Still I think this is reason to express concern.

The locals know when the gophers are ready to fold?

If they cut down on the clutching and grabbing I'm fine by them. I'm not nuts about the design. I'd like us to wear the alternate jersey's at home sometime. How about bringing back the jerseys that we were wearing when Prpich whooped up on Peluso. Those were sharp.

What's his record against Holy Cross? Zing!

You'd think the Gophs would come in tight tomorrow night. Hopefully the Sioux can turn up their intensity.

I think just Gorden for getting punched out last week. Isn't anybody going to start a Sioux Sweep thread?

You certainly saw a lot on the TV, they had shots of the concourses and such you see a fair number of them. (Not just the cherry picked pictures in the arena.)

Maybe Johnson will throw his stick.

Question, does the fact that the Gophers are #1 help out more with the pairwise than merely beating a team above us?

Woog and Mazacko did a very classy post game.

Who would have guessed that Tony Lucia would be an excellent diver? I thought that both Duncan's and Fabian's tripping penalties were crap too. But I didn't think the AR should have called the check of Fabian in the crease either. The radio guys had a bad one go against the gophers in the first. Meanwhile in this period the guy playing Oshie has a wrestling hold on him behind the net and no call.

By the way if you're watching the gopher sports channel FSN, they are absolute crap with their replays. I've got TIVO so if it was on screen the first time I can do a replay, but the second time Lammy got hit it wasn't on screen and they never showed it.

According to the radio guys Lammy's been hit twice. No power play out of either. Kaip makes a hockey play and gets a penalty.

Woog and Mazacko never saw a penalty either.

I'd hate to be the guy to get him mad, really mad. Or maybe his Mom called him last night and told him it was ok to hit the other kids once in a while.

At last, an honest Gofer phan!

How about proper and fair officiating. (This is meant to justify my excuses should the unthinkable happen.)

Any chance the Gophers will actually show up?

Woogies the color guy. Makookoo is supposed to be the worst play by play guy ever. Some games I can even tolerate woogie.

The team lost the fans in the first half of the season. There are only 4 games left before the playoffs, probably not going to bring them bacck.

Don't ask, Don't tell, that's my philosophy.

I for one don't like the cowbell guy. I just don't get it.