The Whistler

Pre-Donny. Wooger got him fired. I have a tape of the game and it was the right call. Mike Schmitt was looking the wrong way when the hit happened so the AR did what he was supposed to do. It was a charge/boarding no doubt about it.

Looks like Goepfert is still struggling. He gave up 3 last Friday. 4 (or three I didn't see a replay of the disallowed goal) on Saturday (although Mason only allowed two to be counted). Five last night (although they would have taken great saves to hold that down). Can we count on six tonight.

Oh, now you did it.

I would agree that that last minute stuff should count against the next game. Otherwise you're encouraging stuff at the end of the game. Case in point would be the incident at the end of the overtime Saturday. If the guy Duncan (goon) went after threw a punch to end the game he should sit the next game. If he didn't then Duncan should have. That'd end that stuff right away.

You're exactly right and I think a good case could be made with the rulebook that that should have been a penalty shot. Porter had much more speed than the SCSU player and would have had a break-a-way. But....That's not the way it's called. The fact that you might call it differently at the end of the game is a good idea perhaps, but that'd call for a major rule change which I don't see happening. The fact of the matter is that we need to improve the officiating of the rules we have before we get too involved in changing the rules.

I'll agree that some games he is informative. Other games he's not. Masucko (interesting spelling) is the worst. My daughter knows more about hockey then he does. (For one thing I've indoctrinated her in the the facts of Gopher suckage).

The problem is too many people forget why we are at war and even the fact that we are at war. I guess the Ralph, (nor this board) is the place to make a political statement. Still it was National Guard weekend so it doesn't seem out of line to me.

When Lammy get's back look at him to be sharing responsibilities until one goaltender definitely shows themselves the one. "There can only be one!"

Do you think that talking about "phantom assists" kept Panzer from receiving the Hobey?

In Jeff Panzer's year they talked about "phantom assists" paddiing his point total. Then in one home game they did he had his smoking gun up on the screen. The fact of the matter is Panzer did this nifty little jab that got the puck to his teammate who scored the goal. (Akin to a shovel pass in football). Even after he realized that Panzer did chip the puck, he still tried to hold his ground that that wasn't a good assist. The fact is without Jeff's play there's no goal. How is that a sloppy assist? Woog's an idiot most of the time.

I was being facetious, (yeah me). A friend that lives down there now said that their outgoing president actually listed his anti-Sioux campaign in his career accomplishments. I doubt he listed the anti-Semitic activities that happened at HIS school under HIS administration.

Why do they hate indian names? How long have they been racist?

YOU'RE WRONG! YOU'RE ALL WRONG!

Actually we had six skaters out there and the goalie. Greico figured it out and was coming off when they gave (porter I think) a chance to leave the ice. That delay IMO led the AR to kick our #1 face off guy out of the circle. Glad you brought it up, as it appears that they were willing to punish us for too many men but not the opposing team. Can't have a sweep. Not a bad idea but I doubt it will happen.

Am I the only one who doesn't like the cowbell guy?

Since the call on the ice was goal then it should have counted. Officiating in the WCHA is NOT going to improve until Sheppard gets canned.

Fandom is something that has to grow and it will if given the right conditions. One thing I remeber from the olden days is the pre-faceoff clapping. You'd start clapping real slow and slowly pick up the pace. The idea would be to be clapping as fast as possible when the puck was dropped. If they threw someone out you usually had to start over.

Another thing that ticked my off was Tim Hennesey going on about Geopfert's great game. By my count four pucks got behind him. Certainly the quick whistle was the only thing that saved him from allowing 3.

Thoughts on the game. The goal that didn't count that REALLY stung was the quick whistle in the first period. That was a goal, except Mason couldn't keep track of the puck. Of course by rule the goal can't count, I know that. The WCHA doesn't allow "controversial" calls to be shown on the jumbo-tron. To me that must really show a total lack of faith in their officials. I haven't seen the video of the disallowed 3rd period goal. I haven't seen a replay of the last second drag down of Chris Porter. Maybe they were good calls, but the league doesn't have the confidence that their highly paid official got it right. If they don't have the confidence in their officials, why should I? All in all it was a good fast up and down game. Too bad about the cloud it ended on. I'm betting that Mason was checking the clock at the last second rather than trying to double check his non-penalty shot call. Did anyone see what got Mean Ryan Duncan so mad about. A guy next to me said he got a stick to the head.

Two examples from tonight in the first period. We had just had a great power play and the clock stopped at 14:00. (I think, it was for sure 00). The crowd started to get into a cheer and they turned up the volume on the "Respect the Sioux" video. Shut the crowd right down. Later with about 3 minutes left and we had I think just killed off a power play. The crowd started to get into it and they cranked up the commercial that Dan Hammer is in. Pretty much takes the crowd out of the game. I want to watch the game, so let's do the cheer thing during the breaks.

Farce, did you think that the guy Porter hooked embellished it? I agree with you that Porter should never have given the ref the option of calling that.

Didn't the NCAA rules video this year make it clear that you can call a dive without an underlying penalty? You're exactly right if they don't call the dive people are going to keep diving. (I thought Porter's last penalty was an embellishment. It's clear that Porter hooked him but I didn't think he was pulled down. It should have been a two-way penalty IMO). The other related problem is if you don't dive they don't call the hook. My example would be the time in the second period that Brian Lee took the puck from the behind the net into the offensive zone. He was hooked several times along the way. It looked like when he crossed the offensive blue line that his upperbody was twisted 90 degree's from the hook. Lee didn't fall and there was no call. Just for discussion purposes of course. This was one of the better officiated games IMHO. (And we won the game)

The first period wasn't very good. While the team recovered the fans never did.

The meanest chant is "It's all your fault," not sieve. As a parent I can't say I'm happy with the vulgarity but when I have to opportunity to bring the kids I'll do so. I don't think it will leave any scars. There's been a couple times the kids have asked what the chant was. I just make something up.

That's certainly a good point about his versitility. My reasoning is that playing forward he can really use his speed and quickness. Those are assets that don't show on every shift when you're on the blue line. You'd think that with his size he's a great candidate to stick around for all four years. The talents certainly there for the NHL.