The Whistler
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Plus, he knows the game of hockey.
If you want to ridicule some commentator, look right next to him at Frank Masucko. That guy is simply the worst.
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).
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i thought the video was ok, good idea but i was not comfortable with the foortage of the plane hitting the tower, i think that it would have been better without that
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.
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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!"
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Woog is awesome. In 2002 when he did the little Olympic Run from Marriucci to REA with a feather duster promo? Comedy Gold!
Why are there so many Sioux fans who can't laugh when UND is teased?
Do you think that talking about "phantom assists" kept Panzer from receiving the Hobey?
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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.
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they have been on their little bandwagon ant-sioux for years now. i went there for a game 3 years back and it was a joke what they let people do with signs and so forth. wasnt it 5 years back or so when blais almost took the team off the ice because they didnt want the sioux to use their jerseys and there were a bunch of protesters or something like that in the arena? anyone recall this? what a joke
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.
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I am positive that the photographer has nothing to do with this. It is the office of the SID that maintains the website.
Why do they hate indian names? How long have they been racist?
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I like him
YOU'RE WRONG! YOU'RE ALL WRONG!
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i only got to catch the ot last night on webcast....did toews get booted from the faceoff at the very end when they were trying to get the right players out?? and why the hell did scsu have 5 players out there plus the goalie?? obviously didnt effect it but there had to be at least a minor penalty on that take down!! and porter was not in the clear so i dont believe it should have been a penalty shot but of course at the end in the heat of the moment hak and the boys had to argue for one with only a second left... good weekend. grieco is solid and very young, 17, wow. good 3 points and great PK in OT!!
and a 4-1-1 in wcha play is a great start. 9 points on top right now is very good. should make for some great practice battles with phil and grieco now that he has proven he can play in this league with a VERY good weekend vs the huskies.
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.
Maybe they should specifically call out that a penalty shot be awarded when a penalty prevents a scoring opportunity and not enough time remains on the game clock to allow for a reasonable power play opportunity. Say less than twenty or thirty seconds.Not a bad idea but I doubt it will happen.
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One more thing......they played the cowbell guy on the big screen in slow motion, it was hilarious.
Am I the only one who doesn't like the cowbell guy?
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The Toews non-goal, probably right, but inconclusive in the replay, although you could certainly see Toews kick the puck, you just couldn't tell if he touched the puck again with his stick or not. He did put his stick in there where the puck had to be sliding next to Goepfert's pad, and may well have made contact with it. Toews is the only one with any chance of knowing for sure, none of us looking at the replay, including Mason, has a clue.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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They aren't dives if the official doesn't call it. WCHA doesn't call diving as a stand alone penalty. This is nothing new. Expect more diving tonight from SCSU. No, not saying SCSU is necessarily that cheap, but if you figure out you can dive and get away with it, what's to make you stop?
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)
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What's with the quiet crowd. Could they play some music or do something to get the crowd into the game?The first period wasn't very good. While the team recovered the fans never did.
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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.
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I kinda like the fact that Genoway seems to be just as good at forward as he is a defense. This guy can truly be a lifesaver in several situations such as:
1. Injury relief at any position save goaltender.
2. Taking up the slack should a player get ejected for some reason.
I don't know about his lockerroom behavior, but in 2 to 3 seasons, I wonder if he'll be wearing a letter on his jersey?
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.
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I like Genoway on the forward line better.
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First a bit of history. When we moved from the old Barn to the Winter Sports building the talk was that it was too fancy and the fans were different. Sound familiar.
In the early 80's the fans were louder than they were in the late 90's. (in my opinion of course).
That gets to my suggestion. Prior to Ralph Englestads original gift of $5,000,000 the noise came from the fans. Some of the first money spent from the 5 million was a sound system. Starting then the PA would do their best to drown out the fans.
Now in games there's never a chance for the crowd to get into it. The students start a cheer and the bozo on the PA starts some announcement that nobody gives a rip over. In the Maine series the fans were starting to get on Don Adam a bit and the PA guy drowned out the fans.
Somebody mentioned that they'd like to get the season ticket holders involved in the cheers. It takes a while for the student volume to get up so the season ticket holders can figure out what the chant is. By the time I figure it out (admittedly I'm slow) it's usually too late.
My solution is for the guys running the sound system to pick their spots. If the fans aren't going yet, play a song. Drop most of the announcements, nobody gives a rip anyway.
As far as the band, we love them but they gotta pick their spot too. We didn't buy that scholarship to listen to the band.
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I can see us ranked where we are. Our wins were against Wisconsin (great) and against two other teams. Our wins in Mankato were not confidence inspiring.
On the other hand next week after our shut-out sweep of SCSU we should shoot up in the poll.
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Or maybe a angry, embittered rant thread about how these polls are bs and why do they even have them in the first place?
I'm waiting........
Sioux vs. Huskies
in Men's Hockey
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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.