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Lots of people don't understand what constitutes a shot on goal. Nobody from the media counts shots on goal. The stats crew provided by UND does that.

The goal judges don't count the shots on goal. That's done up in the press box.

Not true. If either of the ARs or the goal judge had said that they had a good look at it and they didn't think the puck went in, Mason could have waved it off.

When you have one foot in the grave, you see everything with much greater clarity. Interestingly enough, Blais said on the radio this morning that the WCHA would have video review next season. The league will buy the equipment to do it. Can't disagree with that.

As long as you didn't get it to help the Sioux during the playoffs, I can forgive you.

We had the WDAZ broadcast on in the press box. They showed the the replay from directly above several times in slow motion. It looked as if the puck hit the crossbar near the corner, deflected slightly downward, hit the post and bounced out. Nobody in the press box thought it was a goal. We were surprised when Mason said it was. The reason the puck wasn't dropped immediately was because Mason talked to the goal judge and the ARs, which he is allowed to do. Video replays are not used during the regular season. If they were, I am confident that the goal would have been waved off.

He wouldn't. As I said earlier, the coaches and players have no say in the process and that's the way it shoud be.

Very true, especially in a tie game. Another reason we're having this discussion is because we know that UND went on to score three more goals. With 20-20 hindsight, it's easy to say that we should have insisted that Fuher's goal not count. But if the Sioux had won 2-1, would people be so eager to give away the game-winning goal?

I agree with you that it wasn't good for the momentum of the game to swing based on a non-goal. However, the players, coaches and officials have to stick to the rules. Mason followed the procedure outlined in the rules, which does not include getting input from players and coaches. Unfortunately, he had to make a decision and he made the wrong one.

Yes, Mason could have waved off the goal if the goal judge or the ARs had told him that the puck hadn't gone in and he felt they had a better view of it than he did. But if you read the USCHO recap, you'll see that's not what happened. Mason apparently was the only one of the officials who had a good view of it. Neither the ARs nor the goal judge could tell him that his intial call was wrong. Therefore, for lack of evidence to the contray, his call stood.

Under the rules, the coaches have no say in it. It's the referee's call to make. In making the decision, he can only talk to the goal judge and the ARs. The replay can't be considered in the referee's decision.

I've uploaded some more of my photos from the Friday night MacNaughton Cup presentation. They can be viewed as a SiouxSports.com photo gallery.

I stopped reading when I hit the part about the growing gap between the "haves and have nots."

If anyone's interested, the USCHO recap of Saturday night's UND-MTU game has finally been posted.

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It's to hide the foil.

Jeez, I'm not that old.

Ask and you shall receive! This is the small version just to give you an idea of how it looks. Get the large (1024x768) high-res version here. If anyone needs smaller sizes than that, let me know and I'll scale it down to 800x600 and 640x480.

The USCHO game recap is now posted. Check out the photo of Zach with the cup.

I resemble that remark.

Thanks. I owe it all to the wonders of digital photogrphy.

Congratulations Fighting Sioux!

Anyone who reads my posts knows that I am not without fault in that area. Actually, I like your version of the saying better. Now let's go win a 40-pound cup!

If you're going to quote Tommiejo/GATOR, at least get it right.

But your knowledge of Cold War era Soviet goalies is quite impressive.