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Guys that grab their face when they have a cage on grind my gears. Neck, I can see if hit as no padding(didn't hit neck in this case). Face doesn't even get touched.

The radio crew is surprised and still confused what they were looking at.

MidcoSN has improved greatly from where they were when it was just MC23. Comcast owns 49% of them. I think they have dreams of being similar to a Comcast Sports Net. They recently took over some areas in Kansas and I have heard have an additional Midco Sports Net Kansas feed. Not sure if we can get that in the Dakota's as I have never looked, just what I have seen on MidcoSN website.

Heinert(spelling?) isn't a UND alumni, or UND staff. I am not sure about our color commentator, but having more neutral guys is good in my opinion. I think he even stated he never called many hockey games before coming to Grand Forks?

Ah my bad. I read it that way now. I though it read "that wouldn't be a penalty even in mites". Which is different. There are not alot of penalty in mites, or I hope not.

I would think at every level that would be atleast a 2. Wasn't incidental. It was avoidable, he didn't try to avoid it, he went towards Plant and not towards the puck which was the other direction. It was a dumb play by Smith.

That is on Smith though, he turns just a bit to his right to line him up. Completely avoidable. Don't know if I agree with major and game though. Is there a NCAA rule for automatic 5 for injury?

Smith's Hit from the blog

Just a heads up I believe the game is on Dish as well. Everything I keep seeing online said only Direct-TV had it in the viewing area. But It is on Dish. 412 subchannel

you are correct, I was wrong. Still lower than Fargo,. Ill start to worry if they try to do it again within the next few years, if it stops at this for atleast the 15-20 years, then I'd say it be okay. People have been acting like it was going up 50% and going to skyrocket if it was voted yes.

intersting that I found on the site that Fargo is 7.5%. Grand Forks will move up to 6.755 instead of 6.75. Yet now everyone will avoid Grand Forks because they raised taxes super high. I even heard arguments recently saying they will just go to Fargo where sales tax is lower, which is incorrect.

Presale has already been going on for last week, today they opened remaining tickets back up to all NDCC members to buy unlimited tickets when previous days they were restricted. This presale date runs through the 10th. According to the NDCC website, public on-sale info follows:

agreed by wording it should've been a 2 min tripping call.

if they were the exact same play you can argue inconsistency. Here when they have the rules supporting them on both calls, hard to argue. The inconsistency that could be argued is that the was NO penalty called on UW, when he did commit the infraction, even if the puck is already gone. Even in USA Hockey this is ruling unless the defending player comes up with possession and control of the puck, which they did not, they just negated the penalty shot by taking away UND possession and control.

It is small wording that make a big difference sometimes. Read the USA Rulebook casebook, that isn't consistently black and white, alot of gray.

You can argue that it should've been atleast a 2min though as he still took his feet out. However, by rule I agree no Penalty shot, which is disappointing.

The NCAA rulebook does say that for a penalty shot to be called the player must be in possession and control of the puck WHEN fouled. Unfortunately they knocked the puck away before taking his feet out. I think same thing can be argued on first goal, but it appeared he wrapped him up before touching the puck. Lot easier to watch both puck and infraction when they both happen on the ice, instead of one low and one high.

I want a penalty shot to be called there, and think that they should've keep the UW one as just a 2min instead of the penalty shot that they awarded after convening; however, the rules book favor UW in these situations.

From USA Hockey Rule Book: (a) A minor or major penalty shall be assessed under this rule for any of the actions described above. (Note) However, no penalty shall be assessed under this rule if, in the opinion of the Referee, the player was clearly hook-checking or poke-checking the puck for the purpose of gaining possession. You can argue the fact about purpose of gaining possssion, but at that point it then changes to where the player no longer had possession and control when the penalty occured, that can be argued to be a 2min penalty, but in USA Hockey that is not a penalty shot. Now in NCAA i'm sure there is similar wording somewhere, but it isn't right under tripping like it is on the USA Hockey rulebook site.

Did they call Bowen for holding or tripping? That changes it, they can say hold happened before he played the puck.

If he didn't get the puck first, its a penalty shot. Full speed I thought it should've been. Replay show he got the puck....sucks

From TV coverage before going to that commercial, Wolanin looked to be getting up a little slow after being thrown over Thome by UW.

Once he went behind the the attacker it was a "clear" breakaway, NCAA defines breakaway as no one between attacker and goaltender. There was none.

Found this just now looking up rules on NCAA website. 25.6 Penalty Shot – A penalty shot is designed to restore a scoring opportunity which was lost as a result of a foul being committed by the offending team, based on the parameters set out in these rules. There are four (4) specific conditions that must be met in order for the Referee to award a penalty shot for a player being fouled from behind. They are: • The infraction must occur outside of the puck carrier’s defensive zone; • The infraction must have been committed from behind; • The player in possession and control (or, in the judgment of the Referee, clearly would have obtained possession and control of the puck) must have been denied a reasonable chance to score (the fact that he got a shot off does not automatically eliminate this play from the penalty shot consideration criteria. If the foul was from behind and he was denied a “more” reasonable scoring opportunity due to the foul, then the penalty shot should be awarded); • The player in possession and control (or, in the judgment of the Referee, clearly would have obtained possession and control of the puck) must have had no opposing player between himself and the goalkeeper. 25.7 Results - If the inf

Just turned the game back on again and saw celebration and heard horn....I got tricked by replay both nights thinking UW scored right away in the period.