Maybe it was having seats too close to the ice or maybe the refs finally read the rules book. The SCSU and UM game last night actually was reffed exceptionally well, in my opinion. It could also be that I don't have my green Sioux glass on, or the fact that I wasn't drinking (I had to drive us home after the game). I just hope that the reffing is like that the rest of the play-offs, they got most of the calls right. What suprised my was that both teams had 5x3 power plays, I can hardly recall more than once that happened for UND in a game.
I wonder if SCSU was laying off, only wanting to play one game this weekend and rest up for the NCAA tourney... I was also suprised at the lack of physical play, for a while I thought I was watching the womens game, no checking. I think I could count the number of hits on one hand. The only good hit was when Bickel got taken hard into the end boards in the 3rd period. I didn't notice any fatigue factor on the side of the Gophers, we will see if they show any signs of fatigue on Friday night versus the Tigers.
On a side note, after leaving the X and going back to the hotel, it is hard to understand a city of more than a couple million people that so many restuarants close at 10pm, and so do the liquor stores, whats up with that!
I'm with you on the officiating. I haven't seen all that many WCHA games this year, but I saw how they called the Minn/Minn St games last weekend. I thought the Minn/St. Cloud game was very well called. (And I also thought the officiating in the NoDak game was good).
ReplyDeleteIf we get a WCHA ref in the tourney, I'm hoping he calls it like that :)