Eaves not happy with the officating.

This was posted over on Siouxsports.com and this is interesting, because I told someone last weekend that it was almost like the refs were almost over calling penalties to the point of being silly, you know to make a point. It was almost like the league office is saying ok you S.O.B we will show you. You want penalties and the games called tighter we will call them tighter. I think while Eaves is sounding kind of whinny here I do think Mike has a point, there were a few call last week that were down right brutal. I remember watching the play and saying, you have got to be kidding me.

I also think Eaves is trying to get the advantage in this weeks series with the Fighting Sioux with a little gamesmanship.

I guess the fans are also not happy with the officiating this season so far.

GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- It was no secret that there were going to be more penalties called in college hockey this season, what with the emphasis on punishing crimes that previously went without a whistle.

Wisconsin Badgers coach Mike Eaves was one of those who said the game would be better if players didn't have to fight through holding and interference -- a change the NHL had already successfully made, albeit with growing pains.

Eaves didn't know the pains at his level would be quite like this.

As the Badgers open a Western Collegiate Hockey Association series at North Dakota Friday, they are no different than any other college hockey team -- trying to adjust to the new way that things are being done.

But Eaves is concerned that referees, in an effort to push the NCAA rules emphasis, have gone a little overboard.

He sent WCHA supervisor of officials Greg Shepherd a series of video clips from last weekend's series against Minnesota to illustrate his concerns about the officiating.