Color me surprised! I thought the Fighting Sioux were the only ones that started these things. I was watching this game and at the buzzer DU and UAA had a bit of a tussle, there were a couple of punches thrown.
According the two DU FSN homer announcers, UAA had a couple of players come off the bench to get involved in the fracas. There were definately a few more Seawolves than Pioneers on the ice. Then a couple of extra Pioneers ended up on the ice. It was a dust up but the refs should have seen it coming. It could be chalked up as an epic fail on their part.
Of course, true to form George Gwozdecky aka "the Dasher Troll" was out on the ice again last night. One of these days the league has got to suspend him for his bravo sierra, he is one the ice more than the players.
DU rallied with a Tyler Ruegsegger goal in the final minute of regulation to beat gritty Alaska-Anchorage 3-2 at Magness Arena. The win kept DU in front of Minnesota-Duluth atop the WCHA heading into a bye week. The Pios next play Jan. 22 at Wisconsin, but some players may have to serve a suspension.Here is the penalty minutes from the Box Score. Notice for the most part how the penalties even up, the UAA player Chris Crowell got a double game disqualification, you don't see that happen very often. Your typical WCHA officiating.
At the buzzer, a brawl broke out near the DU penalty box, with at least five fights unfolding before the eyes of WCHA commissioner Bruce McLeod. Some were minor grab-a-guy situations, but others heated up pretty good. It’s 11:02, past my deadline, and officials still haven’t ruled on penalties and probable suspensions. I hear DU’s Rhett Rakhshani and John Ryder are suspension candidates. I’m almost positive UAA’s Chris Crowell was one of two players to come off the bench and square up.
[Denver Post Hockey blog]
AKA-9 Lee Baldwin (2-Roughing) 20:00
AKA-10 Lee Baldwin (2-Roughing) 20:00
AKA-11 Lee Baldwin (5-GRASPING THE FACEMASK) 20:00
AKA-12 Jared Tuton (2-Roughing) 20:00
AKA-13 Jared Tuton (2-Roughing) 20:00
AKA-14 Jared Tuton (10-Game Disqualification) 20:00
AKA-15 Nick Haddad (2-Roughing) 20:00
AKA-16 Nick Haddad (2-Roughing) 20:00
AKA-17 Tommy Grant (2-Roughing) 20:00
AKA-18 Tommy Grant (2-Roughing) 20:00
AKA-19 Brad Gorham (2-Roughing) 20:00
AKA-20 Brad Gorham (2-Roughing) 20:00
AKA-21 Kevin Clark (2-Roughing) 20:00
AKA-22 Kevin Clark (2-Roughing) 20:00
AKA-23 Chris Crowell (10-Game Disqualification) 20:00
AKA-24 Chris Crowell (10-Game Disqualification) 20:00
AKA-25 Chris Crowell (2-Instigating) 20:00
DEN-6 John Lee (2-Roughing) 20:00
DEN-7 John Lee (2-Roughing) 20:00
DEN-8 William Wrenn (2-Roughing) 20:00
DEN-9 William Wrenn (2-Roughing) 20:00
DEN-10 William Wrenn (10-Game Disqualification) 20:00
DEN-11 John Ryder (10-Game Disqualification) 20:00
DEN-12 Joe Colborne (2-Roughing) 20:00
DEN-13 Joe Colborne (2-Roughing) 20:00
DEN-14 Patrick Wiercioch (2-Roughing) 20:00
DEN-15 Patrick Wiercioch (2-Roughing) 20:00
DEN-16 Rhett Rakhshani (2-Roughing) 20:00
DEN-17 Rhett Rakhshani (2-Roughing) 20:00
DEN-18 Tyler Ruegsegger (2-Roughing) 20:00
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End of Game
I was able to watch the third period of this game on FSN Rocky Mountain. Good stuff. For some reason, Anchorage was able to slow the game to a crawl and keep it a slugfest both nights, thus they came away with a road point and even more. It kind of shows the parity in the league - even the 9th place team can go to the 1st place team and hang with 'em.
ReplyDeleteDidn't Gwozdicky have a bunch of guys go after Finley and Chay at the end of a period.
ReplyDeleteThat led to Kyle Radke attempting to knock the ugly out of Vossberg.
Gwoz epitomizes classlessness.