Wayne State Postgame (Sunday)

[scoop85]

I did not see the game (I made the bright decision to watch the Giants pull one of the all-time choke jobs :-(), but good to see a win here.  The PK was obviously better, but we obviously need to improve on the PP (1 for 10 won't cut it).

[calgARI '07]

Pretty brutal performance.  Some guys played better than last year while others still played in neutral.  Liked Scali a lot.  Their goalie made some big saves in the first period.

[ebilmes]

Our play was somewhat better than the way we played last night. Davenport wasn't seriously challenged, but made the saves when he had to and it should definitely help his confidence to have the shutout.

I didn't notice Scali very much, but Kindret was all over the ice on his shifts and seemed to really enjoy getting some ice time.

Kill and PP were improved.

A horrible weekend in that we split with a team we should have walked all over, but I'd rather end with the win than have it be the other way around.

Edit: Oh, and there was no one there.

[mttgrmm]

i've never posted before (but read frequently) but here are my thoughts on the game:

I didn't notice Scali on the ice very much, but there were two big plays he had that I definitely noticed.  He had a very nice drive with space (not quite a breakaway I don't think) in the first period when the WS keeper made a very nice save.  He also had a very nice 2 on 1 in the third that was knocked away by a WS defenseman who was sliding wildly swinging his stick.  Scali didn't seem to do anything amazing on either play, but both were good opportunities and he was there both times, maybe that says enough.

I was puzzled that Coach went back to Davenport in net, I figured maybe sticking with Scrivens who had seen much more of WS on Saturday might make some sense.  Davenport looked confident but had 2 VERY close calls that both caught the post  (one in 2nd, one in 3rd) that could have very easily gone the other way.  That being said, it's hard to fault a shutout.

On the crowd: I usually sit in F/G somewhere over there but was in A for both these games.  A and B seemed very quiet during both games.  During the third period yesterday there were lots of LGR chants started by the band and others in A and barely anyone in either A or B joined in.  Granted we weren't playing well and were losing, but kinda disappointing I thought.  

On the ushers: Today I was in A screaming for most of the third at Hooper in net for WS and was told by an usher that one of (Fire) Andy's minions had instructed her to tell me to tone it down some or she would have to toss me.  I didn't use profanity, say anything racially or otherwise offensive, it was the usual heckling.  She apologized for it after the game and said she wouldn't have tossed me but she was specifically instructed by "one of [Fire] Andy's crew."

[Dafatone]

One of my friends from A visited me in D for the 2nd period.  He yelled Hooper's name a bunch, and then almost got tossed by the usher.  Ugh.

[redhair34]

I thought it was hard not to notice Scali.  In addition to what was already said, he drew two Wayne State penalites.  I'll be disappointed if he doesn't stay in the lineup.

[redheadfanatic]

anyone know who the 3 stars from WHCU were?   I got to the car too late

[Rosey]

Does anyone have a "Fire Andy" page up?  If so, we can all link to it in our posts here and signatures at other sites and see if it will work as a google bomb.

Kyle

[ebilmes]

[quote mttgrmm]On the ushers: Today I was in A screaming for most of the third at Hooper in net for WS and was told by an usher that one of (Fire) Andy's minions had instructed her to tell me to tone it down some or she would have to toss me.  I didn't use profanity, say anything racially or otherwise offensive, it was the usual heckling.  She apologized for it after the game and said she wouldn't have tossed me but she was specifically instructed by "one of [Fire] Andy's crew."[/quote]

I enjoyed listening to you and the other guy in A who was shouting at Hooper. Definitely nothing offensive there, IMO.

I found several times that the more heavyset female usher on A/B aisle was just standing in the aisle, glaring at me during some of the cheers. As others have said, this is quite distracting. You feel an obligation to clearly mouth the sanitized words so you don't get thrown out.

[redhair34]

[quote ebilmes]
I found several times that the more heavyset female usher on A/B aisle was just standing in the aisle, glaring at me during some of the cheers. As others have said, this is quite distracting. You feel an obligation to clearly mouth the sanitized words so you don't get thrown out.[/quote]

I think this quote by an usher uttered right before the 3rd period sums it all up.

"I wish the crowd was like this every game."  I assume he meant this quiet and "well behaved."

[MB]

Good job Grimey.  I stood next to him for both games, and we were very, very loud.  "Ugly vest," "go back to Detroit," etc...  I think the ushers were eyeing us both nights because the crowd was very sparse due to the holiday weekend and we were easy targets.  Anyway, (fire) Andy has slowly drained the fun out of being in the crowd.  It's fair that we're not allowed to make racial slurs, or swearing, that's understandable.  But being loud and creative?  C'mon!

On the game: Scali made two really nice plays on the, what it seemed, two times he was on the ice.  McCutcheon really wanted goals, and played really well while he was on the ice.  We looked a lot better today, but still, our guys seem to be everywhere but where the puck is.  There were quite a few plays that had the guys been in position would have opened up some quality scoring opportunities.  But that's a generaic complaint, I think every team does it, so singling out our guys probably isn't fair.

A win's a win, so let's take it and hope that Schafer can light a fire under these guys for this weekend.

[bandrews37]

[quote MB]Anyway, (fire) Andy has slowly drained the fun out of being in the crowd.  It's fair that we're not allowed to make racial slurs, or swearing, that's understandable.  But being loud and creative?  C'mon![/quote]

I'm going to politely disagree. Our crowd isn't particularly creative - every chant/cheer is a derivative of "you suck" and frankly, I find it boring and have tuned out most of what the student sections are yelling. And most of the chants/cheers are the same or variations of things done at other schools (the newspapers before the game? sending an opponent to the penalty box? seen that at close to two dozen rinks around the country). And while Lynah may or may not have been where those things started, they're not exactly creative or innovative. With things like that going on elsewhere, they're not special or unique here, thus losing any effect they might have.

You can be loud and into the game and affect the other team without being idiots about it. That's apparently a foreign concept to many people here.

[imafrshmn]

ANyone know why Mugford and Barlow were out, if it's something specific?

[bandrews37]

Healthy scratches.

[redhair34]

[quote imafrshmn]ANyone know why Mugford and Barlow were out, if it's something specific?[/quote]

They were benched for taking unwise penalties.