Congradulations on the Minnesota Referees win !!!

[Dpperk29]

you don't neccesarily have to bust ass to get it. but if you go for a change without making an attempt to play it, or flat out stop, they will wave it everytime

[tvset]

[Q]tvset Wrote:

 This was the most biased job of calling a game I've seen all season ..............
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The Big Red was the least penalized team in the ECACHL, So why was it the most penalized team in the play-offs ??

One simple answer : TO TAKE THEM OUT OF THEIR GAME SO THE OTHER TEAMS HAD A CHANCE !!!!!

[DisplacedCornellian]

[Q]tvset Wrote:

 [Q2]tvset Wrote:

 This was the most biased job of calling a game I've seen all season ..............
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The Big Red was the least penalized team in the ECACHL, So why was it the most penalized team in the play-offs ??

One simple answer : TO TAKE THEM OUT OF THEIR GAME SO THE OTHER TEAMS HAD A CHANCE !!!!!

[/q]

Somebody has his tinfoil hat on....

[Trotsky]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:
The camera panned away because it hadn't showed the Minnesota goalie's parents in the last 90 seconds.
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That did get old in a hurry.  The only question was whether his dad or his mom looks more like Nick Nolte.

[ithacat]

[Q]ugarte Wrote:

Well, we were skating a man down for a lot of the game, so it was something of a big deal (Carefoot's goal notwithstanding). It wasn't the officials' fault, though. Cornell committed a lot of penalties to keep the buzzing Minnesota skaters in check.

By the way, I thought the linesmen were horrible. A lot of very questionable offsides calls.[/q]

I was also at the game and thought the officiating was pretty fair. Cornell got away with a couple of ugly ones, in fact. You may have a point about the linesmen, though from the vantage point of the Cornell section I can't really say. Some of the offsides calls seemed questionable but I'm biased.

The officiating didn't determine the outcome of the game. The nearly 9,000 Gopher fans didn't determine the outcome of the game.  The game can be dissected many ways by both teams, in the end they made 2 more plays than Cornell made.

[Al DeFlorio]

[Q]ithacat Wrote:

The game can be dissected many ways by both teams, in the end they made 2 more plays than Cornell made.[/q]
Right--except maybe it was one more play, not two.

The ironic thing is that their "two plays" were seemingly out of the Cornell hockey textbook, and our "one play"--a perfectly-executed odd-man transition rush--was exactly what you would have expected from them.

[ithacat]

[Q]Al DeFlorio Wrote:

 [Q2]ithacat Wrote:

The game can be dissected many ways by both teams, in the end they made 2 more plays than Cornell made.[/Q]
Right--except maybe it was one more play, not two.

The ironic thing is that their "two plays" were seemingly out of the Cornell hockey textbook, and our "one play"--a perfectly-executed odd-man transition rush--was exactly what you would have expected from them.[/q]

In the end, it was one more play...I say two (obviously) because if not for the first the second would never had happened.

Interesting observation about the three goals -- the irony had been lost in my emotional meltdown (not clinical).

[Steve M]

Glad to know I wasn't the only one who saw Minnesota's diving.  Not that the refs lost the game for us.  We actually outscored them on their own  power plays. :-)

[dozens]

The officiating wasn't great, but it wasn't very good in any of the other games either. And Minnesota certainly forced our boys into some penalties with their speed. The larger issue -- and I hate to sound like a sore loser -- is how the NCAA lives with allowing a team to play a regional final on home ice. With all the concerns about fairness (hello, PWR), you'd think they'd prevent such a thing from taking place. On the other hand, we definitely had a chance to win the game, and it took a complete defensive breakdown on the final sequence (on both goals, actually) to hand it to the Gophers.

[dozens]

I think the Olympic-size rink probably had something to do with it.

[Josh '99]

[Q]dozens Wrote:
I think the Olympic-size rink probably had something to do with it.[/q]I don't want to make excuses (although I guess the need to add that preface means I'm about to make one), but to paraphrase something I mentioned on USCHO last night, when you base a lot of your offense on playing the puck from the corner towards the front of the net, having to deal with 7 1/2 more feet than you're used to seems like it could be a wrench in the works.  (I could be completely wrong, of course, but it makes sense to me that this would be the case.)

[dozens]

Before the tournament started there were commentators who were saying things along the lines of the following: "If Cornell loses, it won't be because of the larger rink." So wrong. The difference in rink size meant more to Cornell than probably any other team in the tournament. Schafer's teams are built for the standard NHL rink. By placing us in the West regional, the selection committee put us in as adverse a situation as possible. The result was a predictable one. As I've said elsewhere, though, we still had every chance to win that game, which is a testament to Schafer's coaching and the team's discipline.

[duffs4]

I was at the game and didn't see any recap, can someone talk about Cookies delay of game penalty?  Was it or wasn't it intentional?

[Trotsky]

The poll response on USCHO was "excuses, excuses, excuses."

Unfortunately, the question was, "If Cornell beats Minny..." not "If Minny beats Cornell..."

Disappointment is understandable, but the level of poor sportsmanship on this thread is depressing.  People are blaming *everything*.  Guess what?  The better team won.  There's no blame, or if you want to assign blame, blame higher admissions standards or something.  That I might see.

This... this is silly.

[Josh '99]

[Q]duffs4 Wrote:
I was at the game and didn't see any recap, can someone talk about Cookies delay of game penalty?  Was it or wasn't it intentional? [/q]Happened all the way at the far end of the rink from where the Cornell section was located.  I think you'll either have to watch a recording of the game and draw your own conclusion or hit up USCHO and see if you can find anyone who was sitting nearby to give you their take on it.