BUT WHAT THE FUCK REFS
Seriously, Hockey East refs should be banned from ever being in the same fucking arena as a Michigan. Two consecutive years of screwing over Michigan in the tournament with a terrible early whistle. UMD outplayed us, but we scored 3 times and were credited for only 2 for the second fucking year in a row.
Agreed. Game ended 3-2 with Michigan crowned as champs in regulation.
Michigan got screwed, but it was definitely NOT an early whistle. That puck was across the goal line before the whistle blew. Score the most goals (in regulation) and lose. NCAA hockey refs suuuuuuuuuuuuuck! EDIT: Hockey East refs. (But CCHA refs are nothing to write home about either.)
I'm having a little tonic with my vodka (blue label, of course).
Busch, Jack, anything I can get my cheap college kid hands on
God fucking damnit.
Oberon, at least 6 of them.
edit: 6 more. I was already 3 deep.
one more disallowed goal due a quick whistle, and I honestly hope Red Berenson leaps out onto the ice and crams the ref's whistle down his esophagus.
I bought a bottle of champagne at the start of the playoffs for an unrelated event. The event got canceled, so I've saved it for tonight. I'd rather be toasting to a victory and a national title, but I'll toast to a great season and a group of guys I'm extremely proud of. Go Blue.
They just looked dead in OT, refs didnt do us no favors. Oh, and Fuck Melrose and Thorn, a chimp on meth could have called a better game
im still just...confused. i didnt think we would lose
Zero championships in sports I like watching since the year before I went to Michigan. Sorry folks, it's all my fault.
become a men's gymnastics fan. Still, I feel your pain.
This sucks. But my drink is New Holland Double Down Barley Whiskey, so it's okay. tomorrow it will suck more.
It's called "early whistle." It's made of unfairness, bias, and causes blindness.
Terrible terrible refs tonight. First a home game for the NC...AND the refs in your back pocket??? Come on...
my sixth oberon. About to hit the kettle one.
Can't ice that much in OT. Horrible shift change. Why? Why does God hate us so much?
Red needs to be sent out in style.... we must win a National Championship for that great man. SOON.
Are there any mods around who can check in on Brian?
But I do have a gallon of red. Use it mostly for cooking, but it's palatable. Time to get f'ed up.
Shots of pinnacle vodka and tears. Untill I black out.
I haven't seen that much flopping since Vlade Divac played Manu Ginobili 1-on-1. And the worst part was the refs fell for it. I thought I was watching European soccer for awhile. UMD could not stay on their skates. The refs took us out of the game. I've watched a fair amount of hockey over the years, and I can honestly say I've never seen a team get whistled for 9 penalties that didn't involve any fighting calls. I don't understand the rule on the waived off first goal. I clearly heard the whistle AFTER the puck was in the net. I guess they ruled they wanted to blow the whistle, so it's intent that counts, not the actual whistle. I guess. F the refs and the whole state of Minnesota.
Intent is what matters on that call, and it is what killed us last year as well. It doesn't help that the same conference has done this twice to us. This has also happened to the Wings on numerous occasions.
Doesn't that mean they can basically never award a goal in that situation? Unless the ref just doesn't realize that the puck is sitting in the net the whole time, he's going to "form the intent" to blow the whistle when it is under the goalie/defender. Unless the goalie gets bulldozed, I think they should make the call by the whistle, otherwise any ref who thinks about blowing means the goal is waived off.
I have never seen a case where intent has been trumped by a review. But someone else might be able to point it out.
Is hockey the only sport where "I intended to do something, but even though I didn't, it still counts"? What's the point of replay even then?
It would be like a football ref disallowing a TD pass because he meant to call "in the grasp" but just forgot to blow his whistle until after the endzone dance.
That rule has AIDS.
April 10th, 2011 at 12:10 AM ^
I'm not saying the ref fucked up, just that that's the most fucked up rule in sports.
Anything. More Specifically, 10 Molsons. God dammit
On the bright note, at least we had plenty to keep us occupied during the football offseason... and we can do simple math....
Refs didn't decide this game. I think they could have, and should have, not called a couple of the close ones on us and called a few of the close ones on them, but at the end of the day, they only scored on one of them.
The wave off, while I hate it, did not decide that game. It was early, and we still got the first goal. A garbage call, yes, but not a deciding one by any means when its early in the first knotted at 0-0.
Hate to say it, but we earned this loss. UMD outplayed us most of the night, and we got lucky a few times. On the other side, we just couldn't get anything running, and we didn't cash in on our chances. In OT, we commited mind-blowing icing calls and then let them burn us for the winning goal. I hate to lose, but we overachevied to get to this game, and we just didn't play well enough to beat a team that wanted their first title in their own state. We came close, but we just didn't get the job done.
It'll hurt for another 12 hours or so, but the way I'm used to losing big hockey games, I can deal with losing one fairly. If we'd have lost this one on a bad call, I'd have driven out east and strangled the rf who screwed it up.
UM-D definitely played a great game. Hats off to them.
I wish we'd been allowed to play a great game though.
Damn you Mr. Robot, why do you have to be so rational? I guess that's why you're Mr. Robot huh?
But if you think we lost this game fairly, I would have to disagree. Intensely.
This season was incredible. Tiny Hunwick stole UND's spot in this final, and we somehow won the CCHA and beat three WCHA teams without ever looking like a dominant powerhouse at any point this season - except for the Big Chill.
Yes the better team won tonight, and I hate to admit that. But I'm still proud of this team - they overachieved, and in a big way.
you're probably right. We had too many stretches of poor play, including much of the second period. Even with those bad stretches a win would have been awesome and perfectly reasonable in the random fun-bounce world of hockey, but sadly, UMD played better and won.
We'll always have North Dakota. And the ridiculously great goaltending of Hunwick.
This is a very good post in a time of strong emotions. +1
Some of the comments here had me wondering if I was watching the same game. Michigan played well, UMD played better. Them's the breaks.
I've decided to drink from the jug. I feel like I need to pour it into a smaller bottle and get a brown paper bag.
Just breakout the beer bong, down the red, and run through the streets.
I'm gonna go find and bulldog and go Michael Vick on its ass!
jk. but the thought did cross my mind....
The fact that it crossed your mind, is sickening.
I have to write a paper that was due on Wednesday
Enough until I can't feel feelings.
I was drinking my homebrew throughout the game. Now I think it's time to break out the Johnny Walker Black.
I just got done watching the overtime and that really sucks guys :(. I'm not good when it comes to hockey so I didn't see the goal until the replay and your goalie Hunwick looked like he didn't have a chance to stop it. Why did they keep icing the puck though? That gave UMD vaulable possession. Oh well you guys have football season coming up and a win over both Sparty and Ohio State might fix things up :)!
They are gentle and supportive and awesome, evidently. Nebraska doesn't even have a mens hockey program that I'm aware of, and they still haven't officially joined the Big Ten, and here's one, giving us a post-loss back rub.
If I weren't married, I'd buy you a freakin ring.
Also, if Nebraska starts up a first rate hockey program, they've got a great conference to play in now. The more the merrier!
My friends called it "nazis on ice" lol I didn't get that part at all? :/
Its something they did to try and come together as a team. Same idea as a playoff beard. New Hampshire's team grew mustaches for the tournament. There are a hundred different things that are less lame than bleaching your hair, but I can't know them too much for it.
There are zero things that are more lame. Those dudes looked like a bunch of dirty, Civil War-era prostitutes.