Big Chill - open thread

Olympic Ice feels a lot different. A lot more open space everywhere- neutral zone transitions, more important to use all the lanes, harder to play D in the D zone, a lot more room to cover.

I've only played on a rink that big once, and it was a lot harder to play D. They had more room to make moves coming into the zone, and it probably didn't help that I was pretty slow.

I have a personal vendetta against him

that they didn't call it obvious and iminent after watching the replay.  That really probably should have been a goal, even by the rules.

EDIT:  Looking at it again from the Big Ten Netowrk website highlights (http://www.bigtennetwork.com/subindex/video?bcpid=587214471001&bclid=111...), I can see why it was waved off.  If the State player hadn't of taken the second whack at it and the puck had rolled itself into the recently vacated net space, I think they would have counted it, but the puck was clearly out (again, shown well on the highlights) precisely when the net came off, so play is dead, so the whack after doesn't count, intnent to blow the whistle possibly comes into effect for the exact timing of the whistle, if you wanna argue that, (wow I hate that rule, even when it possibly helps the team I cheer for) and since the State player did hit it again, one can't say absolutely 100% the puck would have gone in without the dead-play strike and since it was ruled no goal on ice, it stood. Hunwick did knock the net off without offensive help, but it wasn't purposeful (or at least not obviously purposeful) so the whole above chain of events is still triggered.  I still think it should have been a goal, but I guess I get why it wasn't considered obvious and iminent.

I know that this comes way later, but...

I'm pretty sure Hunwick got pushed by an offensive player. Though there was a player from each team barreling in toward the net, I'm pretty sure Hunwick got pushed into the post when the players were all flailing around for the puck.

Also, what the other guy said, hitting the puck after the net's off makes it null.

Interestingly, nets aren't technically off immediately upon dislodging. If the peg/mooring is at least partly/mostly still in the post, and still in the ice partly, then the net can be off the goal line and still be "on". It looked like it had fully dislodged, but it was close. For example, if they use rubber pegs instead of metal, the peg can bend a little. Could happen with metal too, but less likely.

We didn't quite sell out the suites or club seats for football this year.  I'm not sure if they were offered specially for this game, but if so, that might explain it.